piracy

Good morning, all, I'm curious about your current strategies for piracy, and I'd like to get a conversation going around it. Recently, I've been active in Archon Delaine's space, operating out of his strongholds and looking to target systems with these characteristics: State: Boom Economy...

I've watched over the years as so many professions have seen improvements. Whether it's improved credit rewards or additional gameplay loops. Yet smuggling has not changed since the game originally released. Here are the main problems I see compared to other professions in the game: PROFITS...

Greetings. o7 I've been thinking long time about, how to improve those things, which are underestimate like anarchies. My suggestion is doing changes for anarchies (overall), piracy, and some other things, since I see, that game stops improve things, which is way important than Thargoids. Let's...

U16 changed behaviour of limpets... it seems that HATCH BREAKERS have been some how affected. They are way less effective, as they're not able to get close enough to the target ship unless it is almost totally stationary... breakers keep floating around and/or expire 99% ot times f ship is...

Suggestion: Add an Inertia Damping effect to hatch breakers such that when a target's drives are disabled, an attached hatch breaker limpet will apply deceleration to the target. Purpose: To allow for reliable theft of larger quantities of goods than is currently possible; Allows piracy to be...

Featured by Mrs. Diavoli! Source: https://youtu.be/1M1Ove57mQ4

It's been debated for long time... here it is how it works in Elite Dangerous... Source: https://youtu.be/qlDgqs6dqQo

Before watching/judging: no intention of name & shame as it was all polite, the featured CMDR did a "menu log" (so allowed within game rules) but CMDR Gemma Diavoli just wanted to give some additional advice from the PvPers point of view (term "considered" has been used) and further...

Then “The Black Swans” may be for you. History The Black Swans are a notorious group of space pirates. Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but it is believed that the group was initially formed by a small band of disillusioned Imperial Navy officers. Despite numerous Law Enforcement...

Foreword: This thread is my attempt to succinctly outline the issues with piracy as an activity. This post primarily addresses PvE content, although balance of PvP is acknowledged. I'm creating this post as I consider piracy to be in a 'non-functional' state, as in, it doesn't scale much at all...

Pirates could have data-mining limpets to steal & acquire exploration data from exploration ships. A data scanner would be helpful to determine what kind of data and what volume is on any given ship.

i know this has probably been asked to death and that not everyone cares about combat but combat as it is is really stale. theirs not really any good places to do it and the places that are fun are not worth the time or damages just think that one of the more fun activity is getting ignored...

Ejector Limpet A limpet type which performs the same function as the hatch breaker, with different operation - focusing more on emptying single targets, as opposed to hatch breaker's smash-n-grab style. Pro: Increases minimum/maximum cargo dropped based on module class Cons: Much slower...

Collector Limpet - Derelict ship recovery Pirates have been looking for ways to stabilize their targets to effectively hatch-break and steal the cargo. Allow a Collector limpet targeted at a ship to provide this function. we don't have acceleration figures for the collector limpets, but they...

What's wrong with smuggling and piracy today? 1. It's abysmally low-income compared to other gameplay loops. 2. PVE Piracy is somewhat non-existant. LTD\valuable cargo ships are very scarce, hence barely anyone is interested in this kind of gameplay. Private courier vessels do carry rare...

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I was about to try out some piracy for fun. Looked up some videos about it, and apparently I have to do this tedious game of bump the ship with my ship in order to get the cargo out. First....why is this a thing devs? As a fellow game developer, I would figure you would add something like a...

Hi! I would love it if there could be a game mechanic where you can FREE slaves from cargo containers. So, you buy or pirate slave cargo units, take them to a station where slavery is outlawed, and have the option to free them. Or, maybe it makes more sense to have a faction or station...

I'm talking about these NPC pirates. Remember the good ol' days when an NPC would pull you over and give you n seconds to drop x amount of cargo? Not any more! Every single time I get pulled over by a pirate (who comments on my "juicy cargo"), it's instant smack, quack, give the duck a wack! I...

Hi all. Given that I don't find mining particarly engaging, I decided a couple of weeks ago to try my hand at piracy. Just to be clear, by piracy I mean attempting to rob other players of their valuables. I have had little enough success. I believe there to be two main reasons for this. The...

I honestly figured this was a bug and initially submitted this as a bug report, but it got rejected with a "By Design" tag somehow. Anyway, this hardly seems like proper gameplay. The current most effective NPC piracy system requires you to take down the NPC's shields, module snipe their...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had...

I'm just curious, with all the activity happening in Borann, why hasn't there been a concerted effort to flip the system to an Anarchy? Are all the pirate groups no more? Do organized pirates not try to influence the BGS to their favor? I'm just a single pirate doing his thing, but if there was...

Is this a bug? I assure you, the lower amount (left panel) is representative of my crimes. I would have to kill lots of people to have a 1 million credit bounty, and I have killed nobody in a long time.

This thread is specifically for those who would like to play in Open but feel pushed into Solo by wings of gankers who chain-interdict your slow mining ships while in supercruise. There is a way to have your Open cake and eat it too. If you are mining for an hour or more at a time, why not...

I've been enjoying my new "night job" as a pirate. Thank you Frontier for giving us Borann! And thank you those who mine in Open. "Acquiring" LTDs is not my issue, selling them is. This is a pirate noob question, but do black markets mirror the regular markets when it comes to demand and price...

All this talk about piracy and the current LTD boom made me think... what if a goody-two-shoes CMDR like me tried to pirate another player at the currently highest paying system, for the first time in his 5 year long lawful career? Well, it was a success! As soon as I entered 169 G., I...

I have been playing Elite for a long time (a very long time if you include the original elite) and, on the whole, i love the game but there is one thing that really niggles me. I'm not very combat orientated and mostly do trading for a player faction so i find the constant NPC interdiction...

So here's my line of thinking this morning that lead me to the simple suggestion to follow. I'm running cargo for the CG in a T9. I think to myself, "Why do gankers need to destroy my ship, why not just ask me to drop my cargo like NPCs do and let me continue?" But then I continue this line of...

What is an Intra Dimensional Trader? It is a new breed of trader that has been sighted in our galaxy. These traders will go to the 4th Dimension (a.k.a. Solo Dimension) whenever they are interdicted in the scope of a piracy attempt. Some will disappear right away (task kill to be precise), some...

Pirate here, roleplay pirate. After a night drinking Orerrian Vicious Brew I had a vision: We should phase out the FSD Disruptor (Yuri Grom Powerplay module) We really need the Menu Log Disruptor. Thoughts, ideas, improvements are welcome.

My step-dad just had this idea. It’s basically the interstellar-piracy version of dye packs in money/stores. Pirate interdicts you, you’re in a slow and weak ship. But you planned for this, and you’ve got [x] tons of live explosives disguised as valuable goods. You drop those, pirate scoops...

Now, popping out of character - the CDD should be a weapon used to temporarily disable a ship's drives and activate it's inertial dampeners (to force it to a stop) for a very limited amount of time, at massive expense - it should take up a weapon slot, and have the following properties, or close...

Now the npcs just fly straigh like 3-4 KM, turn back and try to shoot, fly away again. They are flying really strange, and since now pp disable is something that don't happen anymore, HOW to get the precious cargo if npcs don't stop anymore (Even to shoot at you).

Notorious CMDRs (esp. ones murdering other players) should be marked on the galaxy map. Any time they dock at a non-anarchy system, get scanned, or interdict or attack a ship (unless it has report crimes off), marker appears or has its location updated. Hovering over the icon would show CMDR...

There is a consent that piracy is in a bad place. I'd like to propose a simple way to make it more interesting and worthwhile: Let us use recon limpets on ships. Not to hack the cargo systems, but to steal data from the ship computer. For example trade data from space truckers, military data...

With the introduction of Squadrons, we now have a clan/guild system where many Squadrons have some form of ethos that their community follows. Some Squadrons are Exploration based, some Xeno Hunters, some Traders, some Miners, some are Pirates, and some are Lawful combat pilots (protectors), and...

OH. MY. GOD. I just made the mistake of taking 2 missions to recollect some stolen cargo for a minor faction. Basically a "hey that guy took our stuff. PLz bring our stuff back!" ALIGHT COOL. NO PROBLEM. Got a anaconda. Got hatch breakers. Got collector limpets. Les do dis. I drop into the...

At this current time I have noticed that NPCs still don't care that their power plant is destroyed and act as if they still have one, which can be a nuisance to deal with especially in piracy. So to try and avoid this bug I suggest that a new module that could directly transfer cargo between a...