Robigo Mines - Full of Pirates!

[mackster]

So went for the passenger grind and was surprised that the system with the target in is full of pirates?

First run went fine - good payout at 25 mill over the 10-12 minutes. Second run was a mare. Interdicted just before dropping in to the target. Dodged the interdiction, scanned target and bugged out of there back to the mines. Just getting near the mines, interdicted again -dodged that one, had to re-adjust to the station. At the station, just auto-docking and scanned. Jeez - managed to get out of the auto and heatsink then rejoined auto. Just made it. Just the 20 mill that time but added about 5-10 minutes or so to the run.

Overall, there must have been about 3 pirates at Syrius.

I wonder if this has happened to anyone else? Was I just unlucky or is this run now just not as straight forward? I have full rep with all factions and was playing solo, so they were all NPCs.

[JL::Jose-Juan Kenobi]

Depends on the missions, did they say "hostile ships may be sent against you" ? If yes then they will send at least one pirate per mission so they pile up.

[climbingeastofwinter]

That's weird. Having recently done the Hauser's > Atmospherics run a dozen times or so, I've never encountered any pirates. My Beluga isn't equipped with a cargo hold; I don't know if that makes any difference, but you might try storing your cargo modules if you have any. There have been plenty of times when I have been interdicted by pirates wanting what's in my empty hold while in supercruise with, you know, no cargo. I don't think anyone has ever attempted to interdict me when I'm flying without a cargo hold though, of course that could just be luck.

Edit: Oooh, mission based encounters, yea. That could be.

[mackster]

They are all passenger missions, no cargo. Actually, not missions. You pick them up in the passenger lounge. Supposedly not the better option for 100 mill + an hour. Yesterday I did it and got scanned at the station four times, one after the other - failed that one. Got interdicted yesterday too. Today was twice on the trot with pirates. Not normal I dont think

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by mackster:

Yesterday I did it and got scanned at the station four times, one after the other - failed that one.

Auto-docking is pretty slow, it gives station securities enough of time to scan you. And if there are no other ships around for them to check first, they will scan you, even if you are allied with a controlling faction.

If your mission will fail on a scan, then prepare to enter a station fast. Align to an entrance while still being in supercruise by using a station target hologram. Also enter a station manually (at around 200-250m/s) and only then throttle down to 0, letting your docking computer to finish the docking procedure. This way securities wouldn't be able to finish scanning you before you are already shielded by the station.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Or just swap all your utility mounts for heatsink launchers and intermittently break auto-dock with a throttle-up to pop heatsinks and keep your heat profile low. That will defeat scans generally.

[Fiveball]

I've done maybe 50-60 of these missions. Today was the first time I was interdicted 3 times and a 4th came after me as I was 100 meters from docking. Interdictions occured in target system and original.

Idk what's up but no that's not normal at all.

[mackster]

Originally posted by Fiveball:

I've done maybe 50-60 of these missions. Today was the first time I was interdicted 3 times and a 4th came after me as I was 100 meters from docking. Interdictions occured in target system and original.

Idk what's up but no that's not normal at all.

Yeah thats what I thought, The scans I can deal with, heatsinks FTW. The pirates tho are a pain. Easy enough to dodge 99% of the time, but always put your time off if they do that right at the point of coming out of jump, causing you to do the lap of shame.

[Torphedo]

I've only been attacked by pirates once while doing Robigo, and I managed to despawn the pirate by smashing into an Earth-like while being interdicted.