Looking for protection...
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Tonight? Why not just do it Private group? Stick some missiles and mines in those hardpoints for those4 pesky npc's
It's an emergent gameplay generator 777, there wouldn't be much point doing it in a private group
tonight, or sometime over the weekend.
NPC's aren't the problem.
PG beats the purpose of such risky run. I got through twice, third time some FDL got me.
oh, I should probaby mention Zerla is CG system this week
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Ok well I'll help if it is this weekend. Send a PM if you still need Cmdrs for Open. Wasn't aware that was a CG system.
Brief story about an escort run I'll never forget: about 3 years ago, doing a cargo run in a T9: Open play as usual, another cmdr flying escort in a Cobra for a share of the gold.. Cmdr in an FDL pulls me out of warp with guns blazing, I'm flying evasive.. My escort hits full throttle and disappears off into the distance.. Yeah I stopped asking for help from that point onwards.
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I'm still hopefull and naive
Unfortunately I can't offer any reward, as I will be selling those Enhancers on the market as part of CG. I'm open to suggestions though.
But this might be fun if someone likes fights with purpose. Protecting me will be also really challenging, because my space manatee can't survive for longer than couple of seconds once interdicted and shot at.
I'm sitting now about 5Ls away from the station in normal space. Just got pulled out of supercruise again by a girl in a Chieftain that spared me for a second time. I'm afraid she will not go for a third. And there are others who hate shieldless freighters for some reason and hate talking even more.
I'm thinking of flying to Payson Hub in normal space, which should take me about 3 months now... I have 752T of Performance Enhancers to keep me going, so it's doable i think. But the mission might be over by then, so maybe I'll hop one more time.
Haha yeah, there are some that feel if you don't fly in a combat rated trading ship (an oxymoron if I've ever seen one) then you deserve to die. There are also others that just enjoy seeing explosions where they know several hours of real life effort have just been wiped from someone else's life, each to their own kicks I guess. Personally I prefer more of a challenge than unshielded traders.
I can probably offer a bit of protection tomorrow sometime, feel free to add me in game (same name, no space, fly UK times on PC) and ping me if you see me online. I will say i'm no expert at combat and it'd be limited to just a few runs because sadly I've got a busy schedule this week.
One tip I can give is to fly an indirect route and learn to live by the radar. Enter the system and fly up/down from the entry star so you have the system splayed out below yo and fly a big exaggerated arc to your target. This makes it super obvious/easy to see anyone that is lining up behind you. If anyone heads your way slow down and drop into normal space or tap twice for emergency drop taking a % point or two of hull damage. After a time period (say 30 seconds) spool up and re-enter supercruise to continue your trip. If they line up again then repeat until they are frustrated and let you go.
The other way is to drop out of supercruise, stay perfectly still and charge the FSD. Wait for the drop sound of them entering from your low-wake and boost back into supercruise whilst they have to wait for their FSD to cooldown before they can pursue.
The above works excellent against 1 opponent, I had one guy literally always let me past on a CG as he got fed-up trying to get a lock. Killed me once and when I next entered the system he literally said "You get a pass from me now, you are too much effort to chase!".
It does not work well against wings, they usually keep 1 guy in supercruise whilst the other drops in on your wake trapping you. You can use it to give yourself time to target and jump to another system though.
Thanks Alex.
Good tips. I was actually trying something like that, but at some point it was almost impossible to not have someone behind my back. And I got interdicted twice a second after I reentered supercruise. But maybe my route to the target was too obvious. The closer you get though, the harder it gets
Good tips. I was actually trying something like that, but at some point it was almost impossible to not have someone behind my back. And I got interdicted twice a second after I reentered supercruise. But maybe my route to the target was too obvious. The closer you get though, the harder it gets