Code blockading Sothis

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Well seeing as we are going to be there producing "Emergent Game play and storyline"
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Could you provide a bit more story, some real role play stuff. Some in-game PR and maybe more working in-game reasons. That would be great.

That "smugglers reducing normal trade routes" is a good start. I like it. Adding more flesh and it would become something that is something much more could appreciate.

o7

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

Arrrh! Down with the scurvy ridden smuggling scum!

er wait a minute, aren't pirates and smugglers on the same team?

 

[xondk]

Well seeing as we are going to be there producing "Emergent Game play and storyline"

You have two choices, Only Two.

1) We fly in as we are in underspec'd ships, have fun and throw a little roll play around how the influx of smuggling to Sothis has reduced the normal trade routes and caused a down turn in viable pirating targets in our home systems.

2) We fly around in our normal ships, do the same and greatly reduce the chance of Elite players in their A Rated Uberships from just crawling back into SC and into port.

Is it something we want to do because its a damn sight more interesting than ANYTHING else 1.4 gave us. ( Including CQC which is so easy it because boring VERY quickly ) YES, Yes it is!

Ok first of all gameplay does not work like that, that would imply that there would be options and alternatives, but in this scenario you even start out with going.
"you only have two choices" I'm sorry, that's not how roleplay works, at least not in my book. Forcing what 'you' want on other players and pretending you are doing it to improve the game, is not something that works, you are doing it because you are bored with what is there in the game, you can't find things you want to do, so you harass other players. Or that is the impression I am getting, no one is saying you cannot be pirates but the blow people out of the sky because they are doing x and you want money from it, makes no sense, you earn nothing from blowing up people, and take clear of game mechanics that are to your advantage, such as the factions giving the smuggling missions would naturally have nothing to do with you, and wouldn't allow you to dock/rearm/refuel, anywhere in their space, and sothis space being what it is well...
If there was _ANY_ sort of consistency to the code's actions, I'd believe they are as they represent themselves, but having not met them ingame yet, and only able to read forums and others impressions, I am getting the distinct impression that it seems like a group of bored teens just wanting to harass other people because they are bored. Like it happens so many other places. Nothing is being done from code's side to actually make me believe that they are who they claim to be, and that they have an interest in roleplay.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Then when you've flown back and changed ships, I choose 1

EDIT: I'm sure when you flown back and changed ships again, Ziggy will insist on choosing two, meaning you'll have to fly back and change ships again ...

That's the idea isn't it, Ziggy?

Tempting

But the idea really is that I've never been to Sothis, still have a Cobra I have never used parked somewhere and want a chance to use it.

Hope they're still there on Saturday.

 

[ianw]

I have been up against these guy's plenty of times over the past year... What I find hilarious is the leave or die part, did the guy think I would just turn around and fly the 450LY trip home empty? No, I carried on to the station.. If he interdicted me I would have given him a bloody nose and high waked once outnumbered & things get too intense, jump back in and fly a wide arc to the station, I'm not a newbie flying a T6..

I'm interested in this wide arc method of avoidance - I've always been a head down straight for the station kind of commander. Does it get you off radar as it were till the last minute?

 

[Teldja]

Well seeing as we are going to be there producing "Emergent Game play and storyline"

How about you guys decide how we interact with you? Seems only fair doesn't it.

You have two choices, Only Two.

1) We fly in as we are in underspec'd ships, have fun and throw a little roll play around how the influx of smuggling to Sothis has reduced the normal trade routes and caused a down turn in viable pirating targets in our home systems.

2) We fly around in our normal ships, do the same and greatly reduce the chance of Elite players in their A Rated Uberships from just crawling back into SC and into port.

Will the blockade work and stop all Smuggling, absolutely not. Do we have any illusion that it will.. No.

Is it something we want to do because its a damn sight more interesting than ANYTHING else 1.4 gave us. ( Including CQC which is so easy it because boring VERY quickly ) YES, Yes it is!

You are welcome.

Majinvash
The Voice of Open

So disappointing.
You really are bad at story telling.
That's a shame.

Don't care at all that you are doing A because B is boring you.
Try to tell a compelling story instead.
A story that will catch the attentions of Bounty Hunters, Anti-Piracy group, etc...

All you have said until now is just, meh.
Not interesting at all to me.
You want to be a "Badass", the most wanted pirate, an outlaw ?
Make it believable.
Add some depth and backstory to your actions when you play your character.

Or maybe you just don't care. Which is fine in some ways.
And so all of this is just hilarious.


Try again if you care.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Really? Your 'role play' is that you, a criminal, want other criminals to stop being criminals, so there are more non-criminals to rob? …

I guess The CODE wants to stop max-profit traders becoming smugglers and force them back to their usual rare goods and bulk high-value trading. Smuggling is bad for pirates as the chances to stop a smuggler is lower. Rare goods and high-value goods trading is better for pirates as they can sell the pirated goods for a higher profit. Smuggling missions are high profit, but without actually moving high-value goods around, that's really bad for a pirate.

It makes perfect sense for The CODE to try to demotivate aspiring smugglers form becoming ace smugglers.

 

[CMDR Derrida]

So the Code are in Sothis warning everyone to leave... I don't have any issues with them role playing, do they really think they are all ace combat pilots? I'm in a tooled up A spec'd Python, also have an A spec Clipper and Anaconda stationed out here... some guy tells me to 'Leave or Die!' I just kinda chuckled to myself and docked at Newholm as normal..

Wow, finally, one player who is not too greedy and gorging himself with the missions exploit to come and try to sort us out. And for your information, there are many other Cmdr's in Sothis SC and neighbouring systems, not just code, who feel strongly enough about the exploit to make it hunting season on every Asp they see!
Well done bringing your conda and clipper all that way (like we did), at least you care enough about the open world to try to stop us.
It's saddened me to see so many deadly rating and above that I know, flickering in and out of open while parked in the space station, while all the brave asps that dare to come through SC are newer players. THE RICH GET RICHER!!! If this exploit continues, we'll go back to the time of ItchyNipples - mega exploiter and griefer - only this time there will be a hundred IchyNipples... ... and no one has that many nipples! :/

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Arrrh! Down with the scurvy ridden smuggling scum!

er wait a minute, aren't pirates and smugglers on the same team?

Pirates and smugglers are in no team at all.

 

[Engadine]

Is this the same Code... "If it wasn't for Code's presence at the CG's, Open would die"?

I always read that as "If it wasn't for Open, the presence of Code would die"

So now, purely in the true spirit of Role Play, Pirates are blockading erm.... Smuggling routes, with a clear choice of leave or die.

These guys make Jack Sparrow look good!

 

[sample2501]

are these the same CODE guys like in EVE online?

 

[Jim Panse]

The "Kot" is out there ? Nice... i will drop a little poop for yah

I´am out there for some nice smuggling missions. Lots of money to grab. So i hope these guys give me a challange !

 

[ianw]

Wow, finally, one player who is not too greedy and gorging himself with the missions exploit to come and try to sort us out. And for your information, there are many other Cmdr's in Sothis SC and neighbouring systems, not just code, who feel strongly enough about the exploit to make it hunting season on every Asp they see!
Well done bringing your conda and clipper all that way (like we did), at least you care enough about the open world to try to stop us.
It's saddened me to see so many deadly rating and above that I know, flickering in and out of open while parked in the space station, while all the brave asps that dare to come through SC are newer players. THE RICH GET RICHER!!! If this exploit continues, we'll go back to the time of ItchyNipples - mega exploiter and griefer - only this time there will be a hundred IchyNipples... ... and no one has that many nipples! :/

I keep hearing about this exploit but I went there the other night - picked up three missions worth about 8 or 9 mill - took me at least half an hour or more to get there and more to get to the three destinations.

I'd have made more with standard trading.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Well I for one support the Code in saying hi in a popular system, getting some player interaction going and creating some material for me on the forum to liven up what otherwise would have been a mundane Friday morning.

Hope to see you guys on Saturday.

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[Theodrid]

Ah, poor CODE, let me guess, too far from your home system again fellas?, you carry on, let naughty Frontier know how the mighty CODE need all CG's to be witihn one jump of your home system 'or else'. /rollseyes

 

[777Driver]

Wow, finally, one player who is not too greedy and gorging himself with the missions exploit to come and try to sort us out. And for your information, there are many other Cmdr's in Sothis SC and neighbouring systems, not just code, who feel strongly enough about the exploit to make it hunting season on every Asp they see!
Well done bringing your conda and clipper all that way (like we did), at least you care enough about the open world to try to stop us.
It's saddened me to see so many deadly rating and above that I know, flickering in and out of open while parked in the space station, while all the brave asps that dare to come through SC are newer players. THE RICH GET RICHER!!! If this exploit continues, we'll go back to the time of ItchyNipples - mega exploiter and griefer - only this time there will be a hundred IchyNipples... ... and no one has that many nipples! :/

I don't see what the exploit has to do with this.. I'm definitely not using the exploit, but those that are swapping between open and solo, I can guarantee they will be the kind to do the flights in and out of Sothis in solo mode, or combat log at the first sign of trouble.

As far as my Conda and Clipper, they have been stationed out here gathering dust for weeks, nothing to do with the Code, I have over a 100 ships stationed around the galaxy. I'm doing runs in my Python..

In all fairness to many cmdrs, when I dock I don't see ships disappearing, on all my runs so far I'll see guy's sat on the pad for up to 30 minutes waiting for missions to refresh.

 

[Jukelo]

Jack Sparrow makes these guys look good!

Jack Sparrow is a nonsensical, romanticized, hollywoodian take on a pirate.
Real pirates don't just rob you, they also torture you, take your wife and force you to watch, kill her slowly, throw your kids in a firepit, and then they ransom you if they're in the mood.

 

[ilmostro]

You're seeing this from the wrong point of view. CODE are roleplaying. Their role is the Trade Federation at the start of Star Wars Ep I : Phantom Menace.

Indeed. I made no sense for a Trade Federation to blockade trade. And it makes no sense for Pirates to stop smuggling, since Piracy inherently implies smuggling!

 

[Marra Morgan]

er wait a minute, aren't pirates and smugglers on the same team?

The pirates and smugglers in the Kumo Crew are, but outside of that - absolutely not!

 

[newman1702]

It would be quite fun if it turns out that Frontier did this by design, to really figure out if Code is a group of griefers that only harm the game, or actual a group of player pirates...

This is the guy that should be doing scientific research on CODE