How is VIG scanning me ?

[Bozz 💀]

I have a few ships on repeat order in Avarice V transporting water and they get continuously scanned by VIG police, now I investigated it a little bit, put lots of sats and there is no VIG police in the sector, and when the ship says it was forced to abandon cargo there is still no VIG ships around it... How is that possible ?

The ships don't leave sector and trade very far away from the gate, with no ship traffic around....

[Afro Luigi]

Has far as I can tell stations still spawn those XS mass traffic police ships in Low Attention mode. So your ships are likely getting scanned by those things.

[Bozz 💀]

Which means my own station police ships are reporting my ships to the VIG syndicate ?
Damn gonna RP like we have infiltrated VIG agents xD

[Wolfsblut]

that happened to me aswell until i eradicated them by force =)
the ship somehow can do it. dunno how. the VIG was also a problem for me aswell. you could erase em by making war and take theyre stations under supported attacks in the certain areas they build up the stations with destoryers so they cant rebuild aswell. aside that i never found a way to not have losing so many ship by them.

if i am right the problem was the vig pirate ships not the vig itself. but cant say for sure last time i had problems with em is about 1,5 years ago

[Afro Luigi]

Ya, the only way I've found to stop it is to either get Vig to like you enough to stop scanning you. Or you flip all the relevant sectors to player control by controlled detonation of Avarice Admin modules so that I could determine what wares are illegal.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by Afro Luigi:

Ya, the only way I've found to stop it is to either get Vig to like you enough to stop scanning you. Or you flip all the relevant sectors to player control by controlled detonation of Avarice Admin modules so that I could determine what wares are illegal.

that requires some planing to pull of...
not impossible.. but tedious.

you should have at least one black market on at least one or two vig/RIP stations to constantly do the single ware reputation trick...

and be very carefull when you have to convince rip to hand over avarice 1... they have 5 modules that lay claim onto the sector in there... perfect time to actually use one or three of the hacking items and disable station repairs for 5 hours.

(you will need these 5 hours to recover to at least a +10 to avoid dropping reputation into an unrecoverable state)