Seriously met my match tonight

[rrobes]

Assassination missions, if I recall correctly, used to have other ships pop in and attack while you were engaged. This also used to happened when scooping items in salvage missions. It livened things up.

I agree that variety would be nice as a steady diet of Corvettes doesn't feel right (before you'd hardly ever run into one).

I have no problem w/ the NPC combat, they lose. But if they could get the NPC scaling up for elite ranked combat CMDR's up to near impossible more often I would appreciate it. As long as it's not an infinite stream of chaff, please.

I agree w/ the OP's thoughts, this should be more common.

 

[Aasgard]

Now you know why I get so annoyed at people saying hte AI is ineffectual. It's very good at the high levels and when it wants to be. Sure they are somewhat predictable, but being able to predict the end of the world doesn't make it any less devastating when it happens.

Next time try a wetwork mission that says 'we need you to take care of someone for us' (as opposed to the one that says to go scan a planetary outpost first) that's valued at over 2m. I can do any level of assassination nowadays, I am now being thwarted by these. One I did last night was a Deadly Clipper and SIX sidewinders escort. Because it was an illegal mission, the police also turned up. It was 11 to 1 when my shields went down and I decided that discretion was the better part of valour.

One of these days I'll get my victory over one of these on video. Oh and by the way, I only fly medium and small ships, just to add to the challenge.

Totally agree. Anyone wanting to spice up their ED experience should try the Wet Work. What a hoot! It completely destroys Rep and Status.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

I honestly don't mean to brag, but this happened to me as well once (only once cos I never let it happen again lol) I managed to kill three deadly anacondas in a pvp equipped FAS. I had 15% hull left when the last one popped and while repairing I ran out of time for the main target. GRRRRRRRR. Lol

See, this almost never happened to me before.....which is why I was starting to feel "meh" about missions lately. Last night really reinvigorated me. Shame my smuggling mission wasn't as engaging.

I'm curious, what ship did you use and what NPC ship (and rank) did you fight against?

I was in an FdL. My opponent was also in an FdL, & was Dangerous in rank. He had impulse weapons though....which always fill me with dread.

 

[Valethar]

It does tend to get the adrenaline flowing, doesn't it?

 

[Urbanski101]

Assassination missions, if I recall correctly, used to have other ships pop in and attack while you were engaged. This also used to happened when scooping items in salvage missions. It livened things up.

I agree that variety would be nice as a steady diet of Corvettes doesn't feel right (before you'd hardly ever run into one).

I have no problem w/ the NPC combat, they lose. But if they could get the NPC scaling up for elite ranked combat CMDR's up to near impossible more often I would appreciate it. As long as it's not an infinite stream of chaff, please.

I agree w/ the OP's thoughts, this should be more common.

I think the RNG tables for high paying assassination missions need a tweak....only corvettes is a bit tedious after a while.

There used to be wings back in the day...usually an elite conda + 2.....not so bad it it was +2 eagles, a nightmare if it was +2 vultures...that was tough, don't think I ever completed one with 2 vultures in the wing

 

[DaveB]

A fair fight is the last one you want to get into - and quite possibly the last one you ever will.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Decided to log on & do a couple of missions, & saw an assassination mission paying out about 2m credits. The mission rank was higher than my current rank, but I thought "what the hell!" Boy, was that a mistake .

First of all, I learned that agents of my faction's competitors had been sent to thwart me, but I managed to reach the target without running into any other enemy ships. Then once I am in the Signal Source, I am suddenly set upon by a ship......whom I suspect is my mission target! Wrong! Turns out it is one of the ships sent against me.....& *boy* is he tough. For a while I got the better of him, but once my shields came down I was toast!

So I spend my 3m credits on my rebuy, & head back to Sobek for Round 2. This time the hostile ship interdicts me en route, & ends up trashing my ship seemingly faster than last time. My attempts to bring down his shields are thwarted by his clever use of SCB's.

So here I am, facing another 3m credit rebuy......for a mission worth 2m credits. Well I know when I am beat, so abandoned the mission.

See, though, that is the kind of thing I mean when I say mission difficulties should match mission rank. I bit off more than I could chew, & I paid a high price for it.....& it was a beautiful thing.

If only.more missions could replicate that!

There are poth PvE and PvP factors that pushed me to upgrade from my vipers into the medium Fed ships. Marc. Yours is the PvE reason. I would take assassination contracts with good payouts, get there, and it would be like A corvette winged up with some small ship. After abandoning a couple of those, I decided to take a man's gun to do a man's work