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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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I bought one in Cubeo but I haven't got around to modifying it this time. Not yet anyway. The Imperial Eagle with the spoiler and wing tip pods are more sexier, I think.
You've got to delete your original account first though, otherwise your new CMDR will always feel like a smurf.
Try some threat level 7 and 8 courier missions, that's where I got mine, expect interdiction, they will send someone after you.
Thanks. I'll take a look at that. I've been playing with the Krait by taking combat missions but it didn't occur to me to look for mission rewards in my old courier stomping grounds.
Maybe I can actually turn and fight this time. Punks.
You can have fun with it as I did, they would ambush me right after I came out of supercruise at my destination. It happened so much I started ambushing the ambusher (I made a video of one of them), you'll get a message about who's been sent and when your supercruising to your destination, you highlight all the ships in your contacts panel until you find the assassin, then you'll be able to keep a close eye on them.
Usually only works if they are in front of you... Or if they feel the need to report back to whomever.
Unless they break sensor contact in some way. Then you have to find them again.
Almost forgot... If you try this without SCA, keep an eye out for your destination, you might blast past it and have to do the loop of shame.
(Random thinking: If the game would keep track on my loops of shame, by now I'd probably be rewarded EliteV for that
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Having a poor run of luck here. No high CZ's at all in the past few systems I've been to. Gah. I'll keep searching!
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I'll just leave this here...
Thompson, Santiago, Deal and Lovering at their best
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRgXFRm84I&list=PLCx_l3FfC446YhZSrnYvxRLr3evK943La&index=9&ab_channel=Pixies-Topic
Ahhh the Pixies!
…still bring back fond memories of late nights out in the 90’s - and still played from time to time when the CZ action calls for it
On a Saturday morning it’s this track that inevitably comes to err mind… ^^
Oooh i found a live version too…
I don't know about that, I have done dozens of these missions. If you watch the comms closely, you'll see a message saying "The eagle is in the nest" or "There you are little fishy" or "Target in sight, moving in", that's when you know their around, no need to scan anyone. You can see up to 3 but they'll only attack one at a time. Here's the ambush video, pretty funny, I was paranoid I would hit the station with laser fire, didn't realize it was too far away.
I find it helps if I consider them as a kind of showing off like a flourish at the end of a display flight.(Random thinking: If the game would keep track on my loops of shame, by now I'd probably be rewarded EliteV for that
Yeah, I sometimes slow down and change direction to help them out with interdiction. That's one good thing about bounty missions. They'll often come to you. Although I've definitely had multiple targets attack me at once if I've mission spammed a system or have someone trailing me due to a threat level. Usually they'll jump into normal space during combat but I've also had someone interdict me immediately after another NPC failed.
I did look for courier missions with modified embedded firmware as a reward but I only dound planetary scan jobs. I've tried this once and found it irritated. My ship ended up being destroyed as the fed gunship got a head start when it was on the surface. That's nearly a 9M rebuy and 8M cart data gone. It also failed my other three scan job missions for some reason. I don't see the logic behind that.
Fortunately I realised I could re-scan a system if I lose data (five water worlds in LTT 700 if anyone's passing) so I got a good chunk of my money back.
I'm currently on a courier mission I found for five mats and I'm blasting on crims I spot on the way. Sweet revenge. It's just a bit further out than I expected but my cart data's probably in the millions so far since I've scanned at least two water worlds.
I went for two fixed beams below, and one above between two gimbled multi-cannons. The beams overheat so much I may even need experimental cooling upgrades on the cargo modules. 8-o
It's not too bad though. The damage is usually done before the computer lady complains.
Definitely gives it more of a stealth look along with the sharp angles.
How many heatsinks do you have? You might think about having it engineered for extra capacity especially if you use shield cell banks (a must have in my opinion). I never shoot first, you can get fined or have a bounty placed on you (I've spent many-a-night at Oden's Crag).
If engineering I would start with the Beams* Efficient + Thermal Vent is great while you don't miss, if you miss a lot don't use Thermal Vent using Thermal Spread as an experimental elsewhere can help heat wise.
I never use Shield Cell Banks as either the fight is over before my shields are down or I am too busy fighting to notice until they have gone.
*Actually the first thing I would do would be to get rid of the fixed mounts more time on target and more chance of Thermal Vent not cooking me rather than the target.
I've had it sometimes that they would keep radio silence or somehow manage to disappear from my contacts list right after that message.
Though the fishy message is also quite common amongst pirates.
I think you are referring to the assassins always coming in groups of three. Which means, for every initial message you get from your contractors that someone is sniffing for your exhaust fumes, there are three of them, but you only ever see one of them until you kill that one. Then the next takes over.
But as you can stack those missions (I usually took 20 of them at the starting point of my trip, creating some kind of roundtrip, picking up new missions on my way.), you might get more than just one message, up to five, which makes 15 assassins in total.
I've had had it happen like that, up to five assassin groups following me around on my courier trips. Which can be fun if your destination is a little further into the system - I once had seven interdictions in one system, five assassins and two pirates. No chance to recieve any rewards for the extra speedy delivery...
And in my experience, if you have so many sassasins on your six, the best way to survive would be evading them, as I died a few times trying to fend off al lower ranked assasin (smaller ship / less reward for deleting them), only to have a big gun in an Anaconda jump in mid-fight and blast me out of the sky before I completely realized what was going on.