Tired of Interdictions Pulling You Back 100ls? I Found a Workaround!

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

You've probably all had it, you're 1.1mm from your starport, and bam. Interdicted.
You submit, kill your attacker, or boost to safety. But your destination is now 100ls away.

Annoying right?

Well, i found a solution by accident!

If you get interdicted, and lock on to your interdictor, if they're really far out, slow down, but don't submit, and fight the Interdiction for a while.
If you win, bonus.
If you're losing, keep trying but bide your time, you'll notice they'll close to within a few 1000km of you. Then submit.

No more backwards teleportation. Lol

Only noticed how close they get after not setting my throttle to zero by accident, and wondering why it took so long to submit.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[bubbabenali]

Or save drop from SC before he atempts to interdict you and wait for him to magically spawn besides you

 

[Comrade Napoleon]

Or save drop from SC before he atempts to interdict you and wait for him to magically spawn besides you

That is even much better, you can prepare a welcome party

Cheers Cmdrs

 

[Ian Skippy]

Or save drop from SC before he atempts to interdict you and wait for him to magically spawn besides you

Magically? You mean 'drop at wake'?

 

[Stealthie]

Must admit, I think I'd rather re-travel that 100Ls safe in the knowledge that my pursuer is already dead or, alternatively, just continue trying to escape in a straightforward manner instead of faffing around like that.

I suppose it doesn't hurt to have options, though.
Especially for those times when you're being pursued by 2 or 3 ships who're all taking it in turns to interdict you.
Course, in that situation the simplest solution is just to jump out of the system completely if you can.

 

[DukeIronHand]

Unless I am misunderstanding here it doesn't matter how close you are to your destination.
Just jump back to SC, it will always start the countdown at a large time interval it'll just count down faster, and at the famous 7 second mark, begin the regular slow down to drop procedure.

 

[CMDR ColD_ZA]

Magically? You mean 'drop at wake'?

I think the magic comes in at how they can close the gap to your wake and decelerate to drop in speed in the time it takes for your fsd to start going on cooldown

 

[Conch]

i just ALT-F4 and rage quit

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Or save drop from SC before he atempts to interdict you and wait for him to magically spawn besides you

Or that. Lol

I meant if you're already being interdicted, just ride it out until they catch up, then submit, then you'll drop closer to your own position!

 

[Flavourless]

Magically? You mean 'drop at wake'?

Its magic because NPCs don't have to target the wake and then modulate their speed accordingly like players do.
They just spawn in your instance. They don't cheat though (allegedly).

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

They don't cheat though (allegedly).

They do. I have proof!

Spoiler

I sure as hell can't land like that!

 

[Noctover]

Well unless its PVP interdiction just evade it, 100% success rating at the moment.

 

[bubbabenali]

Magically? You mean 'drop at wake'?

Nah, it's kinda magic.
Because no matter how far he was away, he spawns within 10 - 20 seconds.

 

[askavir]

Magically? You mean 'drop at wake'?

Drop at wake at "magically fast times"...

As someone who frequently uses emergency drop in order to frustrate CG ganker's attempts, I can say for sure that NPCs approach and drop into wakes far, far too quickly...

I know that the NPC following and dropping into wake is hardcoded and not actually simulated, yet it's so quick it's practically magical.

 

[DNA-Decay]

i just ALT-F4 and rage quit

You do so.

 

[Arindor]

I quit to main menu. Interdiction is annoying, too frequent, and borked.