Is it worth starting over?

[Ragga Muffin]

I used to get interdicted a lot, but now I hardly ever see any. I've seen other people posting about it online. I suspect it's something to do with the way the connection to the game works. Perhaps the NPC's cannot see me. They could but maybe a change to the server or P2P settings has affected something. There's too many people tslking about it for it to be nothing imo.

I raised a ticket with Fdev support and just got back a "It's working as intended" reply. Can't be working that well if some people get interdicted all the time and others don't see any pirates at all... but it seems they aren't interested in investigating it.

I worked out if i take some early missions, il be fine. Once faction rank goes up trade and even data missions get dicted, look at the pay out jump for same job thats an early clue, like an Npc was ever going to catch up my Imp Curry anyways. If i did get pulled out i just boost off. It tells you on taking job, - hostile ships maybe sent against you, ive found this is true about 50% of missions

In my curry i run vs chieften, annys, Fed assaults, i run really fast
FDLs are easy prey
Vultures are easy prey,
for both of these just sit in the exhust plume.

Fed Drops and pythons are tough but slow and stupid, dive bomb it at 45°, flip and burn then repeat. U get to make one mistake - no more
This is where curry peaked in PvE

 

[Teh Smoo]

Don't see the point, it won't provide any new experiences that you can't currently duplicate, as has been pointed out.

Another reason; the game has substantially changed over the years, you can't recapture those moments at all.

Not worth it.

It's... a type of mindset.

Some people feel they need to delete an account entirely whenever they uninstall. They CANNOT leave data behind. In this case, a shift in gameplay somehow means they have to start from zero, for it to be significant? I can't really explain it, it's always seemed silly to me. Maybe it's OCD related, a need to not leave things lying around?

And yeah, like everyone said, by all means screw around in any ship that tickles your pickle.

If you sold your first boat, you can always buy a new super-cheap ship, suicide it, and decline to pay for the rebuy. Then you get a loaner sidewinder with loaner gear. Could always see how far THAT gets you. Or more likely, how long until you snap and put a better FSD in at least.

Engineers involved so much random crap that I don't think I could ever re-do the entire rigamarole.

 

[Ragga Muffin]

There is nothing wrong with using an alt save just to go exploring and do some dogfighting,
Just dont power grind it, yes do work and get paid.
Its nice to get out of the battle barge,
Cant you get in your own fighter??? Just do something different in an approprate ship for the job.
Go some where dodgy and be a pirate

Ive not been there in ED yet, been there in E2, FE, X2 - X3AP, skyrim

 

[Enderby]

no

 

[peteuplink]

Maybe there is some AI logic tied to the ship you are flying. I tend to trade in a relatively defenseless T9, which makes me an easy target. If you are trading in a battle-ready Corvette or Prismatic Cutter, perhaps the NPC pirates say to themselves, "Why bother?"

Also, IIRC, the toughness of the pirates scale with your rank, so restarting is probably the exact opposite of what you want to do. Instead you may want to grind towards Elite rank in Trade & Combat to raise the difficulty level of the PvE.

Normally I fly either a Cobra or an Asp with as much cargo space as I can get in them. I'll try a dedicated trading ship to see if it makes any difference.

 

[Harrowdown]

I did twice for different reasons. The money is easily replaced, the materials not. That's all there really to it. The Pilot Federation District was kinda fun to revisit because my view on the size and scope of things had changed so much since my first time playing the game. I maxed out rep with the PFD Administration, then I left. It's kind of fun because you can pick up so many mission that my quest log crapped out for the first time ever. I gained a lot of Arc from that really quickly too.

 

[Halloweeen]

Don't do it just sell all your ships it the same thing just better because of all the money