Calling all pirates, share your opening pirate spiel with us!

El Dragoon!

Banned
The Dangerous has to do with the combat rank required to join a certain group, it has nothing to do with PvP, welcome to Elite: Dangerous, we do hope you enjoy the game and perhaps can be bothered to actually learn something about the universe it's set in!

You don't do anything to keep it dangerous, you only serve to feed groups like Mobius new members, literally driving away the very players whom you rely on for your fun. That sounds more to me like the loser is in Open, not in Solo, since you are the one losing. Might want to keep that in mind next time you decide to, as you yourself state, grief other players, which, by the by, is one of those little no-nos that FD has stated we're not supposed to be doing in the game. Instead, say that you are playing a serial killer or some other form of socio or psychopathic personality type, that keeps you from saying you are breaking the ToS. Just a little friendly advice.

My spiel was simple, 'stand by for scan, if you run, you die', and that was it. Simple, direct and to the point, objective and threat stated outright so there's no way for the victim to mistake my intent and do something stupid by 'accident'. Most of them immediately started boosting and trying to run away, some made it, some didn't.

But as pirating is about as much fun as trading, only not as profitable, I gave it up.

i bet you want to take all pvp out of the game too right?

and i don't greif sidewinders, anything bigger than a cobra i kill

,i cant stress this enough IF YOU DONT LIKE PLAYER INTERACTIONS DON'T PLAY A MMO!

the game is fair, but life isn't get over it, and if you comment again i WILL kill 10 sidewinders tomorrow , the NOOB blood will be on your hands, what do you do?
 
i bet you want to take all pvp out of the game too right?

and i don't greif sidewinders, anything bigger than a cobra i kill

,i cant stress this enough IF YOU DONT LIKE PLAYER INTERACTIONS DON'T PLAY A MMO!

the game is fair, but life isn't get over it, and if you comment again i WILL kill 10 sidewinders tomorrow , the NOOB blood will be on your hands, what do you do?

Your e-pen must be so big.
 
Can somebody explain to me where all this "danger" is in open play? I've played in open play exclusively since Beta and I've been destroyed by another commander twice, both times in a CZ. I've been interdicted by other commanders on about 3 occasions if I remember rightly. All bar 1 ran away. This is in hundreds of hours of gameplay. I see other commanders all the time, in fact I was farming a RES tonight with 3 other commanders in the same instance, 2 in a wing and one on his own. None of them tried to "grief" me or otherwise attack me and they were all in Vultures and could quite easily have killed me. I find most other players to be personable and relatively sane and whenever I read all this chest beating "I r teh pwnz0r!" nonsense it just comes across as vapid e-peen waving.

Where is all this action going on? Where are all these uber 1337 death machines that are driving endless droves of players into solo/Mobius?
 
i bet you want to take all pvp out of the game too right?

and i don't greif sidewinders, anything bigger than a cobra i kill

,i cant stress this enough IF YOU DONT LIKE PLAYER INTERACTIONS DON'T PLAY A MMO!

the game is fair, but life isn't get over it, and if you comment again i WILL kill 10 sidewinders tomorrow , the NOOB blood will be on your hands, what do you do?
So long as you explain that in detail to your victims before griefing them. They are being griefed because someone made a post on the forums that you didn't like, and that is in keeping with the spirit of this thread as set forth by the OP, before it gets merged in with the Solo vs Open black hole of a discussion.

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Can somebody explain to me where all this "danger" is in open play? I've played in open play exclusively since Beta and I've been destroyed by another commander twice, both times in a CZ. I've been interdicted by other commanders on about 3 occasions if I remember rightly. All bar 1 ran away. This is in hundreds of hours of gameplay. I see other commanders all the time, in fact I was farming a RES tonight with 3 other commanders in the same instance, 2 in a wing and one on his own. None of them tried to "grief" me or otherwise attack me and they were all in Vultures and could quite easily have killed me. I find most other players to be personable and relatively sane and whenever I read all this chest beating "I r teh pwnz0r!" nonsense it just comes across as vapid e-peen waving.

Where is all this action going on? Where are all these uber 1337 death machines that are driving endless droves of players into solo/Mobius?
Stay on target.....
 
i bet you want to take all pvp out of the game too right?

and i don't greif sidewinders, anything bigger than a cobra i kill

,i cant stress this enough IF YOU DONT LIKE PLAYER INTERACTIONS DON'T PLAY A MMO!

the game is fair, but life isn't get over it, and if you comment again i WILL kill 10 sidewinders tomorrow , the NOOB blood will be on your hands, what do you do?

LOL - "The noob blood will be on your hands..." Oh, you guys and your pompous, meaningless "threats." :) I have to assume you're joking and/or playing some kind of role as the alternative is really just too pathetic to be taken serious.

Go kill at least 100 noobs in a session, please. At least that would be some kind of noteworthy accomplishment.
 
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El Dragoon!

Banned
LOL - "The noob blood will be on your hands..." Oh, you guys and your pompous, meaningless "threats." :) I have to assume you're joking and/or playing some kind of role as the alternative is really just too pathetic to be taken serious.

Go kill at least 100 noobs in a session, please. At least that would be some kind of noteworthy accomplishment.

fine, i will kill 1milllion noobs MNWAHAHHAA, but really, it was a joke, but your comment made me think, How many noobs can i kill?


lets set the bench mark at 100ish , any one who wants to JOIN ME ON THIS NOBLE QUEST OF GLORY is free to
 
fine, i will kill 1milllion noobs MNWAHAHHAA, but really, it was a joke, but your comment made me think, How many noobs can i kill?


lets set the bench mark at 100ish , any one who wants to JOIN ME ON THIS NOBLE QUEST OF GLORY is free to

Record it and post to YouTube. You'd probably be guarantied a bunch of views, at least. Maybe some kind of musical montage with death toll counter. ;)

Might not be the best publicity for the game though, but who can say for sure? Being killed in a Sidewinder by an overpowered CMDR's ship is almost a right of passage. I know I was once when starting out.
 
As noted here, High Waking was never subject to mass lock in the earlier games:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=202428

That it has been there for 4 games tells me it is intentional.

Still looking for an "official" statement, but the concept matches the design philosophy.

High wake not being subject to mass-lock. Is this an intentional design or not? I don't know, <snip>

Due to the high wake avoiding masslock exploit. <snip>

Looks pretty intentional to me. Quoted from the official guide you can find linked in your launcher, page 76:

"Unlike super cruise, a hyperspace jump drive charge time is never affected by other vessels;
the compression effect required for such dramatic compression overwhelms the mass effect
of ships. A hyperspace jump always takes 15 seconds to charge."

I wouldn't call a mechanic that allows players who outfit their ships well to escape an aggressor a bad mechanic. Certainly no poorer than a mechanic that allows aggressors to interdict with no cooldown or penalty. You have 20 seconds to keep a ship from jumping away (module damage, killing them, whatever), those are the rules of the game. Playing by the rules, is by definition, not an exploit.


 
Man...

That's just - WRONG!

And I thought it was just NPC's that behaved in a sociopathic manner.

Some of us pirates kill those who kill traders for no reason...

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People who want to be happy profitable pirates need to pressure FD to fix the way "pirating" works, or or your targets will continue to fly elsewhere. Nobody has any idea what your real intentions are until the encounter is over, and by that time it's too late to find out if you're lying. It only makes sense for a victim to comply if they're in one of the slowest ships made, with no hope of boosting away.

Reputation and charisma are everything as a pirate.
 
fine, i will kill 1milllion noobs MNWAHAHHAA, but really, it was a joke, but your comment made me think, How many noobs can i kill?


lets set the bench mark at 100ish , any one who wants to JOIN ME ON THIS NOBLE QUEST OF GLORY is free to
I have done worse things in life than wing up to kill 100 noobs haha
 
open is devoid of loser, i do my part to maintain that, if you cant take open by all means play solo

the name of the game is elite dangerous(incase you didnt know), and i plan to keep it dangerous

i bet you want to take all pvp out of the game too right?

and i don't greif sidewinders, anything bigger than a cobra i kill

,i cant stress this enough IF YOU DONT LIKE PLAYER INTERACTIONS DON'T PLAY A MMO!

the game is fair, but life isn't get over it, and if you comment again i WILL kill 10 sidewinders tomorrow , the NOOB blood will be on your hands, what do you do?

So you're the one who says "mmm, all that tasty cargo" when I'm hauling biowaste :D
 
Many a good pirate engages their prey with a little opening line of light hearted piratey chit-chat.

If you're a good pirate, please share your chat with us here.
Just after release, a pirate interdicted me. Excuse the yarrs, and the paraphrasing.

Yarrrr! Kill your engines and stand down for a cargo scan!
Ok, go ahead (didn't have any cargo)
*time passes*
You alright mate?
Yarrrr! Forgot to map my scan to a firegroup, but I'm a fearsome pirate, tremble in fear and hold on ... yarr!
Take you time, I'm getting some coffee.
Yarrr!
*time passes*
*SCAN DETECTED*
There you go!
Yarrr! You have no booty for me, you're free to go, yarrrr!!
Oh thank you fearsome Pirate!
Yarrr!

This was just 2 weeks into the game, so we were all pretty new at this.
 
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open is devoid of loser, i do my part to maintain that, if you cant take open by all means play solo

the name of the game is elite dangerous(incase you didnt know), and i plan to keep it dangerous

You sound as if you need a thorough thrashing.

Give me a visit if you want to end up as a frozen corpse adrift in the vacuum of space.
 
Just after release, a pirate interdicted me. Excuse the yarrs, and the paraphrasing.

Yarrrr! Kill your engines and stand down for a cargo scan!
Ok, go ahead (didn't have any cargo)
*time passes*
You alright mate?
Yarrrr! Forgot to map my scan to a firegroup, but I'm a fearsome pirate, tremble in fear and hold on ... yarr!
Take you time, I'm getting some coffee.
Yarrr!
*time passes*
*SCAN DETECTED*
There you go!
Yarrr! You have no booty for me, you're free to go, yarrrr!!
Oh thank you fearsome Pirate!
Yarrr!

This was just 2 weeks into the game, so we were all pretty new at this.

Just spat coffee over work desk :)
 
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