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Pirates are cheating at scooping debris

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:17 pm
by Arexack_Heretic
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.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:26 pm
by TGHC
Could be a python heavily disgused as an asp :wink:

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:13 pm
by rbird
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

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:48 pm
by aegidian
Police and Bounty Hunters will go out of their way to pick up Slaves and Escape Capsules.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:50 pm
by JensAyton
As for the original issue, checking cargo space availability before scooping might be an idea. :-)

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:11 am
by FlyingBlind
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.

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:46 am
by TedJ
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. :D

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:03 pm
by FlyingBlind
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

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:24 am
by JensAyton
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!