Welp, I bought the game a couple days ago, and immediately started the grind for credits, hoping to work up to a Viper. Within a couple hours, I'd worked my way up to a Hauler, and the next day and several hours of gameplay later, I got my coveted Viper with 30,000 credits to spare. And boy is this thing FAST.
After a few more trade runs just to make sure I had the credits to cover if something went wrong, I upgraded the default loaned laser to a couple cannons and gimbaled burst lasers. And suddenly everything changed. I no longer had to run away the moment I came under fire. I was able to defend myself!
I don't claim to be a decent pilot yet, let alone a good one, but when a player who's name I shall leave untold in a Cobra Mk. III tried to attack me just outside of LP 98-132 > Freeport, I instinctively knew how to handle him. I burned my boost aiming right at him, using FA Off to adjust my lateral thrust slightly to strafe him. I blew one slavo of everything I had on the pass. With his shields down, just to show him I meant business, I then boosted again towards the station.
being in a Viper, I knew full well by the time he got his ship pointed at me again, I'd be within the Station's No Fire Zone. Sure enough, I'd JUST crossed the Zone's border when his last stray shot glanced off my shields. I ducked behind the station for cover, and sure enough, he'd gotten the station security's attention. He was dead within seconds. I dock, deliver my cargo, and go on my way.
But when I returned about an hour or two later, wondering and half expecting him to be up to the same shenanigans, I find myself a little stumped at how eerily quiet the station was as I approached it. My instincts were telling me that something was wrong. There were NO other players in the area around the station. And up till that point, every time I'd visited the station, it had been swarming with fellow players all going about their business. But like an idiot, I ignored those instincts and proceeded to dock.
However, my instincts had been right all along. Just as I landed on my pad inside the station,I look up.... And there he is. The player who had been attacking me a couple hours earlier hovering right above me in a Viper of his own...
Before I can hit the Hanger button on the docking computer interface, he shoots once... Twice... and I'm dead. Along with the cargo I'd decided to take a big risk on. I'd spent most of my money on it. My insurance covered my Viper, but not the new weapons I'd put on it.
So the moral of this story kids... No matter how fast or powerful you feel, don't take risks you can't afford to make. Not when other players are able to exploit the game and kill you inside of stations.
After a few more trade runs just to make sure I had the credits to cover if something went wrong, I upgraded the default loaned laser to a couple cannons and gimbaled burst lasers. And suddenly everything changed. I no longer had to run away the moment I came under fire. I was able to defend myself!
I don't claim to be a decent pilot yet, let alone a good one, but when a player who's name I shall leave untold in a Cobra Mk. III tried to attack me just outside of LP 98-132 > Freeport, I instinctively knew how to handle him. I burned my boost aiming right at him, using FA Off to adjust my lateral thrust slightly to strafe him. I blew one slavo of everything I had on the pass. With his shields down, just to show him I meant business, I then boosted again towards the station.
being in a Viper, I knew full well by the time he got his ship pointed at me again, I'd be within the Station's No Fire Zone. Sure enough, I'd JUST crossed the Zone's border when his last stray shot glanced off my shields. I ducked behind the station for cover, and sure enough, he'd gotten the station security's attention. He was dead within seconds. I dock, deliver my cargo, and go on my way.
But when I returned about an hour or two later, wondering and half expecting him to be up to the same shenanigans, I find myself a little stumped at how eerily quiet the station was as I approached it. My instincts were telling me that something was wrong. There were NO other players in the area around the station. And up till that point, every time I'd visited the station, it had been swarming with fellow players all going about their business. But like an idiot, I ignored those instincts and proceeded to dock.
However, my instincts had been right all along. Just as I landed on my pad inside the station,I look up.... And there he is. The player who had been attacking me a couple hours earlier hovering right above me in a Viper of his own...
Before I can hit the Hanger button on the docking computer interface, he shoots once... Twice... and I'm dead. Along with the cargo I'd decided to take a big risk on. I'd spent most of my money on it. My insurance covered my Viper, but not the new weapons I'd put on it.
So the moral of this story kids... No matter how fast or powerful you feel, don't take risks you can't afford to make. Not when other players are able to exploit the game and kill you inside of stations.
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