Sorry if you've mentioned it but what happened?
When Engineers first came out there were a couple of bugs. I went out in my fully kitted Python and Vulture, into the High RES where I was used to taking down Anacondas solo... I was saving up for a Federal Corvette, I think.
Suddenly I was getting my backside handed to me by all and sundry, for several reasons:
- I hadn't played in about a month and was slightly rusty.
- The Vulture and Python had been nerfed a bit, whether it was kit or just in general, I don't know, but the Python has since been surpassed as a combat vessel by the Fer de Lance.
- Small ships were able to gang up on me better.
- The bugged NPCs were fully decked out with Engineer mods, but were also carrying things like Plasma Accelerators that fired continuously as if they were Beam Lasers. I got utterly ganked.
That and more led to a series of losses, with rebuys costing me 8 figures each time. Racks up quite quickly.
- I eventually went trading in my Type 9 to get some more cash up, but got interdicted, lost the cargo, lost the ship, just about managed the one rebuy and had to start again with less than 100,000 Cr. Might even have been less than 10,000...
Boom Time deliveries at a few grand apiece were the order of the day, along with some planet-side recovery missions. I sold the Type 9 and Vulture to buy a Fer de Lance and am working to kit that out for combat, but I've not taken on anything bigger than myself for a while, now... not even in interdictions.
Just when I felt was getting good at the game...!!!
