Silly NPC pirates, even sillier cops.

CMDR_Vyse

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So here's a scenario I just found myself in.

Me: *Happily trading goods in a trade focused but otherwise fully armed and mostly upgraded Anaconda. Arrives at delivery station.*

NPC pirate: *Flying an Eagle.* I hope my reputation precedes me.

Me: "...Who are you again? Meh." Ignores pirate, approaches letterbox.

NPC Pirate: I'm gonna boil you up! *Starts shooting what appear to be potatoes judging by how much damage is being done to class 4 biweaves.*

Me: Really? *Turns to face Pirate.*

Cops: HURPADURP summin's shootin' over thar *Flies around 'assessing the situation'*

NPC Pirate: Die! *Still shooting potatoes.*

Me: ...Enough of this. *OMNOMNOMNOM*

NPC pirate: *Dies in a horrible, scream fueled way*

Cops: HURRDURR y'all dun did wrong...gotta pay 200 credits fer...shootin' in a 'no fire zone!' Yeah, that's it! *belch*

Me: The hell?

Cops: And we'll be takin' that there bounty voucher...y'all didn't do nothin' ta kill 'em anyway.

Me: But-

Cops: Y'all smugglin' anything!? *Scans*

Me: *Speechless*

Cops: *Finds nothing illegal.* Shove off then. Where's me moonshine? *belch*

Me: ...




But in all seriousness. What. The. Heck. I get shot at by some little pipsqueak in an Eagle, and I get fined for RIGHTFULLY shooting back? So I'm supposed to just let the cops, who flew around doing nothing while this was going down, to finally wake up and shoot him? Yeah sure, it was an Eagle plinking away at me, but in another situation this "Eagle" might have been a Python. So I'm at fault for defending myself?

This game sometimes. I love it to bits but sometimes the situations defy sense.
 

zxaber

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CMDR_Vyse said:
I love it to bits but sometimes the situations defy sense.
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No-fire zones are fairly analogous to gun-free zones here in the US. Hence, you might be in the moral right for defending yourself against such an attack in a courthouse hallway, but I'd still expect at least an arrest for the unlawful concealed-carry.
 
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Brown n Cony

Brown n Cony
In your scenario, I will just boost for the no fire zone and let the Station deal with that NPC. Having said that, NPC logic can be mind boggling at times.

When doing bounty hunting, I accidentaly hit an NPC that flew into my line of fire and incurred a 400cr fine. The cops come after me, rather than shooting that (near dead) Python with a 130k bounty. [wacko]

While doing the Robigo run, I get interdicted by a pirate. A cop drops in as well but is more interested in scanning me than shooting the pirate. For maximum comedy, a third NPC drops in with a lowball offer to betray my current employer.

Or how about when I defected during PP and that disney space princess sent her lackey to hunt me down? She lost a 140mil++ Anaconda going after someone who was only getting paid 500k a week
 

John Fairfax

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I almost choked laughing when I read the original post. Things like these are so ubiquitous in the game that I hardly stop to think about them anymore. But the way the OP has made a movie roll in my head with these few lines is awesome!
 

smiths121

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I think NPC cops are under different rules to us.

The cops behavior in all scenarios makes more sense if you consider they cannot see Wanted status without and active scan. This is how their behavior seems to me. So in a RES site or no-fly zone they focus on the one actually doing the shooting - which unfortunately tends to be us human pilots.

I have never had an NPC shoot me from inside the no-fly zone, had one shoot from outside as I enter, so not seen the scenario the OP posted.

Simon
 
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