Escape from the Space Station avoiding the pirates MA friends.

What many people don't understand and many of us who do, don't like, but Piracy in space is a function that is part of the game.

If is a PVP area and whatever goes into the red zones will be considered a target, friend of foe.

So my advice on it will be as follows. When wanting to travel in space with lootables, take a mothership. It will cost a bit but consider it a small payment to the loss you will experience if you got looted.

If you decide to travel in space by Quad or sleipner, know that when a pirate has you in their target, you will either be taken down or rather die with a fight.

The odds of winning a fight in space is but a fraction of a second and any miscalculation can end in your vehicle taking damage & decay and you being plastered in the null void of space. But then again, even the best of pirates where noobs before.

We all start at some stage thinking, GOD, why me? why are they following? Can't they leave me alone? Quoting myself as before, Everyone, even pirates were noobs at a stage and they had the same feeling.

It takes skill and lots of practice to do something without loosing anything. But as an ancient art of alchemy teaches us, you must give up an equivalent exchange to gain something of same value.

So take it from me, I was gunned down many times, but I can promise you, when I got to a good level of flight, I found out that even the pirates that I thought were the scum of the universe turned out to be a set of great people.... with issues of course

I hope my words give you some form of help or at least to ease the anger to some degree.

 

I have made many space flights and have never been caught :) The trick seems to be to immediately head "up" or "down" for a distance - about 1000 units or more when you first get into space, then head for your destination. By "up" and "down", I mean so that the Z-value shown when you press P, increases or decreases.

Best to use a Quad-wing because if there are pirates they will probably also have quad-wings and if you head away from them in a straight line they will not catch you - all quad-wings have the same speed. It is almost impossible to get in the same line as another flier, so eventually your straight line will deviate enough from theirs for you to lose them. I did this with two pirates on my tail and lost both of them.