Is the new police code creeping in?

[GuruNot]

I was in one of the Resource Extraction sites last night and a wanted CMDR was being pursued by an NPC Cobra. Next thing I new there were loads of Federal Fighters in the area !

I have never seen this sort of activity before. Could this be the new policing code creeping in?

 

[Adept]

I was in one of the Resource Extraction sites last night and a wanted CMDR was being pursued by an NPC Cobra. Next thing I new there were loads of Federal Fighters in the area !

I have never seen this sort of activity before. Could this be the new policing code creeping in?

Oooh I do hope they are testing the stuff already.

 

[NoirWolf]

I was in one of the Resource Extraction sites last night and a wanted CMDR was being pursued by an NPC Cobra. Next thing I new there were loads of Federal Fighters in the area !

I have never seen this sort of activity before. Could this be the new policing code creeping in?

Shh...it is the ninja police.

Spoiler

 

[Stoopyface]

Sometimes interdictions get dragged into other locations. Usually this happens at stardocks, but I don't see much reason for it to happen elsewhere. Perhaps this was just that? The police forces are supposed to be Viper MkIIs, so unless we see those popping up I remain skeptical that this is some type of testing.

 

[Commander Edison]

I've come across system authority eagles and federal fighters in extraction sites for a while. They aggressively scan for bounties and then shoot up absolutely everything, including each other. I get the feeling that rather than testing as such, it's more placeholder local colour.

 

[SeraphymC]

I got my hind end cooked last night by two federal fighters that were scanning for illegal cargo. That Bauxite wasn't illegal! I totally legally stole it from a dirty NPC pirate. And I then got about 700 credits worth of damage done to me by security forces, a 350 credit bounty placed on my head (which cost 420 to clear), and all for one ton of bauxite! It sounded like an exotic mineral, probably worth thousands, but I guess it's just basically dirt, cus it went for about twenty.

All in all, it was more of a "learning" experience than a profitable run.

 

[Adept]

...and all for one ton of bauxite! It sounded like an exotic mineral, probably worth thousands, but I guess it's just basically dirt, cus it went for about twenty.

it's basically sandstone (ok, aluminium ore)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite

 

[Hamerstein]

I got my hind end cooked last night by two federal fighters that were scanning for illegal cargo. That Bauxite wasn't illegal! I totally legally stole it from a dirty NPC pirate. And I then got about 700 credits worth of damage done to me by security forces, a 350 credit bounty placed on my head (which cost 420 to clear), and all for one ton of bauxite! It sounded like an exotic mineral, probably worth thousands, but I guess it's just basically dirt, cus it went for about twenty.

All in all, it was more of a "learning" experience than a profitable run.

I'd hope that in the final game, we'd have ways of referencing the average values of flotsam/jetsam. My 14 year old brain could remember a ridiculous amount of trivia, my 44 year brain isn't quite as acute anymore - I'd prefer a ship's data base (expanded as a pilot encounters new markets) to see if something is worth stealing.

There's an argument that there aren't that many commodities to remember, but I'm expecting hundreds if not thousands to be represented in the final iteration - my memory just isn't up to that.

 

[SnowGhost]

I'd hope that in the final game, we'd have ways of referencing the average values of flotsam/jetsam. My 14 year old brain could remember a ridiculous amount of trivia, my 44 year brain isn't quite as acute anymore -

O, great, thanks for the spoiler that my brain will fail next year.

 

[Jorlin]

O, great, thanks for the spoiler that my brain will fail next year.

ok so mine failed two years ago...or was it three?