Pirates are cheating at scooping debris

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:17 pm

I regularly see Asp's scooping cargo/alloys, what is up with that?
An asp with a fuelscoop ok, but no cargoroom available, so why scoop and why do it succesfully?
If I try that, I get a face full of shrappnel.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:26 pm

Could be a python heavily disgused as an asp

rbird · Post by **rbird** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:13 pm

Just today I came across an Asp that was VERY aggressive in scooping cargo. He wanted to block my way each and every time I approached a canister. We even bumped each other a couple of times. He definitely cared about the cargo much more than he did about me. I solved the problem by injecting away to another debris field. Not my preferred solution, but the police presence was heavy in that particular system (as was the debris presence...coincidence?)

Bob

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:48 pm

Police and Bounty Hunters will go out of their way to pick up Slaves and Escape Capsules.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:50 pm

As for the original issue, checking cargo space availability before scooping might be an idea. :-)

FlyingBlind · Post by **FlyingBlind** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:11 am

Quite agreed. I don't want to admit the number of times I collided with containers and cursed what must surely be malfunctioning scoops until one day when I happened to scoop up some common sense.

TedJ · Post by **TedJ** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:46 am

FlyingBlind wrote:
Quite agreed. I don't want to admit the number of times I collided with containers and cursed what must surely be malfunctioning scoops until one day when I happened to scoop up some common sense.

I scooped up some common sense once, but my trumbles ate it before I could dock.

FlyingBlind · Post by **FlyingBlind** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:03 pm

Yes, when trumbles ate a container of slaves I'd scooped up, I realized that there was a different intent altogether behind all those pairs of loving eyes.
I mkanaged to be rid of them just as they were gnawing at my shoes.

Dan

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:24 am

Ahruman wrote:
As for the original issue, checking cargo space availability before scooping might be an idea. :-)

Just a point: I was referring here to the AI, the “original issue” being pirates scooping when they don’t have cargo space.

FlyingBlind wrote:
Yes, when trumbles ate a container of slaves I'd scooped up, I realized that there was a different intent altogether behind all those pairs of loving eyes.

Trumble green is people!