How to deal with pirates?

[expy777]

Good day,
I was assaulted and killed by pirate ship on low Earth orbit. From time to time I have seen red markers of some pirate ships on the HUD from 10-12 km away, but did not fly in their direction. But recently one pirate ship suddenly appeared out of nowhere, maybe at 1 km distance or closer and attacked.
Literally after 1-2 sec the cockpit was damaged and threw me out to open space wounded and I could not do anything, just watching my (small) ship being destroyed.
How do you evade/escape pirates, or killing them?

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, an easy way would be to disable "Drones" and "Encounters" from the world settings and take time to build a Warship before enabling enemies in space.

OR
Find the first Warship solution able to win the battle against the enemy SPRT stations having Drone spawners from premade worlds where we start at a default Faction Station, like the one named "Earth Planet" got enemy stations to conquer on all Planets, Moons and Space if all enabled in world settings.



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Note

I was sharing more info in the other discussion created a bit before you, I recommend to read all my posts in to know more about the in-game enemies :

Discussion Title
= What's the strongest vanilla enemy?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/4416425212220507440/

[Dan2D3D]

I can share my Engineer solution on Small Block Fighter using Ion thrusters only.

It's "2 ships in 1", a Tiny ship having the cockpit on it and another complete ship build around the Tiny ship placed in center.

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Cockpit hidden under the ship skin : It's my space "tank" :)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1458755797

The solution I found
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Small block Fighter need 6 turrets to win the battle with minimum of damages against the Moon SPRT station.

[ShadedMJ]

Story : I was mining an asteroid and having a good time. Boom. Boom! Pirate ship I didn't notice was firing missiles at asteroid. I had no weapons so decided to flee. Left in a hurry but mining ship is not built for speed. Epic chase that would have been good to put in a Star Wars movie that went for 20km and pirate finally gave up.

Actual answers : 1) Maybe you just weren't paying attention, maybe you accidentally shut off antenna. Either way, more attention to where pirates would be. 2) Put a turret on your ship and some blocks to see if it detects enemies, change some spotlights or something to tell you it found enemies, and go from there. 3) Park a reasonably armed/armored refinery ship near by. The worst part of mining for me is the trip out and trip back, so might as well make that as short as possible.

[Ronin Planetary Industries]

1. Have a back-up ship.
2. Use decoys to redirect fire from the most important parts of your ship like your cockpit to somewhere else.
3. Have a back-up ship.
4. Have a back-up ship.

[Dan2D3D]

Indeed, one AI Drone used as Decoy can be very helpful in combat, the enemy is set to target the closest first so they will shoot at your Drone and that gives a short window for your Warship to complete the Job without any damages done to your Warship.

That is a new setup because AI blocks are new and a good solution to complete "Escort Contract" at the Trade stations.

Edit
Sorry, corrections made.