got my handed to me tonight. I don't often die, and very rarely against npc's (im not trying to brag btw), but i lost badly tonight.
Been propping up the Feds in my home planet and had one of the normal 'go get some pirates from 'x' system' mission. I arrived and started looking for targets to interdict, and came across a wing of 8. Seeing as i needed 10 or so to complete the mission, i dived in thinking a pack of 8 would save loads of hunting time.
I interdict one and it's a Sidewinder. As i was just finishing him off the other 7 jumped in, and i foolishly thought they were just more sidewinders as i did a quick sweep of about 4 of them and they all came up as sidewinders, so i just proceeded to just start picking them off thinking nothing more of it.
The fight turned ugly very quickly. They were all over me like gnats and i was struggling to contain them and i started to realise something was up as i started to take massive damage very quickly. I run 3 x A0 shield boosters on my Vulture and they were going fast.
There were a couple of eagles in the pack which i hadn't seen before, and when i lost my shields i was down to 2 remaining enemies, and that's when i saw the damn FDL fly past me for the first time in the scrum. I hadn't seen him at all and i had nothing left to go at him with. I took down the remaining eagle i was on but that FDL had taken everything. It was too late to plan an attack and too late to run....
I have to say im really enjoying the recent boost to NPC skills, but i need to watch my surroundings a little closer next time.
Truly got handed a big lesson tonight.
Been propping up the Feds in my home planet and had one of the normal 'go get some pirates from 'x' system' mission. I arrived and started looking for targets to interdict, and came across a wing of 8. Seeing as i needed 10 or so to complete the mission, i dived in thinking a pack of 8 would save loads of hunting time.
I interdict one and it's a Sidewinder. As i was just finishing him off the other 7 jumped in, and i foolishly thought they were just more sidewinders as i did a quick sweep of about 4 of them and they all came up as sidewinders, so i just proceeded to just start picking them off thinking nothing more of it.
The fight turned ugly very quickly. They were all over me like gnats and i was struggling to contain them and i started to realise something was up as i started to take massive damage very quickly. I run 3 x A0 shield boosters on my Vulture and they were going fast.
There were a couple of eagles in the pack which i hadn't seen before, and when i lost my shields i was down to 2 remaining enemies, and that's when i saw the damn FDL fly past me for the first time in the scrum. I hadn't seen him at all and i had nothing left to go at him with. I took down the remaining eagle i was on but that FDL had taken everything. It was too late to plan an attack and too late to run....
I have to say im really enjoying the recent boost to NPC skills, but i need to watch my surroundings a little closer next time.
Truly got handed a big lesson tonight.
