I might have the answer for you. Just carry around a few tonnes of Magnetic Emitter coils and Ion distributors and you should be interdicted by Elite level ships every single time. I am currently carrying these around and every ship tonight has been Elite Anaconda's, Fer-De lance, FAS and more. Even in a Nav beacon, every ship there was an Eilte ship including an Elite Type 9. It doesn't matter If doing a mission or not. Same result everytime....Elite ships 100% of the time.
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I'm only ever getting interdicted by Elite ships, bounty hunters and pirates. Not complaining but it seems a bit forced, I wonder if its because of my own rank..
Iam just 20% into master rank and the engineer mtrl I have in my cargo hold is an Elite npc magnet. Only npc that interdict me is Elite rated....
I thought they tuned it down in the patch but nothing changed for me so il wait to play this game until they sort it out.
And I hope they do or if its intended to be like this then its Game Over for me.
I thought they tuned it down in the patch but nothing changed for me so il wait to play this game until they sort it out.
And I hope they do or if its intended to be like this then its Game Over for me.
I have no idea what determines the npc rank. I thought I did, which is why I requested to have my combat rank reset.
I m currently harmless, with elite trading, and an anaconda.
I v been travelling around with 5-6 tons of goodies (left-over meta-aloy, and some samarium), and some limpets. No PP, no missions.
6 interdictions so far (they seem quite rare, so maybe thats combat rank? I dunno).
anyway, the 6 were:
elite drop
deadly FAS
elite FAS
master drop
master drop
master FDL
So if its determined by combat rank alone, and they think thats appropriate for harmless, well, then I m unimpressed lets just say....
There is some kind of level scaling in this game right? Or isnt there? I mean I d prefer no, in which case getting high ranked npcs becasue I m in an anaconda and thats a visual que the npcs could legitimately pick up on doesnt bother me. However if there is level scaling, then something is wrong.
I m currently harmless, with elite trading, and an anaconda.
I v been travelling around with 5-6 tons of goodies (left-over meta-aloy, and some samarium), and some limpets. No PP, no missions.
6 interdictions so far (they seem quite rare, so maybe thats combat rank? I dunno).
anyway, the 6 were:
elite drop
deadly FAS
elite FAS
master drop
master drop
master FDL
So if its determined by combat rank alone, and they think thats appropriate for harmless, well, then I m unimpressed lets just say....
There is some kind of level scaling in this game right? Or isnt there? I mean I d prefer no, in which case getting high ranked npcs becasue I m in an anaconda and thats a visual que the npcs could legitimately pick up on doesnt bother me. However if there is level scaling, then something is wrong.
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Don't assume anything FD does makes sense, I just had a mission to steal 38 tons of battle weapons from a hauler, a ship with a maximum capacity of 22 (unshielded with no other modules), I mean the FDL is a terrible pirate ship as is the FAS/Dropship
I don't expect a hauler to interdict me. But a pilot never start at Elite ranking. And Elite ranked NPC should be rare, not extremely common as it is now. It should be a mix of different ranks.
That's just my 2 cents
I've had 12 Magnetic Emitter coils aboard my ship. Seeing Harmless Eagles threatening to boil me up... If I do come across an Elite NPC it's gone back to the same yawn fest as 2.0 Good thing I'm mainly a trucker and not a combat pilot.