SakashiroOK, so I hopped into my Courier and investigated, and here's what I found:

If you enter Sirius with something in your cargo hold, you may or may not receive a familiar message in local chat: "So the rumors were true, good I found you first" or "Big haul, surprised you made it this far" etc.

If you receive that sort of message and submit to the subsequent interdiction, you will be attacked immediately, even if you jettison your cargo.

But it gets even weirder: If your ship is fast and you manage to low-wake out, you will after a few seconds receive that sort of message in local chat again. The NPC(s) will not register that your cargo hold is now empty, and will chain-interdict you.

Daiyousei7I evade interdictions in my type 9 to keep things interesting xD

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Daiyousei7Evito las interdicciones en mi tipo 9 para mantener las cosas interesantes xD

Acabamos de tener este tema. No es posible evadir todas las interdicciones en un T-9. Bueno, a menos que no lo estés volando ...

Pokerman

creo que girando en forma de espiral puedes hacerle mas dificil la interdicion

Waylongway

SakashiroOK, so I hopped into my Courier and investigated, and here's what I found:

If you enter Sirius with something in your cargo hold, you may or may not receive a familiar message in local chat: "So the rumors were true, good I found you first" or "Big haul, surprised you made it this far" etc.

If you receive that sort of message and submit to the subsequent interdiction, you will be attacked immediately, even if you jettison your cargo.

But it gets even weirder: If your ship is fast and you manage to low-wake out, you will after a few seconds receive that sort of message in local chat again. The NPC(s) will not register that your cargo hold is now empty, and will chain-interdict you.

This behaviour resembles the conditions I talked about with the cargo transport missions in Ceos/Sothis for the Fed rank grind. But certainly not just there. If you have accepted a high level mission, even if you haven't picked up the cargo yet, the pirates are going to wait for you. They either spawn a few seconds after you jumped into the system and are right behind you and catch up during the station approach. Or they come out of nowhere also in destination vicinity. Only rarely one tried to interdict soon after entering the destination system. In any case they'll greet you with one of those messages.

I didn't try to jettison the freight due to being unique mission goods. But the Pirates opened fire immediately anyway.

And the pirate names are recognisable, as in attached to a specific mission. As long as this particular mission isn't completed they will be there again and again.

My conclusions ended in a minimal, but strong enough shield and chaff. Submitting immediately and, once in normal space, perma-boosting and low waking does work. Shieldless does not.

I also found one funny method to sometimes avoid the interdiction whatsoever. At station approach I waited deliberately until 5-4s "distance" before throttling to 75%, thus overshooting and started a loop of shame. The persecuting Conda turned even slower so I gained (sometimes) enough time to reach the station.

SakashiroI have two options here: either prepare my T-9 for this one-in-ten event by shielding/arming up and losing significant amounts of cargo space and jump range, lowering the profits per hour, and increasing the rebuy in case I fail to escape anyway,...

... or do the opposite: lower the rebuy further by going back to lightweight armor + automatic docking, and otherwise carry on as if nothing happened, because I'm still cash flow positive even with the occasional hull loss.

Edit:

This is my build now. Rebuy is down from 13.5M to 5.4M, less than I make on a single haul. Cargo space is up from 694 to 716. Jump range is slightly shorter due to downsizing the FSD booster from class 5 to class 3 and the power plant from 4 to 3. Power consumption after switching off the cargo hatch: 98%.

SakashiroI have two options here: either prepare my T-9 for this one-in-ten event by shielding/arming up and losing significant amounts of cargo space and jump range, lowering the profits per hour, and increasing the rebuy in case I fail to escape anyway,...

... or do the opposite: lower the rebuy further by going back to lightweight armor + automatic docking, and otherwise carry on as if nothing happened, because I'm still cash flow positive even with the occasional hull loss.

Edit:

This is my build now. Rebuy is down from 13.5M to 5.4M, less than I make on a single haul. Cargo space is up from 694 to 716. Jump range is slightly shorter due to downsizing the FSD booster from class 5 to class 3 and the power plant from 4 to 3. Power consumption after switching off the cargo hatch: 98%.

Sakashiro The announced ones are mission-related. Here's a tactic that seems to work with those: When you receive the announcement, do not wait for the interdiction to start but slow down immediately and drop out of supercruise (no emergency drop!), then high-wake into a nearby system after the FSD cooldown. I tried this last night and noticed that it takes quite a while for NPCs to drop into your instance if you preempt their interdiction. Since mission-related NPC interdictions are triggered by RNG on system entry, you can return to the target system after that and roll the dice again. Most likely you'll be able to drop off your cargo without further disruption.

Sakashiro

Waylongway

SakashiroOK, so I hopped into my Courier and investigated, and here's what I found:

If you enter Sirius with something in your cargo hold, you may or may not receive a familiar message in local chat: "So the rumors were true, good I found you first" or "Big haul, surprised you made it this far" etc.

If you receive that sort of message and submit to the subsequent interdiction, you will be attacked immediately, even if you jettison your cargo.

But it gets even weirder: If your ship is fast and you manage to low-wake out, you will after a few seconds receive that sort of message in local chat again. The NPC(s) will not register that your cargo hold is now empty, and will chain-interdict you.

This behaviour resembles the conditions I talked about with the cargo transport missions in Ceos/Sothis for the Fed rank grind. But certainly not just there. If you have accepted a high level mission, even if you haven't picked up the cargo yet, the pirates are going to wait for you. They either spawn a few seconds after you jumped into the system and are right behind you and catch up during the station approach. Or they come out of nowhere also in destination vicinity. Only rarely one tried to interdict soon after entering the destination system. In any case they'll greet you with one of those messages.

I didn't try to jettison the freight due to being unique mission goods. But the Pirates opened fire immediately anyway.

And the pirate names are recognisable, as in attached to a specific mission. As long as this particular mission isn't completed they will be there again and again.

My conclusions ended in a minimal, but strong enough shield and chaff. Submitting immediately and, once in normal space, perma-boosting and low waking does work. Shieldless does not.

I also found one funny method to sometimes avoid the interdiction whatsoever. At station approach I waited deliberately until 5-4s "distance" before throttling to 75%, thus overshooting and started a loop of shame. The persecuting Conda turned even slower so I gained (sometimes) enough time to reach the station.

You're right, it's mission related (and the CG counts as one).

There are actually two types of pirate interdictions: announced and unannounced. The latter ones happen on a random basis regardless of missions and cargo. If you submit, an NPC will drop into your instance, scan you, and complain about his children going hungry tonight etc. if you have no cargo. These, as far as I remember, accept jettisoned cargo.

Sakashiro
The announced ones are mission-related. Here's a tactic that seems to work with those: When you receive the announcement, do not wait for the interdiction to start but slow down immediately and drop out of supercruise (no emergency drop!), then high-wake into a nearby system after the FSD cooldown. I tried this last night and noticed that it takes quite a while for NPCs to drop into your instance if you preempt their interdiction. Since mission-related NPC interdictions are triggered by RNG on system entry, you can return to the target system after that and roll the dice again. Most likely you'll be able to drop off your cargo without further disruption.

Waylongway

Daiyousei7I evade interdictions in my type 9 to keep things interesting xD

We just had this topic. It's not possible to evade all interdictions in a T-9. Well, unless you're not flying it...

SakashiroI have two options here: either prepare my T-9 for this one-in-ten event by shielding/arming up and losing significant amounts of cargo space and jump range, lowering the profits per hour, and increasing the rebuy in case I fail to escape anyway,...

... or do the opposite: lower the rebuy further by going back to lightweight armor + automatic docking, and otherwise carry on as if nothing happened, because I'm still cash flow positive even with the occasional hull loss.

Edit:

This is my build now. Rebuy is down from 13.5M to 5.4M, less than I make on a single haul. Cargo space is up from 694 to 716. Jump range is slightly shorter due to downsizing the FSD booster from class 5 to class 3 and the power plant from 4 to 3. Power consumption after switching off the cargo hatch: 98%.

HoleyMcMoleyBit surprised by the class 6 scoop tho. For max cargo volumes I normally go with a class 3 scoop (just for emergencies, or indeed none at all) which is a big boost, especially on a disposable ship like this. Why give up the 64 tons?