since the latest update i'm constantly being killed by anacondas on delivery missions nothing else is being sent against me and it's now beyond a joke i've lost a type 9 each day for the last 3 days and i'm not making enough money with it to upgrade it. delivery missions used to be worthwhile but this has completely broken it for me and it's making delivery jobs worthless because you'll be spending any money you make buying back your damn ship. just want to know if it's only me being screwed over or if more people are encountering this. (as a side note i used to get ships sent after me but it used to be a varied selection between asp's, clippers and the occasional conda but now all i ever get hunted by is conda)
Horizons Delivery missions constantly sending anaconda's to kill me
- Thread starter Roffy02
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You have a few options.
1. be vary about your surroundings. These pirates alerts themselves so keep an eye out for them, they need to get behind you in super cruise to interdict you, so avoid taking the direct route to your destination, take a detour, so now the pirate have to fly even longer to get behind you, and if that is starting to happen, change course. This way you can avoid the interdiction entirely. And be ready to high wake, ie have a destination system selected, so that you can high wake to that system, so you are not masslocked. Improving hull (military grade)/shield sizes (sacrifice cargo space for larget shield) and/or add shield boosters. This might require bigger powerplant to run them. Point is to survive long enough to be able to high wake.
2. Practice on the interdiction minigame, so you can win, this should be the backup plan while trying todo #1
3. Load up extra cargo that you can give to pirates. they rarely demand specific cargo, just x-amount, or Y worth of cargo.
4. If you have friends playing the game, see if any of those will fly escort. There are also player groups that you can seek out to find this kind of player to escort you. Obviously this is not gonna work if you want to play alone.
i can win the minigame most of the time the problem is that all it takes is one loss, i've tried taking other cargo to dump and the NPC says you can do better than that even though i dumped 585 units of survival gear for them. and the main issue is that since the new update the NPC is gate camping the sun so the moment i jump in i'm instantly interdicted before my sensors have even had a chance to locate anything. i tried high wake jumping but my ship can't last long enough i've got a 8C shield which lasted 5 seconds, in short the type 9 is a terrible ship as i've now discovered after loosing one for the 4th day in a row. honestly Frontier need to take a long hard look at that ship and give it a buff even if it's just to shield strengths. i even tried using the sun trick at one point but it didn't seem to do any damage to the NPC even though my heat reached 138% there is no way to make the type 9 viable for high value haulage and if someone comments buy a conda my reply is simple i would if i could afford one.