[X3TC] Ship capping question ... KOS?

[shabitz]

Last night I was in my Vidar had 5 marines on board which need some fighting skill up. So I checked through the systems with Satellites and found one with a single Caravel ( Bala Gi's Joy a pirate system ). I jump there and dispatch his landed ships quickly. Save the game then goto work on taking over the ship. During the fight, he comms for help anyone I need assistance shields are down. I thought ya ya ok. There was nothing else in system at the time of the fight. I capped the ship and just as I'm about to make my escape, an Argon Military Cerberus comes though the west gate from Farnham's Legend. I didn't act so quickly and he blew up my prize. Before that happened I tried to comm him and turn him blue again he wasn't having any of it. My reputation with Argon is maxed at 10 about 21% in. I was wondering why this guy is red to me?

Is it because my act of taking over another ship is considered piracy and I'm considered a pirate, attack-able on sight?

Was the Cerberus responding to an actual distress call to help a pirate... or do you think it was random chance he was patrolling through that system, 2 or 3 jumps from Argon space?

[shabitz]

I should state I did reload transferred the JD a little quicker and got the heck out of there. Just still kinda wondering if taking over a ship is an act of piracy and you have some sort of red flag for a time period while you're in system?

I should also state that I checked the Caravel settings to make sure Argon was friend and they were set to my default settings when I took it over. So had me head scratching there.

[Sabrina Bergin]

A odd one I admit. The Argon had no sector right to attack your prize but it might be the caravel had attacked him or his escorts in an adjoining sector and he was already committed to destroying it.

[shabitz]

A odd one I admit. The Argon had no sector right to attack your prize but it might be the caravel had attacked him or his escorts in an adjoining sector and he was already committed to destroying it.

possibly but he also attacked me in my Vidar, was red even after he destroyed it. I tried to comm he would flip blue for a second then back to red. Was very odd indeed. I mean the Faction AI's doesn't really respond to distress calls from pirates right? I thought it was just fluff but now I'm wondering since the pirate was of the Argon race.

[Threesixtyci]

...that same carnival took out my advance discovery without warning. Didn't figure it out until days later, via the log.

Good riddance I say....

[Baratheon79]

Had something similar happen in my own game a few weeks back (haven't had much time to play lately ). In my case, I was grabbing a few abandoned Yaki fighters (courtesy of the NPC bailing add-on script), and it was a Paranid Nemesis and escorts that decided to open fire on them the moment I claimed them. My guess is those ships attacked a Paranid ship or two before the pilots bailed.

I did get three of the ships safely docked aboard a Deimos I called in to pick them up. Then, as a reward for annoying me, that Nemesis got a firestorm torpedo shoved down its throat. And so much for the Paranid letting me into their core sectors again (although I think that might've actually lasted a whole hour that time ).

[AgamemnonArgon]

The Paranid are easy enough to get on good terms with, I do it through killing off Pirates.

As far as capping goes, I captured four Pirate transports in about an hour last night, a Hermes, toucan and two XL Superfreighters.

Last night as a whole, I captured a Pirate Kea, also a Pirate Nova, which I accidently destroyed by crashing into, and another couple of ships that bailed but I could not stop firing in time.