Im stuck in the story line with pirates constantly attacking me

[Super_Demon06]

I'm stuck in the free worlds story line with pirates constantly attacking me and I don't have good enough ship to progress the story line yet so can I abort the mission and find it later or will that break the story line? Just wondering because I need better ships to escort other ships through the republic and can't make money with these pirates constantly on me.

[Amazinite]

No, you can't abort missions and pick them back up later. If the mission doesn't have a deadline though, there should be no issue with just keeping the mission active but never finishing it, as long as you don't otherwise fail any objectives like losing mission cargo or passengers or losing a mission escort that you're suppose to save.

What ship(s) do you currently have? You might be getting attacked a lot because you have too much cargo space and not enough weapons. You can check your current pirate attraction by going to the player info panel (default i) and checking the left side. There you'll see if you're attracting pirates because of your cargo vs dps. If this is the case then you should buy some stronger weapons and have less cargo space in your fleet by either parking ships with lots of cargo, or if you only have one ship then you could either buy a ship with more weapons and less cargo or but outfits expansions to get rid of some of your cargo space.

You could also be getting attack because of the jobs you have. Are you taking a bunch of escort jobs from the jobs board? Those will spawn pirates to come attack you, so you shouldn't accept too many at once and if you have a bunch then you should abort them.

[Super_Demon06]

I have the Skein, Dreadnought, and Leviathan. Also I just have two missions for escorts that I believe are part of the story line. I'll have to take a look at the pirate attraction because I didn't know about that and it would probably help.

[Goose]

get tasty nuclear bombs

[Super_Demon06]

Originally posted by Amazinite:

No, you can't abort missions and pick them back up later. If the mission doesn't have a deadline though, there should be no issue with just keeping the mission active but never finishing it, as long as you don't otherwise fail any objectives like losing mission cargo or passengers or losing a mission escort that you're suppose to save.

What ship(s) do you currently have? You might be getting attacked a lot because you have too much cargo space and not enough weapons. You can check your current pirate attraction by going to the player info panel (default i) and checking the left side. There you'll see if you're attracting pirates because of your cargo vs dps. If this is the case then you should buy some stronger weapons and have less cargo space in your fleet by either parking ships with lots of cargo, or if you only have one ship then you could either buy a ship with more weapons and less cargo or but outfits expansions to get rid of some of your cargo space.

You could also be getting attack because of the jobs you have. Are you taking a bunch of escort jobs from the jobs board? Those will spawn pirates to come attack you, so you shouldn't accept too many at once and if you have a bunch then you should abort them.

It says I have 0 piracy threat but every time I leave the station I'm in I get attacked by pirates. The missions I have are "Ambassadors to Earth" and "Escort convoy from Rand". I'm aborting the Escort mission as it doesn't show the message that I have failed an essential mission or something.

[Super_Demon06]

Yeah when ever I don't have the "Ambassadors to Earth" mission I'm fine and pirates don't attack me. I'm not sure what to do now because I think I'm just stuck

[smileyill]

Take out a loan and buy better ships/weapons?

Edit: you might also just quickly jump from system to system until you find one where a friendly fleet will help you. I presume you know that you need not wait for your fleet to jump your flagship.

[Super_Demon06]

Originally posted by smileyill:

Take out a loan and buy better ships/weapons?

It says I don't qualify for any further loans at this time.

[smileyill]

Oh ouch, no more loans :( Somebody has been borrowing a lot!

[smileyill]

see edit above

[smileyill]

You can broadcast your game and I'll watch to give you some hints in chat.

[Super_Demon06]

Originally posted by smileyill:

Oh ouch, no more loans :( Somebody has been borrowing a lot!

Apparently its because I haven't been making any money recently so the bank like doesn't think the risk is worth it.

[Super_Demon06]

Originally posted by smileyill:

You can broadcast your game and I'll watch to give you some hints in chat.

how so?

[smileyill]

you can broadcast on steam - check steam help

[HuskyDynamics]

Originally posted by Super_Demon06:

It says I have 0 piracy threat but every time I leave the station I'm in I get attacked by pirates. The missions I have are "Ambassadors to Earth" and "Escort convoy from Rand".

Not certain on this (it's been a little while since I did these specific missions), but it's possible that one of the two missions, probably the convoy one, is the cause of the pirates. It wouldn't be much of an escort job if there wasn't something to defend the convoy from along the way.

When you leave the starting planet, try jumping immediately rather than waiting for the rest of your fleet (and the convoy) to line up and be ready. Combat doesn't take place in systems you're not currently in, so leaving the other ships behind won't put them at risk. Just make sure they've all arrived in your destination system before you try and land.

[Super_Demon06]

Yeah I tried bribing the pirates and running but they attack me right away at next system over... I might just try to find some way to cheat in some cash so I can make it to next mission but then like have the cheated in ships destroyed because that's the only Idea I feel like I have left.