Probably multiplayer Civ. There's always someone who'd forgotten to press the End Turn button.
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Probably multiplayer Civ. There's always someone who'd forgotten to press the End Turn button.
This will mess up the natural selection.
I had enough when I got a "go pick us up some goods" mission.
I flew to the station to pick up the goods and did not notice that the purchase price put me below the insurance premium. I was leaving to go back to the mission-giving station and sell them when I crashed and died.
I've never crashed and died entering or exiting a station before. The couple of crashes I have had have been eaten by shields. I didn't see the ship blocking the entrance.
I did not realize. I had been running with millions in the bank until about 20 min earlier.
I also lost about 400k in uncollected bounties (Empire and Alliance when I was deep in Fed space)
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Sums up the spirit of the game perfectly!
Yes and make you have to click a dialogue box to undock. It won't bother me because I'll never see it.
There's always a first time - so I do not ever go the risk flying without insurance. I always asked myself "what are these guys doing wrong!?" until I somehow forgot to request docking permission myself and got destroyed. At my....1000th landing...or 2000th? 10000th? I don't know.
Have fun at Civ - it's also a very nice game
Not a terrible idea. Could be toggleable like the preflight checklist is.
I just don't see it that way. I understand why you do, I guess, but to me it's the journey, not the destination.
It doesn't hurt that I'm a writer, though, and that I often turn my exploits into amusing stories (Mossfoot's Tales of Woe, which gets a fair bit of traffic over on the Oolite forum http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16586
). Some of the best things happened to me in an Adder there I will admit that I do want more "life" in the universe (Oolite has some great add ons that helped create that feeling), but for now I'm content with what I have, and eagerly await them to expand it. Had I come into this in beta, it's always possible I'd be feeling stretched a bit thin by now.
Besides games like Elite ever since I started playing them have been games I come into in spurts. I'll obsess for a month or two, walk away, come back with a vengeance, etc. I'm hoping this time it'll be more of a prolonged affair, though, not spending as much time per day on the game, but coming back more frequently.
And of course there's the possibilities that unfold once we have Wings and whatnot.
simple fix from the FD...insurance is bought at ship purchase....that way this cant happen.....and in beta i flew without insurance many times and started over many times,,,in live ...i dont undock without the insurance money
They don't need to fix the stupidity of the user - sorry. But I don't care, doesn't change my game.
Truth be told: I would not be surprised if I was near abandoning the game regardless.
I was grinding to try to get enough money to get a well equipped ASP. When I did, the toughest combat missions (Elite Anaconda kills) would become relatively easy (I could already do them in my Cobra, though my success rate was <100%). Since I'm aware of no faster way to make money without mining/trading, and since the max income rate on that is relatively low when we start discussing the hundreds of millions to equip an Anaconda, I think the grind would have gotten to me.
It's be big reason I don't play MMOs. God knows I don't mind slow-burn games (X3, Civ on large maps with slow pace, KSP); but repetition can get... repetitious.
In some games trading/mining have been fun to do; but picking up things in space is so slow in ED, and the trade routes so... generated in feel... that for me at least it hasn't been there. I know others have a different experience with those aspects. The tedium of FS travel is another thing that bogs down the game for me, especially with no auto-pilot and the tendency for the game to overshoot speeds.
As a child of the 80s, I grew up with video games that made you start over from the beginning when you died. That's hardly new. But I think what bothers me is that I have to start the *grind* over. If it were just plain fun to do, I wouldn't care.
I was grinding to try to get enough money to get a well equipped ASP. When I did, the toughest combat missions (Elite Anaconda kills) would become relatively easy (I could already do them in my Cobra, though my success rate was <100%). Since I'm aware of no faster way to make money without mining/trading, and since the max income rate on that is relatively low when we start discussing the hundreds of millions to equip an Anaconda, I think the grind would have gotten to me.
It's be big reason I don't play MMOs. God knows I don't mind slow-burn games (X3, Civ on large maps with slow pace, KSP); but repetition can get... repetitious.
In some games trading/mining have been fun to do; but picking up things in space is so slow in ED, and the trade routes so... generated in feel... that for me at least it hasn't been there. I know others have a different experience with those aspects. The tedium of FS travel is another thing that bogs down the game for me, especially with no auto-pilot and the tendency for the game to overshoot speeds.
As a child of the 80s, I grew up with video games that made you start over from the beginning when you died. That's hardly new. But I think what bothers me is that I have to start the *grind* over. If it were just plain fun to do, I wouldn't care.
Sounds to me that you put all your eggs in one basket, loading your ship up and not keeping enough money to pay off your insurance deductible. That's not the fault of the game, that's a fault of the player, for not managing your money properly.
Take responsibility for your own actions, and don't blame the game for your failings and mistakes.
I'm still curious why you are here, responding to posts, when you've uninstalled the game. Looking for someone to talk you out of quitting? Looking for people to agree with you say you were right to quit?
Here is another problem, if it feels like work then you're not doing it right. The way I've played the game so far, if I lost everything now and had to start again with a sidewinder I really would not care, its never felt like work and I'd enjoy myself doing it all over again from the start.
Once upon a time many people were killed in industrial accidents. In the vast bulk of cases, the person killed (or maimed) had done something wrong which resulted in the death/injury. The companies said not to blame them. There was nothing they could do about people being stupid.
Then the laws changed and companies could be sued successfully even if they could show that the person did something wrong. Suddenly catwalks got railings, machine intakes got grates, and auto-cutoffs were added to prevent machinery from starting while being accessed. Deaths went down dramatically.
A game is good when its fun for the players. I game is bad when it's not fun. A single game can be simultaneously good and bad depending on who the players are. For me, this event is one of the things that makes this a bad game. Though its not true for everyone; I'm clearly not alone in my position either.
I didn't actually blame the game for a lack of insurance. I blamed the game for not being fun. Don't blame me for your reading comprehension.
I think he's right to quit.
I sure as heck wouldn't play a game that isn't fun to me, no matter how good reviews and friends say it is.
Civ is pretty easy to multi-task, and talk is what I do when I'm bored. The baby is asleep, I don't feel like doing the housework I really should be doing, and my heart isn't into Civ at the moment. Given the time of night; I don't think I'm going to start X3 until tomorrow (assuming I get time to play tomorrow).
I could just as easily ask why you are on this thread responding to posts. The reasons are likely similar.
No. I'm not looking to be talked out of anything, nor do I care if anyone agrees with me. As I said in an earlier post: I think this just made me leave the game earlier (and me off) more than anything else.
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It's not FD's responsibility to handhold the player. They've bent over backwards to provide as much assistance in the way of information that a player could possibly need, it's up to the player to know how much money they have, and what their insurance is. If you can't manage your money properly, you lose it all if things like this happen.
Has the charity-box-gold-wagon been jingled yet?
Best comment I've seen on this.
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