So I'm pretty much a lone wolf PvE part time player.
I finally had to try it... after years of RES hunting and chump change small time mission stuff (I can't stand exploration, SO BORING)... so I went legit -> Space Trucker !
OMG owning a Lakon T9 is the most NOT FUN I've ever had in ED.
Do they sell that ship with a sign painted on its fat a$S that says "I just jumped in, please interdict me! "?
In a Vulture, you have to go looking for combat. You interdict people, they don't interdict you, unless you started it...
In a T9 you spend your entire session wishing you could make three consecutive jumps without getting interdicted and probably shot at.
In a T9, you spend more time in the interdiction mini-game than watching the FSD jump movie - that is saying something.
Second to last straw: I took four missions in an Agri station to take about 600 total food to a famine system station - 2 jumps then just 50Ls in the slow.
I jump once, evade an interdiction, jump again, am threatened with interdiction, but then my game goes blackscreen. ED is one of the most stable games I own, I only ever have ISP/wireless connection issues, never game engine or hardware hangs/freezes.
I have to use task manager to kill ED and reload, and when I relog it puts me 100 k outside the system heart, so I jump a nearby MED security system to jump back in close to my destination and drop my mission cargo.
I jump, immediately see a ship spawn near me, the timing of his arrival indicates it is yet another mission spawned pirate, I panic pick my destination target and start charging my FSD to high jump, but the Python interdicts me good and hard, then blows me up before I can find the eject cargo button (its not something I practice).
$6M rebuy
$112K fines for lost mission cargo in multiple systems
Loss of rep and top social notch with three nearby factions.
Last Straw: so I rebuy and head off to the local ISF (try to find one with a large landing pad...they aren't common) with my humiliatingly empty cargo bay to pay my fines. I'm lucky, there is a planet based ISF with a Large pad one jump away.
I jump, and before I can land and pay my fines off at the ISF, I'm interdicted again. I've already lost my cargo to the last murderer, so he goes away quietly empty handed after wasting yet more of my real life game time.
That is 100% interdiction rate for four jumps - a new personal best, and about a 50% rate overall for my T9 flight time overall. It is safer to walk around Queens NY, USA with a wad of $100 bills hanging out of your shirt pocket, than to go anywhere in ED in a Lakon T9.
SUGGESTION: We need a programmable hotkey that we can pre-program to jettison a fixed amount of cargo when you get interdicted. Modern RL fighter jets have an entire computer dedicated to dispensing counter measures, so why don't we treat cargo as another countermeasure and program a dispense pattern like it is chaff? And maybe we could turn down the interdiction rate a little? Even in ED, trucking Fruits and Vegetables shouldn't be more hazardous than Bering Sea crab fisherman or Chicago cab driver.
I guess it is combat only for me from here on out.
Mining - too boring to do for very long; hard/impossible to build balanced mining ship - have to build for mining, freight hauling, and anti-piracy combat + interdiction when it is time to sell. This is how to make a ship suck at everything.
Exploration - more boring than mining - seriously, I don't see the attraction, and I know there are CMDRs that live for it. Five exciting jump movies in a row and I'm ready to log and play Microsoft Freecell to get my heart rate back above 39.
Trading - you might as well be a combat pilot, you'll meet more pirates than you do bounty hunting. And you'll be slow, clumsy, and undergunned at almost every encounter.
I'm not rage quit, but I am going to take a break and recover from what I am calling RITSD - Repeated Interdiction Traumatic Stress Disorder. Seriously - the T9 is a quick and sure route to ED NO FUN - pun intended.
Used Lakon T9 for sale - well maintained, low miles, all options, salvage title, fresh paint, sought by pirates everywhere. Glad I didn't pay RL money for any color skins for this POS.
I finally had to try it... after years of RES hunting and chump change small time mission stuff (I can't stand exploration, SO BORING)... so I went legit -> Space Trucker !
OMG owning a Lakon T9 is the most NOT FUN I've ever had in ED.
Do they sell that ship with a sign painted on its fat a$S that says "I just jumped in, please interdict me! "?
In a Vulture, you have to go looking for combat. You interdict people, they don't interdict you, unless you started it...
In a T9 you spend your entire session wishing you could make three consecutive jumps without getting interdicted and probably shot at.
In a T9, you spend more time in the interdiction mini-game than watching the FSD jump movie - that is saying something.
Second to last straw: I took four missions in an Agri station to take about 600 total food to a famine system station - 2 jumps then just 50Ls in the slow.
I jump once, evade an interdiction, jump again, am threatened with interdiction, but then my game goes blackscreen. ED is one of the most stable games I own, I only ever have ISP/wireless connection issues, never game engine or hardware hangs/freezes.
I have to use task manager to kill ED and reload, and when I relog it puts me 100 k outside the system heart, so I jump a nearby MED security system to jump back in close to my destination and drop my mission cargo.
I jump, immediately see a ship spawn near me, the timing of his arrival indicates it is yet another mission spawned pirate, I panic pick my destination target and start charging my FSD to high jump, but the Python interdicts me good and hard, then blows me up before I can find the eject cargo button (its not something I practice).
$6M rebuy
$112K fines for lost mission cargo in multiple systems
Loss of rep and top social notch with three nearby factions.
Last Straw: so I rebuy and head off to the local ISF (try to find one with a large landing pad...they aren't common) with my humiliatingly empty cargo bay to pay my fines. I'm lucky, there is a planet based ISF with a Large pad one jump away.
I jump, and before I can land and pay my fines off at the ISF, I'm interdicted again. I've already lost my cargo to the last murderer, so he goes away quietly empty handed after wasting yet more of my real life game time.
That is 100% interdiction rate for four jumps - a new personal best, and about a 50% rate overall for my T9 flight time overall. It is safer to walk around Queens NY, USA with a wad of $100 bills hanging out of your shirt pocket, than to go anywhere in ED in a Lakon T9.
SUGGESTION: We need a programmable hotkey that we can pre-program to jettison a fixed amount of cargo when you get interdicted. Modern RL fighter jets have an entire computer dedicated to dispensing counter measures, so why don't we treat cargo as another countermeasure and program a dispense pattern like it is chaff? And maybe we could turn down the interdiction rate a little? Even in ED, trucking Fruits and Vegetables shouldn't be more hazardous than Bering Sea crab fisherman or Chicago cab driver.
I guess it is combat only for me from here on out.
Mining - too boring to do for very long; hard/impossible to build balanced mining ship - have to build for mining, freight hauling, and anti-piracy combat + interdiction when it is time to sell. This is how to make a ship suck at everything.
Exploration - more boring than mining - seriously, I don't see the attraction, and I know there are CMDRs that live for it. Five exciting jump movies in a row and I'm ready to log and play Microsoft Freecell to get my heart rate back above 39.
Trading - you might as well be a combat pilot, you'll meet more pirates than you do bounty hunting. And you'll be slow, clumsy, and undergunned at almost every encounter.
I'm not rage quit, but I am going to take a break and recover from what I am calling RITSD - Repeated Interdiction Traumatic Stress Disorder. Seriously - the T9 is a quick and sure route to ED NO FUN - pun intended.
Used Lakon T9 for sale - well maintained, low miles, all options, salvage title, fresh paint, sought by pirates everywhere. Glad I didn't pay RL money for any color skins for this POS.
