Reporting back. Griefing gameplay is a lot of fun!

[Kaeldian]

It is griefing and you are a person of questionable ethics, in my opinion. The OP exploited a confirmed bug to kill CMDRs in a completely cowardly fashion, like all good psychopaths and sadists. If you feel that this is valid game play, shame on you.

This is Elite, not Counter Strike. As mentioned before, you Griefers will likely be all alone in Open at some point. The grown-ups will mostly play in Solo or Group.

You lose all credibility when you play the "age card"

And no, they won't be alone. A good number of them not only enjoy the hunt as the predator, but as the potential prey.

 

[SlackR]

I'm all for a little horseplay and play 99% open, but tried to kill pirates for the community goal today and some commander kept one shotting my kills and taking the bounty... fYI he was very good at timing it! I told him that it wasn't very cool swooping in at the last second when Id gone to the trouble of getting a pirate anaconda down to 1% but he just replied PVP.
Fair enough... And so I switched to solo for that session...Not as much fun, but the dude was getting in my way.

 

[DogTailRed2]

Space Stations should be safe havens. The no fire zone should disable all weapons, certainly inside a station.
I play in open because I like the risk but being destroyed when I can't fight back is just bad game mechanics.

 

[drpaul]

I'm all for a little horseplay and play 99% open, but tried to kill pirates for the community goal today and some commander kept one shotting my kills and taking the bounty... fYI he was very good at timing it! I told him that it wasn't very cool swooping in at the last second when Id gone to the trouble of getting a pirate anaconda down to 1% but he just replied PVP.
Fair enough... And so I switched to solo for that session...Not as much fun, but the dude was getting in my way.

FD will track how many players are solo vs open and the trend in folks switching over. If there are as many as I think there are in solo, I hope they think seriously about future expansions aimed at the solo player.

 

[NeoRacer]

Stations are supposed to be 'safe zones' its like killing people in respawn. Hope you're proud of yourself, shortbus

After being attacked and killed a few times for nothing (see other thread) I decided to try it myself.

Well to be honest I didn't expect this griefing/pirate/psycho play style to be much fun, but it is actually not bad at all.

I got an eagle with dumbfires and waited around George Lucas. After a few failed attempts and getting shot by the station or CMDR's it felt like an actual challenge. As a new strategy I waited around within the station. Even though there is only a five minute window that is enough as it is always busy at George Lucas. Finally I saw a type 6 come in slowly through the letter box. As he had no way to maneuver and was very close to my 3 dumbfires launchers I opened up and killed him very quickly. Anyway it feels wrong but exiting at the same time. Like stealing from a shop or something.

Doing the bad thing is actually fun gameplay, recommend you to try it. Get an eagle and have some (wicked) fun!

 

[Rocktapus]

Zombie thread is hungry... Fun fire missiles can't be exploited this way anymore .... Hurrrr.

 

[Gogster]

What's the plan with PD? Sounds sensible that a defensive weapon shouldn't trigger station fines or weapons.

 

[CMDR Ellegon]

You lose all credibility when you play the "age card"

Nope. "Grown Up" and "Kiddie" address mental maturity, which is not necessarily connected to age (even though it is quite often). You could be a 55 year old immature kiddie, for all I know.

 

[Kaeldian]

Nope. "Grown Up" and "Kiddie" address mental maturity, which is not necessarily connected to age (even though it is quite often). You could be a 55 year old immature kiddie, for all I know.

Mental Maturity - oh give me a break. That's an utter cop-out. I'd say it takes more mental maturity to be able to understand reality versus fantasy and know how to keep the two separated.

You have to be a "mental kid" to play video games to begin with. So don't feed that line and pretend it gives you some sort of moral high ground because it's a utter fallacy.

 

[Distance]

Good info from the OP. Never realized my point defense or turreted weapons could be such a liability inside a station. No more Open play for me. Six million cr rebuy on my Python after a good fight is one thing, losing it because some dumb ass inside a station starts a fight, not so good.

What's the plan with PD? Sounds sensible that a defensive weapon shouldn't trigger station fines or weapons.

This is an old thread. The pdt issue was fixed in the last update and this is a necro thread. Requesting a mod to lock it.

 

[Yaffle]

Zombie thread is hungry... Fun fire missiles can't be exploited this way anymore .... Hurrrr.

Closing as a necro with a corrected bug beng discussed.