Am I Wasting my Time Fortifying? (Hudson)

hedshot57

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I am flying an AspEx and doing Fortification runs for Hudson (Usually 20 at a time, If I Backhaul to Nanoman and the System targeted for Fortification l I can afford another quota and a smallish profit). I come here to Ask, am I wasting my time? I am by no means a combat pilot exclusively (inb4 Hudson is all combat) and trade pretty much exclusively with occasional Exploration and Combat bouts. However, I find that if another player interdicts me, I am pretty much dead in the water. I can't run away, I most likely won't be able to fight them, and evading another Player's interdiction is impossible.

I made 200 Merits yesterday, and I am trying to reach rating 3 by the end of this cycle. I am rating 1 now so my allocation is 10 Tons.

How should I outfit my Asp for fortifying that will give me a chance to fight off another player? Should I even do fortification? I really dislike combat at the present, but I am by no means bad at it. Any suggestions or help you guys could provide would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!
 

pica pica

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All depends on what point of the game you're at.

If you're a relatively new Cmdr I would say that you would do better ignoring PP for now until you can afford a tougher ship to survive/gain more experience surviving.

or

Get in touch with some active Hunsonites (reddit is the place to look) and see if you can wing up while fortifying.
 
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thelivingdeadguy

thelivingdeadguy
hedshot57 said:
I am flying an AspEx and doing Fortification runs for Hudson (Usually 20 at a time, If I Backhaul to Nanoman and the System targeted for Fortification l I can afford another quota and a smallish profit). I come here to Ask, am I wasting my time? I am by no means a combat pilot exclusively (inb4 Hudson is all combat) and trade pretty much exclusively with occasional Exploration and Combat bouts. However, I find that if another player interdicts me, I am pretty much dead in the water. I can't run away, I most likely won't be able to fight them, and evading another Player's interdiction is impossible.

I made 200 Merits yesterday, and I am trying to reach rating 3 by the end of this cycle. I am rating 1 now so my allocation is 10 Tons.

How should I outfit my Asp for fortifying that will give me a chance to fight off another player? Should I even do fortification? I really dislike combat at the present, but I am by no means bad at it. Any suggestions or help you guys could provide would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!
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If you're an Xbox player then I'll happily wing up and escort you on the runs.

Same goes for any other traders might like some support in CGS etc.

GT: Rolandde.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
If you are trying to reach rank 5 by earning it via your allocation, then YES, you are absolutely quantifiably wasting your time. If you are content just to reach rank 3, then yes that just barely possible with a minor 2 week grind of roughly 28 hours.

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Week_1: Gaining rank 2 with rank 1 allocation: 5 hours
Week_2: Gaining rank 3 with rank 2 allocation: 23 hours
Week_3: Gaining rank 4 with rank 3 allocation: 28 hours
Week_4: Gaining rank 5 with rank 4 allocation: 181 hours

Since there are only 168 hours in a week, reaching rank 5 with a rank 4 allocation of 50 Tons per hour is temporally impossible even if you didn't sleep for a whole week and spent the ENTIRE time hauling 'free' PP cargo.
 

hedshot57

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Oh, definitely, Groombridge is never okay. I delivered to LTT and Mariyacoch yesterday. I am using the Google Doc with the fortification priorities. I might hop on Discord, soon. I appreciate the help, man.
 

CMDR Adelind

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hedshot57 said:
evading another Player's interdiction is impossible.
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There's a trick to it. Once you get snagged, hit highest threat to get a look at the enemy. If you're smaller, do long sweeping rolls. If you're bigger, rock back and forth. If a player is trying to catch you forting, chances are they're modded, there's not much point in trying to fight. The best way out of trouble is to keep a high wake route plotted, so you can always just retract your weapons, hit next system and jump without worrying about mass lock.
 
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xondk

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hedshot57 said:
I am flying an AspEx and doing Fortification runs for Hudson (Usually 20 at a time, If I Backhaul to Nanoman and the System targeted for Fortification l I can afford another quota and a smallish profit). I come here to Ask, am I wasting my time? I am by no means a combat pilot exclusively (inb4 Hudson is all combat) and trade pretty much exclusively with occasional Exploration and Combat bouts. However, I find that if another player interdicts me, I am pretty much dead in the water. I can't run away, I most likely won't be able to fight them, and evading another Player's interdiction is impossible.

I made 200 Merits yesterday, and I am trying to reach rating 3 by the end of this cycle. I am rating 1 now so my allocation is 10 Tons.

How should I outfit my Asp for fortifying that will give me a chance to fight off another player? Should I even do fortification? I really dislike combat at the present, but I am by no means bad at it. Any suggestions or help you guys could provide would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!
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What are you trying to achieve?
Are you achieving that?

If so the answer would seem to be no?
But yeah, joining a combat faction seems not a good idea?
 
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