Also on Reddit, Ameal told us this account of 'The Most Fun I've Had So Far Playing Elite: Dangerous' -



'So tonight i decided to try something new. I left Bloch station and set off to 78 Ursae Majoris. This time to do piracy. There are several difficulties with piracy. First of all you need to find and appropriate target, then complete your interdiction. Then type your intention to the other player as quickly as possible. Usually just telling them to stop. If they don't, start firing until they do.



This leads to three different outcomes. Some choose to fight (usually the cobras), some choose to submit and surrender completely (Lakon Type 6), and others choose to stall you until they can boost away and release all kinds of defensive counter measures.



I accidentally ended up interdicting the same guy twice in an hour. He was extremely compliant the first time, handing over 20 of his hard earned gold. The second time i let him keep everything. Don't milk the cow dry. To my surprise though, he offered to hire me as his body guard. I was promised payment, and accepted. Unfortunately, after accepting his friend request, I was unable to send or receive messages from him. So i continues the piracy.



One guy though ended up exploding after having tried to flee the scene with what i remember as the departing words of "f**ck you" (this might not have been his words, but certainly were the words of one of my victims). Nevertheless, this guy had friends. And after an hour, i got chain interdicted by three different people. I managed to get away, but staying in supercruise got totally unbearable. I landed at the Alliance controlled station, and when i got out I had 2 ASPs waiting for me with the message that i attacked the wrong guy today. On my sensords i Could see another one faproaching, also in an ASP. The message was clear; leave the system, or be forced to leave the system.



What followed was an insane cat and mouse game. I managed to escape the station, get out in supercruise and land at the Fed controlled station to hand in a bounty. I didn't want to die without having it turned in. When getting out in supercruise again, my radar had 3 Players in supercruise hunting me. 2 of them in ASPs and the last in a Cobra. After a lot of interdictions and escapes, involving one of them interdicting and the others joining in to aid in the fight before boosting out to supercruise again. i found myself outside of supercruise facing the cobra. But this time alone. I took his health to around 30% and told him I'd let him live. That overly brave/crazy guy wanted to keep on fighting. I decided there was too much bloodshed. My intention was never to kill. Only to do some clean professional pirating. I told him I'd stop pirating the system.



As a pirate, you piss off a lot of people. But wow what a change it is from the single player feel I've had earlier. This was all player driven. Guys coming together to chase away pirates from the system. The victim of piracy actually hiring the pirate as his bodyguard, interactions with all kinds of people for good and for worse. A big thank you to all of you that participated in making this gaming experience even greater than before. And to those who lost their cargo, and to those who lost their ships, It's only business.



Fly safe Commanders '