Have you noticed this too?

[Pyrotiger]

Hey guys,

Recently I've been interdicted a lot while carrying no cargo. NPCs have asked me to drop cargo when there is nothing to drop!

I've noticed a common denominator - on my inventory screen, I've left the materials page on. My theory is that the AI sees this value and determines it to be cargo.

So naturally, I flew with it back on the cargo screen (0 cargo) - no more pirate interdictions. After a week, I put the materials screen back on. Interdiction ahoy! The change was drastic so I can't put it down to simple coincidence.

Anyone noticed this as well?

 

[Cruise]

I've not noticed this, but it is an interesting observation.
I'm going to explore this further.
Well spotted Cmdr

 

[Pyrotiger]

I'm out exploring now so I can't look into it further. It would be great if others put it to the test!

 

[Ashnak]

I've noticed that I got interdicted (no cargo, in a Sidewinder) by NPCs twice in the last couple of days - but I've never even looked at my materials screen in this incarnation.

Also checked the comms screen afterwards, and it was pirates in both cases.

 

[Pyrotiger]

If it happens again, after the incident cycle through the tabs and see what comes up. It is possible that if the materials comes up instead of the cargo, when you get to that tab (am I making sense lol) that could have triggered it. As I say, possible. More data needed!

 

[Susanna]

Hey guys,

Recently I've been interdicted a lot while carrying no cargo. NPCs have asked me to drop cargo when there is nothing to drop!

I've noticed a common denominator - on my inventory screen, I've left the materials page on. My theory is that the AI sees this value and determines it to be cargo.

So naturally, I flew with it back on the cargo screen (0 cargo) - no more pirate interdictions. After a week, I put the materials screen back on. Interdiction ahoy! The change was drastic so I can't put it down to simple coincidence.

Anyone noticed this as well?

Interesting... Repped. I'll try this one out...

 

[Komemiute]

If it happens again, after the incident cycle through the tabs and see what comes up. It is possible that if the materials comes up instead of the cargo, when you get to that tab (am I making sense lol) that could have triggered it. As I say, possible. More data needed!

Holy ship! I inadvertently did exactly that connection last night! :O I'm going to check tonight, after the Cubs are in bed.

 

[X-Terminator]

Damn, there goes my bait to lure the prey

 

[VR Lucian Arkright]

I was interdicted three times be Federal System ships the other day. I had no cargo, and no bounties. The ships would interdict me, and then just fly off without even scanning me. I assume it was do to lockdown and near civil war of the system I was in at the time, and all the Checkpoints.

Never happened to me before, so I found it weird but interesting.

 

[Madrax573]

If you can show it repeatedly happening then I'd flag it in a bug report so FD can look into it further.

 

[Pyrotiger]

Absolutely. But more evidence required. I'm not going to waste their precious time if it's the space monkeys playing with me, albeit it's unlikely since I've noticed it repeatedly since January.

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I was interdicted three times be Federal System ships the other day. I had no cargo, and no bounties. The ships would interdict me, and then just fly off without even scanning me. I assume it was do to lockdown and near civil war of the system I was in at the time, and all the Checkpoints.

Never happened to me before, so I found it weird but interesting.

You assumed right

 

[VR Lucian Arkright]

You assumed right

Phew, if only there was some way in game to tell what was going on... Oh wait, there was.

It's nice touch that I'd not noticed before.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Hey guys,

Recently I've been interdicted a lot while carrying no cargo. NPCs have asked me to drop cargo when there is nothing to drop!

I've noticed a common denominator - on my inventory screen, I've left the materials page on. My theory is that the AI sees this value and determines it to be cargo.

So naturally, I flew with it back on the cargo screen (0 cargo) - no more pirate interdictions. After a week, I put the materials screen back on. Interdiction ahoy! The change was drastic so I can't put it down to simple coincidence.

Anyone noticed this as well?

FWIW it has been tweaked a bit in beta, where they ask for specific cargo if you have it, and say how much plus give you a timer.

 

[d8veh]

If you take a mission to go and fetch something, NPCs are often assigned to chase you from the start, i.e. before you've collected the cargo. You get a mission message telling you that they're coming. They never check to see whether you have the cargo or not, so they come out with the same spiel.

 

[Duedy]

had a few times in my cargorack less viper4 a pirate demanding I give him what I had, so I jettisoned my seeker missiles at him

 

[Pyrotiger]

If you take a mission to go and fetch something, NPCs are often assigned to chase you from the start, i.e. before you've collected the cargo. You get a mission message telling you that they're coming. They never check to see whether you have the cargo or not, so they come out with the same spiel.

Yep. However, this has been happening without missions to go and fetch anything!

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FWIW it has been tweaked a bit in beta, where they ask for specific cargo if you have it, and say how much plus give you a timer.

So maybe the problem will be solved anyway - IF there has been a problem

 

[Strangepork]

Great to know, I usually carry a ton of platinum to get those Interdictions flowing.

 

[bubbabenali]

Mission NPCs now quitte often use the "nice cargo" cathegory of foreshadowing chat even on courier type missions.

 

[NascentChemist]

Isn't this being fixed in 2.3? I believe they are adding a step where pirates will actually scan you for cargo after an interdiction. If you have no cargo or if it's not worth enough, they will fly off.

 

[smokeingcat1369]

Isn't this being fixed in 2.3? I believe they are adding a step where pirates will actually scan you for cargo after an interdiction. If you have no cargo or if it's not worth enough, they will fly off.

That's how the Pirates harass me when im in the asteroids mining . thay ask me if I have anything and if I don't have anything they'll say something rude and stupid and go away, usually they get harassed by system Authority and are no longer be a problem,as for being interdicted I'm not sure I'm too busy trying to getaway from them to really pay attention to what they say, you're so damn annoying anyway, they're like flies one hot summer day!