Instant death?

[Engineer of Stuff]

I built a large ship for my faction, but it was destroyed by pirates. Here is the story:

My ship jumped to a system to build my faction's home base, and I came out of warp by a pirate station. I casually flew away from them, not worrying about their weapons because my ship had an Advanced Armor hull and ~100 shield capacitors and rechargers. I was eventually killed by them. I did not even see my ship's shields going down.

What happened? How did I die?

 

[Snk]

The pirate stations have really big missile launchers.

 

[Criss]

100 capacitors will not save you in most cases. The missiles will be a 100% hit regardless of AI accuracy. Just as long as you are in range.

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

If it was pirate station alpha you were hit by an invisible nuke.

http://bugs.star-made.org/issues/1369

 

[SkylordLuke]

I built a large ship for my faction, but it was destroyed by pirates. Here is the story:

My ship jumped to a system to build my faction's home base, and I came out of warp by a pirate station. I casually flew away from them, not worrying about their weapons because my ship had an Advanced Armor hull and ~100 shield capacitors and rechargers. I was eventually killed by them. I did not even see my ship's shields going down.

What happened? How did I die?

not to sound harsh,but damn.. 100 shield capacitors and rechargers is less than in some of my starter ships. pirate stations can kick your butt even with 1000+

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

not to sound harsh,but damn.. 100 shield capacitors and rechargers is less than in some of my starter ships. pirate stations can kick your butt even with 1000+

It's not so much shields as AI difficulty and pilot skill... well only shields will protect you in case of invisible nukes so I just avoid pirate station alpha but all the others are fairly easy to cleanse of turrets.

 

[Snk]

Also, the bug where AI can lock on to you even if you are radar jammed will be fixed

 

[0ldSkull]

pirate stations can kick your butt even with 1000+

Slight irony here