Will repeat myself until this got fixed.

Alexander the Grape

Alexander the Grape
ITT: people thinking silent running is some kind of magical cloaking device.

The only way that the NPCs "cheat" is their scans not being chaff-affected. Which is good because otherwise they'd be laughably easy to prevent from affecting you. 3x chaff = endless scan shield is no challenge.

Silent running makes your signature hard to resolve from >1km away. If they get within 800-600m they WILL be able to lock onto you and scan you.

SPEED is key here. Cops have eyes. They aren't dumb. If someone goes silent then trundles slowly around the mailslot, popping off heatsinks, thrusters flaring, they will move closer to investigate, then scan you. That's not cheating, that's just common sense

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Ralph Vargr said:
If any other weapon worked at 800 light-seconds, the entire population would scream: "OP!".
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Interdictor is not a weapon
 
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Lupin

Lupin
NPC's do have pilots as well as scanners, so finding your ship is just a question of looking out of the cockpit.

As for repeating shadow run missions, take care as NPC do get tipped of to you running this missions and specially running them to the same place.
Noticed this when I ran the same mission twice, second time around more NPCS in more of the systems on the way.

Get a Rep for it and likely get stopped more often?
 

Drunk Si

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Alexander the Grape said:
ITT: people thinking silent running is some kind of magical cloaking device.

The only way that the NPCs "cheat" is their scans not being chaff-affected. Which is good because otherwise they'd be laughably easy to prevent from affecting you. 3x chaff = endless scan shield is no challenge.

Silent running makes your signature hard to resolve from >1km away. If they get within 800-600m they WILL be able to lock onto you and scan you.

SPEED is key here. Cops have eyes. They aren't dumb. If someone goes silent then trundles slowly around the mailslot, popping off heatsinks, thrusters flaring, they will move closer to investigate, then scan you. That's not cheating, that's just common sense

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Interdictor is not a weapon
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Nah, counter measures should go some way to countering a scan and going cold and silent to avoid them at all would offer a far richer gameplay experience than just "dock quickly!"


I also think you're being very selective about how you apply your logic. The cops have eyes but despite having enough Intel to chase you down and repeatedly interdict you they won't raise an eyebrow at this bloke who repeatedly legs it as fast as he can every time they try to scan him? Nothing suspicious there, welcome back respected ally!
 

Aratoth

Aratoth
OP has a valid argument. He's not whinging about something stupid, it's what I'd deem a serious issue.

Spawning NPC's are essential and that we can overlook et cetera...but yeah, everything else should be consistent. Its hilarious at the mo.
 
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