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So last night I travelled back to SD in my AspX fitted for combat (why, you may ask, and I say, why not). The ship's got a Prismatic Shield fitted and engineered armour with about 2200hp.
Cue the usual crowd of winged up gankers interdicting me. I refused to engage (no chance the Asp making a dent vs a meta FdL) but also to high wake to avoid another commute from the main star to the station.
When I got interdicted, I was almost at my destination (within the gravity well of Founders World), I somehow managed to not submit before the minigame ended, thus resulting in the loooong FSD cooldown. So initially I tried to evade the FdL firing at me, and with about 500m/s it wasn't impossible which meant I wanted to take my chances of escaping by low-waking. Because I couldn't quite outrun them, they took out my shields and about 60% of my hull at that stage - only then did I realise my FSD was still cooling down.
I then decided to take it like a man and halted to 0, awaiting my fate (and the fast track back to the station). The space cops arrived around the same time so they must've distracted my enemy, so at 41% hull and the FSD cooled down I thought "now or never" and hit the FSD again. Unexpectedly, I got away back into SC.
The next few minutes were some cat and mouse game of evading interdiction, which I managed successfully, although I had to briefly jump out of the system to re-charge my shields, just in case.
When I returned, I noticed a few lines in system chat between what I believe members of the same squadron - along the lines of
"ah THAT Asp"
my CMDR name
"something's fishy about it
"
"reported
"
"they'll find out"
I initially assumed that due to the smileys those comments were made in jest, but then got second thoughts.
So I tried to ask the CMDR in question what he meant by that, but then realised later when I docked that I was in normal space (trying to avoid them interdicting me again) on my own, and in local, not in system chat so they probably never received my messages. I still remember the CMDRs name (think he was even on my friends list for a while, before I did a spring clean of the same) but won't name and shame of course.
Now, to me it looks like they thought I was cheating (I wasn't), and that they reported me accordingly. I do remember another post here not too long ago (CMDR Krash I think?) where something similar happened... I'm all for reporting actual cheaters, but don't spam the report button just because you can't instakill another player with your gankboat.
Wondering if this happened to other people and whether FDev took any action against them (I would think not, given actual cheaters seem to roam freely)? I very much doubt anything will come out of this for me as I didn't do anything wrong, but it would be a shame if this stuff becomes more widespread, and would certainly leave a bitter taste, to the point of where it might be better to avoid PvP hotspots in Open in the future.
Cue the usual crowd of winged up gankers interdicting me. I refused to engage (no chance the Asp making a dent vs a meta FdL) but also to high wake to avoid another commute from the main star to the station.
When I got interdicted, I was almost at my destination (within the gravity well of Founders World), I somehow managed to not submit before the minigame ended, thus resulting in the loooong FSD cooldown. So initially I tried to evade the FdL firing at me, and with about 500m/s it wasn't impossible which meant I wanted to take my chances of escaping by low-waking. Because I couldn't quite outrun them, they took out my shields and about 60% of my hull at that stage - only then did I realise my FSD was still cooling down.
I then decided to take it like a man and halted to 0, awaiting my fate (and the fast track back to the station). The space cops arrived around the same time so they must've distracted my enemy, so at 41% hull and the FSD cooled down I thought "now or never" and hit the FSD again. Unexpectedly, I got away back into SC.
The next few minutes were some cat and mouse game of evading interdiction, which I managed successfully, although I had to briefly jump out of the system to re-charge my shields, just in case.
When I returned, I noticed a few lines in system chat between what I believe members of the same squadron - along the lines of
"ah THAT Asp"
my CMDR name
"something's fishy about it
"reported
"they'll find out"
I initially assumed that due to the smileys those comments were made in jest, but then got second thoughts.
So I tried to ask the CMDR in question what he meant by that, but then realised later when I docked that I was in normal space (trying to avoid them interdicting me again) on my own, and in local, not in system chat so they probably never received my messages. I still remember the CMDRs name (think he was even on my friends list for a while, before I did a spring clean of the same) but won't name and shame of course.
Now, to me it looks like they thought I was cheating (I wasn't), and that they reported me accordingly. I do remember another post here not too long ago (CMDR Krash I think?) where something similar happened... I'm all for reporting actual cheaters, but don't spam the report button just because you can't instakill another player with your gankboat.
Wondering if this happened to other people and whether FDev took any action against them (I would think not, given actual cheaters seem to roam freely)? I very much doubt anything will come out of this for me as I didn't do anything wrong, but it would be a shame if this stuff becomes more widespread, and would certainly leave a bitter taste, to the point of where it might be better to avoid PvP hotspots in Open in the future.
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