I took my FDL and went to cail for twenty minutes, interdicting people and immediately saying "Hi, fly safe" and jumping away without even deploying hardpoints, just to establish I didn't have any bad intention, also keeping my distance.
I always thought people would combat log only in a defenseless ship, like a type 6, an adder or an asp, but no. Combat log is so common that knows no bounds, no ships and no rank.
For the experiment purpose, I won't name any commander.
Anaconda (Dangerous) -> submitted interdiction, combat logged.
Python (Expert) -> Submitted interdiction, combat logged.
Type 7 (Competent) -> Combat logged during interdiction.
Anaconda (Elite) -> Fought interdiction, combat logged.
Anaconda (Expert) -> Combat logged during interdiction.
Type 6 (Competent) -> Fought interdiction, DIDN'T combat log.
Cobra MkIII (Competent) -> Fought interdiction and plummeted onto a planet, my bad.
Anaconda (Deadly) -> Submitted interdiction, combat logged.
Adder (Mostly harmless) -> Combat logged during interdiction.
What do we learn from this?
Combat log is the easy way out, and everybody, no matter how big and scary their ship is, what their rank is, what their outfitting is, do consider and actually combat log without even understanding what is going on. Even pirates, do use them
"Quester, you interdicted them, of course they assumed you were there to pew pew them".
As I said, I stated my intentions right after the succeded interdiction
"Quester, you mean pirate, you're a horrible person"
Yes, I am, but people who combat log are even meaner than me. Uh, I'm also not a pirate and never, ever killed anyone first in almost a thousand hours of gameplay.
Later I'll continue my experiment.
