Horizons Decisions, decisions. FD throws me a moral curveball

Rooster Podunk

Rooster Podunk
I'm currently on the outward leg of another exploring venture. I'm 5k LY from the nearest bus station and decided to land on a little rock to prospect the high percent Ruthenium scattered about. Deep into some hill country I've stumbled on 7 occupied escape pods. FD, you really know how to make those to proverbial devils on my shoulders argue about their fate.

Commanders, I know it is just a game but I'm curious, what would you do?
 

ChipStar65

ChipStar65
I always pick up escape pods regardless of occupancy if I have the cargo space, and will dump lesser cargoes to do so. But I haven't yet gotten so far out in the black, so turn-ins were no sweat. Do OEPs have an expiration date? If not, why not just keep them in your hold until it's convenient to offload them?
 

EDanaII

EDanaII
Make them persistent and I might actually care. But, considering the fact that they disappear after I log off or jump to super-cruise? Easy come, easy go... ;)
 

EDanaII

EDanaII
Only if you load them into your cargo hold. Leave them where you find them and they won't be there the next time you return or log back in. That was my point. If they stayed there when I came back, I might feel a little more sympathetic about rescuing them. But since they appear and disappear whenever I enter an instance? meh... you never really existed so why should I rescue you? :)
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
I picked up two escape pods on a distant planet, some 8,000 lyrs from home, felt smug and warm that I had given a couple of people a new chance in life ...... forgot about them .... made a deviation to Jacques for some equipment and repairs, was intercepted by a NPC pirate only 7 jumps out from Jacques who wanted the cargo! I got into Jacques with 12% hull left ..... so take this as a warning ;)
 

ChipStar65

ChipStar65
I suppose having the pods, or any cargo save limpets (and maybe even those, I still get hit now & then with just 8 limpets on board), is a lure for pirates, but I have no difficulty avoiding interdictions so beyond the annoyance it wouldn't fret me to carry them for a while.

@EDanaII -- I see. Yes, like virtually everything else in the ED Universe (pun intended), the pods will go away if not rescued, but they're "real" while you're scanning them, so I generally feel obliged to my fellow faux-humans to rescue any I find. To each his or her own.
 

Rooster Podunk

Rooster Podunk
Thanks for the replies. If I wasn't planning on a long haul trip (15K out) I'd have probably picked them up. However, like Lightspeed said, I don't want to come trucking back into the bubble with all that explore data(and time invested) at risk for them.
Now if FD were to come up with a scenario, say find a hostage that needs taking home, a rich tycoon that wants to tip me for the trip, a missing son of some faction chief with a reward for his return, that would change up the whole situation. As it is, their pixel lives vs my pixel profits are not even close to matching up.
 
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