Currently I am working my way up the Imperial ranks to get a cutter, well actually I don't want a cutter but I might want the option at a future date, anyway I digress...
Currently I am aligned with LYR in PP to get the (most entertaining) packhounds. I have been running missions for empire in a popular system (Quince.. cough!), when I get an a mission to rank up it always sends me 400ly+ away with some illicit cargo or other. I'm using an Asp for the cargo running missions so its usually about 13-15 jumps.
I have never been interdicted on route. I arrive in system and not only am I carrying illegal cargo but I am also aligned with a hostile power, I never get interdicted in SC and I just saunter into the station while the security buzz around ignoring me.
Yawn! Yawn! Yawn!
So, FDev, why don't you make Open dangerous? If possible you can leave group/solo as it is (Euro Space Trucker) so if others are not happy with NPC's interacting with them they can hop into either of those modes.
If I'm carrying illegal cargo in a hostile powers region I expect to be badgered all the way by pirates, bounty hunters and security. Currently the whole game as sterile. The last time I had any fun with NPC interaction was in the heady days of Robigo smuggling and even that was pretty easy to avoid.
Make Elite Dangerous!
Currently I am aligned with LYR in PP to get the (most entertaining) packhounds. I have been running missions for empire in a popular system (Quince.. cough!), when I get an a mission to rank up it always sends me 400ly+ away with some illicit cargo or other. I'm using an Asp for the cargo running missions so its usually about 13-15 jumps.
I have never been interdicted on route. I arrive in system and not only am I carrying illegal cargo but I am also aligned with a hostile power, I never get interdicted in SC and I just saunter into the station while the security buzz around ignoring me.
Yawn! Yawn! Yawn!
So, FDev, why don't you make Open dangerous? If possible you can leave group/solo as it is (Euro Space Trucker) so if others are not happy with NPC's interacting with them they can hop into either of those modes.
If I'm carrying illegal cargo in a hostile powers region I expect to be badgered all the way by pirates, bounty hunters and security. Currently the whole game as sterile. The last time I had any fun with NPC interaction was in the heady days of Robigo smuggling and even that was pretty easy to avoid.
Make Elite Dangerous!
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