Vespyr wrote:Schmobius wrote:I'm finding with the Anaconda, I can be making a perfectly reasonable exit from a station, and the cops will pull some ridiculous turn to come around and scan me, then they smash into me, and I am the one who gets fined for reckless flying! Just the man trying to keep me down, and waste my time with 100cr fines!
Since the last major update, NPCs sometimes have issues where they either bug out and spin in place during combat or boost straight into you while performing a scan. I can usually avoid head-on collisions in a smaller ship, but the Conda's sheer size makes it an easier (unintentional) target for clumsy NPCs to fly into. Just today I had at least 3 incidents of the police bouncing off my shields and handing me tickets as I was leaving a station. (Then again, I am the inept Conda pilot-in-training we're talking about here, so maybe they're trying to tell me something.) Strangely enough, they didn't smack into me once on the way in. I suppose the fines are just the station's way of thanking me for my patronage?
It is however mildly infuriating each time it happens. I've come to accept the fact that I'll have to pay a fine on my way back and let them crash into me, though I can't say all the ramming hasn't made me start bracing myself for impact every time I hear those engines whizzing by at top speed.
@Loriath
Now that's reckless flying! Sounds awesome. Gotta see that pic of you jumping over your past self!
Doesn't matter if you are new or not, evasive manoeuvers is not the conda's strong suit.
Its become normal for me now to hit the brakes when I hear the scan warning cause more often than not its followed by a clank.
And if the idiot npc is going fast enough a big enough ship can blow them up, if you are over 100ms at that point you will become criminal and the station itself will kill you.
I once banged into a sidey in my conda leaving the mail slot and 6 seconds later I was looking at a rebuy screen...
I think that was only a rebuy of about 7.5 mil + cargo but now i tend to take it a little easier, at least when flying Lucy who has a rebuy of 31 mil...
