Declare Piracy Button

[Avago-Earo]

Copy/Pasted from my thread on the official forums https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost2855850 so here only the pve (NPC) bits are relevant.

After seeing some posts on various threads discussing NPC's not dropping cargo to pirates I wondered if this could be solved with a key bind; something like 'Declare Piracy' or 'Demand Cargo'. Then the AI's behaviour could act accordingly.

On top of this it could make things clearer to other Commanders if, on the press of said button, a large message appears with maybe the ships voice saying, for instance "Warning, Demand for Cargo Issued", or something more catchy. That way, a Commander would not miss a text message in the Comms panel.

I've only given it a little thought so there's probably holes in my idea but am interested to see what others think.

Cheers.

[Loriath]

Neat idea. I did a voice attack dictation addon and it had 3 default messages. One for Local (I set it to "Greetings Commander"), one for Direct Replies and one for Target. The Target one I had set to "Stand down and wait for instructions or I will open fire." and the Direct Message reply was "Don't Shoot! I will Comply!"

And the first response to your thread is quite humorous.

[Avago-Earo]

Yeah that reply was quite funny but it was followed up with an agreement over the NPC's not yeilding. After all they don't respond to messages so all you can do is target the cargo hatch. Not quite 'Raise the Jolly Roger' is it?