Why do NPC no longer fly Cutters?

Staarlord

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Outside of conflict zones, I no longer see Cutters at nav/ compromised nav beacons, like I did in 2015/ 2016. They used to be more widely used by NPC.

I feel like you should at least see security flying them in imperial controlled or contested zones, and the federation should be flying Corvettes in these zones as well. Yet? Security only ever seems to universally fly Anacondas and Vipers instead.

You really only see pirates in Corvettes, Clippers and Couriers...yet? No longer in Cutters. This would be like seeing mafia and present day pirates predominantly flying F-22 Raptors, Eurofighter Typhoons, SU-57s and AC-130 gunships... Like what? What happened to the militaries purchasing these? 😂 They're only found in conflict zones. They should be patrolling imperial ports, beacons and non-hazardous resource sites, while Anacondas, Vipers, Cobras and non-Imperial Eagles are the signature mercenary/ pirate ships. I mean, sure...in the books it's possible for pirates to capture and fly even Cutters, much like Man O War, and slave ships of the past but still...this wouldn't happen frequently enough to make pirates in Corvettes common.
 
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GroG79

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St0rmFury said:
Hmm, can't say I've ever encountered those USS. Does the system need to be in a specific state to spawn those signals?
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Can not find the right picture of a USS among the 1000s of pics. But here is a Fed example

Look in (civil) war state systems. And of course Imp systems if you want to find Cutters

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mtfatboy3006

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NPCs only spawn for a few minutes at a time, and only ever carry a few tons of cargo. None of them are capable of grinding the Imperial reputation needed to make Duke! :p

I hear what you're saying, but if NPCs start flying Cutters, then I have to stop submitting to pirate interdictions in my trade Cutter. Taking on Anacondas and Type 10s is one thing...
 

Ydiss

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NPCs don't fly any of the new ships either. FD used to have someone to update spawn routines across the game's content to include new ships. But they've overlooked this for quite some time now.
 

Ydiss

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Helmut Grokenberger said:
I have seen NPC Mandalays and Cobra V.
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mtfatboy3006 said:
NPC Mandalay are reportedly spawning now.
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I've seen neither, nor t8s, nor python mk2s, in any scenarios. When I say scenarios, I mean res, CZs, nav beacons, USS, debris fields, that sorf of thing.

I also can't recall seeing them anywhere else but I'd concede I may have just not been paying attention. But I definitely don't see them in scenarios.

Maybe they appear in SC. I'll keep an eye out, but I don't recall seeing any. But there's no way FD have considered all the new ships in relevant scenarios.

The cutter, the topic of this thread, at least appears in CZs, which is a sensible place for it.
 
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