This may sound stupid

[marauder]

Has anyone who suggested that the Red Hessians and all others with 5.88 refire rates fought against any recently? (without some maxed out super-powered fighter/gunship, etc)

I'm asking because I took a job from Leipzig station in the Dresden system earlier and got hit by all the weapons on 2 Hessian silettos, now I didn't expect them to miss or anything silly, but i also didnt expect them to take my shields down and vaporise a wing either, I exhusted my batts and bots and died about 5-10 seconds later. All this while dodging and everything else, I think I pulled every trick in the book, but it didnt matter cos 1 stray hit did enormous amounts of damage, I'm not arguing with the wisdom of changing the refire rates (hell, I agree). But is there any way to alter how many NPc ship you have to fight?

As far as I could tell you would need a VHF with everything maxed out, as everyone likes it, to even stand a chance of killing a few first.

sorry if this sounds like a rant or me whining about getting blasted but it seems a little unfair on people trying to make some fast money by doing missions so they can upgrade their ships to have to trade for ages first.

So is there some way to make the missions either pay more or lower the number of pirate HF and VHF's you have to kill, this is the only time i've had this problem, the Brunschuh I can deal with but the Hessians just slaughter me everytime.

thks for reading this, any thoughts or comments are welcome