What happened to interdiction levels?
- Thread starter Sentenza
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I'm only Competent, but I keep seeing both Elite and Novice NPCs in RES's.
im competent 89% of the way to next rank. i been mostly flying my heavily engineered FAS and i got interdicted by anaconda npc who was disappointed by my lack of cargo. i think was master level. but its like low temp diamonds and painite i reckon and they use same randomness. mostly i dont find those when mining but when i do more than one rock tends to have them. same with interdictions; when i get abnormally low or high rank ones they come in waves then its back to normal either because i log out to do something else and when i come back is normal, or just i plahyed through that set of random numbers.I really noticed that a few days ago - it used to be that you are interdicted by NPCs of proportional level to you, but now, I only am chased by Harmless Eagles and Vipers. Was something changed, or being triple elite sends the interdiction routine into overflow?
if you like a challenge. take multiple types of missions, planet scans deliveries of data and cargo, assassination etc.
you will now get hounded by multiple bogies.
I had to deal with 3 different aggressors who seamed to drop in on me when in a middle of a battle with one. all elite anacondas
if you are carrying nothing, you will rarely get interdicted. the missions you take decide what comes after you.
you will now get hounded by multiple bogies.
I had to deal with 3 different aggressors who seamed to drop in on me when in a middle of a battle with one. all elite anacondas
if you are carrying nothing, you will rarely get interdicted. the missions you take decide what comes after you.
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if you like a challenge. take multiple types of missions, planet scans deliveries of data and cargo, assassination etc.
you will now get hounded by multiple bogies.
I had to deal with 3 different aggressors who seamed to drop in on me when in a middle of a battle with one. all elite anacondas
if you are carrying nothing, you will rarely get interdicted. the missions you take decide what comes after you.
The best are high value delivery missions, 20 units of gold or whatever, stack a few and then you get the mission targets and random interdictions as well. One of the reasons I want storage in theis game is because sometimes I just want to tool around with 20t of gold in the hold to make sure pirates don't get bored before I roast 'em.
i thought high value trade data recovery missions were best? i got jumped by wings twice while trying to collect the cannisters (which is illegal cargo) for the mission 3 ships jump in. once they fired on me with report crimes on the cops jumped in and began scanning everyone. i would up waking out after the fine. i found the uss again and drop out and another wing of crazies drop in as im scooping cannister 3/4 needed. a long boosting joust fest with fly by strafing followed. then as i was slowing in my damaged ship i was interdicted by a mission update npc and by then i had 70% hull and all my 4 weapons damaged so they kept malfunctioning. i think it was a vulture but could be something else but i got it. only as i docked did i realise i had had 2 of the attackers as mission updates. the rest were random drop ins.The best are high value delivery missions, 20 units of gold or whatever, stack a few and then you get the mission targets and random interdictions as well. One of the reasons I want storage in theis game is because sometimes I just want to tool around with 20t of gold in the hold to make sure pirates don't get bored before I roast 'em.
low temp diamonds are good for that at 57k per tThe best are high value delivery missions, 20 units of gold or whatever, stack a few and then you get the mission targets and random interdictions as well. One of the reasons I want storage in theis game is because sometimes I just want to tool around with 20t of gold in the hold to make sure pirates don't get bored before I roast 'em.
I find trade data very hit an miss, but yeh, let's say 40% likelihood of getting attacked at the cannisters, plus interdictions, they'd be good ones to throw in as well for sure. Boom data missions also seem to be rather hit n miss, 25% or so have associated bandits and of those bandits, only about 50% are good enough to catch up and interdict you, unless you just sit about after jumping for a few minutes which I could never be bothered to do. But yeh, having something high value in the hold has a good effect in general and also seems (could be my imagination) to attract higher level interdictors as well as make them less likely to run when their hulls are at 20%.