All or Nothing

[Shilka]

OK, just went to a gazillion stations to get rid of a full load of tobacco that seems to be banned everywhere, and when it's not banned it's produced where I try to sell it, I'm getting a bit tired of the regular trade. Had a good route, but profits dried up, then lost all my earnings when I got destroyed by a pirate, again...

So I'm going to take the plunge, I'm going to take my type 7 on my long rare trading good run, and go back and forth for as long as it takes me to fully upgrade the type 7. Since rare trades are bought for much less then they sell, at least I won't lose 4.5 millions on destruction, only potential millions.

I'll be doing it in open play too, at least with humans I might get off the hook by negotiation or dropping some wortless stuff, or some rare trade goods that I just got and haven't increased in value yet....

Who knows, this might be the end of my type 7, or it might be the start of dozens of hours of adventure with my ingame livelyhood constantly on the line. Now I only have 2-3 times the money for insurance left for the type 7, we'll see what happens....

Wish me luck!

(PS, I'll try to make pics)

 

[tmtm]

Tobacco sells in one of the big stations in Eravate. Russell Ring I think? I've sold some there recently.

 

[Shilka]

Well sold it eventually, and I'm 116 LY from Eravate. Anyway, started my rare trade goods run, and things are not going well lol... Not sure why, but I'm absulotely being hammered by interdiction upon interdiction...

 

[little P]

Good luck Shilka! Maybe all the pirates just like the look of your ship? Maybe turn off the red light in your cockpit?

 

[Shilka]

Well, it feels like I have a target painted on my hull.... lost my ship again at the second station I visited. I know I need a hull upgrade but just can't get the credits together this way. Got A-class shields and A-class shield cells now, but that makes me overheat every jump, so now I have steady repairbills, lol. At least managed to fight some cobra's off, but ASP's and bigger just eat me up...

But at least my bad streak seems to have ended as I managed about 15 stations without getting killed, did get interdicted 7 more times, but managed to evade/escape/survive all of them...

180 more station visits and I'll have some military grade hull, lol.

 

[little P]

Sounds like you need your military escort Shilka, wings can't come soon enough eh

 

[Shilka]

Yep, could definately use one...or more

Seriously, it's like frontier has repopulated the milky way with pirates... It's ok when I'm in areas with lots of human cmdrs around, but in quiet areas, like in my hip 69518 homebase area, that only sees 5 human cmdrs per 24 hours, there's a pirate around every corner it seems, and they have big ass ships too.
I get factor 42 mass locked while being in a type 7, what are those pirates flying? Majestic class interdictors or something?

I even see posts on the forums of explorers getting interdicted and destroyed by pirates while being 500 LY into uninhabited space. I don't know what changed, but something did change, and quiet space has become a lot more dangerous. With my current trip I sometimes pass systems that are single star with no planets, and as soon as I exit my jump at times I see up to 3 radar contacts go for me like I'm flying a gravity well as a ship. They sometimes come in so fast they overshoot me 3 times as they whirl around me, and I need to jump out of there as soon as my FSD has come back online or I'm interdicted again, and have to take the overheating damage for granted.

It's rough out there, but I'm determined to sit this one out. I just hope I can get a hull upgrade together, which will be very hard by the looks of it. In a certain way it's more fun and certainly more thrilling, but boy, I'm on the edge of my seat continuously...

 

[Shilka]

Well, managed to do the route once, got a bit of money off it, but the one death cut profit very short...

Designed a new rare trade route, and it's going to be tense as it has a couple of places that are very popular in open, meaning lots of human pirates.... We'll see how it goes. Hope I practiced interdiction evasion enough by now XD

 

[little P]

lol you should upload a video, would be interested to see what's going on out there.

You could speed it up and put it to the benny hill music?

 

[Laursen]

Since 1.1 I have been making 4-6m credits on my normal Trade run. I was intercepted ONCE by a Pirate adder whom I took care of easily enough.

Granted my Combat rank is only Novice with 200 or so kills so they might not go for me?

I play on either Solo or Mobius

 

[Shilka]

I think I have only 5 kills XD

The thing is, I do my normal trading in a part of space that barely ever sees human commanders, at least, I think that's what my problem is.
The second half of my rare trade goods run, and my current new rare trade goods run is much better though, I only had a few interdictions the past couple of hours, so at least now it's a bit better. A lot more players around here, so at least the pirates seem to have a choice here, heh.

And yeah, I do play in open now. Just arrived at the founders system, after getting 22 different types of rare trade goods aboard, including the famous Lucan Onionheads. One of my next stops will be Lave, going to have a look if that blockade is still standing... need some luck again I guess XD

 

[Shilka]

Well, all went well on this second run, even survived Lave, though there didn't seemed to be a blockade, it was quite busy there. No human pirate managed to interdict me, so that's good. Got money up to 8 million, couple million more and I can finally upgrade the hull on my type 7 and feel a bit safer...

Some pics from the past all or nothing trips:


Escaping with only 8% hull left;



Escaping unharmed;


Not escaping at all:


But made it home eventually;

 

[little P]

Brilliant pics Shilka Tells a good story. I admire your fortitude. Know that you are not alone! I'm playing exclusively in open play now too. It definitely adds something to the game... Actually feels "dangerous"

 

[Shilka]

Well, with my quadruple sinus infection no longer being combined with the flu and a double ear infection, I'm up for continuing my all or nothing trip, or better said, do it all over again. At the end of it I should be able to afford the medium hull on the type 7, and at least be able to fly around with it without having to fear almost instant destruction, because with the starter hull, anything masslocking you means certain death...

Let's hope all goes well this evening, and I haven't become too rusty (nor my type 7, lol)

 

[ElektroVodka]

Remembering the end of the night the trip turned out well didn't it?
I was amazed to notice you were still around at 2 AM when you said you finished the trip and wanted to join us in nav beacon ganking

 

[Shilka]

Yep, my type 7 now has reinforced alloy bulkheads, will be saving up some more millions for military grade though. I do feel a bit safer now, and not so prone to near instant destruction. Also still need A class FSD and thrusters, though fitting A thrusters means I'll have to do some power management, as there won't be enough power to go around for the hardpoints then.

Won't be the fastest and furthest jumping type 7 around, but I want her as sturdy as she can get. I'd rather have a larger fuel bill then risk 1.5 million in insurance + possible 4.5 million in cargo...

And yeah, might have been fun joining a nav beacon in a type 7, lol, or perhaps it was good it was 2 AM and I didn't pursue that decision