If they wanted good PvP they could easily find people up for it. Go to Leesti for example. My feeling is they simply get their kicks telling unarmed traders what to do. I highly doubt they are interested in having challenging PvP fights.
Blockades - AKA How to kill the game
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If they wanted good PvP they could easily find people up for it. Go to Leesti for example. My feeling is they simply get their kicks telling unarmed traders what to do. I highly doubt they are interested in having challenging PvP fights.
I am interested in having challenging PvP fight. That's is where I need to go?
The risk of being killed, wounded, or deprived of freedom or valuable property, when such risk is present, does wonders for people's behavior...in games or otherwise.
I've played several MMOs with essentially unrestricted PvP, where most players were very well behaved, precisely because if they were not other players could inflict serious consequences upon them.
Elite: Dangerous has pretty marginal penalties for losing a ship, so there isn't as much a deterrent as their could be. However, this works both ways.
There's different kinds of pvp. What you're thinking of is more dueling. Pvp piracy and blockading are different beasts than standard fighting.
Ps why did you change your profile pic? I liked the Fleetwood Mac one.
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I have played both sides of the blockade and purely for RP reasons. The last blockade my friends and I ran was at Quivira for Patreus which was a whole lot of fun. I also have a cobra kitted out for smuggling/blockade running in open play. I love blockade running in my little cobra, slipping out of multiple interdictions, even once arriving at my destination with 3% hull.
Well... you might find yourself outnumbered, apparently CODE have apparently relocated there and working on making it their system (again - after the Alliance had took it off the old controlling faction).
You're not the first to comment on it. I just like changing my profile pic from time to time. But since people have commented, goodbye Claire Rayner, hello Mad Mick.
Code is done with power play? Alliance is in trouble.
Meh, who needs Lave and Leesti anyway? Long way from Mahon's area of influence.
What the Alliance do need though is a new power centered in the Lave region.... that should spice things up
Nice to hear a fellow pirate confirming I'm not wrong! Here, have some free cytoscrambler
Out of curiosity, did you have more fun doing a psycho blockade (telling people to go away or be shot down) or a pirate blockade (stealing cargo)? In what a psycho blockade would bring more fun/challenge?
So that day you managed to blockade the open play...apart of killing the open, what's the point of driving away traders during a blockade? Isn't the fun gone once nobody shows up anymore?
Yeah...wondering why FD does not push hauling valuable more often... Actually, i'm wondering a lot of things about wy FD takes so bad decisions regarding CGs lately...hopefully very soon a CG based on rare trading where the value counts instead of the tonnage
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Blockading would be a totally valid form of playing towards one's goal, if on the other hand the game made it possible for bands of bounty hunters to organize and respond to those tactics. Given the current state of affairs, is more like an exploit.
And the bit about traders taking the time to organize in "wings" or things like that... I'm afraid that is not possible for a lot of us. I fire up Elite 3, maybe 4 times a week for an hour or two. That is unfortunately not compatible with CoOp play and possibly true for a lot of players out there.
And the bit about traders taking the time to organize in "wings" or things like that... I'm afraid that is not possible for a lot of us. I fire up Elite 3, maybe 4 times a week for an hour or two. That is unfortunately not compatible with CoOp play and possibly true for a lot of players out there.
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blockading is not exploiting. Please show me in what way blockading is using mechanics in the game in an unintended and abusive manner.
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Because of the instancing problem.
A wing of 4 bounty hunters might not even meet the blockaders since they would be in a different instance, though same system.
They may meet once, but would not be able to follow them in supercruise/out of the system.
So when you blockade, while you give a threat to whatever traders you meet in your instance, you will face very little opposition:
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Maybe traders should team up and form wings themselves.
You mean, a threatening wing of 4 T6/T7/T9?
Yes I know, trade in combat capable ships...
Anyway, this was answered previously:
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You mean, a threatening wing of 4 T6/T7/T9?
Yes I know, trade in combat capable ships...
Anyway, this was answered previously:
Not to fight them back but to increase chance of survival. It would be easier to get away and if you are lucky you join a different instance. I don't think it takes much organizing to form a wing, just ask the first t6 you see if he wants to increase his chances and share the same trade route.
You mean, a threatening wing of 4 T6/T7/T9?
Yes I know, trade in combat capable ships...
Anyway, this was answered previously:
Sounds like someone should set up a 'fuel rat' type easy to contact Professional Wingman organisation.
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I sense an evil plan starting to form here. Something around, leaving some bait to distract, while running the other way. All in the name of survival of course?
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I said that very thing, yesterday. FD need to be on board, for the instancing stuff though.
Anyway, not sure why I keep commenting on this thread.
Yes, I agree with you.
I also like facing danger and am fine to lose otherwise where is the challenge. I know how to face a blockade.
The whole point of this thread is that blockades hurt the open by driving players to solo, which has been confirmed by a lot of people here. And it has always been intended that way (also confirmed).
I just hope to encourage some players (who want fun by participating into a blockade) to do a pirate blockade, focusing on stealing cargo, rather than simply driving players away.
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The way I see it, it's taking advantage of the fact that people can't properly respond to it due to the instancing issues mentioned before. It is a completely natural way to act, but it takes the form of exploiting once we know there is no way for organized players to counterattack that initiative. That's the point I was trying to make.
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