Ok, so the Point Defence Turret and Chaff then, thx for tips
. I play Solo, also no PvPing.
I noticed yesterday an interesting behaviour of the "lawless" NPCs harrasing ships around asteroids in Hot Spot.
Because similar ships destroyed me lately when I was flying Adder Miner, now in Cobra Mk3 with medium equipment I was looking for some revenge. I spotted a pair of "lawless" Clipper (elite) with Eagle (mostly harmless). The Clipper scanned me first and left alone with disrespectful words, but when the Eagle started to scan me I run away on haste out of it's range. I wasn't aware the Eagle will follow me to complete scanning and in fact it did
, so after several kilometers it sudenly appeared out of the asteroids. No Clipper around, it was alone, so a good chance for easy kill, and he died in few shots. My first kill in game, since so far was doing just the mining, trading and scanning.
I found this extremely interesting because it shows kind of humanity in the machine (ghost in the shell). Before the Eagle pilot died... he scanned me and wanted to fly away, was very self-confident, but I followed him and deployed my hardpoints... then he immediately stopped and turned his guns into my direction, I also stopped and from now on we were just pointing our guns to eachother for a good few minutes. He didn't run away, he didn't start shooting first, was just waiting for what will happen. After I opened fire, after few seconds later he was no more self-confident, AI apparently "realised" it doesn't stand a chance and wrote a desperate message, something about "he know well when he is about to die".
I know it's programmed but that behaviour is so human, so well designed. AI is properly reacting, avoiding fight but ready to fight in the same time. It's amazing and the moment really is special. Hope there is more such moments in game.