Improve Piracy and Bounty Hunting Really Simpy

[AV2012]

At the present time Interdictions in the game are rather toothless as you can always just run away from them.

My idea is to introduce Frame Shift Suppression technology to Interdictions. The lowest class of interdiction module could suppress all FSD activity for 10 seconds with more advanced and expensive modules suppressing the FSD for longer.

Pirates are likely to be able to find out information about successful traders and would therefore focus their attacks in a more discriminating manner.

FSD suppression would be double edge sword for the pirate as they would effectively be trapped in a box with their "victim" allowing Darwinian rules to apply.

The same would go for bounty hunters. This would actually make interdiction a real threat, rather than something you can easily run away from.

One thing I think that would really help here would be the ability to transfer credits to another player. Once the boarding other ships is complete it would be great if some Somalian type piracy could be introduced in the game. Taking hostages for ransom etc. This should create some great emergent gameplay.

 

[Hayta]

Did you guys know you dont share a bounty if you kill it with your buddy?

Or if your buddy interdicts someone and you jump in to assist him. You can't see the guy your buddy interdicts.

 

[Flappers]

There's already an FSD suppression system... it's selecting their Drives sub target and shooting it.

 

[Veldryn]

FSD Interdictor also slows down FSD charge if you're within 3 km. I think it's 10 times slower for a Class 2 Interdictor, and 12 times for a Class 3 (May depend on the rank also).

 

[Tigga]

FSD Interdictor also slows down FSD charge if you're within 3 km. I think it's 10 times slower for a Class 2 Interdictor, and 12 times for a Class 3 (May depend on the rank also).

Does this work if you submit to the interdiction?

 

[Neilos]

Did you guys know you dont share a bounty if you kill it with your buddy?

Or if your buddy interdicts someone and you jump in to assist him. You can't see the guy your buddy interdicts.

I saw it the other way round. I interdicted someone and when I got to normall flight I was all alone. my buddy jumped in and he could see the guy and killed him. I was just watching my buddy flying erratically shooting at emptiness whilst over skype screaming at me to help him. He's not that good of an actor, he totally couldn't fake that.