BREAKING NEWS: The Code lost Orrere, Tvasus, and Zaonce!

[New Duke]

Code wasnt at all diminished at the time. There was hardly a thread that didnt cry about them during that time...

I was referring to their diminished impact on that sector of space, and you neatly ignored my reference to Code's roleplaying (still on GalNet) prior to being added as a player-faction, and the BGS faction's expansion into other systems. All facts you bypassed to vent at forum users.

Clearly to late for intelligent chat. I'm off to play games. G'night.

 

[Dogoncrook]

In the real world piracy is usually pursued by the powerless against the powerful, its developed the other way around in ED which hasn't done either side any good.

So brilliant idea for some 'emergent gameplay'... The Code take back their home system, flying just eagles and sidwinders in open of course, then everyone and his granny can go PvP with them without the usual river of tears. Might even become the 'Savior' of open.

I remember them trying that with blockades. Which generated the most drama this forum has ever seen. It generated tons of insults here but outside of one or two events in game nobody showed up. This game is just not about conflict despite the limp efforts to make it so.

 

[Dogoncrook]

I stopped in after months away to see what was up. Whats your point? Just childishly      posting? Thats what happened exactly, get over it. Its not a jibe against open players, it was a jibe against certain individuals related to those events.. unless you are one of them, dont worry about it...

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I was referring to their diminished impact on that sector of space, and you neatly ignored my reference to Code's roleplaying (still on GalNet) prior to being added as a player-faction, and the BGS faction's expansion into other systems. All facts you bypassed to vent at forum users.

Clearly to late for intelligent chat. I'm off to play games. G'night.

I guess i miss understood your point but sont let that get in the way of your righteous indignation.. take your ball and go play. But its fair to point out you dont understand what im talking about either.

 

[Soliluna]

I stopped in after months away to see what was up. Whats your point? Just childishly posting? Thats what happened exactly, get over it. Its not a jibe against open players, it was a jibe against certain individuals related to those events.. unless you are one of them, dont worry about it...

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I guess i miss understood your point but sont let that get in the way of your righteous indignation.. take your ball and go play. But its fair to point out you dont understand what im talking about either.

Did you not get the memo? It's too late for intelligent chat

 

[Dogoncrook]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=183877

Heres code not caring literally from day one, gluttunoy fang responds on the second page.

 

[Grumpy181155]

....... but at the end of the day how does it affect their gameplay?

It doesn't. Less so if they don't partake in the BGS.

It's effectively like you've scored a try in rugby, but the other guys are playing Football.

I agree entirely. If the code have no interest in the BGS then this amounts to nothing as far as they are concerned and they can / will continue to play the way they want. If on the other hand they did actually like having a home system and expanding into others then it will rankle them.

 

[Dogoncrook]

"So the code lobby for their own faction; then get one and say they have no interest in it. That sounds exactly like the same group of players that bullies and harasses unarmed and inexperienced players and then play the victim when other players vilify them. They're so schizophrenic as a group."

Ahh look duke your opinions seem to have changed about them caring, because here you are when the system was first introduced saying code didnt care about it.

 

[Teldja]

Many things have have been said about The Code, more often in bad than in good.
No surprise as they did everything they could to become the villains we loved to "hate". And yes, The Code was the nemesis I liked the most to hate. I don't speak about the members, I don't know them, but the "organisation" and what they stood for were worth fighting against in my book.

But Griefers ? I don't know about that. I met Griefers In ED but I don't recall them from being members of The Code.

That being said I can tell you that ones of the most trilling and exciting PvP experience I had in ED was fighting against them.
Even if I was outgunned, outnumbered and most certainly outskilled, it was a blast to fight them before the wing update (1.1) and after it.
Now, the only PvP experience that surpass this are the ones I am having in IL2-Cliffs of Dover and DCS World, to me.

I am glad that The Code is loosing ground in the Lava cluster but it doesn't mean they will stop to be a threat.
Never trust them, they always bite.

Cmdr Teldja

 

[Majinvash]

"So the code lobby for their own faction; then get one and say they have no interest in it. That sounds exactly like the same group of players that bullies and harasses unarmed and inexperienced players and then play the victim when other players vilify them. They're so schizophrenic as a group."

Ahh look duke your opinions seem to have changed about them caring, because here you are when the system was first introduced saying code didnt care about it.

This thread gets better. The level of misinformed people on this thread is delicious and their clearly jaded narratives are really heart warning. The trigger level must have hit 11.

Just before I head to bed.

Back when Leesti cluster was THE place to go for Piracy and PVP, we saw that one of the famous sites of lore Leesti was ripe to be flipped and no one had noticed.

So we flipped it and it caused all manner of PVP groups to come to the area to drive us out, producing the best times in the game ( Thank you Cosmic State, ROA and the other lesser groups ).

It also upset a lot of Elite Purists to see a system from 1984 driven into independent hands by us. ( Lovely )
That was fun and The New Caribbean was born from that, giving us our place in ED history and producing many many many threads of tears. PVP came to us.

When they option to have an in game faction came along, not really knowing what it would give us and seeing as all it took was one email to FD, we jumped on it.
Many of us secretly hoped it would give us a away to align to a minor faction and even if all that gave us was "The Code" when you scanned us in space, that would have been enough.

Our faction arrived, it gave us absolutely nothing and sadly no one in Open came to try and flip it. So we sat around hoping something PVP related would happen.. Nothing did and we left.
That pretty much covers our interaction with our Faction.

The same thing happened with Power play. We sided with the Pirate king, worked hard for 4 weeks to expand and then when the Cyto scrambler arrived. We laughed at how terrible it was and left power play the following day. ( This was also Galnet news of the time )

So if you really want to carry on saying we care about the BSG, we do if it was a means to producing some emergent content for us or give us something we can use.

Our name on a station in a deserter section of space.... didn't.

There is a HUGE difference between role playing and grinding for no reward.

Snoogens

Majinvash
The Voice of Open

 

[DanaM]

Never trust them

Agreed.

they always bite.

Not so much. They seem to have been reduced to forum barking as of late.

The ED times.....they are a changin'.

 

[Majinvash]

Agreed.



Not so much. They seem to have been reduced to forum barking as of late.

The ED times.....they are a changin'.

You don't remember crying on the forums during the recent Code charity event?

What is your phrase when you got into forum solo mode?

Erm bye bye

Night xxx

Majinvash
The Voice of Open

 

[Banana's_Are_Good_For_You]

Oh, I do a lot of cooking, salt is a real concept to me. I just think this is quite an interesting development. I'm one of those types who quietly likes playing the game. I enjoy the BGS, the interaction, and the forum banter. I think most posters on this thread probably have a soft spot for The Code. We are all human. Except for the Banana.

Uh oh, I'm being called out again...
Erm...Hi, 'sup Humans?

All this has nothin' to do with me btw but you're always the same, blame the poor wee, lonely Space Banana...sighs.


It is fair to say I hate you all equally though for crimes against Bananakind...oh, and the constant CRYing!
Nothin' new.

 

[Grumpy181155]

The BGS is very flat and very static. I think we'd all be more invested and excited by Faction war if borders shifted quickly, if there were 'strikes' into enemy territory, if you could get caught up against your will, if prices changed to excite the traders, changes in leadership, assassinations and, yes, the ability for individuals and player groups (with time and effort), to become known as 'players' in that (entirely optional) level of the game.

Anything, really, that isn't 'take this here and repeat for hours.

Even minor factions, which may happen with the missioning, should be more vibrant. Everything, in this early stage, is so.... static.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying here. Currently you can fly from side of the bubble to the other and hardly notice any difference between any of the systems you visit other than the occasional Combat Zone or two. If a system is under lockdown or a war is raging there should be system security waiting at the Nav Beacon to interdict unwanted people based on their allegiance or faction or possibly even on their reputation just the same as if there is a famine then they should be hailing passing merchants with foodstuffs suggesting selling their cargo to a local port. I love the game but there is a lot that FD could do to bring the galaxy to life.

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You don't remember crying on the forums during the recent Code charity event?

What is your phrase when you got into forum solo mode?

Erm bye bye

Night xxx

Majinvash
The Voice of Open

Genuine question but wasn't that an SDC charity event or did I miss something.

 

[Machinewash]

I just received the following brief message from a pilot that insists on privacy:


"The Code's control of systems was counter to the best interests of the region. Anarchy is a barrier to progress, therefore their influence has been reduced."

 

[GluttonyFang]

Anarchy is a barrier to progress, therefore their influence has been reduced."

Oh dear, do communicate with this "anonymous" Cmdr that he should refresh on his reading of Adorno and Ellul (Goldman might be too simplistic, but I suppose I'll recommend it) before throwing any teleological view out in the open.

 

[GluttonyFang]

Genuine question but wasn't that an SDC charity event or did I miss something.

It's a joint stream event hosted by Majinvash.

 

[New Duke]

"So the code lobby for their own faction; then get one and say they have no interest in it. That sounds exactly like the same group of players that bullies and harasses unarmed and inexperienced players and then play the victim when other players vilify them. They're so schizophrenic as a group."

Ahh look duke your opinions seem to have changed about them caring, because here you are when the system was first introduced saying code didnt care about it.

Er nope. If you read that post again you may see that I wrote that Code 'say' they had no interest in the system. That's very different from them actually having no interest in it. That post was about Code's general disdain for community despite their claim to enhance it (the 'you'd miss us if we weren't here' argument), and how disjointed they have been. They stated not to care about having an in-game faction, but my previous posts in this thread show that to an extent they clearly were into the roleplay, not just PVP, even if a BGS faction wasn't the desired goal. Even Majinvash's above post doesn't change the fact that they did get engage with the roleplay. The motivation for doing it, be it to increase PVP or whatever doesn't change that. Every group has their own reasons to RP. It's either self denial on Code's part or a continued joke. After all pirates don't always do what they say they will, they're not bound by such things.

But glad I motivated you to look through my old posts even... if they were misinterpreted. You should read through them all. And buy my book!

(I'm totally still asleep and not really here)

 

[CMDR Bloodhawk]

Substantiate that claim, and make it good.....very, very good.

Or be damned for a fool.

It's self evident. Those of us who were there remember.

You've only recently become PvP centric with the silent meta and currently are only able to compete in the PvP world due to the silent meta. Of course you guys need to spend hours to farm for reloads and premium ammo before you even think about coming out. No one has seen AA leave Eravate to PvP until recently and about every PvP group will testify to that. You guys also claim to field a PvP and PvE team. We strictly field a PvP oriented team and tested the waters with PvE.

That's not true in the least. I've known these guys since 1.1 at the latest and it's always been Open and PVP. If anything only recently has AA become more balanced with PVE.

No one ever mobilized in droves to fight AA like they did The Code. The Code WAS the group to find and fight. The only time people sought you out was to go to Eravate to poke at you to see what you had going on. Even then it was a hassle to get you guys to PvP. We had to let you spend an hour to assemble your wings, then let you drop your wings in, look at each other for another 30 mins while you assembled more then actually got to fight. Even with even numbers you still would call in NPCs to help. You guys were unable to do anything live, not staged and put on a platter for you. Whoever came to Eravate to fight you had to hold your hand and help you get into a PvP fight. In a live situation if anything ever hit the fan you guys were not prepared to actually defend anything.

Isn't that what you wanted?

Don't throw the fact you won the first season of PvP league about. The competition wasn't so stiff and became super easy with the use of premium ammo as well as reloads when everyone else was not.

With all due respect if you weren't there I don't think that's for you to say.

 

[GluttonyFang]

That post was about Code's general disdain for community despite their claim to enhance it

Hah... another reason for me to care even less than I already do...

 

[CMDR Bloodhawk]

There's the kernel. I already said I'm not going to block you, and you're not the only one with academic interests. Instead of pulling you up on your typos when grammar, as opposed to semantics, is my own preference, I'm going to accept that, as usual, you've been tailoring your troll on a user-by-user basis. Ergo, I am merely responding to this post in order to state one thing: this is ELITE, not CoD. Most of us can read, I'm sure a large proportion of us are postgraduates or at least academically-minded, so using straw men and arguing trifling points of obfuscation are hardly going to wash over in the long run. I'll continue to read your posts, and I have stated, because half the time you talk sense, but I'll stop replying to them after this if you'd prefer me to, as it seems your replies would infer.

Imply. His/her replies may imply whatever you may be inferring.

Since you're going on about academics and postgraduating and all that. Carry on.