A bit ticked off right now.
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Sure, right, but this would make people immune to scans as long as they are jumping around. It would be easy to exploit the fact that AI will wait for you to land.
So, maybe just don't act suspicious. Flying over settlement does look weird and can obviously trigger guards - they don't want to hear why you can't stop for a scan - you are supposed to be able to. Act normal and you're fine. It's like trying to explain Police, that you couldn't stop for inspection, because you were doing Mach 1 and your brakes melted.
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Building up your stam.... Oops, wrong game. You need mats for that.
Scan requests were supposed to be fixed to be more noticeable and for the AI to let you submit but it's one of many supposed tos of Odyssey. So just shoot any guard who complains about you trying to have fun, and do your missions in bases controlled by anarchy factions so there's no penalty.
I made the same mistake the other day. Landed at a friendly settlement, wandered into the HAB building to take a mission from the terminal, casually wandered back out to my ship not worrying about the guard scanning me.... but forgot about the illegal virus I was now carrying....ooops. Much gunfire and frantic running ensued and a very exciting time was had by all. Lesson learned.
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Yeah, I've learned to take these setbacks in my stride - if the scan happens inside a building and I have to shoot myself out, the silver lining is I conclude that I may as well start raiding the entire settlement for mats and of course the 'free' power regulator. Shouldn't have scanned me every few seconds the nosy gits.
I've also learned to be more accepting to carry notoriety every now and then since EDO launched. I'm able to avoid it entirely when doing ship stuff - i.e. if I end up with some it was due to my decision. Oh well.
Exactly this.
I feel like this is in the same vein as 90% of odyssey mechanic complaints.
"I ran through a settlement full of guards, doing huge jumps randomly, and couldn't stop in time for a scan because i was mid air. The game is at fault"
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Seat riveting, blood pumping, adrenaline fueled excitement though, wasn’t it?
I sometimes wonder if ED would make a fine Ani-movie?
Yeah,
I have a rule when it comes to the NPC. They take their lives in hand when they aim that scanner at me. Interestingly they seem to feel the same way, scan them and they get all bent out of shape.
Hi Mohenjo
Definately feel your pain... here is another slant on 'unreasonableness':
Yesterday I did my first restore mission in Colonia. Mission accomplished, settlement powered up (alarms were silenced). ''Happy as Larry'' I hopped and skipped my merry way back to my HEAVILY engineered Python parked just behind the PWR Building... lifted off, retracted my undercarriage and made it just to the rooftops of said settlement when the settlement anti-ship defences opened up on me. I had no chance to even hit boost (masslocked)..... managed to say ''Oh Dear'' or somesuch and KABOOOOM!
Several stacked but not handed-in missions all down the toilet.. AND then
sent to a bloody prison hulk parsecs away from Colonia...like you ''THANKS EDO!''
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If you have disabled the settlement alarms after reactivating the power, I can think of two options as to what happened:Hi Mohenjo
Definately feel your pain... here is another slant on 'unreasonableness':
Yesterday I did my first restore mission in Colonia. Mission accomplished, settlement powered up (alarms were silenced). ''Happy as Larry'' I hopped and skipped my merry way back to my HEAVILY engineered Python parked just behind the PWR Building... lifted off, retracted my undercarriage and made it just to the rooftops of said settlement when the settlement anti-ship defences opened up on me. I had no chance to even hit boost (masslocked)..... managed to say ''Oh Dear'' or somesuch and KABOOOOM!
Several stacked but not handed-in missions all down the toilet.. AND then sent to a bloody prison hulk parsecs away from Colonia...like you ''THANKS EDO!''
- someone else reactivated the alarms to troll you (if you were in Open)
- a bug (once I had my FC attack me out of the blue for no reason)
I would also guess that you didn't disable the settlement anti-ship turrets, then?
I always do, one can never be too cautious!
In any case, I wouldn't blame it on the gameplay itself, the mechanics seem robust enough (I've deactivated alarms hundreds of times now, and I haven't never seen this happen).
Better luck next time!
o7
Im constantly bunny hopping and have never had this happen. So long as you're not zooming away from them they don't attack. if you start to get scanned mid air and move toward them you don't have an issue. Likewise why didn't you just recall your ship if you were 3km away from the settlement rather than running back to it? Then why did you decide going back into your ship and flying off was the best option rather than breaking line of site and running off the settlement or just turning and killing everyone.
To say you did nothing wrong is not really being honest. You had a strange log in and reacted to it in about the worst way you could.
To say you did nothing wrong is not really being honest. You had a strange log in and reacted to it in about the worst way you could.
Good points, I have done absolutely oodles of Restore Missions back in the bubble and never had this happen to me either. I have just chatted with one of my squadron mates and he pointed out the error of my ways: (NOT the games fault at all, as you so rightly say):If you have disabled the settlement alarms after reactivating the power, I can think of two options as to what happened:
- someone else reactivated the alarms to troll you (if you were in Open)
- a bug (once I had my FC attack me out of the blue for no reason)
I would also guess that you didn't disable the settlement anti-ship turrets, then?
I always do, one can never be too cautious!
In any case, I wouldn't blame it on the gameplay itself, the mechanics seem robust enough (I've deactivated alarms hundreds of times now, and I haven't never seen this happen).
Better luck next time!
o7
1. I had been warned scavengers were on their way and I was encouraged to 'deal' with them.
2. I used my Python in air-support mode.. with dumb fire missiles to 'off' said scavs.
3. I almost certainly hit vital infrastructure in the settlement during the clear-up phase.
4. The settlement although powered down, identified my Python as 'hostile'.
5. I did disable the alarms as they were in the PWR building.. but as you say; I did NOT disable the anti-ship or other systems.
6. With the settlement powered up AND now hostile; I took off in my Python and once cleared of the buildings the anti-ship guns had clear sight.
7. The fact that I had missiled the settlement in it's powered-down state identified me as a criminal... hence the pokey
You live and learn... and sorry for blaming the game mechanics too! I still think the OP has a valid grumble! o7
option 3 is he landed too close to the power center and was in a tress pass zone. These do not register if the settlement is offline however will become valid again once power is restored. Then rather than flying away from the settlement it seems he flew over it staying in the tress pass zone so if he hadn't been in it long enough to trigger the guns initially he was as he flew over it.
I learned this one the hard way when doing one of these missions. I figured you couldn't request docking at an abandoned settlement (I mean surly that would just be silly). So I just manually landed on one of the pads. shortly after turning the power back on I got a ship under attack warning and boom dead before i could ever get to it.
Really? I do that all the time .... I guess they work on backup batteries.
The only ones you can't dock at are the ones with active CZ, or without the right pad size ...
Yes, I'm aware of that now. Hence the past tense and the bit in parenthesis.
The idea that they run on backup batteries while nothing else does. Like idk doors so people aren't trapped inside, is a bit ludicrous.
Nah, the ppl would just run in and steal their shizzle. They're not daft.
I mean... the npcs are pretty daft. You can run in gun down a building, run out past a guard on his way in to investigate and he'll just let you run right in out no questions asked.