I'm primarily a combat pilot, currently ranked Dangerous. I stack Wing Pirate Massacre missions in such a way that my kills spread across the missions in an efficient manner, so each kill gets me credit for 6-8 kills. I load up with a few hundred million credits' worth of Massacre missions and go crazy in a HazRez. This is my main modus operandii, but today something different happened.
After turning in about 70 million in Massacre missions of a particular pirate faction, I got a notice from them that relations with their gang were now "Hostile." Nothing new, this has happened before with other pirate factions, like the Ualame Silver Gang, after I kill hundreds upon hundreds of them.
But this time, I popped into a HazRez in a particular ring of a particular planet, and EVERY ship of this particular pirate faction in the instance immediately went hostile and attacked me at once. Six ships: three Cobra variants, a Vulture, an FAS, and a Viper Mk III. Suddenly I'm in a firestorm of death, but fortunately I was in a ship that I'm slowly engineering for Pvp, a Mamba called the "Blue-Ringed Octopus." I had a bit of an unusual loadout that I was playing around with though: utility weapons in the small hardpoints, and all overcharged cannons in the larges and the huge. (The utilities are a multicannon with corrosive and a pulse laser with rapid fire and scramble spectrum.)
At first I was inclined to take out the FAS first, but it was pretty hard so I switched tactics and took out the Cobras and the Viper to mitigate the swarm's DPS. I'm not sure what all the pilot ranks were; the Vulture was Deadly and I think the FAS was also. I wasted too much ammo on taking out the Viper though; it was too nimble and I was only landing one salvo in five. At the end of the fight, only the Vulture and the FAS were left, so I switched back to the FAS, but eventually ran out of ammo.
I guess I could have synthed some at that point, but opted to cut and run in order to restock instead.
This was the first time that a hostile faction automatically aggro'd me without provocation. Does this sort of thing happen more often at higher combat ranks? If so, bring it on, it was the most fun I've had in Elite for a while!
After turning in about 70 million in Massacre missions of a particular pirate faction, I got a notice from them that relations with their gang were now "Hostile." Nothing new, this has happened before with other pirate factions, like the Ualame Silver Gang, after I kill hundreds upon hundreds of them.
But this time, I popped into a HazRez in a particular ring of a particular planet, and EVERY ship of this particular pirate faction in the instance immediately went hostile and attacked me at once. Six ships: three Cobra variants, a Vulture, an FAS, and a Viper Mk III. Suddenly I'm in a firestorm of death, but fortunately I was in a ship that I'm slowly engineering for Pvp, a Mamba called the "Blue-Ringed Octopus." I had a bit of an unusual loadout that I was playing around with though: utility weapons in the small hardpoints, and all overcharged cannons in the larges and the huge. (The utilities are a multicannon with corrosive and a pulse laser with rapid fire and scramble spectrum.)
At first I was inclined to take out the FAS first, but it was pretty hard so I switched tactics and took out the Cobras and the Viper to mitigate the swarm's DPS. I'm not sure what all the pilot ranks were; the Vulture was Deadly and I think the FAS was also. I wasted too much ammo on taking out the Viper though; it was too nimble and I was only landing one salvo in five. At the end of the fight, only the Vulture and the FAS were left, so I switched back to the FAS, but eventually ran out of ammo.
I guess I could have synthed some at that point, but opted to cut and run in order to restock instead.This was the first time that a hostile faction automatically aggro'd me without provocation. Does this sort of thing happen more often at higher combat ranks? If so, bring it on, it was the most fun I've had in Elite for a while!
