This can all stop if you give me Cr67,000 of cargo

YinYin

YinYin
Amargosa said:
It's just way too much of a hassle with the convoluted inventory UI, it's far easier to just return fire and kill them instead. That's why I said it's probably just a gimmick message rather than something you're supposed to comply to.
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That's your opinion. Fine.

But calling up the right panel and dropping some cargo isn't any more hassle than turning towards the pirate, selecting the target, assessing whether this one is worth fighting or running from and then executing either.

This "gimmick" allows me to safely mine within hazardous extraction sites in awfully under equipped ships, without risking anything I haven't just recently refined.
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
Don't have that much, but I have the equivalent in ... burning death! BOOM! Arg ... your bounty wasn't even worth price of the missile!
 
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Andovar

Andovar
If these pesky pirates want my cargo so bad, then they can do the math.
Until then, I give them nothing and kill them on principal.
My elementary math teacher would be so proud of me. :)
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
CMDR QUANTIS TRAP said:
Don't have that much, but I have the equivalent in ... burning death! BOOM! Arg ... your bounty wasn't even worth price of the missile!
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I hate it when that happens.

Flying along in my Corvette, minding my own business, when an NPC in an Adder or Eagle interdicts me and demands payment.
Seriously?
I guess you gotta love an over-achiever.
Laser death ensues.
"You have been awarded Cr100 bounty for Joe Bloggs"
100 credits?
This must be the guy's first day on the job and he decides to try and hijack a Corvette?

I suppose it's ED's NPC-pirate version of WW2's "4 minute club" for fighter pilots.
 

wcjoker

W
Hi Stealthie,

Yes math can delay the decision making process. I however have a better solution for you. When a pirate pulls you out of super cruise and demands free cargo, I would treat them like any criminal and give them the respect they deserve. FDev has provided all us law abiding citizens a mechanic that is 100% full proof against these criminal minds. I know it’s not well known and you might want to be sitting down when you read this. This technique works for me 100% of the time. Only use this against criminals because they demand the respect they deserve. Hit the Esc key on your keyboard and log off to the main menu, then log back in solo mode and make a few jumps, then log back in open so you can hang out with the other law abiding commanders. Remember to only use this against pirates because not everyone can treat them like they would in real life, a pirate would get shot in real life but it isn’t possible for most commanders in their type 6 or keel-back doing cargo runs.

Good luck out there!

Respectfully,
WCJoker
 
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wcjoker

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Ra'Kaan said:
hahaa this is a story more about the title, not the OP,

Had an Elite Python demanding cr200,000 cargo from me. The buggar repeated this line 3 time as his hull went from 50% to 0% - boom - lol , I felt a little bad for the guy, but I was just laughing and laughing cuz he reminded me of the kid in Better Off Dead ...

"...twooo doollaaarrrrrrssss...."

ROFL
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plus tip!
 

Schmack

Schmack
Stealthie said:
I hate it when that happens.

Flying along in my Corvette, minding my own business, when an NPC in an Adder or Eagle interdicts me and demands payment.
Seriously?
I guess you gotta love an over-achiever.
Laser death ensues.
"You have been awarded Cr100 bounty for Joe Bloggs"
100 credits?
This must be the guy's first day on the job and he decides to try and hijack a Corvette?

I suppose it's ED's NPC-pirate version of WW2's "4 minute club" for fighter pilots.
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It's amazing to me that an eagle can host the electronics required to pull a ship that size out of FTL travel without being tethered for the long haul.
 

EdzUp

EdzUp
the classic is getting interdicted by a wing of sideys without a cargo rack between em. It's this behaviour which harken's back to the Frontier/FFE Kestrel air fighter where they yell "Surrender or die" over coms before realising they didn't fit ANY offensive weapons at all and then in a fit of rage plow into your battleship where the shield flickers 100% for a few milliseconds.

Stupidity hasn't improved in the fifty years in between FFE and ED ;)
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
Schmack said:
It's amazing to me that an eagle can host the electronics required to pull a ship that size out of FTL travel without being tethered for the long haul.
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That I would love to see, the hapless Eagle pirate being dragged along at your six until you finally decide to drop out of SC!
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
The only thing I give pirates is the contents of my weapons magazines.
I am amused that some of them will demand less and less the closer their hulls get to 0%.
Then.. silence...

Of course, there are also the ones who complain when I carry no cargo, perhaps my favorite is:

"My children will go hungry tonight." Because my only thought is: "And be orphans in the morning." as hard points deploy.

Or perhaps all this time in the cold void of space has chilled my blood and displaced my soul...
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Schmack said:
It's amazing to me that an eagle can host the electronics required to pull a ship that size out of FTL travel without being tethered for the long haul.
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It's unlikely that a Frame Shift Interdictor actually pulls at all, but rather likely bombards the target ship with a energy beam to overload or shut down the FSD, much like an HERF (High Energy Radio Frequency) device can shut down electronics.
 

N3rd Murd3r3r

N3rd Murd3r3r
Yeah I think we all have a go-to phrase when the slow pirates come to call...

"Give me X!"

1) No, but I can do a brisk trade in shields off-line and non-voluntary hull damage?
2) *Sulu's voice* Target that explosion and fire!
3) No, YOU have 10 seconds to drop some Conductive Ceramics
4) You can have it all if you last for one pass or capacitor load

Etc
 
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