To a certain extent this is true but for some of us that is not an option. I'm getting old. My reactions are getting slow. It is really not possible for me and those like me to get better than I am already. Just is not going to happen. Thankfully I don't have arthritis but otherwise I'm slowing down. So the cry of 'get good' and any other variant is just a tad annoying, no matter who says it or how well intended.
I think that is more about the 'real space gitgud' comments. In most cases IMHO you can beat them
before the interdiction starts:
1) Stay of the shipping lanes. When you are on the lane it is very hard to see who is going where, and whether there is a cmdr, because they are all one big blob blob on the radar. Once off the lanes ships become way clearer on the radar.
2) Target them all. If there is a human in a combat ship, turn and scan. If it is wanted, or has an FSDi, best take it safe.
3) Ships can only attack you from the rear. So when you are pointing an FDL that is looking at you, he cannot interdict you. So you can just stay still and spool the drive, while he has to fly around you. When he tries that, just keep pointing your ship at him as he turns.
None of this requires much 'twitch skills' or hand-eye- coordination, and most can be done with one hand while sipping a beer. The real problem starts when people dont take an active interest in their surroundings and are surprised when the interdiction starts. Rule of thumb: if you are surprised by an interdiction, you did something very, very wrong.
Now, with good reflexes, coordination, experience and a decent ship you can still make it out alive versus a souped-up human, but this situation should be avoided. But to be honest, my multirole Cobra mk4 is pretty much toast probably as its slower and less agile than pretty much everyone, and can get mass-locked by a wet towel.
I would agree before Engineers came out, but today the difference between a player with 5 hours in the game and a player with 500 hours in the game is so vast that there isn't a great deal the former can do to their ship to improve their safety to enough of a degree to minimise the risk enough to be worth it. Intelligent tactics can of course be picked up regardless of time spent in the game.
However, my main issue with this line of argument is that PvP players constantly claim that what they desire is challenge, and yet also say that anybody with a brain can avoid them or survive. If the latter is true then where is the challenge in interdicting non-PvP builds at all? If it's so easy to avoid interdiction and attack then no good player will ever suffer from it, which means the only trade ships that a player will ever manage to interdict are necessarily players who aren't very good at the game, and where's the fun in killing such a player?
For the first bit, if you insist I can sealclub some beginners in a non-modded ship to show you are wrong?
For the second bit: dont be confused, there is no such thing as 'PvP players'. Just like I am a PvE player, but dont associate much with most PvE'ers in this topic. Some want a challenge, and play among other PvP'ers in tournaments, or patrol versus souped-up griefers and such. Others want a
theoretical challenge: ship A versus ship B isnt a pre-decided event, it'll depend on the player skill. So when you win, you've won by skill, not by ship. But sure, you have a decent guess that a novice T9 trader may not have the skills required. Then you have those who want no challenge at all, and prefer stomping on new players in cheap ships with their modded cutters. The first group is pretty cool, the second is neutral and the last are pretty lame.
