Hello, loving the game so far I have a question about the rival scavengers. I rolled a one and it says that they frog march me back to my ship and confiscate all my salvage.
I currently have no salvage.
Then it goes on to say when the rivals scavenger reaches your airlock they’ll plan to trace. Since they walked me back to my ship, is it assumed that they also reached my airlock?
Should I be checking gas for each module we go through?
Do they disappear after leaving the tracer?
Well that ain't good news, Belter. Sorry y'all ran afoul of some mean spirited Vultures out there. Good news is they didn't get nothing off of you. If your carry all and your cargo bay is empty, they won't take anything. Can't squeeze blood out of a turnip after all. It does indeed behoove you to make gas checks on thenway back to your airlock. You're still transiting modules. Good news is they won't let you die on the way to your airlock either, so you ain't gotta worry about the Gas checks killing you. Might still end your salvaging day, though. But further good news, they ain't going to waste a tracer on your boat if you're not an earner. And if you had salvage, they'd be too busy bustling it off to worry about sticking you with a tracer. Getting the frog march treatment doesn't trigger their Airlock move, thankfully. Though I know some folk think it's more thematic to be that kind of mean spirited, it ain't the intention to pile on both kinds of bad one right after the other.
After they make your life a little harder, yeah, they do in fact move on. Their damage is done and it's up to you to find some fresh and interesting trouble. Hopefully the odds break a little kinder in the future, Belter.
Thanks for the question! Yall let me know if that ain't coming through loud and clear, and we'll clean it up.
Chariot, out.
