Where are the Pirates AKA please bring back interdictions! (am I bugged?)

bend_r

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Greetings Fellow Commanders,

as yet another career change I joined the ranks of my fellow trading commanders. I've done trading in beta, but not since the game was released.

First, it was good to see that the 'trade routes' are in good shape. In order to collect accurate trading data I visited a lot of stations, and I was always able to make
a profit just by looking at the available trade route data. Not the best profit, but a profit. So I was happy to visit 10 or 15 different star systems last evening.

In the 3 or 4 hours that I played, I was not interdicted once. Not even a tiny bit. Just nothing.

I'm trading in a clipper with downsized (class 4 instead of 6) shields. Is that enough to scare pirates away? Can't be, because in a RES even tiny Sidewinders think they can take me!

I'm hauling 200+ tonnes of palladium and not a single group of pirates can be bothered to spare a hatch breaker?

I know I can go to a RES or a CZ for pew-pew, but those feel like artificial bounty hunting grounds.
At it's core, elite gameplay has always been trading spiced up by interdictions or interdiction-like mechanics.

I want this back, please. My personal level of interdictions is so low I'm starting to think my system/savegame is corrupted or something like that.
I play in open, but most of the time I'm alone in a system (I can see other commanders, I have a working port-forward, my networking is fine, it's just that I'm nowhere that's a CMDR hotspot).
What I notice that whenever I jump to a system the server has to boot-strap the NPCs in that system. And I get the feeling that this whole NPC-generation takes so long that I'm already
at the station by the time the NPCs are ready.

If you jump to a new system and a CMRD is there you notice immediately that there are already NPCs present, but most of the time I fly around in empty systems that are then slowly populated.

Bottom line, I'd really like to know what level of interdictions you would expect. The designers must have some general idea in their mind, and I'd like to know if I'm bugged or just unlucky.

see you all out there,
Commander Benderson
 

Stanchion Ra

Stanchion Ra
Have you joined a powerplay faction? The other CMDRs are complaining about the high number of faction related interdictions especially in their home systems.
 

bend_r

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I was pledged to Arissa, but left. Still, the game without PP should have some interdictions.

I think the last time I was interdicted by more than one ship was in beta 3? Back when we had interdictions but without the mini-game. May have been beta 2.
 
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bend_r

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Played another 2 hours yesterday, I had 1 (one!) interdiction. A solitary eagle. His words were (more or less)

"How did you get this far with that cargo load?"

I love the fact that the NPCs acknowledge my cargo (I haul high-value all the time). But Still

I'm not harmless, i'm not unarmed, I haul 200t of progenitor cells, in a Clipper, and I get an Eagle that interdicts me?

It seems I have never left the starter galaxy.
 

Zplintz

Zplintz
There are threads raised recently from players complaining of being interdicted too much.

From what I can tell, when and how often you get interdicted depends on what you are flying (an Anaconda rarely gets interdicted - a hauler often), where you are flying (you are more likely to be interdicted in a system where there are more pirates) and how you fly (you are more likely to be interdicted if you fly well below the max speed and if you miss your target and have to do a loop of shame).

An eagle or Sidewinder intercepting an Anaconda does seem a tad silly though (especially if they make no effort to avoid flying in front).
 
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CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
EUS said:
Want interdictions?
Fly an unshielded T7 (speaking from experience).
Good luck.
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Well that sucks, because it's so ridiculously easy to avoid interdictions in a T7 because of that sweet yaw. I beat 4 interdictions in a row (human ones) and was hackused for it :p
 

GluttonyFang

GluttonyFang
bend_r said:
I'm trading in a clipper
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I'm outta here .-.

*Chuckles in background*

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Zplintz said:
There are threads raised recently from players complaining of being interdicted too much.

From what I can tell, when and how often you get interdicted depends on what you are flying (an Anaconda rarely gets interdicted - a hauler often), where you are flying (you are more likely to be interdicted in a system where there are more pirates) and how you fly (you are more likely to be interdicted if you fly well below the max speed and if you miss your target and have to do a loop of shame).

An eagle or Sidewinder intercepting an Anaconda does seem a tad silly though (especially if they make no effort to avoid flying in front).
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Hm... interesting info, thanks for the input.
 
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