Hey all,
So, a buddy of mine has just gotten back into the game shortly after I myself have returned. We teamed up this evening - for the first time in over a year - to do a little HighRes Bounty Hunting to get him back used to the game. He was in his iEagle, me in my Asp Explorer - so, not serious combat builds, just playing around.
We were discussing other activities to do, he wants to do a little Painite mining at some point, but that's a solo activity really. What we did talk about was the possibility of going to an Anarchy system and "playing pirate" for a bit. We both largely role-play as "good guys" bar the odd bit of smuggling and have never once interdicted and NPC to Pirate them and thought it might be fun.
To be clear, we don't want to get a "Wanted" status or raise our notoriety - well, not yet at least - but we'd quite like to experience the piracy side of the game.
So, any tips? It's not really about purely making money, but rather about trying an aspect of the game we haven't before. However, our plan (well, my plan) is that we'll try pirating "properly" i.e. the goal isn't the destruction of the target ship - we just want some of their cargo.
I get that we'd need an FSD Interdictor, Hatch Breakers and Collector limpets along with a Manifest Scanner equipment-wise. We'll also likely use larger ships such as the Corvettes, Anaconda or Cutter as we have these. We even discussed splitting roles, i.e. one of us would be in a Combat-focused build while the other would be in a ship (Cutter or Anaconda) configured to collect and carry any loot, while also able to help out in a fight, though not the primary damage dealer. Basically a fun activity to team up on for the odd hour or so here and there.
I'd be interested to hear about others experiences with this type of game-play, from initially identifying Systems to pirate in (Anarchy please) through to how to target appropriate NPC's and how to shift the loot - one assume Black Market of course. Also, if one of us is collecting and the other shooting, can we split the profits from the sale if just one of us has the cargo but we're in a wing?
Just trying to mix up our gameplay a little and do more teamed up stuff, and make a few credits.
Cheers,
Scoob.
So, a buddy of mine has just gotten back into the game shortly after I myself have returned. We teamed up this evening - for the first time in over a year - to do a little HighRes Bounty Hunting to get him back used to the game. He was in his iEagle, me in my Asp Explorer - so, not serious combat builds, just playing around.
We were discussing other activities to do, he wants to do a little Painite mining at some point, but that's a solo activity really. What we did talk about was the possibility of going to an Anarchy system and "playing pirate" for a bit. We both largely role-play as "good guys" bar the odd bit of smuggling and have never once interdicted and NPC to Pirate them and thought it might be fun.
To be clear, we don't want to get a "Wanted" status or raise our notoriety - well, not yet at least - but we'd quite like to experience the piracy side of the game.
So, any tips? It's not really about purely making money, but rather about trying an aspect of the game we haven't before. However, our plan (well, my plan) is that we'll try pirating "properly" i.e. the goal isn't the destruction of the target ship - we just want some of their cargo.
I get that we'd need an FSD Interdictor, Hatch Breakers and Collector limpets along with a Manifest Scanner equipment-wise. We'll also likely use larger ships such as the Corvettes, Anaconda or Cutter as we have these. We even discussed splitting roles, i.e. one of us would be in a Combat-focused build while the other would be in a ship (Cutter or Anaconda) configured to collect and carry any loot, while also able to help out in a fight, though not the primary damage dealer. Basically a fun activity to team up on for the odd hour or so here and there.
I'd be interested to hear about others experiences with this type of game-play, from initially identifying Systems to pirate in (Anarchy please) through to how to target appropriate NPC's and how to shift the loot - one assume Black Market of course. Also, if one of us is collecting and the other shooting, can we split the profits from the sale if just one of us has the cargo but we're in a wing?
Just trying to mix up our gameplay a little and do more teamed up stuff, and make a few credits.
Cheers,
Scoob.
