Oh well, I guess the laugh is on me.
There I was in my Asp on a platform in a system where we are at war... Four assassination missions on offer and as usual, all are for 5+ of chuffing reputation, nowt I a can do about that as the developers have well and truly mucked up the faction\reputation allocation.
I take all four missions and jump back to my home systems where all four bad guys are going to be found. As I drop out of supercruise to head into the station, I heard that familiar 'clunk' which is usually the noise of a bad guy following you out of supercruise.
I jump into my trusty chariot and as I head toward the 'letterbox' I can see laser fire taking place. Now me being me, I say to myself, 'Do NOT, Do NOT boost out of the 'letterbox'. We all know the consequences of boosting out of the station and 'accidentally' ram a small ship. If that ship blows up then the consequences are quite punitive (Is that being tactful or what?)
As soon as I get out of the letterbox, I quickly lock onto the target. Sure enough, it is one of my targets and it is getting battered\smashed by our\my security forces. Now these forces belong to our faction and please, please developers, let's improve the gameplay for those of us that enjoy playing the BGS.
I nearly lost my train of thought.... Security forces battering the bad guy, I have just left the letterbox, boost, boost and deploy weapons. The INSTANT, the very instant I get into range I press the trigger letting rip with all my weapons. There is a brief delay whilst my weapons decide they should be firing and loook, loook at the bad guy...... Just 1% left...'Noooo' says I and as I scream those words, not only do my weapons fire, but I get a chuffing fine for firing my weapons whilst too close to the station!!!
Then to really make my day, 'MISSION FAILED' Yup, I am sure the enemy was probably down to 0% when my munitions finally reached their target. So, a drop in reputation with my own faction, a fine from my own chuffing faction and to round off my day, I fail a mission because MY security forces with my faction name on them destroyed the target I was aiming at.
NO.... I am NOT complaining and no I am not sulking about this saga, it made me smile and I thought, 'just typical of my chuffing luck'
The next victim was despatched with malice aforethought and my reputation restored. The other two were also very quickly bumped off and sent went to that large scrap in the heavens.
One piece of good news.
I went into a low influence Conflict Zone to see if there were still the issues we had regularly been experiencing and apart from it being a close fight... All worked as they should. I confess though that I nearly lost the fight and not through being battered. far from it, the plain fact was that the bad guys were killing us good guys at a faster rate than I could at first keep up with. I am guessing I got the decision on a photo-finish as boy the result looked close.
There I was in my Asp on a platform in a system where we are at war... Four assassination missions on offer and as usual, all are for 5+ of chuffing reputation, nowt I a can do about that as the developers have well and truly mucked up the faction\reputation allocation.
I take all four missions and jump back to my home systems where all four bad guys are going to be found. As I drop out of supercruise to head into the station, I heard that familiar 'clunk' which is usually the noise of a bad guy following you out of supercruise.
I jump into my trusty chariot and as I head toward the 'letterbox' I can see laser fire taking place. Now me being me, I say to myself, 'Do NOT, Do NOT boost out of the 'letterbox'. We all know the consequences of boosting out of the station and 'accidentally' ram a small ship. If that ship blows up then the consequences are quite punitive (Is that being tactful or what?)
As soon as I get out of the letterbox, I quickly lock onto the target. Sure enough, it is one of my targets and it is getting battered\smashed by our\my security forces. Now these forces belong to our faction and please, please developers, let's improve the gameplay for those of us that enjoy playing the BGS.
I nearly lost my train of thought.... Security forces battering the bad guy, I have just left the letterbox, boost, boost and deploy weapons. The INSTANT, the very instant I get into range I press the trigger letting rip with all my weapons. There is a brief delay whilst my weapons decide they should be firing and loook, loook at the bad guy...... Just 1% left...'Noooo' says I and as I scream those words, not only do my weapons fire, but I get a chuffing fine for firing my weapons whilst too close to the station!!!
Then to really make my day, 'MISSION FAILED' Yup, I am sure the enemy was probably down to 0% when my munitions finally reached their target. So, a drop in reputation with my own faction, a fine from my own chuffing faction and to round off my day, I fail a mission because MY security forces with my faction name on them destroyed the target I was aiming at.
NO.... I am NOT complaining and no I am not sulking about this saga, it made me smile and I thought, 'just typical of my chuffing luck'
The next victim was despatched with malice aforethought and my reputation restored. The other two were also very quickly bumped off and sent went to that large scrap in the heavens.
One piece of good news.
I went into a low influence Conflict Zone to see if there were still the issues we had regularly been experiencing and apart from it being a close fight... All worked as they should. I confess though that I nearly lost the fight and not through being battered. far from it, the plain fact was that the bad guys were killing us good guys at a faster rate than I could at first keep up with. I am guessing I got the decision on a photo-finish as boy the result looked close.
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