Trying to give some facts from previous days experience.
Overall capabillities on NPCs interdiction improved significantly. This was announced before. I am more or less fine.
If engaged in missions. Mission related NPCs seem to somehow balanced against mission level so you can have a guess what to expect.
BGS NPCs are spawned way too often with high ranks. Havin now 4 ELITE NPCs met since 2.1 trying to take my life including chain interdictions
even after System Authority arrived to hook him up. I don't know how he made to get out of 3 Authority vessels combat within 5 seconds to start the next interdiction on me. I jumped out to SC an he right after me. Then the police was gone. No more intrest to mix him up. sigh.
So interdicted 10 times within 2 weeks from Elite ships now.
I hadn't that in 18 months before.
Also they appear out of nothing (2 secs before the radar behind me was clear) and start interdiction from strange positioning 25 - 30° angle.
So there is some work in what is flying around in a system to catch you. Cannot happen that ELTE ships are 33% of all and what they can do.
If frontier makes this reasonable most of the rants will go away.
I don't mind that overall skill of NPC has been improved. Until now I survived more or less healthy. if FD gives lots of them to the dedicated action zones
where they will make some sense, ok I willnot join there, I don't like combat. Out of them: I like flying in space and a challenge from time to time.
(Once or twice a week is enough for me) I will like this a lot more.
Yes, I know all the combatiers are now fully set, but keep in mind the other half is more or less upset. For myself I do not need Adreanline in the
evening, my RL day has enough stress to offer so I want to relax somehow with intresting things.
A lot of that update FD did right like the mission system which really improved in variety and meaning.
NPC flight skill improvement is ok for me, I will learn to live with it. But as I said before please FD take a look whats flying around in a system
and rebalance this to resonable values.
Regards,
Miklos