I'm surprised they decided to keep this forum active. Perhaps that's something to do with four people disagreeing with someone and bombing the report system ^^ The discussions seem to be going in circles as others had mentioned yesterday.
People are saying the same things as they were yesterday, the only difference is that it's new faces arguing the opposing position, and the same people arguing in favour over and over... and over... and over.
For any new players to the forums here's some actual advice:
1) Avoid combat until the bugs implemented with 2.1 are fixed.
2) Avoid high value trade routes until the above condition is met
3) Please please please only fly ships which you are okay with losing in less than 1 second, that is if you insist on playing under these conditions.
These are if you insist on playing. If you can live without Elite Dangerous, please just don't play until it's fixed, because I can assure you it will cost you credits you don't want to lose.
The truth is there's a huge problem right now which some people are trying to play off as not a big deal; it is a big deal. People are losing
millions of credits to the most ridiculous circumstances. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZN_yZ07-18
If you have seen that video, and are outraged that this is in the live game, I implore you to not post about it here. You will not be taken seriously by the regulars. Yesterday, their consensus was that this video, right there, was possible for an A grade combat Python to be destroyed by a vulture in under 2 seconds:
'the guy had 1 pip in SYS.'
There is a shocking level of denial here. It took 6 videos demonstrating the same thing, posted multiple times, for any concessions to be made over the NPCs being completely bugged.
I was under the impression that this discussion encapsulated NPCs and AI. Unfortunately, as a result of a rash decision to quickly throw all criticism into one bubble and because of the ridiculous amount of threads stating the same things were started, we now have an environment which is toxic for anyone with a dissenting opinion and it's the same five people circling the drain defending these demonstrable bugs to their graves.
Folks who are reading this, please don't waste your time getting frustrated over this, and the shocking denial taking place on the Frontier Forums.
The fact is, the game is currently unplayable. So do yourselves a favour, and don't play it.
Since yesterday I got bombarded with reports for having the audacity to say something like this, I will not be responding to this forum following this message.
Have a good day,
fly safe-ly
into a different game until this gets fixed
Those of you thinking about getting refunds. Please wait until we get an official response from a Developer which isn't along the lines of: "not very smart to have 1 pip in SYS". If you find that their handling of the issue is not satisfactory, then feel free to chase your money, but please don't do so as a rash response to the bugs and the uncanny response to those bugs on the forums.
Thanks.