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Thank you Lofty for the inspiration, I've been a backer since 2014. I'm your typical Space-dad that wanted for the most part to be left alone...but was forced to kill over 170 players between 2.0-2.6 in self defense. I wanted a life of cargo-running, breaking rocks and salvaging - but Space isn't safe. Perhaps I'll join a Hunter Org and make it safer for others.

as a pirate and a criminal, cant wait to meet you in the verse, its gonna be interesting great videos btw

i dont know exaclty when you recorded this but watching it in sep2024, immersion is twice as that thanks to cargo. And will be even quadruple when engineering comes online

Was looking up bounty hunting this morning and came across your series. Then I saw this video. Guess it's true, "You either die young or you live long enough to become the bad guy" haha. Very cool. Hope to hunt you soon :)

Crime makes for good gameplay. Bounty is the completion of the gameplay loop. All good stuff keep it up

"Damn it guys some bounty hunter killed me..." - "What he say?" "Something cool."

I wonder if falling into prison can be replicated

Just found your channel and looking forward to seeing some videos from you now that 3.24 is out, and ESPECIALLY looking forward to seeing how your content changes once 4.0 comes out

Always check the toilet for ‘Shitter Pirates’

cig should make a temp ban system for when players with bounty disconnect during a fight

lol the airlock fail had me dead 😂. Love your vids man. I am living my bounty hunter slash space pirate life vicariously through you.

Love the Metal gear solid inserts!

Everywhere I go, I act like I'm constantly in someone's sights, maybe it's a little paranoid but I've never had someone get the jump on me.

to be fair leaving the door down might be the smarter option. there's less places to hide for a pirate in a ship then on the planet in my opinion look at that last guy he need to stop being observant to hit f look at a button and than wait for the ramp o come down he's just sniper food.

I agree with you Lofty. Love your work :) an opportunist after my own heart. I didn't take all the chances I could have in 3.23 but I definitely see where at a much earlier period I could have ended up one of these players quite easily haha. Entertaining to see how easy they made it for you. I also think firmer piracy sentences should be a thing and breaking out also more difficult. Note that I said more difficult, not buggy. Bugs are the majority of the reason as to why Kleschers just a joke right now. You end up profiting more from the A.I than you do actually ganging up on other players. I also think the comm arrays need more security and risk. Its so easy to mask your bad deeds by shutting one down. Not to mention shutting down Aberdeen's comm array makes klescher miles easier...

A weapon and armor makes no difference when getting ambushed.

I seriously think that’s the major problem is the lack of cosnequence for you here’s. a crime stats 3 should give you a literal week in yhe slammer. There’s is very little consequence for you here’s. piracy shouldn’t be happening at the buy / sell locations. It’s would be much ,ore fun to see interdiction and something that is more than hide and seek

other mmo have a timer if you log out in a fight. your body stay in the game for a while. think it will be done in SC too at some point.

This is a great take mate, both the point about this kind of piracy not being griefing (especially when they're being daft) and also how it's going to change big time in 3.24. I haul and salvage a lot and it's going to be challenging to make mega bucks risk free now, but I've been tempted by piracy for a while, and I think it's intriguing now. Can't wait to see some of your early experiences, love the content mate.

this is exactly the reason i will not play this game douchebags like this guy exist

Dude I don’t know why but I laughed so hard when you shot the guy in the vulture. He must have been so relaxed eating a pizza and drinking some Pepsi when suddenly he gets blasted from behind.

Hey love your stuff! Was just wondering what your pic specs are? I am very interested in getting a pc that will be able to handle star citizen:)

9:27 This desync is hell on earth. I think from their perspective you literally spawned in the elevator.

It's not very clever to fly those giant ships solo AND leave the cargo ramp open. 😅 If you are solo, fly solo ships. Problem solved. Like the Nomad or Hull A. External Cargo so you not have to open any ramp, Ladder for Entrance, so nobody can get in. To pirate those ships, you need another ship to disable shields. Mor effort and less profit for pirates, maybe they won't even attack you because you are just a small ship.

Thank you for making this video i am gonna get sc very soon and ill know now to close every door i possibly can

There are also no real adverse consequences. Hour or so in jail, or even just log off for the night. Couple that with folk who leave ships open, the total lack of basic C20th l;evel vehicle security, like d'uh keys...remote locking, that sort of stuff and there you are. Some poor (or culpable) design choices by CIG dont help.

Whenever I pick up RMC for trade, I'm fully armed and armored. But that's because I'm primarily there for a Bounty or Merc job and I'm just picking up the RMC for "If I'm already here..."

Smuggling is a pipe dream.

Solo piracy isn't as simple. Especially if you're running a CS3 on a full pop server and need to transfer items to your own ship without backspacing. This video to some extent creates a false narrative for solo piracy. Stealing is easy, finishing the rest of the job is a different story. Additionally, it's easier to move around as a crim player with servers as dead as they are. Just my two cents.

I don't get how you sell those stolen materials when solo. Even if you go to grim hex with the stolen ship, how can you get your own ship close to get the materials ? I understand that it is easy when you have a friend online, but how do you do it solo ?

Truth.

Sad you stopped Bounty Hunting because its too easy. Then switched to pirating like you werent going to be killing sperm suits with no weapon and semi AFK. No idea why people are SO bad and never come prepared for anything or do even basic stuff right.

If you go naked like this and expect free millions without any risk you are delusional. This game has guns and armor for a reason... There are aholes tho doing this in armistice zones and that is a game flaw. You can't to anything but let them grief you or log off, switch server and claim the ship to try again.

I agree that piracy is too easy but based on CIG's efforts its by design. They have increased cargo yields from destroyed ships, introduced soft death and now increased time on the ground for haulers. They want more people pirating. This year, they have nerfed mining, bounty hunting and now cargo hauling so salvage will probably be next. Other games have a more vigorous policing force to where some players can be the police that doesn't exist in Star Citizen. A pirate can sit at the same station committing crimes for hours if a bounty hunter doesn't show up; no police are coming; AI or otherwise. Piracy only cost time; if you lose the engagement all you have really lost is time whereas your victim can be out as much as 8 million aUEC so the burden is always on the victim unlike all the other gameloops. There's no rep for piracy so once you clear your crimestat you can charge them for attacking you as illustrated in the video. Point being, CIG codes all these restrictions to the other gameloops but none for piracy; in fact this will be another patch that benefits piracy which reinforces the implication that CIG wants more piracy. Ironically, some players assume Pyro will be a pirate haven. If CIG sets it up the way they claim Pyro will be guarded by gangs and gangs don't suffer thieves in their territory. In many ways, Pyro should be safer to trade in than Stanton, but honestly no one expects CIG to start restricting piracy; they haven't up until now.

May i ask, how meny hours have you sitting and wating for thies ships?

Stay strapped or get clapped.

Nice video 👍

Pirating is Too easy also because in real life to steal car You need at least steal also keys. In SC anyone can fly away in Your ship.

o7 🏴‍☠

RMC they aren't traders, just gamers/exploiters looking to make money fast as possible. 3.24 can you fly a stolen ship to your hangar and unload it there? I think 3.24 there will be an initial spike in people trading, then Tetris frustration will quickly set in and there will be even less people trading, less targets to pirate.

Lol and this is why I've still never been pirated or ganked since starting in 3.17, EVER. People really don't check surroundings, they really think they're always safe, they come to these places with whitey tighties and figure everything will go well. They frequent the well known routes given to them by sc-trade tools and youtubers, trying to make quick money. As a cargo hauling bounty hunter, I gotta know what's going on everywhere, paying attention to everything. Being overly paranoid is a good thing in this line of work.

In my opinion, SC encourages far too much ground-based piracy (or mugging is what it really is) rather than ship-based piracy in space which is where it should go.. The snare mechanic is too chance-based and too difficult to target specific ships. We need a way to detect and track Quantum signatures in normal space so pirates (or bounty hunters) can trap the right targets... Otherwise everyone is just going to continue to camp sell points (it's going to be worse with the cargo elevator selling requirement at scrap-yards).

Also 3.24 they nerfed the amount of RMC you can buy from Rappel or Pickers Field to 100 SCU max

Agree 100% with exactly what you said, if you don't use common sense you deserve to lose your load. 100% not grieving or disrupting gameplay, if you are going to do risky runs you have to be smart about it.

Can't wait for bounty hunting V2

like your intro, gives me cowboy bebop vibes :D

Cowboy Bebop reference, great 😂

can we appreciate the MGS soundtrack vibing in the background?

they nerfed the p6lr right into the ground lol

3 minutes in I about died when you shut off the engines and when it hit the ground the computer says “landing complete” with such authority 👏 😂