Thanks for that. After submitting, if not actively engaged in combat, I don't see much point in having your ship destroyed due to an over zealous NPC, if you just want to flee. If the options have been improved to avoid or placate pirates, then fine. Though again, only in practice, we will see how this plays out.
So how is the interdiction mechanic these days...?
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Thanks for that. After submitting, if not actively engaged in combat, I don't see much point in having your ship destroyed due to an over zealous NPC, if you just want to flee. If the options have been improved to avoid or placate pirates, then fine. Though again, only in practice, we will see how this plays out.
The interdiction minigame has been tweaked so many times, and the result was never good I think.
Truth is skill is rarely involved in the result, as it's mostly all about the relative agilities of the ships (with the interdiction factor of each ship determining how long the minigame will last). Either your ship can't lose it even if you barely touch anything (that's the current balance iteration), either your ship can't beat it, and in the rare occasions that player input matters to a degree, it's all down to just steering the ship, which doesn't exactly make for a compelling minigame IMO.
I wish Frontier would either develop it at least a bit, add proper timings for various maneuvers, give the throttle a role, or drop the idea of a minigame entirely.
Truth is skill is rarely involved in the result, as it's mostly all about the relative agilities of the ships (with the interdiction factor of each ship determining how long the minigame will last). Either your ship can't lose it even if you barely touch anything (that's the current balance iteration), either your ship can't beat it, and in the rare occasions that player input matters to a degree, it's all down to just steering the ship, which doesn't exactly make for a compelling minigame IMO.
I wish Frontier would either develop it at least a bit, add proper timings for various maneuvers, give the throttle a role, or drop the idea of a minigame entirely.
Right, finally got back into the game after the update...had my first interdiction in an Hauler, just fitted out to get the feel of the game again.
The initial capture was gentle and the escape vector was in view, not thrown off; was able to evade interdiction quite easily, though required constant adjustment. I don't expect all of them to be like this, but as the first rude awakening back into this game, this was manageable and a promising improvement to what I last remembered.
IMO FD should not increase difficulty to the mini-game, if anything, it needs to be easier; it should not become the breaking point that causes players to quit the game out of frustration. It should add flavour, wake you up and take action and not impede players who just want to get back to what they were doing.
The initial capture was gentle and the escape vector was in view, not thrown off; was able to evade interdiction quite easily, though required constant adjustment. I don't expect all of them to be like this, but as the first rude awakening back into this game, this was manageable and a promising improvement to what I last remembered.
IMO FD should not increase difficulty to the mini-game, if anything, it needs to be easier; it should not become the breaking point that causes players to quit the game out of frustration. It should add flavour, wake you up and take action and not impede players who just want to get back to what they were doing.