I have had no end of trouble docking or launching from the more mainstay ports and always being scanned, i cannot remember a single time where i haven't caught security's attention while landing or departing from any of the stations with internal bays. it is at best a minor annoyance and at worst disaster. in my early days in game i would make my living from smuggling missions, where the scans were more disappointing than troublesome, i was always making more than the fines i would get for having illicit cargo, however i recently took up transporting VIPs, almost all of whom are secretive, and due to the security always scanning me (sometimes even multiple times one way) any star port i have to dock at means i KNOW im getting dinged twice for. this also means im getting hit on my initial departure and when i land to drop the passenger off. i have lost very lucrative contracts multiple times (once arriving at the destination station) from security being not so random and making sure to see what i've got. even going into stealth operations doesn't help much, if i have to start early it means im guaranteed to need to use a heat sink to not have the passenger get on me about hull damage as well, which just makes the station mad at me for deploying hard points. having the security scan 100% of the time makes this a no-win for me. i see NPCs use a throw away line quite often, something like "on what grounds is this scan, officer?" this tells me that this is likely not supposed to be happening, and that there is some in world expectation to not have the police riffling through my possessions and cargo just because im there. i feel like if im obeying the rules, not speeding, hard points retracted, not ramming things, that i should be surprised to have security look my way, and that they should also say something to me before doing it, but instead im surprised if im inside 2 Km before they bother me. this is frustrating to no end, and is making me seriously rethink taking passenger missions like it did for smuggling. as it is there is 0 reason for me to obey speed limits as they don't ticket me for it, even going full bore, and i know that security is going to make sure they know what i have onboard no matter what i do. please look into this, it is probably my biggest gripe about an otherwise awesome game.
Station's security auto scans
- Thread starter burnigloo
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Sweet mother of god, what is this wall of text!? [knocked out]
Three sentences in, I stopped right when I saw: ...at worst disaster... and stopped listening any other justifications you might be trying to pursue.
Stations scan all traffic coming into it. Consider it standard procedure. If you're running illegal cargo and/or criminals into these stations you have to either go into silent running or modify your ship to running very cold. Otherwise, as the saying goes, You only break the law when you're caught.
And the fact is, you're breaking the law.
Another problem you could be having is that you ran into a station with illegal cargo and ended up getting a dormant bounty. Hauler Captains get these a lot because they often don't pay attention to the legal/illegal lines for all the stations that they travel to. Dormant Bounties have time limits on them and until the Dormant Bounty expires, you will be shot at 100% of the time. So you should be avoiding the system and the stations where that dormant bounty is being honoured.
My only suggestion is when you're looking at the missions board, make sure you're filtering for everything legal. Failing that you're going to need to move fast, and silent.
Three sentences in, I stopped right when I saw: ...at worst disaster... and stopped listening any other justifications you might be trying to pursue.
Stations scan all traffic coming into it. Consider it standard procedure. If you're running illegal cargo and/or criminals into these stations you have to either go into silent running or modify your ship to running very cold. Otherwise, as the saying goes, You only break the law when you're caught.
And the fact is, you're breaking the law.
Another problem you could be having is that you ran into a station with illegal cargo and ended up getting a dormant bounty. Hauler Captains get these a lot because they often don't pay attention to the legal/illegal lines for all the stations that they travel to. Dormant Bounties have time limits on them and until the Dormant Bounty expires, you will be shot at 100% of the time. So you should be avoiding the system and the stations where that dormant bounty is being honoured.
My only suggestion is when you're looking at the missions board, make sure you're filtering for everything legal. Failing that you're going to need to move fast, and silent.
Since I am not an elitist I read your whole complaint. I do agree on being scanned by every single security officer while having a legal secretive passenger is really annoying. Once is fine like in 2.3. I have had three scan me at once (since every fighter has a manifest scanner...) and had a passenger instant eject from being angered from being scanned 3 times.
I admit that I have issues trying to read through massive amounts of end to end text without breaks to sort through; although my message does apply to you as well. If you want to take those missions, tweak to run cold or silent run. This is the problem with medium to high security systems; the amount of at the mail slot loitering by security forces is clearly a reflection of the nonsense we see in real time.
Frankly, I'm not sure I would want to fix this. At the one side, a lot of folk complain that it's not challenging enough. When they get what we want -- the other side complains that it's too much. At the other; are these people available in low security? Can't they be done there? Or is it because it pays out less?
Ultimately, when I'm ready to take these sort of missions, I would want the challenge and don't want it changed to be dumbed down.
(Heh, and you called me a spreadsheet player huh? Amusing.)
I just want my easy button and space welfare. But the mechanic is broken. It didn't happen in 2.3 You got scanned once. And that was perfect. It was easy to go silent and get by them But when 5 come up with scanners and give you a Mordor pat-down its a bit tedious. But since 2.4.2 has ruined nearly everything and nerfed advancement in the game guess I will just hop in my Asp Explorer and get that engineered.