Mantis Attack!

3.7.1 Live it's time to hit the cargo routes hard! This patch brings a whole new advantage as this is one of the first patches were progress wasn't wiped. I started out right were I left of yesterday with a full 1.38 million credits! The downside is that prices also remain unaffected so we're not going to see a change in prices, which results in prices going up for commodities, lower profit margins at the terminal and less profit for all of us. It's great to see the game play of the economy working out though and we'll have to consider the options.


Mantis players are also getting bolder, and today I ran into my frist Player-Pirate interdiction, Scarlet_Briar. (he appears to be a part of an organization called the AetherBlades)

Here is a link to the full video: https://youtu.be/zasUzf17j7M

After leaving Nathan on Ita my ship was prevented from entering quantum, he messaged me over the comms. And initially I complied with his request to go to full stop, despite his misunderstanding that a fully laden caterpillar can't stop on a dime, with full space break it still takes some time to slow the ship down. This wasn't good enough for the would be pirate, so he opened fire on the ship. Comms were also not functioning so I had no other choice but to run. I quickly realized that I couldn't outrun a Mantis so my next bet was to decouple and try and destroy the attacker. He remained to fast for the slow moving caterpillar's guns though I managed to land a few hits on him. At this point I called for help from El_dio and Rich_Banks to give me some back up. My only option was to head to the armistice zone, Nathan, now over 200km away. I continued to decouple and fire at the Mantis, headed at full speed toward the outpost. Eventually I arrived and landed. Safe. Minute man Rich_Banks showed up within minutes in his Anvil Arrow, and our little pirate friend scampered off. Then, I QT'd to Lorville and made 99k profit off the full load of Astatine. Not a bad run for testing a new commodity for the first time. That was a good attempt of Scarlet_Briar, and I give a solid 5 out of 5 stars for attempted piracy. I think he would of had me no problem if he had a few friends. Also without the armistice zone my only other option would be to just stick at full throttle until he or I blew up.

Personally, I'm really excited to see Mantis players out and about as it adds a new level to the game play. I'd love to hire out escorts and a full crew so if I run into a few more mantis attacks we might just have to get more friends.

Here is my profit for the day:


That's 338,000 profit, not bad for a few hours but not that good either. Counting the pirate attack I think we did great! Team up with me next time get your share of those profits.

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