Stealth

I read that cutting your power output could make your ship harder to detect, which to me means that ships wouldn’t be able to detect me at long range, but it doesn’t seem to work that way. How would I hide from, say, a Cruiser? I keep taking out escorts and getting some really NICE cargo drops, only to have a Cruiser jump in before I can call Jafs. I actually managed to take a Cruiser down to like 20% Hull, only to have it leave (at that point, I thought I was free to get the cargo), and then another jumped right in to take its place. Maybe I’m trying to take on too much, but it seems to me that you can’t really do much with food products and the other low value stuff I get otherwise. My other idea was to try to make the cruisers lose me on their screens so that they’d just leave, is there any way to do that?

Also, is there any defense against LDSi missiles? Whenever I have to run away, the enemies ALWAYS have them and they seem to be an automatic hit, even when I’m about 10 million km away. (And after that, they always find me no matter how much I change direction while in LDS, so the cycle repeats after the LDSi field wears off…which the encyclopedia says is 40 seconds, but it seems a LOT longer than that.)

Psyborg