An escort is no substitute for building your ship right though, if more traders gave up just another 16T of cargo and went for 5A shields over 4A shields there would be fewer complaints about getting "killed for no reason", and there would be more adrenaline filled memories of escaping death by a narrow margin
Some interesting PvP / C&P observations
IIRC there's an explorer escort service/wing: Iridium Wing
Something similar could probably be organised, provided enough like-minded CMDRs can be found.
True. You were in a T9 right ?
Vulture at the time, you were flying around the station
In my experience, yes. You can also deselect the low wake and slow down before you blow by it. Select it again and drop.
(See why emergency drop is good advice?
)Is this because it doesn't leave a low wake signature?(See why emergency drop is good advice?
As for my use of low wakes, I'm following others being interdicted in order to try to give them a helping hand. It drives me crazy when the wake signal "evaporates" just seconds before I'm about to drop in.
I feel like if someone has one targeted, it shouldn't dissipate until a short time after being un-targeted.
Another option would be if "report crimes" not only notified NPC police, but also activated a beacon similar to a wing beacon that players could lock onto and follow. It would persist until the broadcasting player left the instance, be it voluntarily (wake out) or via ship destruction.
I always wondered why emergency drop was good advice. But that was before I read this thread and found out that low wakes are not as easy to drop in on as any other random object.In my experience, yes. You can also deselect the low wake and slow down before you blow by it. Select it again and drop.
(See why emergency drop is good advice?
It still leaves a signature. Just that you wasted no time slowing down, you just dropped out instantly. Your pursuer cannot do the same -- they must target your wake and manually adjust their speed in order to drop on it, which takes precious time (time that you have spent boosting away from your drop point).
Glad to participate in your "Today I Learned" moment.
It really is a huge piece of underrated advice.
So low wakes always lead to where you dropped out, not where you currently are, correct? I mean, this makes sense, but I didn't know if the game was actually smart enough to do this.
The negative is that it takes way longer for the FSD to come back online...
They do lead to where you dropped. So accounting for the time it takes for someone to approach your wake signature in the blue zone so that they don't overshoot, you've had a good 5-10 seconds (or more) of boosting to get away. Even in the slowest of ships 5-10 seconds of boosting should get you out of radar range of the drop point, so they'll have no idea where to find you.
This only matters if you just sit there like an idiot.
Believe me, just because you dropped doesn't mean the other guy lacks the tenacity to hunt you down!
Hmm.. Good question -- never tried..
Hmm.. Good question -- never tried..
You can't emergency drop during an interdiction no.
Have they changed this then? As last year even boosting for 30 seconds the attacker dropped in right on top of you. Made zero diff that I was boosting for 30 seconds while they approached my low wake.
Could have been a bug I suppose. Not tested this is a very long time.
I must admit, that since I only learned about it yesterday, I haven't tested it myself. But low wakes are supposed to be the point in space at which you dropped out of supercruise, not a magical teleport to wherever it is you happen to be in space at any given time.
Seems like a bug to me if low wakes lead directly to your ship wherever you currently are, instead of to the point in space where you were when you dropped out.
P.S.:
You are talking about players, right? I'm pretty sure NPCs are just lazily scripted to spawn at your location regardless (which is for sure a problem, but not one I can see them fixing without a large AI revamp).
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