I was leaving a station in Robigo in an Asp when I saw another player on the scanner with hardpoints deployed. So far everyone I've seen there has been pretty friendly so hardpoints are unusual, but no sweat; only 30 minutes ago I had been running around the same station with hardpoints deployed myself in order to scan wakes, so it's not as much of a red flag as they would be normally. But I targeted the ship anyway to check. Scanner profile looks like it's just an adder or a hauler, no problem. It does say WANTED and it does seem to coming around to face me though.
Wait a minute, that's no hauler, that's a Fer-de-lance! And I've just exited the no-fire zone!
I scurry back into the no-fire zone, and breath a sigh of relief. The FDL is still following me though. Why though since I'm back in the zone? I'm curious now.
I fly past any possible mail-slot trajectory and move off to the side of the station so it's clear I'm just hanging around, not docking, not leaving. A few seconds later the Cmdr, still following, opened fire at me. I don't know what they hit me with (I'm not a PvPer), but it did hull damage right through my shields! Hey shields - you had ONE JOB! (And it also knocked out half my shields!)
First of all, yikes! I hit boost to scoot behind the side of the station and cut their weapon's line-of-sight to me as quickly as possible.
Secondly, what on Earth is that Cmdr thinking, attacking me in a no fire zone?!
As I flew in close to the station, it was a disco light-show of lasers shooting past me. (YES! The no-fire zone works like how I thought it works!) Normally I'm on edge when the station guns go off on a stuck NPC just in case I get caught in the crossfire, but this time it almost felt like the closer the lasers were, flashing past me, the warmer and cozier and safer the world was
Unfortunately in my flustered haste I think I lost my target lock (though at least I didn't nearly deploy landing gear, like last time I was trying to outrun someone), or I didn't hear the demise of the FDL, but when I started trying to reacquire it the ship was nowhere on the scanners. I'm pretty sure there wasn't time for it to have jumped out (even if they somehow got instantly clear of station mass-lock) and I don't think they flew out of the area (because there wasn't any edge-of-scanner activity), and there had been a LOT of laser fire from the station, so I think the most likely explanation is that they... got blown to smithereens.
It's a bit of a recurring in-joke that some of us Cmdr's out by Robigo/Sothis have more money than experience, but losing a shiny FerDeLance by starting something inside a no-fire zone, that's a new one to me
(I should have checked their pilot rank right at the start, but unfortunately either I didn't or I don't remember it.)
I've survived previous run-ins with unprovoked attackers, but I think this counts as my first to-the-death PvP fight Thnx big-bro station
Update: Factabulous noted I could find the pilot rank by checking my logs. I did so and discovered a whole lot more )
Wait a minute, that's no hauler, that's a Fer-de-lance! And I've just exited the no-fire zone!
I scurry back into the no-fire zone, and breath a sigh of relief. The FDL is still following me though. Why though since I'm back in the zone? I'm curious now.
I fly past any possible mail-slot trajectory and move off to the side of the station so it's clear I'm just hanging around, not docking, not leaving. A few seconds later the Cmdr, still following, opened fire at me. I don't know what they hit me with (I'm not a PvPer), but it did hull damage right through my shields! Hey shields - you had ONE JOB! (And it also knocked out half my shields!)
First of all, yikes! I hit boost to scoot behind the side of the station and cut their weapon's line-of-sight to me as quickly as possible.
Secondly, what on Earth is that Cmdr thinking, attacking me in a no fire zone?!
As I flew in close to the station, it was a disco light-show of lasers shooting past me. (YES! The no-fire zone works like how I thought it works!) Normally I'm on edge when the station guns go off on a stuck NPC just in case I get caught in the crossfire, but this time it almost felt like the closer the lasers were, flashing past me, the warmer and cozier and safer the world was
Unfortunately in my flustered haste I think I lost my target lock (though at least I didn't nearly deploy landing gear, like last time I was trying to outrun someone), or I didn't hear the demise of the FDL, but when I started trying to reacquire it the ship was nowhere on the scanners. I'm pretty sure there wasn't time for it to have jumped out (even if they somehow got instantly clear of station mass-lock) and I don't think they flew out of the area (because there wasn't any edge-of-scanner activity), and there had been a LOT of laser fire from the station, so I think the most likely explanation is that they... got blown to smithereens.
It's a bit of a recurring in-joke that some of us Cmdr's out by Robigo/Sothis have more money than experience, but losing a shiny FerDeLance by starting something inside a no-fire zone, that's a new one to me
(I should have checked their pilot rank right at the start, but unfortunately either I didn't or I don't remember it.)
I've survived previous run-ins with unprovoked attackers, but I think this counts as my first to-the-death PvP fight
Thnx big-bro station Update: Factabulous noted I could find the pilot rank by checking my logs. I did so and discovered a whole lot more
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