The cops...they're NUTS!
15 Oct 2015Tiger61378
Well, headed out this morning to pick up a few high paying smuggling jobs from Sothis. Things were going pretty well until I reached my first destination...I'd been contracted to haul 2 tons of biowaste to Alexandrus, and had a number of smuggling missions to drop off afterwards. Not a problem, right up until it became a BIG problem. When I dropped into the system there was a cop in a Viper waiting for me...he'd been tipped off about some smuggling activity. Ok...interdicted, and there goes the new "impossible to escape" mechanic. Yay...scanned, 46k fine, and I'm on my way. 30 seconds after I'm back in supercruise, here comes the same cop. Interdicted, 46k fine, let me go. This is getting annoying...and the same guy is on my tail AGAIN 30 seconds later. Fine...I've had about enough at this point so I turned and opened up on him, shredding him down to about 10% hull before I left (I'll eat the 400cr bounty, but didn't really want to kill him). Soo...leave, and surprise surprise, look who's tracking me and trying to interdict. Again. Finally just dropped and restarted, and he was still lurking around...The guy chased me all the way to the station, then managed to irritate the station enough that I was denied permission to dock. At that point, I'd had enough, so I jumped out to an uninhabited system and shut down my ship for the day. I'm going to eat a loss on the smuggling missions (maybe 7-8 million CR lost), but I just can't take the psychotic cops any longer today.