Damaged while submitting to interdiction

[Ameena]

Aiming for the escape velocity thingy is how you're supposed to avoid interdictions - notice that to either side of your crosshair there is a bar thingy. The one on the left is blue, the one on the right is red. While your view is centred on the escape velocity, the blue bar will count up - this is you getting closer to escaping and if the blue bar hits the top, you successfully avoid the interdiction. The red bar is how cloes your interdictor is to successfully pulling you out of supercruise, so if it reaches the top then that's what happens.
I used to try winning at the escape velocity thingy but after reading about it on the forum I found that the fastest thing to do is drop the throttle to zero so I submit to the interdiction (your FSD recovers much faster if you submit than if you get pulled out) and then just leg it. Since i maxed out my thrusters on my Cobra there's been nothing that's come close to catching me. i did once get a missile launched at me but it streaked right past me moments before I hit the Jump button so fortunately I didn't have to deal with the possibility of it turning round and coming back (if it was a homing missile, which I have no idea if it was).

[Myrm]

But if you submit the NPC kills you

[Cmdr Kharma]

Submit and run.......

Go into SC with 4 pips in engines.......

If interdicted....Submit and boost away....Then boost again....Keep boosting until your frameshift comes online then jump....

[Myrm]

I'll try that. Thank you.

[Ameena]

Yeah, submit, hit the Boost button, enter supercruise as soon as your FSD cooldown is done - if you submitted successfully (rather than being pulled out), it only takes a few seconds. If you got pulled out of supercruise it takes much longer, maybe 30 secs or something.

[Loriath]

Nice thing about submitting to the Interdiction, you don't get damage to your ship the way you do when you loose the mini-game. But the person/npc that does the interdiction will get damage regardless of if you submit or fight and win/lose If you want to play, you have to pay!

The only ship I ever got a real scare from was a Pair of Anaconda Elites in my T6. Took me down to just short of death in a short time because I failed to Pip the Shields and Engines. My Fault, and I paid.

[Gorf]

Under certain circumstances, the escape vector is so badly placed that you are interdicted before you can throttle down. I always submit, because it became a habit when I had my asp. A couple of percent damage caused by failing an evasion was really expensive in repairs. The cost is not so bad now, but I still do it.