Thanks alot ED for ruining piracy!!!!!!!!!!
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Can't rep GTR2014 anymore coz favouritism but what he said.
Im off out exploring at the minute so have missed the 2.2 Piracy fun but as soon as I strike it rich I'll head back and plague the space lanes once again. Also, don't despair too much about Piracy, hopefully, if everything goes to plan, soon you will have all the stolen tentacles you can handle.
"Drop shields and cargo!!"
"click, chitter, chitter, click,"
"YAAAARRRR!"
*inter-species war begins....
Im off out exploring at the minute so have missed the 2.2 Piracy fun but as soon as I strike it rich I'll head back and plague the space lanes once again. Also, don't despair too much about Piracy, hopefully, if everything goes to plan, soon you will have all the stolen tentacles you can handle.
"Drop shields and cargo!!"
"click, chitter, chitter, click,"
"YAAAARRRR!"
*inter-species war begins....
Thargoids??? more like the Kraken of space >D
They shoot the cargo hatch but they are not very good at it
plus , I imagine the code for such advanced AI being very hard to code in
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Piracy have been pretty lucrative for me, low temp diamonds pays very well. I was doing fine until this damn 2.2 came out. Well i guess i have to adapt, im not very good at taking out PP and thrusters and stuff so i came up with a new method im gonna try today, first i take my victim hull down to 3 percent then i limpet the cargo, so now i can kill the victim fast before the cargo expire. Not sure how its gonna work but im gonna try...
But I can also see that this fast deterioting cargo cant be good for PVP piracy, imagine you are a victim, you try to fight back, the pirate limpet your cargo, you kill him and want to pick up your cargo again, guess what, you cantnbecause it has all turned into space dust while you fought the pirate....
That brings back memories...
Pirating a keelback (AI) full of low temp diamonds in my slobra IV
Disabled thrusters, the target goes into a violent (and high velocity) spin. Tried to boost close enough and maneuver to at least stop the spin. At this point, I'm sure the AI pilot was either over-dosed on anti-nausea drugs or there's a mess in the cockpit.
Needless to say, being in a sluggish Cobra 4, I couldn't stop the target from spinning.
Well, there goes that score...
I've since moved on to using an Asp-X for piracy and its working great. Consistent 64t hauls pays pretty well and it's entertaining enough to keep my involved for a while.
Has anyone tried using a Fed Dropship for piracy? It's a little hardier than the asp which might come in handy with the hard targets (Elite T9 with escorts and a SLF bay.)
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nobody gets murdered in this game.
Maybe you can create suggestion to slow down containers damaging, Unless there is hidden some technical reason it can have chance to be at least considered.
Im using a cobra mk3, its cheap, rebuys doesnt cut into my profit, i like my cobra. Have one ASP and One T6 i use for smuggling slaves and narcotics(had alot more ships, but decided to clear my save before 2.2). Thanks for the offer but i prefer to do my dirty bizniss as a lone wolf. Whenever i need some break from the lonelyness I go support the Arcon Delaine PP communety
We're not Archon Delayne... We are independent pirates and this is not a group... but a place for pirates to talk and share intel.
I guess i could, but i prefer going on a rant be angry and rage quit, and then maybe come back after a few months to see if things have improved(or adapt to the never ending changes in this game and forget what made me angry in the first place)
Yes, before i cleaned my save I used it, it was a great PVE pirateship, good cargo capacety, could pick up a fight if needed and it could land on outposts only bad thing about it is that its very slow.....
But after i cleaned my save im roleplaying even more, so i refuse to rank up for the superpowers too get those ships, instead im gonna focus on earning enough to get me a python.
Thanks for the reply!
I usually RP as a dirty opportunist, and as such I've only taken rank up missions when they appear once in a blue moon. It might be for the feds, or the empire, but either way they pay the same as everyone else with a few perks thrown in. No grinding here, just pure, unadulterated, fun.
I figure if I can pirate NPCs successfully in an unmodded cobra 4 (after I learned that shooting the thrusters out is a major pita and instead started going for the P.P.) I think I could use a F.D.S. to good effect. Maybe I'll pick one up tonight and see what she's made of. I do love the Gold asp-x paintjob though. It makes me look much classier than a bottom feeding pirate like me really is.
shooting down thrusters eliminates the reboot?
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I don't think so. It's just a major hassle when you shoot out the thrusters is what I meant.
Even with the reboot on the P.P. you can get a good haul. I use a class 1B hatch breaker so I can use two at once, and 2 class 3A collectors so I get four of them going at once. If you get the targets health down to around 10%, limpets work instantly so with 2 HBL's and 4 CL's scooping for me, I can collect a lot of low temp diamonds in a very short amount of time.
I just park my asp right next to my targets cargo hatch so the loot drifts right towards me and the collector limpets barely have to move to pick it up. By the time the reboot sequence is done for the target, I've already got most of their cargo aboard and either leave or kill them out of spite if they gave me a hard time.