I can't believe the pirate NPC's in this game

[tonechild]

So I'm exploring (doing a road to riches circuit), hundreds of ly away from the bubble. I find a degraded emissiosn POI, disengage supercruise and pick up a blackbox, and 7 passengers in escape pods.

As I continue my expedition, in zero population space, I start get interdicted! the chat log is as follows:

NPC: I have you now!
NPC: Big haul like that, surprised you made it this far.
(notice the order here? He magically appears behind me and interdicts without the normal npc introduction lmao)

- then I escape interdiction.

After I scan all the planets, I mark my next destination and engage the jump drive. My next destination is about 4 jumps away.

Every time I enter a new system along the way, I get this stupid message:

NPC: Big haul like that...

or..

NPC: Good job I found you first.


*Are you ♥♥♥♥ing kidding me?*

I'm in deep ♥♥♥♥ing space FFS!!!!

[tonechild]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

> 7 passengers in escape pods

I've never had pirates hound me system to system like you're describing. My suspicion? One or all of those passengers is a pirate that is leaking your location information.

I would jettison all the passengers and just keep the black box. Then see what happens.

I love this haha - maybe I'll try that next time..

I travelled back to the bubble and sold everything, now I'm not dealing with pirates anymore and grinding my exploration rank :D

[in memoriam of Sharky]

By the way why the hell you pick up worthless cargo on an exploration trip?

No cargo no pirate spawns thats it.

[tonechild]

Originally posted by Avoidingthenoodle™:

By the way why the hell you pick up worthless cargo on an exploration trip?

No cargo no pirate spawns thats it.

Yep that's how I'm doing this for now. and I dont know, I just thought hey cool I'll pick up some cargo not like any pirates are out here xD

[John Titor]

Originally posted by tonechild:

Originally posted by Avoidingthenoodle™:

By the way why the hell you pick up worthless cargo on an exploration trip?

No cargo no pirate spawns thats it.

Yep that's how I'm doing this for now. and I dont know, I just thought hey cool I'll pick up some cargo not like any pirates are out here xD

And how do you think that cargo got there in the first place?

[Tanoshi]

I've always felt the priate interdiction frequency was a bit over the top

[tonechild]

Originally posted by John Titor:

Originally posted by tonechild:

Yep that's how I'm doing this for now. and I dont know, I just thought hey cool I'll pick up some cargo not like any pirates are out here xD

And how do you think that cargo got there in the first place?

not sure i mean anything could have happened really. It's space after all ;D

[tonechild]

Originally posted by Bad Luck:

I've always felt the priate interdiction frequency was a bit over the top

Yeah I do too. I think my biggest gripe about it is that they seem damn near omniscient to me.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by tonechild:

Originally posted by Bad Luck:

I've always felt the priate interdiction frequency was a bit over the top

Yeah I do too. I think my biggest gripe about it is that I just want to grind in peace so i can then complain about how boring and grindy the game is.

[tonechild]

Hah, I have never complained about how boring or grindy the game was, and there's plenty of ways to make the game interesting and challenging that dont make pirates look omniscient. also - its not challenging much at all to just dodge an interdiction anyway. Youre confusing game mechanics with believability here. They could keep the game mechanics the same as far as I care, just make it a bit more believable. It's almost like you see someone complain about it and you just boil them down to a persona of some imaginary person who doesnt want a challenge and just wants to play a boring game.. that's not me at all not in the slightest, and I'm not sure how you came up to that conclusion.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by tonechild:

Hah, I have never complained about how boring or grindy the game was, and there's plenty of ways to make the game interesting and challenging that dont make pirates look omniscient.

Stalking marks on a well travelled path doesn't equate to omniscience.

[tonechild]

that is up for debate and maybe your imagination.

[tonechild]

And really I dont get how I'm getting so much flak for this, I mean damn, its not even that big of a deal, I told my story, explained how I think it seems unbelievable, and it irks me that I get thrown into some imaginary bucket with folks who want a boring game?

FYI I like this game a lot. Just had a hard time believing the game, told my story, and then my character gets blown out of proportion..

Dont worry I wont be posting anything like this here anymore. If folks are just going to draw some crazy conclusions about people that post a few details and an anecdote, then there's no point. anyways I've permanantly blocked the idiot from california.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by tonechild:

that is up for debate and maybe your imagination.

No, it really isn't.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by tonechild:

And really I dont get how I'm getting so much flak for this, I mean damn, its not even that big of a deal, I told my story, explained how I think it seems unbelievable, and it irks me that I get thrown into some imaginary bucket with folks who want a boring game?

FYI I like this game a lot. Just had a hard time believing the game, told my story, and then my character gets blown out of proportion..

Dont worry I wont be posting anything like this here anymore. If folks are just going to draw some crazy conclusions about people that post a few details and an anecdote, then there's no point. anyways I've permanantly blocked the idiot from california.

So you can dish "criticism" but you can't take it. Gotcha. I'll be sure to take your tender feelings into account in the future.

[MasterManiac]

Originally posted by tonechild:

Ok great. But honestly that wasnt even my point. It makes no sense to me that I'm getting interdicted in zero population space hundreds of ly away. I think that yeah its fine if youre going to get npc spawns 2k ly away, even 10k ly away, that is fine with me. My point is, pirates are going to be just as agressive in deep space as in populated space? give me a break!

They should make it a bit more believeable / realistic.

If we're going with the "backyards of the farmlands" thing (which has merit), why not? You essentially tried to escape by running into a dark alley.

Jumping sectors is as easy as pressing buttons. A determined pirate wouldn't give up that easily.

Now if you want to talk about "stupidly unrealstic," that's suicidal pirates running in by the thousands to die in "resource zones" over space pebbles. Guys flying Space McMansions worth hundreds of millions of dollars robbing guys for a couple K's worth of junk.