Has Sarah been a bad girl again? I think AI started ramming :)

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

I hate the way the small AI ships are programmed to know your ship control inputs as you give them so they can avoid you. I have had small ships I couldn't ram at ANY speed... even really slow. They know exactly what input i am giving all my thrusters and do the exact opposite.

As a pirate, this is extremely annoying when trying to shoot out a cargo hatch. It's impossible to do on any hauler, and anything below T7 gives me big problems.
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Well then if this is working as intended, a pirate can get a large bounty in one system then jump to a system were he is clean, so that bounty hunters cannot follow and collect this guys bounty without getting a wanted status themselve, is this correct.

If so then how can a bounty hunter track his target that is suddenly become clean, without breaking that systems laws.

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A bounty hunter is not a rent-a-cop. You're supposed to get bounties on your head as a bounty hunter, you're a cold, hard killer that's only in it for the money.

 

[Baton]

I have observed that the "fly straight at you and don't break off, ever, while scanning" behavior seems to have cropped up again as well, which is definitely a source of rams at times when they're probably not appropriate. Run into it several times with authority ships and even a couple of pirates at RES this week.

This may be the case, the ships I see ramming never shoot, like this
https://youtu.be/vKun_VdQKfg

 

[Jaiotu]

OK that's in RL, how do you kidnappe a pirate so that you can collect his bounty, do you ask him politlly "Your under arrest Dead or alive your coming with me" then blast him to spacedust if he refuses.

(Well one could try I suppose, that's if the pirate don't drop dead laughing that is)

There are jurisdictions in Elite Dangerous just like there are in real life. Becoming a criminal in Federation space just pushes you into the Empire, the Alliance or the Independent systems. Heck... you could be a criminal in all three major factions and dozens of Independent worlds and still be able to find some corner of the galaxy that will treat you like a respectable citizen and protect your rights if you are assaulted.

Bounty hunters have to make a decision when attempting to collect a bounty in a jurisdiction where the target is not wanted: Is it worth the money to risk having a bounty placed on my own head?

 

[EdzUp]

Another tactic is to get them to attack first this way your eradication of them is valid.

 

[Microblitz]

Bigger ships merrily ignore me. They may not be deliberately trying to ram me at times but they could care less if they do. The smaller ships do try to avoid me and are quite good.

Bigger ships ignoring you is a real world mechanic!

I worked for a short period as a merchant seaman on a 400,000 Tonne dead weight merchant ship. Travelling up the English channel, a chinless wonder of the Plastic Navy running a floating gin palace yelled over channel 16 ...

"GIVE WAY TO SAIL!"

To which the Captain replied, "Sir, it takes my vessel 4 miles to perform a turn, and 25 miles to stop. In future please make your request an hour prior to requirement!

We continued steaming up the separation zone without changing course.

Now that's real world physics!