Those luddite cowards!
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:22 pm
Now here's a story: I get a clean-sweep mission on luddites in a nearby system (that was some 48K creds...), go there, visit a couple of spots, gun down a couple of thugs... And then all of a sudden things go pretty weird
Just another planet to scan (something icy this time) and of cource, once I'm through with that, another fanatic shows up. He's a good 600 kilometers away and is closing in, while I aim my guns right in his face... However, about 300 kms away he changes course slightly and zaps PAST me at SPEC speed, never giving me a chance to nail him, then vanishes from the radar in seconds (and mine covers 48 000 kms... Didn't the gravity well slow him down?) Alright, I say, let the codemeat roam a bit and get his bugs out of his head. So I land, do some busyness and mending (heeey, who the hell scratched the paint?! They're dead! Already...), take off... Whoa. My bounty has brought a buddy with him. Or, maybe, it's not his buddy, since he's hanging almost 7K kms away with a pretty unconcerned look. Well, doesn't actually matter, since whenever I approach any of them, they either zap out so fast I have no chance of catching up (sitting in a planetary gravity well sucks), or engage their SPEC, try to outmaneuver my auto, maintaining a stable 280-300 kms from me (takes so long I have the time for more than one cup of coffee), then zap out again. What the hell, is my Llama so scary? Are my 3 kills so close to Elite rank? Looks like I'll eventually learn manual SPEC flight and take them out, but say, is that a bug, actual cowardice or (hehe) luddite pacifists
P.S. And the robotic bartender says there has to be someone behind these luddite fanatics. Follow the white rabbit/luddite?..
Just another planet to scan (something icy this time) and of cource, once I'm through with that, another fanatic shows up. He's a good 600 kilometers away and is closing in, while I aim my guns right in his face... However, about 300 kms away he changes course slightly and zaps PAST me at SPEC speed, never giving me a chance to nail him, then vanishes from the radar in seconds (and mine covers 48 000 kms... Didn't the gravity well slow him down?) Alright, I say, let the codemeat roam a bit and get his bugs out of his head. So I land, do some busyness and mending (heeey, who the hell scratched the paint?! They're dead! Already...), take off... Whoa. My bounty has brought a buddy with him. Or, maybe, it's not his buddy, since he's hanging almost 7K kms away with a pretty unconcerned look. Well, doesn't actually matter, since whenever I approach any of them, they either zap out so fast I have no chance of catching up (sitting in a planetary gravity well sucks), or engage their SPEC, try to outmaneuver my auto, maintaining a stable 280-300 kms from me (takes so long I have the time for more than one cup of coffee), then zap out again. What the hell, is my Llama so scary? Are my 3 kills so close to Elite rank? Looks like I'll eventually learn manual SPEC flight and take them out, but say, is that a bug, actual cowardice or (hehe) luddite pacifists
P.S. And the robotic bartender says there has to be someone behind these luddite fanatics. Follow the white rabbit/luddite?..