Evidently visiting a remote outpost such as the Colonia Route outpost Lagoon Sector NI-S B4-10 can be just as dangerous as returning to the bubble from an extended exploration trip. I was just attacked and my ship was destroyed by an NPC while taking a look at the tourist megaship in the system. I guess the attack must have been triggered by the bit of exploration data that I had accumulated in the 4.5k ly of travelling from the bubble. Not such a big deal finance-wise, but still quite annoying because it feels that much of the play time of 3 days has been destroyed due to no fault of mine - I had assumed that a tourist attraction in a remote outpost would be safe. Apparently I was wrong, so let this be a reminder to other harmless explorers - never trust the game to leave you in peace when you're near civilization of any kind.
Remote outposts can be dangerous
- Thread starter herzbube
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Nah. Some pirates will just blow you up. You just happened to be somewhere populated.
And it is here where you have made your mistake.
Here in the 21st century, I live in a "civilized country". That means I can walk out of the doors of my house completely unarmed, get in my car (which also carries no weapons), travel to pretty much anywhere else in the country I choose to go to, visit there as long as I wish, and travel home again, confident in the reasonable assumption that at no point in this journey am I likely to be attacked and killed by a random stranger.
If we take this definition of "civilized", then "civilized space" in ED is uninhabited space. Human space is where the barbarians are at. That's why I call Human space "inhabited space" rather than "civilized space".