So sometime last year I decided to be a pirate, in that time, I basically failed miserably.
Here's the, now locked, thread. How Not To Pirate.
Fast forward to today, and I'm back, trying to be a pirate.
I've got my Anaconda, painted black (again), I've got Limpets, I've got hatch breakers, but I forgot my cargo scanner.
Anyhow, I'm doing mission piracy, I need to liberate 8 "somethings" from an unsuspecting NPC. I've accepted 8 of these missions, totalling around 8m credits.
I've fly to my target system, and then to the body to find my target. It spawns fairly quickly, and I drop in.
It's just a wanted novice T6. Easy! Right?
...
Wrong.
It's cruising along at about 200m/s, which is plenty fast enough for my Anaconda, unless I lower the cargo hatch.
I send over a few hatch breakers to release the cargo I needed.
He drops useless crap instead, and keeps flying. Spreading the cargo everywhere.
I send more hatch breakers.
More crap.
I lose my cool about, and decide to shut him down.
Target drives, deploy the Packhounds, lock on.
Fire!
Thrusters at 0%.
But now he's tumbling on all 3 axis towards the planets surfaces, getting ever faster.
Great.
I boost to catch up, and try to nudge him so he's not spinning so much, or falling so fast.
All I really do is damage him further.
So I send over more hatch breakers.
And get more crap, spread even further. Loads more, spewing out all over the place. I'm sure it's more than this T6 can possibly hold. But hey.
Eventually, he drops 1 unit of what I need.
I send over a collector.
And my limpet splats it on my windshield.
...
I go to use more hatch breakers....
Annnnd I've run out.
I abandon the missions, and leave the T6 to fall to his death, slowly.
Piracy Attempts: 2
Successful Piracy: 0
Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a pirate.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Here's the, now locked, thread. How Not To Pirate.
Fast forward to today, and I'm back, trying to be a pirate.
I've got my Anaconda, painted black (again), I've got Limpets, I've got hatch breakers, but I forgot my cargo scanner.
Anyhow, I'm doing mission piracy, I need to liberate 8 "somethings" from an unsuspecting NPC. I've accepted 8 of these missions, totalling around 8m credits.
I've fly to my target system, and then to the body to find my target. It spawns fairly quickly, and I drop in.
It's just a wanted novice T6. Easy! Right?
...
Wrong.
It's cruising along at about 200m/s, which is plenty fast enough for my Anaconda, unless I lower the cargo hatch.
I send over a few hatch breakers to release the cargo I needed.
He drops useless crap instead, and keeps flying. Spreading the cargo everywhere.
I send more hatch breakers.
More crap.
I lose my cool about, and decide to shut him down.
Target drives, deploy the Packhounds, lock on.
Fire!
Thrusters at 0%.
But now he's tumbling on all 3 axis towards the planets surfaces, getting ever faster.
Great.
I boost to catch up, and try to nudge him so he's not spinning so much, or falling so fast.
All I really do is damage him further.
So I send over more hatch breakers.
And get more crap, spread even further. Loads more, spewing out all over the place. I'm sure it's more than this T6 can possibly hold. But hey.
Eventually, he drops 1 unit of what I need.
I send over a collector.
And my limpet splats it on my windshield.
...
I go to use more hatch breakers....
Annnnd I've run out.
I abandon the missions, and leave the T6 to fall to his death, slowly.
Piracy Attempts: 2
Successful Piracy: 0
Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a pirate.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
they use FSD interdict and there is plenty to be interdicted
