Hostile encounters in this way are not frequent
Hostile encounters? Encounters? Where I was gathering junk were no encounters at all. 100% empty encounters and yes, 100%, because I entered these damn location 100500 times and never ever had encounters, only once some guy appeared in my encounter. So there's no reason for TB.
Also take not only 10 ST, but also HH and tag unarmed, once, my CW alt was gathering wood, an evil PK in CA and laser pistol appeared on encounter, well.. he started to shoot me, I ran to him and almost killed: I was talking to him while knocking down saying that he's being beaten by 1st lvl CW alt, so probably this distraction could make me hit him less frequently, especially when my CW alt had 1 IN, and my speech was unreadable and I had to repeat phrases +I laughed so much from situation + speech that he managed to get up and run away from me and I continued cut wood.