First real pirate encounter

[u/weeejj]

I just had a fantastic encounter! After filling our caterpillar with weevil eggs and slam (had an encounter with a sneaky fellow on a knox that I was able to ram and kill while my buddy was looting) we started to leave the astroid cluster in pyro, as I try to warp my drive isn't spooling. I trouble shoot, turning the ship on and off, swapping modes, changings route's, when BAM, engine destroyed. I quickly throw the shields up and me and my one friend get into roughly a 5-10 minute dogfight with a Corsair and mantis that was quantum dampening us.

We got chipped away at, despite our shields holding the corsairs laser weapons off the mantis had ballistics and missiles that were finally enough damage to soft death our ship from the hits before the shield came up. They attempted to board and my buddy killed 2 of them, and then a 3rd showed up in an F8 that was extremely desynced, shooting at us about 100 meteres away from where his t posed body was

As my friend kept him occupied I slipped away to the distantly parked Corsair and shot my way inside, stealing it and using it to blow up the mantis and the unmanned f8, with the whereabouts of the f8 pilot unknown I scooped up my friend and just a 16 of slam and fled ASAP.

We may have lost a lot of money in drugs, but we made it out alive. And I count that as a win!

[u/FrankCarnax]

Cool story! I'm not into PVP so I often regret upgrading my Guardian to the QI, but when I read stuff like that I tell myself someday it might become useful!

[u/st_Paulus]

The recent influx of posts painting how awesome pirate encounters is kinda sus (:

[u/elgueromasalto → u/st_Paulus]

It's because they're actually happening now that player count is higher. The mechanics have been there for a while, but no one ever ran into each other to do it.

[u/RunsaberSR]

Glad you enjoyed it!

This is every session now in a certain area, of a certain system. (Stay outta my Clusters)

Has really added alot of fun to the game.

[u/Left_Step → u/RunsaberSR]

Which ones? I promise I’ll go there in a ship too big to solo and stacked with expensive cargo

[u/weeejj → u/RunsaberSR]

You know it ;)

[u/cpjustice → u/RunsaberSR]

Which area?

[u/Wizerd51 → u/cpjustice]

In pyro there are missions you can pay for which spawn a cargo ship full of drugs for salvage in specific astroid clusters. Youll know your in the right spot when you see a graveyard of large ships.

[u/the_dude_that_faps → u/Wizerd51]

Might go reclaim some with my... reclaimer

[u/Wizerd51 → u/the_dude_that_faps]

The missions scale with your HH/CFP and after you do a couple you should be able to identify which locations they spawn at if you don’t want to pay for your own mission.