Lost a fortune!

[evovi]

Well to my pittance it is - hauling between azrael and dioce in my type 6, I get interdicted - throttle back, drops out of SC and boosts away... Within seconds my shields have gone.. Fires FSD up, mass locked - boosts away again and it charges - off I go with 120% heat and 40% hull... And a cargo hatch malfunction which drops my load just before I manage to get out of normal flight - Gets to within 30ls of miller terminal and he pulls me out again... As soon as I drop out of SC pop I'm dead 1.3 million In cargo and my lovely ship popped biggest loss ever for me

Running a virtually a rated type 6 now with boosters and heat sink launcher...

Lesson learned

[blazingmaniac]

Yeah its these lessons that make us better pilots, I know some fly without shields. I would never risk it. I had a loss of about 7 million when my Python full loaded with Palladium went bang and it made me take every precaution.

[evovi]

Ouch 7 million! Why do people run without shields ?? I can't see sense in a few extra tonnes in cargo over a shield generator...

[JohnLuke]

Dang, that sucks. Sorry about your T-6.

[Nainakai]

This one runs without shield when flying a taxi hauler across space to pick up a stranded vessel! But otherwise, even while exploring - Shields up and running at a full constant.

Also! Sorry to hear about the loss, but as you so wisely said; Lesson learned. This one has learned most things the hard way by now, and is quite certain there are many more hideous surprises in store once I finally start to risk flying outside the bubble with many a hundred light years from a station to repair at.

[Hav0c]

Think my biggest loss was about 2.5 million I was attacked in my type 7 while lining up the mail slot so tried boost into a station while my shields were still down and slammed into the station wall

[Pembroke]

My biggest loss was 2.1 mil when auto dock decided boosting my type 7 in to the wall of the station was a better idea than flying threw the mail slot... haven't trusted it since

[Flip]

When you enter a system, select another as destination. If you’re interdicted, you won’t be mass locked when jumping to another system.

[evovi]

At what point do the pirate npc's give up chase - if I would have jumped system what would the chances of him following me? Any tactics for using the system jump to break mass lock? To loose the pirate I mean... Worth knowing these things to keep a level head lol, cos when panic sets in, some things don't necessarily become automatic and second nature

[Flip]

NPC’s won’t follow you. And there’s no tactic. It’s just that high wakes aren’t affected by mass locking like low ones are.