NPCs with Frameshift super powers?

[lemny]

Many times in supercruise I see NPCs zooming around at incredible speeds and agility.
I thought the NPCs acting under the same rules as the players, but I often see shooting stars flying circles with incredible turn rates in supercruise.
And while approaching a station on the 6.5 sek edge some NPCs overtake me with much more speed and disappearing at the station. How is this possible?

First time i saw a ship zooming around me on an approach i thought it was a thargoid.

And it would be cool to have some different handlings for the different drive-ratings. Why only more jump range. Why can't we accelerate and decelerate better or have a better turn rate or so.

 

[RingoD123]

Yeah NPC's definitely do not have to use the same rules as real players unfortunately, just another oversight/unfixed bug/poorly designed system.
They don't always have to be behind you to interdict you, they can "drop out" at a station at well above the safe speeds players have to adhere to, they can also "drop in" to a system at any point (not just at the main star like we are limited too) and insta-interdict you.

 

[Kirk-Fu]

They also don't have to line up their ship for a hyperspace jump, making tracking NPCs without a wake scanner impossible. "AI don't cheat" my ass.