you have that wrong! Always kill the messenger, hopefully before he / she delivers the message. And afterwards too, to send a message to othe messengers.
Banged up by NPCs. Wow.
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you have that wrong! Always kill the messenger, hopefully before he / she delivers the message. And afterwards too, to send a message to othe messengers.
Disagree completely. Any kind of close to realistic construct in a "dangerous" galaxy will not automatically scale difficulty based on the individual. The ED galaxy provides mechanisms to scale the risk you take by where you travel and how you interact, just as any reasonable individual would do in a more real-life environment.
Happened to me the other day - surrounded by green hunting the last reds down when suddenly all the greens have gone and the whole radar return looks like I've sneezed with a nose bleed - and no, I didn't hit a friendly.
Suspect it's the way that new vessels are generated by the game - it's why I stick to RES's
This is exactly what happened to me the last time I was in a conflict zone. And it was the last time. I had a red dot isolated and next thing I know wave after wave of reds in all directions.....
A 2m rebuy Python is only good for trade, combat worthy Pythons are 6m up to 9m rebuy, I switched from my Clipper with a net worth of 100m and found a 5m rebuy Python to be ok.
And tbh, you and every other poster who is "dead in seconds" were almost certainly suffering from target fixation and had lost situational awareness to the point where you are isolated in the CZ and have not noticed your shield melting away for 20-30s. Lack of SA, and target fixation will always kill you, just a matte4 of luck how long it takes. Check your scanner every few seconds, train your self until this is an automatic reflex.
I was jumped by 6 expert to elite NPC Eagles 5Mm from Momus Reach station, didn't have to think twice as soon as the FSD cooled down I was out of there. Its ironic that my Pytons triple fixed large beams eat big-game for breakfast but mean that Eagles are one of my highest threats.
Saying that I've never lost shields to NPCs in the Python, and I aint going to stick around for any 6v1 regardless, so I'd prefer much tougher AI than zerg rushes TBH.
How hard can it be to have NPCs use shields, boosters and gawd forbd shield cells like very player does? Becuse until tey fight like real players would they will always be fodder.
You misunderstand. Nothing automatic at all. Manual difficulty setting. Let ME choose how difficult the AI is for MY solo game. Totally won't affect your open game, only solo mode, and on an individual basis.
It would have an affect on the Galaxy though, as the background simulation is shared between all modes.
For example you could go into Solo, set NPCs to Easy, and kill many NPCs belonging to a Minor Faction in control of a system. This would cause that faction's influence to fall, meaning you would have an unfair advantage at working at flipping ownership of systems.
It is not a solo game, and with Powerplay your Elite rank will matter even more. Te challenge has to be the same for everybody. Solo, group or open.