Let me know man!
Keep in mind in my 40mln cr Asp I left with 31% hull after less than 20 seconds.
In my 37mln cr Vulture I left after a minute with 60%!
Also, fyi, they usually run in wings now. I was used to turn around and leave as soon as I saw the USS contained more than one ship, but now they are accompained by 2 or 3 smaller ships (I found Vulture wingmen once that was SCARY).
Ok, so here's the story!
Firstly, I survived!
Now that's out of the way, here's the breakdown...
Did the usual jumping into USS to find the guy who's going to tell me where to find the conda, and got ambushed twice by NPC wings with gold for bait, before finding him!
Legged it both times, since one wing was 4 Vultures and a Viper (5 ships????), and the other looked like more ships than that - I didn't hang around to find out!
Then dropped into a USS where another NPC was waiting to tell me to ditch the mission and kill someone from the faction that sent me.
Not had that before on an Elite Conda mission, usually only in 'hunt x pirates' type missions, so that's different!
Anyway, finally found him, and he was on his own, and tbh this is where I messed up...I had replaced my fuel scoop with a shield cell, but for some reason (and I didn't notice till I went into modules to switch it on - my Vulture is quite over power!) I only had 2 charges for it.
So, into battle I went, and his shield came down pretty quick, I targeted his power plant, and started blowing it away (not easy with fixed beams!)
His power plant was down to 66%, I had used both (dammit!) cell charges, and he took my shields down, so I ran away screaming like a little girl....
If I'd had the other 3 shield cell charges, he'd have been dead, and I'm still not sure how I didn't have them.
Do you only get 2 charges when you buy one now, and have to reload (not that I've noticed that problem before, maybe a bug?)
Anyway, I ran, docked, repaired, reloaded and went back out after him.
2nd time I found him, he had 2 wingmen, which I was a little surprised about, since I was under the impression the system is meant to scale these encounters..needless to say, I was getting punished quite badly, and so I bugged out again.
After licking my wounds, and thinking about tactics, I figured I'd give it another go (glutton for punishment, me), and try to lure the wingmen away from him, take them out, then go back for him.
I dropped into a USS and there he was, with only 1 wingman - a Sidey, so off I go, having annoyed him into following me, and about 6km out from the Conda I turn, and he dies under the attention of my 2 C3 beams.
It was then I noticed some more blips on the display, that weren't there before, so I boost back over to see what's going on, and it's plod!!
3 fedsec ships are going after MY conda, the cheek of it!
So I wade right in, and with the conda having to choose between 4 targets, have a much easier time of it, and after a couple of minutes he blows.
It must have been from critical module damage, since he still had 30% hull, and the power plant, which I was targeting, still had 40% or so.
Still I'm not complaining!
It was fun, it was intense, it was definitely 'dangerous!'
I loved it...
