SO They Shot First...

greeandpom

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...at me that is.

I've been pootling about near Maia, and I've seen a lot of non-human signal sources. Much like other posters here, I decide to check them out. The first few I find are the same - I drop out near a destroyed a group of Fed or Imperial ships that have been trashed and which are floating in green mist. A Thargoid appears, scans me, and then deploys hardpoints (that swirling effect that we saw in the teaser video). On these occasions it quickly lost interest and floated off (I'm in an unarmed survey ship).

However, the last one I went to was different. After deploying its hardpoints, it then proceeded to fire, and chewed through my shields in a blink of an eye. I turned and tried to get the hell out of there, but my normally nippy little ship felt SLOW. Also, the mass on those Thargoid ships is hefty - my Frameshift drive couldn't charge quickly enough, and I ended up dying horribly.

I'll state, that I did NOTHING here. I hung back, didn't deploy so much as a scanner (in the past, this has only given me garbled numbers anyway) and didn't have any weapons.
Moral of the story, be very careful around Non Human Signal Sources!
 

Cmdr Nemo

Cmdr Nemo
greeandpom said:
...at me that is.

I've been pootling about near Maia, and I've seen a lot of non-human signal sources. Much like other posters here, I decide to check them out. The first few I find are the same - I drop out near a destroyed a group of Fed or Imperial ships that have been trashed and which are floating in green mist. A Thargoid appears, scans me, and then deploys hardpoints (that swirling effect that we saw in the teaser video). On these occasions it quickly lost interest and floated off (I'm in an unarmed survey ship).

However, the last one I went to was different. After deploying its hardpoints, it then proceeded to fire, and chewed through my shields in a blink of an eye. I turned and tried to get the hell out of there, but my normally nippy little ship felt SLOW. Also, the mass on those Thargoid ships is hefty - my Frameshift drive couldn't charge quickly enough, and I ended up dying horribly.

I'll state, that I did NOTHING here. I hung back, didn't deploy so much as a scanner (in the past, this has only given me garbled numbers anyway) and didn't have any weapons.
Moral of the story, be very careful around Non Human Signal Sources!
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Those numbers when translated are going to be what we call "Wanted". And inso much as we fired the first shot even if like another player stated to "PROD" them, the shot was fired. In our rhelm, Prodding an clean ship get you a wanted status, why wouldn't prodding an alien craft be the same.
 

Nepeta Uchiha

Nepeta Uchiha
Here's some advice on the bugs. If they have red lights on and/or the little missile fighters out you will most likely be shot at. Green lights on you'll most likely just be scanned.
 

greeandpom

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Spoil-t said:
Here's some advice on the bugs. If they have red lights on and/or the little missile fighters out you will most likely be shot at. Green lights on you'll most likely just be scanned.
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Yeah. In this case, it scanned me and then went red. Not sure what I did to offend it ;)
 
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