Are you upset about the Mobius attack? Are you unhappy about the dev response? Then embrace the Ides of March!

WARNING:
I only heared rumors about that took place, my opinion is based on those rumors and most likely incomplete informations. If these informations are wrong i appologies and want to warn people to take this post with a grain of salt!

I am deeply disturbed by the fact that so many people think that whenever i get online in almost any game i am supposed to accept that i get mistreated by others even when i didnt do anything to provoke such behaviour. And now, i dont count simply being online towards this.
The Mobius incident shows that there is some fundamentaly flawed mechanic at work here.
I allready avoid Open because i am disgusted by the behaviour some people show their. Now i join a groupe that has as its almost exclusive rule that u do not engage in non consensual pvp and than someone breaks that rule i am again more or less told that I simply should deal with it because it is my fault that i did go online in the first place.

I am close to the point where i have to say that i had enough of this.
On the one side this forum has a pretty strict censorship preventing me from typing certain words, on the other side Frontier seems to be unwilling to enforce standard respectfull behaviour in these cases from its customers.

I can accept the fact that by joining open i agree to the rules of open which basicly means no rules as long as it only affects the game.
I can NOT accept the fact that i have to deal with the fact that certain individuals join a PvE Groupe with the singular intent to break the rules and grief other players. There are laws in place against cheating and scamming. In germany there is a principle called: In Treu und Glauben (Tranlation is something like: In good faith).
It means that when i interact with someone i can expect that he is truthfull to me and if i make a contract with him i can also expect that he does not actively try to cheat on me. (I also know that the reality does look a bit different and most of the time the outcome does not reflect this noble intention).
Still, people have been convicted because to this principle.

When these peoples joined the Mobius Group they knew what this group stands for, what the rules there in would ask of them and they deliberatly decided to decive the group leader in pretending to accept these rules to be let in.
To cut it short: They lied.

They lied with the intention to get an advantage above others, with the intention to harm others and take advantage of their trust. They obviously had no intention to play be the rules set for that group.

Tell me in which civilized country this behaviour would not lead to an arrest.

I am rapidly starting to loose my faith in Frontier and their decisions. I am allready in doubt that they will keep their promises regarding the game. But not acting (and by acting i mean punishing the offenders in the most sever form they can to make it clear they dont support this type of behaviour) lets me doubt the moral standards of their company and their developer team.

There is a good number of people that want to play in a cooperative fashion, the permanent discussion and the poll for a *official* PvE group pretty much prove this. I am also amoung those that whish to play in peace and quiet and mind my own buisness without the punishment of isolation (i.e. Solo).

I know that Frontier wont be able to prevent all these incident in a game where combat is an essential part of the game (this includes but is NOT LIMITED to PvP). But i expect them to act in a fashion that makes it clear that people are supposed to stick to the rules if they join a limited circle of players that agreed with one another to not engage in non consensual PvP. And if they do not stick to them they will be punished and (more importantly) forced to make reperations to those that where affected by them.

And my personal opinion regarding the extend of their punishmet:
If they act like terrorists they should be treated like ones. RL included.
I dont wish to get them killed (they would not be able to learn something if the experience would kill them). But i would have no problem if they get a bit burnt in the process.

I want to have fun when playing games. Being a victim to someone to boost their egos while they attack me and kill my assets that i worked for is no fun for me. As long as their is no respawn button and as long as I do not do anything that makes it clear that i am willing and aware of the risks of it (i.e. playing in Open in E-Ds case) no one should be allowed to interfere with my *fun* of playing the game.
If u dont belive me ask a psychologist, but being a victim of an attack even in an online game when u dont expect it can cause similar traumatas like any other similar action in RL. Maybee not to the same extreme extent, but that is different from person to person.
If u think i am exaggerating do as i said and ask a psychologist about it and that rethink of what u are doing if u are supporting this kind of behaviour.
 
Although I will definitely be there...this is PROBABLY going to amount to nothing...as most PVP groups really couldn't care less for their home systems. That's PvE...<shrug>

If the point is to damage SDC, maybe. If the point is to send a message to FD, I can't think of a better way than to put one of their precious player group factions down. The only shame is that the buggy BGS won't let us remove them completely.
 
I've never played in Mobius. I have never asked to be a member. Just to clear that up quickly.

As far as the other thread and my reasons for wishing these to be separated, the point is moot now...as the devs closed the other thread. I explained my reason above for the two threads. The devs felt that the doubling up was a bad idea...so they locked it. I'm ok with that.

You could have opened three threads.. They would close one and you would be left with two. Strategic failure on your part.

What do I expect to achieve? Providing an idea for a way for the community to band together to show their dissatisfaction with the PvP people interfering with other players time within the game, particularly since they segregated themselves from those that interfere with their time in game. The hundreds of times the phrase 'Go play in Mobius, if you can't stand the PvP!' surely meant that once these loathsome creatures were out of Open the PvP players would be happy and leave them alone, right? Yeah...now it appears that all they were working on was a way to club seals even more efficiently.

One way to band together is to .. band together, however perverse that might sound. Creation of one mode for everyone to play in and introducing severe (even irrevocable, perhaps) penalties for serious crimes, like murder, outside of areas where such action would be welcome, indeed.

All in all, the discussion is barely scratching the surface of the problem, in my opinion. The actual problem is this: people are so bored with absence of coherent universe they find time to join private groups for the sake of trolling them. There is no all-encompassing economic/political structure, there are no real wars going on, no ownership of nothing, no resources to fight over, no mysterious and profitable discoveries to make, nothing there really an individual would be compelled to believe in or feel the need to stand for, or call his. It's a bunch of raw mini-games, the ones you used to play on 1980s/90s gaming machines.

If that coherence would be in place, the last thing your "griefer" would do is join some private group to troll. And, since there is nothing of galactic importance going on, the next best thing is to get the kicks someplace else. No amount of band aid is going to fix this problem. It is at the most fundamental level. You, as a man knowledgeable about BGS should know that better than most.
 
I have stopped playing a few days ago due to other reasons, but I can see that this is something that I think needs to be sorted out once and for all. FD are bleeding players, maybe quite slowly. But its happening which is sad, cause Elite can become great game, but for many reasons FD drop the ball.

If FD are not overly going to listen, seeing the log in numbers way down might make them start to actually "look" at things............Then again, probably not.

Atm I am struggling after some other to consider playing any longer. But I will admit the few thousand hours since Alpha I dropped in the game was worth it.
 
I'm board with this Idea, I would like the Devs to think some more about this.

But to be honest I doubt its gonna do anything, but since participiting in it requires litterly zero effort one can at least try ^^
 
Omg people its a game, a, gaaaaameeeee. If you dont want to get harrased play solo, u want to play with rriends play in group, invite strangers and confront the consequences.

Mobius its like letting your house door open, at any time you will recieve a mad guy with a knife, and its not fault of the neightborhood, its your fault for letting the door open.

It was a matter of time.
 
Tell me in which civilized country this behaviour would not lead to an arrest. If u dont belive me ask a psychologist, but being a victim of an attack even in an online game when u dont expect it can cause similar traumatas like any other similar action in RL.

In literally every country on this planet. I am sorry, but this is how it works:

1) there are basic rules set down by FD: no hacking/cheating
2) people are allowed to set additional rules using Private Groups
3) If done so, the group admin is burdened with keeping order

Yes, given the current PG tools Private Groups are not flawless PvE environments. They were never meant to be so. Accept that.

If u dont belive me ask a psychologist, but being a victim of an attack even in an online game when u dont expect it can cause similar traumatas like any other similar action in RL.

Speaking as a clinical neuropsychologist I cannot stress this enough: please do not compare the experience of losing your ship in ED to the experience of being close to death. There are incredibly strong and courageous people who cannot even go get groceries anymore, years after their traumatic event, without suffering horrific flashbacks you cant even begin to imagine. I know you mean well, but please don't argue this point any further. Just count yourself lucky that people like us can sit behind our computers in safety. Its a privilege some would quite literally do anything for.
 
Protesting to demand a safe space? This is college all over again...

Darn it I can't rep you again. I remember the vegans at my college were getting a bit out of hand one time so we (the rugby team) decided to do something about it. At our next game we got a pig on a spit and invited everyone who wanted to come and have some. It was a lovely sight as the field was right behind the cafeteria where everyone could watch.
 
Darn it I can't rep you again. I remember the vegans at my college were getting a bit out of hand one time so we (the rugby team) decided to do something about it. At our next game we got a pig on a spit and invited everyone who wanted to come and have some. It was a lovely sight as the field was right behind the cafeteria where everyone could watch.

Hehe, awesome.
 
Is it not possible for the Mobius group to kick out the infiltrators? It's a private group right?

Regardless, I won't be supporting the boycott. Asking FD to moderate private groups is asking too much. If altering balancing systems in game (system security policing etc.) is the suggestion, that has repercussions for people who don't care if it's an NPC or a pilots' federation player ship too .. so FD are quite right to handle that one with some care.

I'm sure the PvE Mobius group can find a way to police this themselves.

Attacking the developers, by encouraging people to leave the game, is worse than infiltrating a group imo, damaging to the game as a whole rather than dealing with a fairly minor inconvenience, in a game where all ships are allowed to carry guns, in the private group.
 
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I'm normally in broad agreement with you, Roybe, and have said on multiple occasions that if we could find a way of directing our frustrations at FD for promoting a broken game, rather than at each other for playing it "our way", what a wonderful world it would be. But I'm sorry, a boycott is a weak idea, with the potential to backfire spectacularly if only 16 people log out for the week and the forums fill with donkeys braying, "See! It's a PvP game! Nothing else is significant!"

As for trying to keep a thread "on topic" with rules and parameters, good luck. I tried that once. It lasted four posts before it descended into tribal warfare. Unless Frontier can invent a "virtual conch" it will always be thus.
 

Zac Antonaci

Head of Communications
Frontier
Hey guys,

I just thought i would pop on here very quickly.

Just to clarify the point that was made on the reddit thread a little bit more.

As we've said before, without question this kind of behavior is not condoned.

I can also confirm this is not us ignoring the EULA and it is not because we support any game mode over another.

Ultimately the action that was done (shooting a player in that location) is not against the rules, its the group rules that state they should not do this. Unfortunately we aren't able to enforce all groups specifc rule sets.

Mobius makes a great point which is quoted on the early part of this thread.

People are free to take any action and play (or not play) any time they wish. But as was mentioned already on this thread, I personally think it is much more about the wider questions this raises and in my mind its more powerful to look at things like highlighting and discussing how many players would love (and hate) to see an official supported pve mode, or as mobius would atest to, improved group management tools.

I'm all for a community movement and highlighting the wish and desires of a group of players, and frontier are definitely always listening.
 
For pity sake, why don't you lot just man up, and shoot back! You obviously have experience of shooting NPC's, a player is no different, a different skill set maybe, but they still bleed when you shoot at them. As for boycotting, talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.
 
in my mind its more powerful to look at things like highlighting and discussing how many players would love (and hate) to see an official supported pve mode, or as mobius would atest to, improved group management tools.

I'm all for a community movement and highlighting the wish and desires of a group of players, and frontier are definitely always listening.
Easily tens of thousands E: D players would love to have an officially supported PvE multiplayer mode - in essence open PvE, or PvE flag - and failing those, ability to turn player-inflicted damage against players off when making a private group.

Differences in opinion may arise when we start considering mode-switching & background simulation with such mode present & available. Good enough compromise would IMHO be: lock a commander (and its assets) to PvE side (Open PvE, PvE groups, Solo) or PvP side (current free-for-all Open, PvP-enabled groups) and give every player one commander slot on each side. Switching modes in corresponding sides would still be allowed freely.
 
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