A funny thing happened on the way to Weaver Vision in Cubeo to me today. Was in my anaconda heading to Weaver Vision. Saw another human player in the system. Didn't check their status (yes, yes, shame on me), but continued my approach to Weaver. Standard scattering of traffic in the instance.
Turned out he was Federation, interdicted me a few light seconds from my drop out point. Followed my standard procedure of dropping throttle to zero, expected to drop to sub-light, fingers ready to drop chaff, maybe a SCB and/or heat sink. What happened was that I dropped out of SC as expected, but he didn't drop into my same instance at all. I just followed the "boost-boost-boost-jump" and noted he never joined my instance at all.
Once I arrived at Weaver, I noted he was still in Cubeo, friended him, he accepted. I asked if that was him that interdicted me or if that was an NPC (since the two items overlapped on my radar). Turned out it was him. I asked him what happened to him, same thing happened: dropped out of SC into an empty instance. He thought I C-logged. I explained I didn't and told him same thing happened to me (dropped into empty instance). He did mention something along the lines of {you-know-what} instances in the game.
He understood and I'm glad he took it well. For the record, while I try to avoid combat, I do promote Power Play in Open Only and I can certainly afford the rebuy. Hope he reads this and to him: thanks for understanding, commander.
Turned out he was Federation, interdicted me a few light seconds from my drop out point. Followed my standard procedure of dropping throttle to zero, expected to drop to sub-light, fingers ready to drop chaff, maybe a SCB and/or heat sink. What happened was that I dropped out of SC as expected, but he didn't drop into my same instance at all. I just followed the "boost-boost-boost-jump" and noted he never joined my instance at all.
Once I arrived at Weaver, I noted he was still in Cubeo, friended him, he accepted. I asked if that was him that interdicted me or if that was an NPC (since the two items overlapped on my radar). Turned out it was him. I asked him what happened to him, same thing happened: dropped out of SC into an empty instance. He thought I C-logged. I explained I didn't and told him same thing happened to me (dropped into empty instance). He did mention something along the lines of {you-know-what} instances in the game.
He understood and I'm glad he took it well. For the record, while I try to avoid combat, I do promote Power Play in Open Only and I can certainly afford the rebuy. Hope he reads this and to him: thanks for understanding, commander.
