5 Million Bounty
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By the way, Liqua is not a newbie, far from it, Im pretty sure he was an Alpha backer so kudos to him
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To be upset some players who got PK'd have an chuckle at his expense only shows an total disregard for how human nature works.
If you PK then you should be able to take that when things do not go your way.
And quite a few here lost ships to bugs too. Big ships. Full with expensive freight.
Few do cry here on the forums for it.
If you PK then you should be able to take that when things do not go your way.
And quite a few here lost ships to bugs too. Big ships. Full with expensive freight.
Few do cry here on the forums for it.
Epic! Well done Liqua. 
Hi Commanders
My first PvP encounter ... left all shaking and everything
Not 100% sure what happened but met a pilot in Shinrarta with a 5 million bounty on them.
I mean, come on, you just have to have a go right despite them taunting me "not wise commander" ?!
(They were in a clipper and myself a cobra)
I know it wasn't my "skill" as I am pants at this game so I can only assume you blew yourself up ?
Now I need a stiff drink before cashing in on this bad boy.
Thanks CMDR !
Anybody who Rams as a combat tactic when in the superior position deserves everything they get tbh, I had a guy who failed to kill me in Supercruise follow me to a star port and then rammed me as I flew out the docking tube killing me so little sympathy here I'm afraid, only comfort is I believe they died too as I heard multiple explosions
Didn't Sandro say that you don't have to pay it anyway if it's claimed by a CMDR? A pretty weird mechanic
Redan - FWIW a cobra has a hull mass of 180T, not 80T, and mine fully equipped is around 280T.
I was, but in the world of PvP I had, until this point, not engaged anyone. The tipping point was what the KWS revealed - I mean come on ... 5 million !! More than I had earned since the start. That alone was worth the insurance to have a go.
(Casual player - only just made my 1st million the other day)
I was, but in the world of PvP I had, until this point, not engaged anyone. The tipping point was what the KWS revealed - I mean come on ... 5 million !! More than I had earned since the start. That alone was worth the insurance to have a go.
(Casual player - only just made my 1st million the other day)
i think its just the way the cobra is, it's made out of some combination of adamantium and mythril. I've crashed my asp into them a few times and every time i get wrecked and they dont even get a scratch. I even have military plating and 5A shields but i still get severe dmg or die.
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Piracy is already choosing fun over progress realistically, I think if bounty was too harsh and you died, your never going to cover insurance. Pirates don't make enough to even cover larger ships let alone bounties as well lol. If piracy was really lucrative I could see it being the other way around but currently they've chosen the fun but liable to be exploited scenario, hopefully they are keeping an eye on people looking to farm their friends for fast cash.Didn't Sandro say that you don't have to pay it anyway if it's claimed by a CMDR? A pretty weird mechanic
Not entirely sure how It works
Can we get this thread stickied that way everyone whining about pirates claiming they add nothing to the gameplay, just run around griefing people and exploiting the bounty system can just shut up?
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Forever?
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This is a perfect example of how PvP multiplayer is supposed to give EVERYONE unique and memorable experiences.
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Forever?
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This is a perfect example of how PvP multiplayer is supposed to give EVERYONE unique and memorable experiences.
haha cobra did that to my asp boosting out of a toaster slot. My theory is that the cobra is like a splitting axe. It's wedge shape just cracks you open like a maul hitting hardwood..
No.
However, equal and opposite reactions and all. Both parties in a collision should generally be taking the same damage, with a few exceptions, and any damage that would have destroyed the Clipper in this scenario should almost certainly have destroyed the Cobra several times over.
Even if there is some leeway for ship shape and impact point, the results still don't make much sense.
I don't think the damage model is this detailed.
I wonder if the Clipper has bugged mass for some calculations? Remember Federal Fighters (the COndor before they named it the Condor) back in Beta that would blow up pretty much anything that grazed one because they bugged the fuel mass and the ship was like a million tons or something for the purposes of collision damage?
Something similar might be going on with the Clipper, which could be explaining it's fragility and it's inability to mass lock ships it should be able to mass lock.
It has a secret monomolecular filament installed around the edge...
Completely agree, It sounds like the op had Liqua beat and then rammed him for the lolz. What goes around, comes around.
It could well be a bug, only time will tell. I'd doesn't change the fact, ramming a beaten ship and causing your own destruction, has a certain irony to it.
At this price, it's public enemy # 1
I'm no physics expert but ramming a 180 ton object with 400 ton object (regardless of condition still weighs 180 tons) at combined speeds I'm guessing in excess of 1000 mph probably equates to bad physicsy things happening which result in explosions?(I actually wish I knew the math to work out a rough guess at the energy involved in this collision) granted the cobra should have gone boom also but still. I know its a video game and I can see why you think your ship should have survived, but still, didn't a little part of you at the back of your mind think maybe this isn't such a good idea?