Engineers Just sharing a warning.

Kizbot

Kizbot
This happened to me just now.

Landed on Mercury after visiting the city. Decided to go look about the planet to see what materials it would offer. I came across some wrecked SRV and some cargo pods. When I leave the ship it spawned a big security Anaconda the flew over me, nice I thought, that's cool. BTW loving the new variety of commodities you can find. So having collected them all I boarded the ship and then remembered the reason I got in the SRV in the first place was to collect some materials. So I got back out of the ship and the game again spawned a ship over me, this time a iEagle. I scanned him from my SRV and he was clean. I am just about to roll towards a signal on my wave scanner and suddenly that smeghead starts to open fire on my ship!! :O

So while my heart is very suddenly absolutely pounding, I am frantically trying to drive under my ship, board and take off like a total madman. lol, by the time I'm in, my shields are down to one ring, and he is starting to fire missiles at me! I have a point defense so luckily they were not effective. So immediately 4 pips to shields and 2 to engines I start to run boosting straight up and I'm pounding the boost as much as I can.

Two more blips on my radar appear at this point, I check them and its the cops! Two vipers and boy am I relieved to see that this guy is gonna get what he deserves. Now I think to myself the odds are in my favor, I'm gonna help dispose of this scum, I turn and start giving him some bullets and missiles to chew on. With him hopelessly out numbered he doesn't last long. Phew!.. My heart is still absolutely racing after nearly losing 2mil in rebuy that I really had no interest in throwing away.

The police hang around for a bit, like 4 mins and then flew off, no word nothing. A little message here from them would have gone a long way to making them more life like and keep immersion. Some thing like the chatter you get while docking. I mean that really would have been cool.

Im typing this and while my ship is hovering about 2km above the POI, I hear scan detected so I jump back into the game and see two more security ship coming my way. An Anaconda and a viper and they are slowly coming straight for me. I think, if he carries on like that he is going to fly into me. He really is going to fly into me if he gets any closer. Damn I better move! I want to see if he will though cos of the scramming history and want to see if this has been fixed. I have to quickly thrust right at the moment he would strike me, our shields just touch and fuzz a bit but nothing major. Umm thanks!

So moral I have for you all is:
When you get out of the ship into SRV, game will sometimes spawn a ship and that ship may well be hostile, so don't go buzzing off too quickly in case your ship gets blasted.
Probably best to get into a habit of putting 4 pips to shields during landing so you have the max shield strength for such situations and for landing mistakes.
Also don't sit in the path of those convoys it spawns to fly near you, cos they don't seem to fly with their eyes open!

Fly safe.
 
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Kizbot

Kizbot
Calim said:
Well I could agree on that, however having a ship spawning of nowhere and for no reason is not very consistent, isn't it ?
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In my head and imagination he just dropped into the same POI that I did and found me. The why of shooting me is another question altogether because there was no possible way for me to give him cargo and I had no bounties so he was literally just npc ganking which is a bit annoying. Still, simulated madmen I can accept, I mean its space after all, they cant all be sane.

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It has made me a bit paranoid about leaving my ship now though [???] I mean it would suck to drive off and before the ship auto pilots into SC orbit, it starts getting gunned.
 

Kizbot

Kizbot
So while I was typing all this my ship has been hovering on the spot about 2km elevation from the ground for about 15 mins. In that time every 5 mins I think, another couple of security ships would cruise by, mostly vipers. Then just now 'Scan detected' and I jump in to look who it is. Its a wing of 3 Viper4's and they are opening fire! I'm taking damage quickly and don't for a second think that police will arrive fast enough to save me this time so I get my sorry behind out of there and back into SC.

I had no idea that flying about the surface of Mercury in the SOL system is this dangerous. Its my first visit of SOL. Is anyone else finding it this risky?

Perhaps its just because I was hanging around the POI and that was spawning all the ships.
 
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Codger

Codger
I hate this, just saying. It ruins the joy of planet exploring. The whole "let's randomly attack the player for no reason" design of this game irritates the heck out of me. And they keep adding more. :mad:
 

Kizbot

Kizbot
I'm going to hang around a POI again but im going to dismiss the ship this time, see if the pirate/gankers come after my SRV instead. Is dismissing the ship into SC an automatic safety net for the ship? I'd love to hear from someone saying their ship was interdicted and destroyed while it was in orbit.

Actually no, I wouldn't like to hear that at all. That would be scary bad news.
 

dutchy2000

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Yes you ship is safe when you dismiss it, unless I am going to actively do anything with my ship, like put some cargo I scooped from the surface somewhere, I immediately dismiss my ship.
 

OriginalBadBoy

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Morale of the story .. Dismiss your ship.

I was ing around taking screenshots in Solo and out of nowhere someone dropped into my wake and started opening up on my ship.

For the first time in 200 hours of gameplay I actually crapped myself. Somehow managed to get out of debug camera, fire up the engines and get away. I think I escaped with about 20% hull in the end.

Thank you FD, you have now made the game far more interesting. Don't listen to the whingers.
 
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