First off, I'm not moaning about this, it was my fault and I'll take my losses and bruises.
I saw the chance to make some money and I lost. I picked up a well paying delivery mission in my A-rated Cobra MK III with 32 tons of cargo space. It was tycoon level and required me to deliver 90 tons of goods so I was looking at 3 round trips. I'm rated Merchant in Trade and Mostly Harmless in Combat but I've taken out Master level NPCs in my Cobra so I didn't think about the level difference. I also don't keep a list with the levels nearby so I didn't expect a Deadly in an Anaconda to attack. Remember Trade-Tycoon == Combat-Deadly.
On the first delivery I successfully evaded an interdiction, at the time I wasn't aware it was an Anaconda. I was able to deliver 30 tons and made my way back to the pickup location.
On the second trip I was was losing the interdiction and submitted, not knowing it was a Anaconda I thought I'd give combat a go. Was I wrong! The 1st thermal attack took out my shields and my hull was nearly gone in under 30 seconds, I checked the logs and it took 3 hits to get to 19% hull, the final blow was my ramming into the NPC, not on purpose, the NPC was extremely agile and got very close giving no room to maneuver. So that was 1 ship rebuy.
I almost decided to abandon but thought I might give it another try, figuring the NPC might not try again. Again I was wrong but lost the interdiction, tried to fight but lost my ship in just about the same time. I could have high-waked but I'm usually against that. Plus, if I returned, the NPC would probably be there again, persistent little pest. So that was rebuy number 2.
With only 30 tons delivered and no more cargo at the depot, I had no choice but to abandon. Needless to say that between the rebuys and fines for not completing the delivery I was back to square one from the day before. I'm unsure how or when the partial complete is available but it wasn't there for me. I took the rest of the day off from playing ED as it can be a little disheartening to lose so much. I played a little ESO where there's no real loss even when dying unless you wipe in a dungeon. The next day I brought out my Dolphin and completed some nice, safe, tourist missions to make back what I lost and more. None of the passengers even demanded anything special.
Looks like I need to get a tougher ship and stay away from missions that are too many levels above my skill set. Just need to raise some credits for that Krait Phantom. Still, that Anaconda seemed awfully fast and agile for what I always assumed was a lumbering beast of a ship. My Cobra isn't engineered but I've never had an issue staying behind, on-top or underneath an NPC ship. In this case I couldn't out run or out maneuver this ship.
I saw the chance to make some money and I lost. I picked up a well paying delivery mission in my A-rated Cobra MK III with 32 tons of cargo space. It was tycoon level and required me to deliver 90 tons of goods so I was looking at 3 round trips. I'm rated Merchant in Trade and Mostly Harmless in Combat but I've taken out Master level NPCs in my Cobra so I didn't think about the level difference. I also don't keep a list with the levels nearby so I didn't expect a Deadly in an Anaconda to attack. Remember Trade-Tycoon == Combat-Deadly.
On the first delivery I successfully evaded an interdiction, at the time I wasn't aware it was an Anaconda. I was able to deliver 30 tons and made my way back to the pickup location.
On the second trip I was was losing the interdiction and submitted, not knowing it was a Anaconda I thought I'd give combat a go. Was I wrong! The 1st thermal attack took out my shields and my hull was nearly gone in under 30 seconds, I checked the logs and it took 3 hits to get to 19% hull, the final blow was my ramming into the NPC, not on purpose, the NPC was extremely agile and got very close giving no room to maneuver. So that was 1 ship rebuy.
I almost decided to abandon but thought I might give it another try, figuring the NPC might not try again. Again I was wrong but lost the interdiction, tried to fight but lost my ship in just about the same time. I could have high-waked but I'm usually against that. Plus, if I returned, the NPC would probably be there again, persistent little pest. So that was rebuy number 2.
With only 30 tons delivered and no more cargo at the depot, I had no choice but to abandon. Needless to say that between the rebuys and fines for not completing the delivery I was back to square one from the day before. I'm unsure how or when the partial complete is available but it wasn't there for me. I took the rest of the day off from playing ED as it can be a little disheartening to lose so much. I played a little ESO where there's no real loss even when dying unless you wipe in a dungeon. The next day I brought out my Dolphin and completed some nice, safe, tourist missions to make back what I lost and more. None of the passengers even demanded anything special.
Looks like I need to get a tougher ship and stay away from missions that are too many levels above my skill set. Just need to raise some credits for that Krait Phantom. Still, that Anaconda seemed awfully fast and agile for what I always assumed was a lumbering beast of a ship. My Cobra isn't engineered but I've never had an issue staying behind, on-top or underneath an NPC ship. In this case I couldn't out run or out maneuver this ship.
