There's me, still Harmless, eleven kills, and just been melted in seconds by two Fer-de-Lance purely as a result of my curiosity while exploring. Oh, and I'd just spent all my money on a cargo of Palladium knowing full well I'd not have enough to cover the insurance.
[I'd just done something similar in 1.3 beta, all in the spirit of trying out new kit of course...]
I opted to buy back my old loadout, putting me in 160KCr debt. OK, my dumb fault. I knew the risk and I . I'm on the edge of nowhere and thought that exploring and scanning would be a relatively relaxing way of making back my money (and paying off the loan). Normally, in my Type 6 I'll submit to any interdiction and, unless it's for a legitimate scan, I'll boost my way out and possibly end up with a warmed rear depending on how the shields hold out.
This time was different.
After submitting to the interdiction, I found and scanned my NPC captor. Commander Shadowseed: wanted, in a Viper, and ranked Elite. I'm Harmless, in a Type 6, with two gimballed beam lasers (which normally don't even have any pips assigned to them), and nothing in my recently reduced to 80t cargo bay.
I watched the Viper pottering about, wondering why the Commander was toying with me, puzzled why (s)he hadn't already opened fire as is normally the case, and getting very mixed autogenerated comms text. After a minute of pondering whether I should jump away or what was going on, I thought I'd act upon the wanted status and opened fire. Of course, the worst that could happen was that my ship would be fragged, I'd buy my old loadout again, and take things a lot more gingerly... maybe even going back to the grind of trading in human space for a while, until my debt (which would then be close to 500KCr), was paid off.
I have no idea what this Viper was kitted out with, but I was outmaneuvering it, and while he managed to briefly take my shields down once, I was having a whale of a time. My son had invited friends around, and they sat and watched as I gradually took this so-and-so down over around fifteen minutes, handsomely rewarded with 56KCr. I was quite chuffed to see sporadic incoming laser fire sparking away at my shields, and listening to the crackle of my lasers burning into my opponent's craft.
I still can't quite get over it, 24 hours later. Me, in the ED equivalent of a Ford Transit, playing about with power management and flight assist, taking down an Elite Commander (albeit NPC), in a Viper.
I'm still ranked as Harmless, though.
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[I'd just done something similar in 1.3 beta, all in the spirit of trying out new kit of course...]
I opted to buy back my old loadout, putting me in 160KCr debt. OK, my dumb fault. I knew the risk and I . I'm on the edge of nowhere and thought that exploring and scanning would be a relatively relaxing way of making back my money (and paying off the loan). Normally, in my Type 6 I'll submit to any interdiction and, unless it's for a legitimate scan, I'll boost my way out and possibly end up with a warmed rear depending on how the shields hold out.
This time was different.
After submitting to the interdiction, I found and scanned my NPC captor. Commander Shadowseed: wanted, in a Viper, and ranked Elite. I'm Harmless, in a Type 6, with two gimballed beam lasers (which normally don't even have any pips assigned to them), and nothing in my recently reduced to 80t cargo bay.
I watched the Viper pottering about, wondering why the Commander was toying with me, puzzled why (s)he hadn't already opened fire as is normally the case, and getting very mixed autogenerated comms text. After a minute of pondering whether I should jump away or what was going on, I thought I'd act upon the wanted status and opened fire. Of course, the worst that could happen was that my ship would be fragged, I'd buy my old loadout again, and take things a lot more gingerly... maybe even going back to the grind of trading in human space for a while, until my debt (which would then be close to 500KCr), was paid off.
I have no idea what this Viper was kitted out with, but I was outmaneuvering it, and while he managed to briefly take my shields down once, I was having a whale of a time. My son had invited friends around, and they sat and watched as I gradually took this so-and-so down over around fifteen minutes, handsomely rewarded with 56KCr. I was quite chuffed to see sporadic incoming laser fire sparking away at my shields, and listening to the crackle of my lasers burning into my opponent's craft.
I still can't quite get over it, 24 hours later. Me, in the ED equivalent of a Ford Transit, playing about with power management and flight assist, taking down an Elite Commander (albeit NPC), in a Viper.
I'm still ranked as Harmless, though.
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