what are checkpoints

[rparker1866]

I found a target that's called checkpoint. bunch of ships flying around what are these about?

thanks

 

[MACMAN86]

You mean NavPoint is where ships jump into the system and is therefore a good place for pirates and others to meet up at.

 

[RickDangerous]

You mean NavPoint is where ships jump into the system and is therefore a good place for pirates and others to meet up at.

No, he meant "Checkpoint". I've only seen it once, in a system with a famine. Loads of ships there, with one marked as "Evidence locker", or somesuch. Nooo idea what it's about though.

 

[Rearden]

Check points show up in systems that have "lockdown" or "civil war" state. You can (could?) find some around Panem due to the onion head event.

As for their purpose I have no idea, they don't affect you in anyway unless you actually drop in. I think it may be related to the political control of the system, meaning if you want to change the controlling faction of a system you may need to go there and blow some authority vessels up. It doesn't seem fully implemented to be honest and just a placeholder for future real check points.

 

[zj951]

There's one at Njikan.
I believe it's related to the system civil war. There are 3 or 4 Cobras there looking tough and some nav beacons. But no apparent involvement in missions (that I have seen)

 

[nats]

Yes they do look like they are letting people in and out of a blockaded world or something. In Traveller (a well known space RPG) you have blockaded worlds that are given a Red Travel Zone classification meaning they are off limits, and are protected by interdiction satellites etc so maybe something like this will be implemented at some point.

 

[Muthax]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84770

if you read the last pages, they talk about checkpoints

 

[ollobrains]

they are in HR check the mukinn thread, the faction with the biggest control of influence has deployed them, ast he dukes of mikunn attempt to expand into HR. Ive blwon up a few nav beacons, but a solo player against 3 elite cobras gets wiped out. Small groups in open world are trying

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that said if we build the dukes up through trade and other mission types, the npcs of the dukes might overwealm the defenders in these checkpoints in HR, we shall see how the simulation in the background plays out