Dam hooligans!

Olythekid · Feb 13, 2015

It's a bit repetitive for explorers. Jump into a new system, get interdicted by some NPC lone 'clean' ship that shoots at you right away. Frustrated because x,xxx Ly from civilization I have no cargo? Do we know why?

Killasandara · Feb 13, 2015

I hope there is a solid explanation here. Also, it is getting harder to avoid interdiction by NPC. I know that this needed to be tweaked, but a harmless sidewinder with interdiction power that is impossible to avoid? Things that make you go hhmmmmm

Shockwave Rider · Feb 13, 2015

Its competition between explorers. Being the first one to bring back the data on system. Gets your name in the books and a cash bonus. Blowing away all your competitors gives you a better chance of doing that.

Fen Harel · Feb 13, 2015

NPCs are much more aggressive, I have found, since the 1.1.

The best investment I made to avoid them is a large fuel scoop. When I am making the run back into populated space it minimizes the amount of time I need to spend loitering around stars.

MaraJade · Feb 13, 2015

Killasandara said:
I hope there is a solid explanation here. Also, it is getting harder to avoid interdiction by NPC. I know that this needed to be tweaked, but a harmless sidewinder with interdiction power that is impossible to avoid? Things that make you go hhmmmmm

Thought it was just me,I noticed too that it's suddenly impossible to avoid an interdiction by an npc. I took out my scanner as I was trading. Ever time I stopped, out of nowhere, bamm, interdiction. (I'm in a T-7, so not great to start with for exploring).

KellyR · Feb 13, 2015

I've had no problems evading interdictions and I'm in a T7. Most people want to roll to keep the vector in their sights. I use pitch and yaw exclusively unless it gets too far to the left or right but that seldom happens with me.

Xexexh · Feb 13, 2015

Yeah I posted about this a couple of days ago and people told me that the further out I went the fewer NPC interdictions would happen. To be fair that did seem to be the case.

I hope there hasn't been a change since then - I'm currently saved on the edge of an unexplored region with 90% hull. Won't be able to go much further if interdictions keep happening

Olythekid · Feb 13, 2015

I can't evade all NPC and I do use yaw/pitch mostly, one succeeds from time to time and it's not hard to get away back to SC anyway. I do explore with a Cobra and I'm fully armed, I can dish it back out if necessary, but exploring, last thing you need is a canopy breach after a collison 3,000 Ly from the nearest base hehehe.

xexexh, noticed the same.

Shockwave, I'll buy your theory, good one. Every explorer is then a serial murderer hehehe. I still think it's a bit much. Almost every system I explore i have to fight an interdiction ... geezbuz it's clockwork repetitive and kills the 'alone in space far away from civilization' immersion.

KellyR · Feb 14, 2015

Well, yeah, I get defeated in an interdiction fight now and then; it does happen but 99.9% of the ones I lose are against Cmdrs. The AI here, as with most AI I've encountered in other games just can't cut it against a human. But everyone, even the AI, gets lucky once in a while.