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...Open is a complete waste of game mode and always will be and why nobody really bothers playing it anymore.
My experience and recent contacts list disagrees with this sentence fragment...

I've been playing 99% in Open this year (yes, the past 4 months) 99% within the bubble but mostly on the edges furthest from the current Thargoid Wall...

Most of that time (90% to 95%) I never saw anyone else while I was running missions, fighting wars, winning elections, laser mining, etc...

Occasionally, while running longer range (100+LY) missions, I would get a contact in my list but usually never saw them on my radar.

Only recently, while fighting ground wars in last week's CG, did I run across many commanders, 10% to 25% of which are now in my friends list.

Only once did I run across a ganker during the week I was in Pichch. Well, I did run across a VERY famous ganker on my way to Pichch, but I was already jumping out of that system before I even knew they were there,

Of course, and as always, ones mileage may vary...
 
I just recently installed Neverwinter Nights EE with a steam key from some gamestore site, thanks to a freebie deal from my gaming magazine. Had played the original before*, but the CD is lost in the abyss of moving boxes. And I guess the key has found Raxxla...

*:The first ever RPG I played completely through.
Nearly all of my NWN/NWN2 was played with a group of IRL friends. At the time, I had a VMWare ESXi server running at home and ended up with 4 virtual Linux machines running NWN servers. We played through the original stories and many, many "modules" and a few persistent worlds downloaded from Neverwinter Vault. Much of the fan generated/PNP conversions we played were done really well...especially the Giants conversion and a few other very large modules.
 
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I think that explains it right there, you've been corrupted by the dark side, poor soul. They (and you, perhaps now :) ) gank because they think it's a manhood extender, gankers have teeny weeny issues and their desperate to compensate for it. :ROFLMAO:
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I don't gank, its not in my blood...and besides, in order to gank, I'd need to unlock the rest of the engineers and get them all up to G5, unlock all of the PowerPlay goodies and then spend 10,000 hours "gitting guud"...

No thanks...now that I'm Dangerous, I'm having enough trouble flying my most combat capable ship with Deadly and Elite NPC Anacondas chasing me down from the missions I'm taking...and my best maneuver these days is the "Brave Sir Robin"...
 
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I don't gank, its not in my blood...and besides, in order to gank, I'd need to unlock the rest of the engineers and get them all up to G5, unlock all of the PowerPlay goodies and then spend 10,000 hours "gitting guud"...
Wait, what? How do you know all this? Well, I guess getting killed by a ganker is a true honor, nice little feather in my hat, I'm part of the "killed by a ganker" club. (y)
 
Wait, what? How do you know all this?
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Is that you're own private Idaho? Linky link, please.

I got that link from here:

 

I got that link from here:

Come join the gankers hate club, cool. I wonder how many members are there for espionage purposes, nefariously undermining the server, sewing discord. Seriously, thanks for the link. ;)
 
Come join the gankers hate club, cool. I wonder how many members are there for espionage purposes, nefariously undermining the server, sewing discord. Seriously, thanks for the link. ;)
Honestly, its a haven for gankers. I lurk and learn how they do things, to aid in my avoidance of them...which really is the "why" I know so much about it.

Pretty much everything one needs to know about avoiding a gank in Open Mode is in the New Player's Initiative link I provided above anyway...
 
Honestly, its a haven for gankers. I lurk and learn how they do things, to aid in my avoidance of them...which really is the "why" I know so much about it.

Pretty much everything one needs to know about avoiding a gank in Open Mode is in the New Player's Initiative link I provided above anyway...
I had you all wrong Capn' Nemo, glad to read this stuff though I won't be playing in open for sometime, it is good to know.
 
I mentioned recently I started an alt account just to be a trader and be able to restock Quains fleet carrier tritium depot remotely.
Had fun with a Dolphin for a while to get the credits and materials for a Type 7 fitted with an Engineered FSD V1.
All seemed well until I put the mass of 264t cargo onto it. I had no idea more mass on your ship means the FSD charging generated more heat.

Every single sodding jump -

"Warning! Temperature Critical!"

The second I have the credits for a Python this piece of junk is going. It's a lot of cargo capacity for the credits and can be away to get richer quicker. But ... 🌡️
 
I mentioned recently I started an alt account just to be a trader and be able to restock Quains fleet carrier tritium depot remotely.
Had fun with a Dolphin for a while to get the credits and materials for a Type 7 fitted with an Engineered FSD V1.
All seemed well until I put the mass of 264t cargo onto it. I had no idea more mass on your ship means the FSD charging generated more heat.

Every single sodding jump -

"Warning! Temperature Critical!"

The second I have the credits for a Python this piece of junk is going. It's a lot of cargo capacity for the credits and can be away to get richer quicker. But ... 🌡️
Yeah the type 7 is a very heat intolerant ship. I've lost several of them trying to neutron-boost at White Dwarves. (I've since stopped trying that)

These days my T7s are used for:

IST-Connestoga - my 3 passenger cabin sightseeing pleasure cruiser - https://s.orbis.zone/mcyp

IST-Clementine - my explo-miner 49'er - https://s.orbis.zone/mcyr
 
With my engineered thrusters and dirty drive enhancement on my Anaconda, I have to take a cooldown (below 30% heat) before I can jump after fuel scooping. I think I hit 50% heat on a normal jump.
On my T9 cargo hauler, I hot jump using heatsinks (while still in the scooping zone, after FSD cooldown, I start the next jump, when my heat gets up near 98%, I fire off a heatsink and continue on my way)...it has no fuel scoop, and fuel wise, it generally has a 9 jump range while fully loaded, with 36LY jumps.

IST-Ruby Rhod - https://s.orbis.zone/mcyy
 
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On my T9 cargo hauler, I hot jump using heatsinks (while still in the scooping zone, after FSD cooldown, I start the next jump, when my heat gets up near 98%, I fire off a heatsink and continue on my way)...it has no fuel scoop, and fuel wise, it generally has a 9 jump range while fully loaded, with 36LY jumps.

IST-Ruby Rhod - https://s.orbis.zone/mcyy
I don't have the mats to synthesize more heatsinks, I need my supply incase I jump into a cluster ball of stars.
 
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