I can understand Frontiers desire to create a realistic simulation of the galaxy in 3305. I don't know if piracy would exist in such a time period. Personally I think piracy would be a long extinct field of endeavor at such a time much as it is today. Anytime in the present time that piracy rears it's ugly head governments jump on it and extinguish the threat quite quickly. I believe the same would happen in 3305. But destroying people's ships with high rebuys is unacceptable without equal footing to blow the pirate up. Just my opinion.
Why are player interdictions so impossible to evade?
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That or the government hires Privateers to hunt the pirates using their own tactics XD
Hmm I can boost your self-esteem if you like OP; last week I interdicted 4 cmdrs & 3 escaped! Where would you like to meet?
It's either me or my hotas X - fortunately, for my own self-esteem, cognitive dissonance & delusions of grandeur are things!
...& with my limited experience here, this forum is additional definitive living proof of those aforementioned concepts too!
It's either me or my hotas X - fortunately, for my own self-esteem, cognitive dissonance & delusions of grandeur are things!
...& with my limited experience here, this forum is additional definitive living proof of those aforementioned concepts too!
I had exactly the same experience the other day. Long-ass trip out to Maia and back. Got interdicted but it was immediately canceled. It happened again and I jumped out. I should have left it there but I tried again, going to the station instead of the engineer. I was interdicted again and was blown up almost immediately by an inter-something beam. I think he was after the meta-alloy; once he was sure I had it, he went straight in.
I made mistakes. Persevering was one. I should have stayed away until the system was clear. I forgot to launch chaff. I didn't have a route mapped. If I had been more experienced, then I probably had a good chance of getting away.
I made mistakes. Persevering was one. I should have stayed away until the system was clear. I forgot to launch chaff. I didn't have a route mapped. If I had been more experienced, then I probably had a good chance of getting away.
And how could you tell the system was clear?
PCs show up on the radar with an open outline instead of filled-in. In super-cruise your radar is wide enough to spot them at distance There were two in the system; I was aware they were there but I was hoping they were camped out for PCs attempting a planetary landing.
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I am glad that works for you I have found the radar to be almost useless.
The radar is particularly good, the range also expands the faster you are travelling...
The only problem with the radar is that you have to take notice of it instead of just looking out of the cockpit canopy
If your radar is useless perhaps there is an error between screen and seat?
In absolute numbers there are likely more high-seas pirates today than there were during the golden age of piracy and piracy is a relatively common occurrence in many areas.
201 attacks significant enough to be reported in 2018: https://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php/1259-imb-piracy-report-2018-attacks-multiply-in-the-gulf-of-guinea
Many smaller scale attacks and attacks on less insurable vessels go unreported.
Much of the Elite setting is frontier again, with security spread thin and long range communication difficult. This would make for almost ideal conditions for piracy.
Sensors, the CMDR log, and the bandwidth meter (which is something they should fix and thus not something one should get used to relying upon), are the three main warning systems you have, in ascending order of range.
If they are within 40 seconds travel of you, they are on your sensors in SC. No interdictor has this sort of range.
The info is there, what you do with it is on you.
The radar is particularly good, the range also expands the faster you are travelling...
The only problem with the radar is that you have to take notice of it instead of just looking out of the cockpit canopy
Thanks so much for the non-help.
It's not hard to tell you are going to be interdicted but telling from one system to another escapes me.
When you enter a system, immediately after you set your escape nav plot, check the CMDR history tab (4th tab on the comms menu)...if someone is in system and close enough to interdict you, they will be listed there. Once you start moving in SC they should show up on sensors pretty well and you'll be able to make a better assessment when you target them.
I knew that, what was confusing me was some one above said or seemed to say you could look in to another system before you jump and I have never been aware of such an ability.
Ah. I think that was just a reference to waiting for the situation to calm down, not anyone implying that there is any way a single CMDR can peak into a system they aren't currently in.
You are welcome
Having said the radar is useless what other response can be given. But at least it shows that you are reading the replies
Others already suggested watching the hollow symbols - sadly that is the only thing you can do, be aware of the environment - which means using the radar to its fullest.
No, you'd have to jump into the system, but you can get out long before they are a problem. Particularly in that system there may be innocent player activity, but better to be safe than sorry. If anyone else is there then bug out and come back later. Any innocent player will be out in ten minutes or less.
You are welcome
Having said the radar is useless what other response can be given. But at least it shows that you are reading the replies
Others already suggested watching the hollow symbols - sadly that is the only thing you can do, be aware of the environment - which means using the radar to its fullest.
More non-help but that seems to be expected from you.