So.. me and a friend of mine decided to go to Lave and the surrounding Old World systems to load up on rares, now that the 1.1 patch should have reduced the number of Insane Dumbfire Eagles in the area... (one of those ended my last attempt as I was about to leave the area with 24 tons of rares in my hold)...
Long story short, we go by Zaonce and Lave, and on approach to George Lucas in Leesti my friend is being interdicted by a CMDR in a Python. I turn to enter their instance by the wake... This CMDR is however a real pirate and not some crazie who just want to blow stuff up, and asks for half of my friends cargo, and takes down his shields in a second.. by the time I get there my friend has given him what he asks for, but we also see several police ships approaching.. so We decide to hang around to see if they can fight him effectively.. meybe we can get revenge on him by teaming up with the space fuzz?...
This turned out to be a bad idea.
His shields stand up very well to the security forces' weapons. During the fight with them, he scans me, and makes the same demands to me. Me and my friend decide to boost and frameshift out of there, hoping he won't be able to effectively pursue while the security ships are shooting at him.
This too, turns out to be a bad idea.
He takes down my shields almost instantly, (they're not very strong, 4D on a Cobra, better shields is one of the things I was to buy with the money from the rares!)... I drop 2 tonnes of Lavian Brandy to occupy him, but apparently he is not satisfied, and hits me with a hatch limpet, emptying the rest of my cargo. At this point I really should have frame shifted out.. but then.. since I have allready lost all my cargo, and the re-buy cost of my Cobra isn't all that much, and the police are still all over him, I decide to hang around and see what happens. But it becomes apparent that the police ships are nothing but a minor distraction to his shields, and I decide to boost away, scoop up a canister of brandy and frameshift.
Bad idea again.
I miss the scooping, canister bounces off, (no destroyed message), and I give it up and head for open space.. but the pirate CMDR comes after me, once again taking down my shields in an instant, and I get Missile Warning. I manuever like crazy to avoid the missile, it seems to work, (at this point I haven't realized that the "missile" is a hatch limpet).. the pirate appears to tire of this and takes out my thrusters with his Big Laser... and is then dissapointed that my cargo hold is empty..
So.. I had to self destruct in the loneliness of interplanetary space... my friend got away with 2 tonnes of brandy though.
While the End Result was depressingly similar, *Real Pirate* CMDR was much preferable to *Crazy Dumbfire Eagle* CMDR.
Long story short, we go by Zaonce and Lave, and on approach to George Lucas in Leesti my friend is being interdicted by a CMDR in a Python. I turn to enter their instance by the wake... This CMDR is however a real pirate and not some crazie who just want to blow stuff up, and asks for half of my friends cargo, and takes down his shields in a second.. by the time I get there my friend has given him what he asks for, but we also see several police ships approaching.. so We decide to hang around to see if they can fight him effectively.. meybe we can get revenge on him by teaming up with the space fuzz?...
This turned out to be a bad idea.
His shields stand up very well to the security forces' weapons. During the fight with them, he scans me, and makes the same demands to me. Me and my friend decide to boost and frameshift out of there, hoping he won't be able to effectively pursue while the security ships are shooting at him.
This too, turns out to be a bad idea.
He takes down my shields almost instantly, (they're not very strong, 4D on a Cobra, better shields is one of the things I was to buy with the money from the rares!)... I drop 2 tonnes of Lavian Brandy to occupy him, but apparently he is not satisfied, and hits me with a hatch limpet, emptying the rest of my cargo. At this point I really should have frame shifted out.. but then.. since I have allready lost all my cargo, and the re-buy cost of my Cobra isn't all that much, and the police are still all over him, I decide to hang around and see what happens. But it becomes apparent that the police ships are nothing but a minor distraction to his shields, and I decide to boost away, scoop up a canister of brandy and frameshift.
Bad idea again.
I miss the scooping, canister bounces off, (no destroyed message), and I give it up and head for open space.. but the pirate CMDR comes after me, once again taking down my shields in an instant, and I get Missile Warning. I manuever like crazy to avoid the missile, it seems to work, (at this point I haven't realized that the "missile" is a hatch limpet).. the pirate appears to tire of this and takes out my thrusters with his Big Laser... and is then dissapointed that my cargo hold is empty..
So.. I had to self destruct in the loneliness of interplanetary space... my friend got away with 2 tonnes of brandy though.
While the End Result was depressingly similar, *Real Pirate* CMDR was much preferable to *Crazy Dumbfire Eagle* CMDR.