What do you do when another player turns up in your home system?
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Philip Coutts
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I doff my cap and wish them a safe journey. I've yet to meet anyone who wanted to do anything other than have a quick chat and go on their way.
Ah the sweet illusion that you are the only commander in the system and thus the sole source of any changes in the system because you are the only commander in that system in your instance.
First I get in super-cruise on his six.
Second Step: Message him with the words "Hi."
Third Step: Scan him.
Four A): Interdict and kill him
Four B): "Fly safe and tell me if someone is bothering you, so I can collect the bounty on his head."
Second Step: Message him with the words "Hi."
Third Step: Scan him.
Four A): Interdict and kill him
Four B): "Fly safe and tell me if someone is bothering you, so I can collect the bounty on his head."
In my current home system, there are 3 or 4 traders I see during my game time. It seems that we all share a central hub, and do trades to different "B" locations, so none of us are squeezing the others out of profits. After a couple days of seeing the same ships, I will usually hail them and strike up a conversation. We keep vague about what trade runs we are doing, but I have made friends with a couple of them. It is nice! There have been a couple of times where we give each other a heads up if we see a combat oriented player murking about.
The system was in boom last week, now there is a civil war going on. For such a low traffic system, it sure is active! Its nice to have other traders in the area, as we all have combat ships tucked away too, so we run off troublemakers fairly easily if we have to.
The system was in boom last week, now there is a civil war going on. For such a low traffic system, it sure is active! Its nice to have other traders in the area, as we all have combat ships tucked away too, so we run off troublemakers fairly easily if we have to.
Ask him if he likes gladiator movies.
You can see how OY might be misinterpeted!
Nah, it's a left-handed salute viewed from behind.
It's probably because I'm not that territorial. I have a station I'd call home, but I very rarely am at home. It's not really populated and I have yet to spot someone who appears to have moved in, but I frequently see commanders there when playing in open. However they're just passing through because it's along a rares route.
Didn't think I was territorial until they turned up. I'm about 100ly+ from anywhere interesting, since launch I have only seen 4 other cmdr's pass though the area (I have their names in a list).
Now it looks like one might be looking to settle down here I'm full of mixed feeling about if they are welcome or not. Was planning an exploration trip for a few days but now I feel a need to stick around and keep an eye on them.
Might end-up going all Jekyll and Hyde on them.
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OP if they are on your turf, kill them. Do it dirty: at an outpost with missiles as they are undocking, or while they are fighting something else. Interdict them into the local star, or ram them in the slot. It's your town, and it obviously aint big enough for the both of you.
Yes, good point, i have thought the same, I would like to work with them and also kill them, so perhaps I could use them to help me out when we have Wings or whatever teamplay comes along, then if he annoys me I would enjoy gunning him down when he's not looking jusy for the hell of it, then he would turn from my homey to my arch-enemy! Great! I might play more then.
You should be aware though - you technically cannot stop them from remaining in the system since they can always go into <Comment removed, please don't in future.>solo mode.
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Anyone actively moving into an interdiction position behind my ship is viewed as acting hostile. You can scan/talk to me without moving into a position of superiority
Recipe for Conflagration
I don't think this has been mentioned before (I had a quick look at the conversation)... why not just go solo for a few days? Check back occassionally to see if they've gone away.
As Gorodd says - if your sector is that obscure/distant (albeit your home) the thing most likely to make them dig in their heals is something potentially interesting i.e. stimulus (assuming they're that way inclined).
PS just thought of the nightmare scenario; you blow them up/they blow you up: they/you come back full of vengeance, same again: they come back with friends: you come back with friends: minor local conflict hits forum/GalNet: more join in for the aggro/sport/sightseeing: conflict begins to warp local economy affecting human and AI behaviour: minor, then major factions join in: all out war: you end up as far from the quiet backwater you wanted as could possibly be imagined.
Suggest leaving him/her alone and keeping your profile low in the hope that they 'move on'
Anything else might result in a reverse affect.
I don't think this has been mentioned before (I had a quick look at the conversation)... why not just go solo for a few days? Check back occassionally to see if they've gone away.
As Gorodd says - if your sector is that obscure/distant (albeit your home) the thing most likely to make them dig in their heals is something potentially interesting i.e. stimulus (assuming they're that way inclined).
PS just thought of the nightmare scenario; you blow them up/they blow you up: they/you come back full of vengeance, same again: they come back with friends: you come back with friends: minor local conflict hits forum/GalNet: more join in for the aggro/sport/sightseeing: conflict begins to warp local economy affecting human and AI behaviour: minor, then major factions join in: all out war: you end up as far from the quiet backwater you wanted as could possibly be imagined.
Chat to make sure they are aligned to the Empire and doing the correct missions
Suggest leaving him/her alone and keeping your profile low in the hope that they 'move on'
Anything else might result in a reverse affect.
This.
Anyone with the nous to be trading outside populated (and therefore "Slopey'd") space is probably going to have the funds to buy "something for the weekend" if you decide to get violent, or even just if you get lippy.
Where I'm based there's probably three of us running similar runs, I was the second arrival. Two Type 9's (one being me) and an Anaconda (presumably trade fit). I wouldn't want to start a turf war with either of them, if they are anything like me then they'll have a second combat fit ship nearby. I know I have a war-Python, I have no desire to find out what they've got...
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