Just what was the point.
Screw open play.
Screw open play.
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Newcomer / Intro Pointless Piracy
- Thread starter hairbear01
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Ahoy? What happened... 
Doing a couple boom time deliveries - nothing special about 700-800k worth of Cr rewards for like 50 cargo - Just finished dealing with the NPC that comes after you, back into FSD - another interdict, this time a CMRD. Missle barraged to death. Lose missions, get fine big time and of course ship rebuy.
For what? Absolutely nothing.
For what? Absolutely nothing.
Hmmm well, that wasn't an act of piracy... pirates ask for cargo.
What would be fun times is forming an anti-ganker group and hunting these scum down. Repeatedly. Until they run out of rebuy money.
How I'd larf.
How I'd larf.
This actually made me laugh and feel better on the situation
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
There are already indications that those who gank would consider themselves to be harassed if their CMDRs were repeatedly targeted.
Ahh, that would be such a shame.
@hairbear01 why don't you join Mobius private server group? There are thousands cmdrs there and there's no PvP (ganking and griefing). Mostly feels like Solo, but you do meet other pilots in-game.
Check their forum for instructions how to apply for membership: https://elitepve.com/
and check them on: https://twitter.com/ElitePvE
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Check their forum for instructions how to apply for membership: https://elitepve.com/
and check them on: https://twitter.com/ElitePvE
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Thanks for the recommendation - I will go and check them out because that sounds great! ha. Cheers
That probably wasn't piracy, but ganking (or griefing). It's only piracy if they ask for cargo and give you a chance to comply. Of course, you ignore those requests at your own peril - trouble is, ED's comms setup is so bad, I usually only see their incoming comms after I've docked at a station and check my messages.
Next, where was this? Space is usually pretty safe except at known player hotspots. Most famous are ShinDez, Deciat and San Tu - but you can check Inara for current hotspots, as well as a lot of other third party websites.
Player bounty hunters do exist, but they have two problems:
You can switch to a non-PvP private group, or to solo. Mobius (elitepve) has been mentioned, Fleetcomm is similarly set up. If you feel that you don't want to have any business with that specific person any more, for whatever reasons, you can also block them in game (comms panel, history tab, find them - usually the CMDR who "killed you", select them, then block). That is also annoying for them since it messes up their instancing - as a block, it isn't 100% effective, it just drops a strong hint to the instancing servers that you don't want to be instanced with them. Other instancing rules may supersede this request.
Whatever you do - run, fight, freeze or quit to menu - don't task kill (or pull your network connection). That would be in violation of FD's TOS. The thing with the menu quit is also one reason why pirates tend to have rather sensitive trigger fingers - If you quit to menu, they only get IIRC 10 (or was it 15?) seconds to get anything out of you before your ship disappears.
Next, where was this? Space is usually pretty safe except at known player hotspots. Most famous are ShinDez, Deciat and San Tu - but you can check Inara for current hotspots, as well as a lot of other third party websites.
Player bounty hunters do exist, but they have two problems:
- FD have limited the bounty payout on player ships (for good reasons - limiting player-to-player credit transfer mostly), so the job doesn't even pay for your ammo
- by fighting against them, you are giving them exactly what they want
You can switch to a non-PvP private group, or to solo. Mobius (elitepve) has been mentioned, Fleetcomm is similarly set up. If you feel that you don't want to have any business with that specific person any more, for whatever reasons, you can also block them in game (comms panel, history tab, find them - usually the CMDR who "killed you", select them, then block). That is also annoying for them since it messes up their instancing - as a block, it isn't 100% effective, it just drops a strong hint to the instancing servers that you don't want to be instanced with them. Other instancing rules may supersede this request.
Whatever you do - run, fight, freeze or quit to menu - don't task kill (or pull your network connection). That would be in violation of FD's TOS. The thing with the menu quit is also one reason why pirates tend to have rather sensitive trigger fingers - If you quit to menu, they only get IIRC 10 (or was it 15?) seconds to get anything out of you before your ship disappears.
I've questioned that ever since day one, and the forums invariably come back with "git gud"... But there's nothing "gud" about ganking noobs in an engineered PvP ship. If anything it's juast total cowardice.
If you check the inara security report (that of course only covers CMDRs who report to inara) at https://inara.cz/reports-security/ , you'll see that Eravate doesn't even register. So your encounter was pretty likely a random CMDR, out to kill newbies in the old worlds - otherwise, Eravate isn't a dangerous system, and Adle's Armada is usually doing a reasonable job of keeping criminals down.
Of course, the attack may also just have been (part of) an attempt to provoke AA into retaliation - I don't follow the PvP groups' actions. You might try to contact them with the details (just don't post the name of your attacker on the forums in any way) to check what (if anything) they might want to do about it.
Of course, the attack may also just have been (part of) an attempt to provoke AA into retaliation - I don't follow the PvP groups' actions. You might try to contact them with the details (just don't post the name of your attacker on the forums in any way) to check what (if anything) they might want to do about it.