piracy missions anyone bother with them?

Jezzah

Jezzah
Well ha!

I took a couple of these myself tonight. Being the OP I figured I should probably try educate myself. Both were from different pirate factions in anarchy systems , the mission targets were in the system next door. They were paying a combined total of about 400K - had to collect approx 60 units of cargo split between the two. So off I go and after a very frustrating search in SC I tracked one down and interdicted. I'm in a slow     python that could really do with some engineer love. Anyways.

The system is a high security one so I knew this wasn't going to happen here - I need to force him to high wake. Which he did...to another high security system. Interdict. Jump.. this time into a medium security system. Thought to myself i'll try here and attempt to kite him away from the inevitable police response. Managed that got the power module down to 10 % when he high wakes again.

I high waked to my desktop. :/

Not fun, not profitable, not doing it again.

Theres literally no money at all in npc piracy in this game. Only trading and bounty hunting.
 
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Ouberos

Ouberos
Jezzah said:
Theres literally no money at all in npc piracy in this game. Only trading and bounty hunting.
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The missions are a bit sucky. They would be better if you had to steal goods to the value of xxxxx credits or provide anything from a list rather than having to interact with a specific NPC. Its hard enough to take down a ship but when its THAT ship and THAT ship only it does get slightly frustrating.

What they do prove is that Piracy is the end game of elite though, you know, the place all the truly skilled Pilots end up....

On another note, regarding profitability, have you considered the Diamond markets? They are very buoyant right now.

(Although that wont last when those T9's start spewing out fighters!)
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
I have tried that yes but I'm struggling to find a decent system to do it in. All the half way good ones are high security and I get swamped by the bloody cops in under a minute. I did get one decent haul once sold for 4 million but nothing since. Tried going back to anarchy piracy in a boom high population last night spent 3 hours looking and all the haulage vessels were carrying rubbish or were high waking before I could pop the power plant.

I'd go back to bounty hunting but down that road leads to madness and leaving the game again. Trading... no way. Exploration... no way.

Wish I could find a niche with npc piracy but its just not paying at all for me.
 

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Jezzah said:
Wish I could find a niche with npc piracy but its just not paying at all for me.
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I'd pay you 1 million credits per chemical manipulator taken from Type-6/7/9s "transport ships", for up to 100 manipulators. Except there's no way to transfer credits or engineering materials.
 
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ChaseBears

ChaseBears
i enjoy piracy, but the last time i tried a piracy mission it was to liberate 8 hostages from a type 9. The type 9 also had 200+(!) units of Hydrogen Fuel in its cargo bay. After the tenth limpet with no hostages i just blew it up and left.
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
ChaseBears said:
i enjoy piracy, but the last time i tried a piracy mission it was to liberate 8 hostages from a type 9. The type 9 also had 200+(!) units of Hydrogen Fuel in its cargo bay. After the tenth limpet with no hostages i just blew it up and left.
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I suppose you could have shot the cargo hatch and more would have fallen out maybe you'd have gotten lucky and the hostages would have tumbled out...maybe not and it would have fallen to 0% and no more would fall out.

Bit annoying that shooting out the cargo hatch to 0% doesn't release all the cargo like it used to but I suppose they have to justify the existence of the hatch breaker limpets (which are hit and miss anyway like you've posted)
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Jezzah said:
I suppose you could have shot the cargo hatch and more would have fallen out maybe you'd have gotten lucky and the hostages would have tumbled out...maybe not and it would have fallen to 0% and no more would fall out.

Bit annoying that shooting out the cargo hatch to 0% doesn't release all the cargo like it used to but I suppose they have to justify the existence of the hatch breaker limpets (which are hit and miss anyway like you've posted)
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If you've been having troubles, I find knocking the ship down to 50% (after a prolonged attempt to get the cargo) can (not always) trigger an FSD warp, at which point the target freely jettisons the cargo.
 

StiTch

StiTch
Problem is that in my eyes, "pirating NPCs" is a bit of a null term.

Until they introduce actual NPC interactions, probably a part of the update that introduces NPC wingmen, "pirating NPCs" is a bit more like calculated assault.

No negotiations, no threats. Interdict, destroy wingmen, strip target shields and proceed with hatch breakers or subsystem targeting as you choose.

There are better money earning methods by a long shot, and on a roleplaying/fun scale it feels too lackluster, especially to anyone that has pirated CMDRs before.
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
StiTch said:
Problem is that in my eyes, "pirating NPCs" is a bit of a null term.

Until they introduce actual NPC interactions, probably a part of the update that introduces NPC wingmen, "pirating NPCs" is a bit more like calculated assault.

No negotiations, no threats. Interdict, destroy wingmen, strip target shields and proceed with hatch breakers or subsystem targeting as you choose.

There are better money earning methods by a long shot, and on a roleplaying/fun scale it feels too lackluster, especially to anyone that has pirated CMDRs before.
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Aye this is true.

Wish FD would produce a season where they look at each profession and make a load of Quality of Life and depth improvements to each. Especially piracy in this case.
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
I've never tried it. I just looked at the number of commodities and figured it'd be a pain in the butt to find a ship that actually transported the wanted commodity - so I didn't bother.

I've cheesed it with another player to fake crime in a system, though.
 
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Lateralus

Lateralus
Jezzah said:
What is a discord?

Thanks for the tip though I'll do it once I know what it is :)
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Its a social platform for gamers, both text and voice channels - pretty useful for things like sharing info, tactics, finding wing-mates etc..

Hagglebeard started the Elite Pirates one, and its been growing pretty fast since it launched a few weeks back.
 
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