More intelligent interception

[nephi28]

Hey ! my beautiful engineerized prismatic cutter!
But no matter, a poor eagle will not hesitate to intercept me in order to kill me for my bounty, or steal my cargo.

The ia should evaluate a minimum of the balance of power before making a useless interception, which in this case is wasting the player's time.

 

[Bloodsign]

Yeah, often I submit to interdictions since it's some moron in a Viper Mk.III who thought it was a good idea to interdict my Krait Mk.II...

WHO is intercepting you is also often inane; I'm currently allied to the Federation with a fairly high Federation rank as well. I'm pledged to an Independent Powerplay faction ATM, though. So the other day a really persistent Federation Navy ship kept trying to interdict me while I was trying to dock. Fool, I'm WITH the Federation navy, dagnabbit! So finally I decide to stop evading and I let him pull me out of supercruise. He never went hostile though, so we just flew around looking at each other for a while. Then I blew him away so he wouldn't try to interdict me en route to drydock again...

I just don't get what the AI is thinking sometimes.

 

[Tarman]

Interdictions across the board could be more intelligently handled, both in predictability and NPC ship assignment. It's silly that practically every cargo mission has been co-opted by some shifty dood selling your route on the darknet, no matter where you're going, what you're flying, what you're hauling or for whom.

Plus, who's selling Biowaste cargo run data; and really, who's BUYING it?

 

[Bloodsign]

Interdictions across the board could be more intelligently handled, both in predictability and NPC ship assignment. It's silly that practically every cargo mission has been co-opted by some shifty dood selling your route on the darknet, no matter where you're going, what you're flying, what you're hauling or for whom.

Plus, who's selling Biowaste cargo run data; and really, who's BUYING it?

Some pretty crappy dudes.

 

[jnTracks]

Interdictions across the board could be more intelligently handled, both in predictability and NPC ship assignment. It's silly that practically every cargo mission has been co-opted by some shifty dood selling your route on the darknet, no matter where you're going, what you're flying, what you're hauling or for whom.

Plus, who's selling Biowaste cargo run data; and really, who's BUYING it?

Agriculture systems, right? It's fertilizer...

I get what you're saying though. "You want me to take what, where?..... and people are concerned enough about this that they will try to stop me?!..."
hahaha!