' Wrote:EK+tap thruster can easly outrun NPCs because they don't follow your example (I don't think they do EK...), nor do they CD an EK-ing ship. So they drop behind, going at 80 m/s to your 200.
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Even though they probably don't EK, they do use thrusters. If you try and escape by just thrusting away they'll keep at your tail. You have to turn around and face them for them to give up pursuit (I can only imagine why. Maybe they calculate your probable trajectory to give chase by "looking" at your vector and by flying backwards you break that algorithm).