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dtdionne

dtdionne
If you drop into normal space, millions of ls into deep space, thousands of ly from sol, disable every module but life support and engage silent running, could a pirate locate and drop in on you?

If so, how quickly should they be able to get there?
 

CMDR Cknarf

CMDR Cknarf
NPCs don't spawn that far from population centers.

In the bubble, unless an NPC is following you for a mission, or you've gotten a tasty cargo message, I don't expect any hostile NPCs will drop on you.

But let's get back to the real question at hand.

Why the hell would anyone go through all this trouble in the first place?
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
Cknarf said:
NPCs don't spawn that far from population centers.

In the bubble, unless an NPC is following you for a mission, or you've gotten a tasty cargo message, I don't expect any hostile NPCs will drop on you.

But let's get back to the real question at hand.

Why the hell would anyone go through all this trouble in the first place?
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I hope the answer is For Science!!
 

dtdionne

dtdionne
Say I was in an exploration miner, just randomly looking for interesting stuff, in deep space...felt a gravitational anomaly while jamming at well over 1000 times the speed of light. Grav anomaly’s introduce blurbs or lulls in supercruise. Knowing the likelihood of identifying it by turning around, at that speed, is redicukiously low, but I tried anyway...and low and behold I find some strange rogue asteroid. Hit it with a mining popgun and it pooped out some water giblets, said what the heck and scooped em up. The second the refinery made water pirates popped outa nowhere and destroyed me before I could stow weps.

It’s easily one of the stupidest things I’ve ever experienced...ever.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
So what actually happened is:

You decided to do some mining, didn't pay attention to the radar and missed the NPC pirates. Once you did some mining they managed to approach close enough to scan you. They then demanded a payment, which you also didn't pay attention to. They then opened fire, and your tinfoil ship exploded.

I call this a learning experience :)
 

thistle

T
dtdionne said:
Say I was in an exploration miner, just randomly looking for interesting stuff, in deep space...felt a gravitational anomaly while jamming at well over 1000 times the speed of light. Grav anomaly’s introduce blurbs or lulls in supercruise. Knowing the likelihood of identifying it by turning around, at that speed, is redicukiously low, but I tried anyway...and low and behold I find some strange rogue asteroid. Hit it with a mining popgun and it pooped out some water giblets, said what the heck and scooped em up. The second the refinery made water pirates popped outa nowhere and destroyed me before I could stow weps.

It’s easily one of the stupidest things I’ve ever experienced...ever.
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Sounds like you already had cargo when you dropped into the new instance, whatever it was. And then pirates are spawned.
 

Spaceman Si

Spaceman Si
It’s quite ridiculous that systems thousands and more of light years from Sol should have a random pirate turn up by chance at the exact same spot in the system that a commander’s ship happens to be in as well.

There should be more chance of winning the lotto than that happening, given that less than 1% of the galaxy has been discovered, and even more so if this happens to be an unexplored system!

It would be understandable in a system that has significant resources within a few hundred light years of the bubble, but unbelievable when pirates spawn way out like that.
 

DragonIV

DragonIV
It's a game, with a very specific script for ring AI behavior. It may or may not be capped at some sort of distance from the bubble, but 1-2k LY from Sol isn't far enough.

Don't depend on silent running when it comes to pirates, either. You either run, cough up cargo, or fight.
 

Paso

Paso
Wait, you found a rogue asteroid in deep space? Has anyone ever seen that happening? How far in deep space were you?
1k from bubble, script or no script, it's stupid for pirates to just spawn on you, in deep space.
 
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