So I pretty much had stopped playing for about a year, after trying out Star Citizen. Missed a few expeditions and a few major upgrades, and returned when Endurance was released. There was a lot of catching up to do.

One of things I decided to do was to get some new ships. Despite the max being increased from 6 to 9 ships, I still wanted to keep the roster clean and decided I was going to switch my explorer to one with a longer range. But that Explorer that I did have served me so well for so long, that I felt bad about just scrapping it. So I decided not to scrap it; I’ll simply trade it for another ship, and let the pilot fly off into the sunset where my old explorer would continue to live on somewhere in the galaxy. I wasn’t even going to strip out the components; I would leave all the weapons and all the hyperdrive mods and everything, and leave the ship intact.

Then, I had another idea.

So I dismissed one of my squadron pilots and started looking for a new pilot who I thought would be worthy to fly my Explorer. Found one, traded ships with them, and then recruited them to my squadron. So now my Explorer lives on in my fleet as a squadron member!

I might do this with the Golden Vector. Although the Golden Vector is special because it’s one of the few ships that doesn’t have a Photon Cannon built in.

Ok so I need some help here. I’m getting disrupted by hostile enemy scans while trying to mind my own business and I’ve got some issues. First, I just installed and tried using the cargo scan deflector and it’s either bugged or there is something I’m not getting. When I use it while being scanned, it shows a message saying something like “enemy scan scrambled”, but immediately afterwards they begin scanning me again. I used the deflector like 4-5 times in a row and it just kept happening before I gave up

And then second big issue I’m having. I…cannot…STAND the obnoxious attack pattern most of these assholes have. I’m assuming the pirates are getting stronger since I’m progressing in the game or because my ship is S class. But it is AGONIZING dealing with them circle around, fly directly past my face over and over while infinitely recharging their shield if I can’t turn around and fire at them within 2 seconds. I have an S class interceptor with 421 damage potential, I have one or two decent upgrades on each of the weapons I’ve been trying. The issue is I can’t burst down their shields fast enough half the time, even with power diverted to weapons. Maybe one of the weapons I haven’t tried yet is good against shields?