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Can you (Tony Zurovec) describe the preliminary on how the interdiction mechanic will work and how you can escape them?

TL;DREscape from interdiction is still being worked out, but the interdictor chooses power, which sets the field's range and probability curve, trading how quickly victims can re-engage quantum against attracting more attention.

Tony can't talk much about the escape because it's still being sorted, but can talk about how you take them out. So an interdiction device will be used to pull someone out of quantum travel which will be popular with pirates of course. One of the problems when creating the device was where does it eject the person in quantum? At first they had it do it right where they were, but then it made distress beacons useless because the pirates would have already killed the person. Then they thought they would increase the distance by 5-10 miles and so it takes time and allows them to get reinforcements, but then the person would just spool up their quantum drive after 30 seconds to a minute to get away. So what they decided on an area of effect mechanic where the person who initiates the interdiction field will determine how much power to use and then that determines the range of the interdiction device is and also the shape of the curve, the shape of the curve will dictate the probability of where you'll end up. You won't always fall in the centre, you'll always want to fall in the fringe, but it depends on the shape of the curve. As you push that curve farther in, you're more likely to have people fall in that area, but that means they can re-engage their quantum engines at a much less significant distance so the person who initiates the drive will want to find the sweet spot. The downside to cranking up the power is it draws more attention to yourself such as security forces, so making the field smaller and more precise means less people get caught, but you're less likely to get detected.

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Published on this date.29 Nov 2016