Engineers 3 Hours of mining gone in gone in 30 SECONDS

Cybermykl

Cybermykl


Three hours of mining in my Python on Jura 7 Pristine Metallic ring gone in 15 seconds by a Federal Drop Ship NPC. "There you are and your nice load". I drop out of SC to try to evade. Then he drops out right behind me and in 15 seconds, my shields are down and in another 15 seconds my hull is gone. I was on my way to Jura 2 to sell my 3 hours of mining - Painite 18 tons, plus 110 other pristine metals and some I haven't even heard of before, GONE!!!

I'm not happy, no sir. FIX THIS FDEV. I PAID FOR THE WHOLE RIDE, $180 FOR EVERY EXPANSION AND EVERY SEASON AND I AM NOT HAPPY IN THE LEAST. I am an explorer and a miner, not looking for a shoot'em up.
 
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777Driver

777Driver
What kind of build are you flying? I can't see how someone in a Python is getting killed by a dropship. I was killing Elite dropships in my T9.

Edit - For a mining build or freighter, stick some missiles or torps on the ship, you can wipe out most NPC's in no time at all.
 
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Cybermykl

Cybermykl
3E Pulse Laser x 2
2D Mining Laser x 1
2F Multi-cannon x 2
3D Hull Reinforcement package
6c BiWeave Shield Generator
Chaff Launcher

Shield Booster x 2
Point Defence

Bulkheads Lightweight
6C Power Plant
6E Thrusters
5A FSD
4A Life Support
7C Power Dist
6E Sensors

That is the core, plus 128 tons of cargo space, prospector controller and collector limpet controller

I put the ship in reverse, turned off flight control and hauled ass while shooting at the target until I could take no more, then tried to SC out but too late! Maybe my biggest mistake was not jumping to another system, which I read some have done. But 3 hours of mining, is a lot of time when I can only play 3 days a week. I'm        and some.

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I too could take out targets and a well armed T-6 just sit and spin while taking out their shields until they run away, but man, this AI is set on LEVEL 20 or something.
 
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Cybermykl

Cybermykl
Thanks, I guess it's back to Wing Commander's Privateer, until they fix this AI problem. At least in that sandbox, I got a chance.
 

GammaZ

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Yes, i had a fun fight with elite cobra IV in multipurpose/lightweight python... i even had SCB, chaff, and generally A-grade equipment... i killed him, but i had no shields and 70% hull left.
NPC-s are more of a threat now, which is good...
Also you can use clipper if you have imperial ranks to mine, it will have similar overall characteristics but will be fast, which should allow you to run easily.
 
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777Driver

777Driver
Definitely stick some missiles on there, also keep a system locked for a high wake. Uploading a video, am finding with the new missiles & torps there is nothing we can't handle in a freighter or mining build, you'll be fine in a Python, keep 4 pips to shields and keep sinking missiles and torps into them, they can't handle it.

This vid is against an Elite dropship. Unfortunately my Torps never hit, he managed to escape me, I'm taking down Anaconda's 1v1 big slow targets for torpedo's.

Poor quality video, but you get the idea - My shields are damaged in the first few seconds, was letting him shoot me whilst I setup the recording software

[video=youtube;1ABydZZxdIY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABydZZxdIY[/video]
 
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Titan1978

Titan1978
777Driver said:
What kind of build are you flying? I can't see how someone in a Python is getting killed by a dropship. I was killing Elite dropships in my T9.

Edit - For a mining build or freighter, stick some missiles or torps on the ship, you can wipe out most NPC's in no time at all.
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youre joking right? are you not reading the posts after posts of A Rated Pythons getting shredded in seconds?
 

Cybermykl

Cybermykl
Nice vid for the example. Thanks again, I will definitely get some of those. Maybe I can limp over to Jamison and upgrade the bulkheads as well.
 

Cmdr Rhott Roe

Cmdr Rhott Roe
777Driver said:
What kind of build are you flying? I can't see how someone in a Python is getting killed by a dropship. I was killing Elite dropships in my T9.

Edit - For a mining build or freighter, stick some missiles or torps on the ship, you can wipe out most NPC's in no time at all.
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Just an FYI, my fully A-kitted maxed out Python limped back to a station with most of my modules incapacitated and with no canopy after being pulled out of supercruise by a dropship that was sporting some wicked weapons that took out my shields in a single pass and fried the rest of my python in seconds. I barely, not sure how, made it back into SC then high waked out. I never got a single shot off at the dropship. It felt like I was in a E-rated Sidewinder getting ganked on my newby voyage.
I don't know what weapons that NPC was using but I gotta get me some!!!
 

777Driver

777Driver
Titan1978 said:
youre joking right? are you not reading the posts after posts of A Rated Pythons getting shredded in seconds?
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Pls take a look at my video, I have plenty of other videos going up against Elite NPC's. I even have a video taking on 2 Anacondas, in that one I had to run in the end, I still managed to drop one Anaconda's shield and get its hull to 60%. This is all in a T9, no I have the videos to prove it.

Configure the ship correctly, go FA-OFF, keep pips to shields and pummel them. High wake if it get's too hot.
 
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Cybermykl

Cybermykl
LOL, I was thinking as I was mining and reading the posts on the new AI's NPC ships (I play in multiple screens) "Will I make it to Jura 2 which is only 1200LS away, without getting killed?" and my worst fear came true. I wasn't on a mission, or looking to sell fish to the engineers. I was just mining to upgrade my bulkheads. I'm sooo mad right now.

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I want to know, when are we going to get insurance for the cargo we carry?

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I mean afterall, the insurance to replace my build is 2.6Mil, but I had over 1.5 Mil in mining cargo.
 

Cybermykl

Cybermykl
Exactly, it's like a teaser, keep playing and maybe later we'll throw you another bone to play with.

I suppose I'll take my 100 mil and buy my Asp X back and head back in to interstellar space looking for that illusive Pulsar I mean to see if there is one.
Take care commanders and have a good weekend.
Cheers!!
 
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OpticalHercules

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I play solo-mode mostly, and figured I'll just mine some for a few weeks until Frontier gets tired of the new AI compaints. I, too, mine in python, though my loadout right now is about 4 mil insurance. Just one single trip back to Sutter Dock in Yan Musu I had no less than 11 different attempts to line up and intercept me. Granted, I am a wimp about things, and have gotten very good at quickly logging to menu as soon as I see a "tasty cargo" message pop up and am constantly scanning for ships in SC that start radical turns the second they pass me, but still, that frequency is WAY ridiculous.

Maybe it just has to do with Yan Musu being in War right now though it is still a High-Sec system. Every nearby Prist/Metallic system I've found with a port in-sys is also at War.

Sorry to invade your post, just finding the game a little difficult to enjoy since Thursday afternoon...
 

Wasp0

Wasp0
777Driver said:
Definitely stick some missiles on there, also keep a system locked for a high wake. Uploading a video, am finding with the new missiles & torps there is nothing we can't handle in a freighter or mining build, you'll be fine in a Python, keep 4 pips to shields and keep sinking missiles and torps into them, they can't handle it.

This vid is against an Elite dropship. Unfortunately my Torps never hit, he managed to escape me, I'm taking down Anaconda's 1v1 big slow targets for torpedo's.

Poor quality video, but you get the idea - My shields are damaged in the first few seconds, was letting him shoot me whilst I setup the recording software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABydZZxdIY
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Great Video 777, and certainly given me food for thought on my trader ship. I can't rep you again as i must spread some other love first but no doubt your ED wisdom will help me out AGAIN in the future and i'll rep again then.

Cheers
Wasp0
 
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