Attacked by 3 players, and came up with a new tactic

Jake Savage

Jake Savage
I was bounty hunting in a compromised nav beacon in my corvette. Then another player flying an assault ship drops in. I keep my eye on him, and he leaves me alone and starts shooting the wanted ships. Then another corvette drops in, same, ignores me and starts shooting the wanted ships. Next a python drops in shoots the wanted ships. I am getting a little nervous now, so I plot an escape route to another system, just in case. Next thing I know, the other commanders wing up and attack me. I was getting ready to jump, when I had this idea. There was a wing of three npc's, all assault ships, so I gently scrapped alongside one of them, and used chaff, and sure enough one of the commanders hits one of them. Next thing you know I have a wing of three assault ships on my side. One hell of a fight ensues, all the assault ships die, including the CMDR's assault ship, then the python explodes. By that time I had to jump out as I was at 23% hull. Leaving the cmdr in his corvette who still had shields. Still, a good tactic that I might use again.
 
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W4rSkuLL

W4rSkuLL
Nice. Great thinking getting the NPCs on your side :) The next must be NPC wingmen you can hire and give orders to :)
 

cmdr sandman

cmdr sandman
Nice one! I've done something similar in the past with NPCs in RPG games like Skyrim - getting a Frost Troll to tie up a Dragon while I pick it off from a distance :)
 

Riktar

Riktar
Jakesavage said:
I was bounty hunting in a compromised nav beacon in my corvette. Then another player flying an assault ship drops in. I keep my eye on him, and he leaves me alone and starts shooting the wanted ships. Then another corvette drops in, same, ignores me and starts shooting the wanted ships. Next a python drops in shoots the wanted ships. I am getting a little nervous now, so I plot an escape route to another system, just in case. Next thing I know, the other commanders wing up and attack me. I was getting ready to jump, when I had this idea. There was a wing of three npc's, all assault ships, so I gently scrapped alongside one of them, and sure enough one of the commanders hits one of them. Next thing you know I have a wing of three assault ships on my side. One hell of a fight ensues, all the assault ships die, including the CMDR's assault ship, then the python explodes. By that time I had to jump out as I was at 23% hull. Leaving the cmdr in his corvette who still had shields. Still, a good tactic that I might use again.
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Good thinking!!

I am wondering how long it took for one of the Cmdr's to hit the clean NPC after you began your scraping tactic? Also, were your shields still up? Hull percentage?

Wondering if this would work for a smaller (FAS, Cobra, Python, etc.) ship.....
 

Riktar

Riktar
Weps said:
Proof that NPC wings would help this game so much more.
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I may have missed this as a proposed idea or upcoming feature, but what about in addition to the NPC wings concept you added another option to report crimes against me that was a simple distress signal?

Assign as a manual switch? Automatic like "Report crimes against me"? Range? Immediate area your in? System wide?
I can imagine it could be a great benefit if you were jumped in a rez site where you are aligned with the local "clean" members. Would add another level of strategy in picking what rez site you want to hunt in.
And those charity donations on the BB would seem like the best bargain in the universe if the faction's NPC's were looking out for you when things go bad,,,,, ;)

And it would give the bad guys something else to think about when jumping a clean Cmdr.
 
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frostypaw

frostypaw
This works just beautifully until in turn you accidentally clip one of the system defence vehicles!! I think there were about 12 in the instance by then, they kept turning up. Jumped out with my hull plummeting like a stone
 

Mechanist

Mechanist
Jakesavage said:
I am getting a little nervous now, so I plot an escape route to another system, just in case. Next thing I know, the other commanders wing up and attack me.
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I think this is the most important part of your post and sums up how to handle suspicious encounters.

-> less griefing acts
-> less complaints on the forum
-> more unhappy griefers which turns into less griefers (hopefully) ;)

Good experience and I'm glad it worked out for you.
 

Jake Savage

Jake Savage
Riktar said:
Good thinking!!

I am wondering how long it took for one of the Cmdr's to hit the clean NPC after you began your scraping tactic? Also, were your shields still up? Hull percentage?


Wondering if this would work for a smaller (FAS, Cobra, Python, etc.) ship.....
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It only took a few seconds before they hit the npc assault ship. My shields were already low with no shield cells left as I was finishing up for the day.
100% hull at the time. I think they thought easy kill as my shields were almost down.
 
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