To all you player groups UA bombing places like Robigo and Sothis...

Goose4291

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Quite. Have the processes been automated yet? As I recall, the devs took a load of stations offline at the same time. Irens Dock in Manite was UA-bombed, but not a thing happened for well over a month, when the devs seemingly decided to take a look at which stations had been bombed, then had to disable about twenty at once

Manual mechanic is a terrible mechanic.

It used to be automated (as were the articles that it generated on GALNET).

That's why when I and a few others were hitting Obsidian Orbital it went down over the Christmas week (when the offices were empty-ish) and all the articles/usual things started happening, just for it to be swept under the rug the first week back after New Years.

We complained, made a little fuss and the events were re-inserted... and then suddenly the meta-alloys plot line magically started to allow the place to be repaired.
 
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lets all be honest, this is now basicly Eve with better ship handling, the eve guys have won, congrats.

What is stopping you using any of the other money making options?

They cant possible UA bomb them all, and even if they did, by the time, they finished people would have restored the stations again.

Is helping with the effort to collect the MA too much to ask
Is breaking the mould of only using the Places posted on forums and Reddit too much to ask?

If you have options A B & C and someone stops you using option A, but then you do not take any action to try B or C, who is at fault for your lack of action?
 
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What would be trolly would be for a player group to bomb Jacques again....or even...Danielle's Progresd

If the place that sells MA can be UA bombed there is something wrong.
If there is anywhere it should be safe to sell UA to, it would be Danielle's Progress
 
That applies well to if's. When it is a risk, some take the gamble. This is a guarantee. You will be shut down. That isn't greed. That's a market that wouldn't be functioning anyway.

It's also a guarantee that opening a strong radiation source without protection will cause all sorts of nasty stuff. Yet people have been known to have stolen radioisotope thermoelectric generators from abandoned lighthouses in Russia and opened them. The metals in them are worth a lot of money. One thief had to have both of his hands amputated because of the radiation damage. And he was one of the lucky ones.
 

Goose4291

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Time to make things a little more lighthearted before people start accusing each other of being real life terrorists, or where ever else dark this line of conversation usually ends.

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On a fundamental level, is there a difference from delivery UA that cause an effect on the system, and attacking System Authority ships and traders to cause a lockdown?

Both can be countered by in game actions.

Seems to be playing the BGS to me, weak sauce or not.

Just as Sothis is playing the background sim by getting allied to a faction that needs to pay a premium in credits for your services due to the distances provided, and encouraging missions by pushing the factions into boom.
That's a pretty solid way of looking at it. Fair play.

That implies, though, that everyone is playing the BGS all the time, and also supports the claim that it's far easier to be disruptive in this game than it is to be constructive, given the number of player-hours that are seemingly required to address actions like UA-bombing
 
Well that's good news (at least in my opinion), although it completely contradicts what Michael Brookes said at LaveCon :/

But it fits with what Braben said from day one, an Braben is Brooke's boss. In fact I wouldn't be to surprised if Braben was left out of that decision making process and was pretty angry when he found out the team had interfere with player creativity to that degree. In fact what happened their was just the kind of thing Braben wanted from day 1 of the elite universe, the kind of thing he often spoke about on Kickstarter videos.
 
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That's a pretty solid way of looking at it. Fair play.

That implies, though, that everyone is playing the BGS all the time, and also supports the claim that it's far easier to be disruptive in this game than it is to be constructive, given the number of player-hours that are seemingly required to address actions like UA-bombing

Sadly in game and in life it is always easier for destructive activities than constructive.

Everyone is playing the background sim all the time.
Take for example RES Farmers are in effect crushing Anarchy factions, which boosts non anarchy factions which causes the non anarchy factions to have more missions which include the bounty hunting ones, and by the quantity of bounties they turn in are quickly allied and offered the best paying missions of that type. Maximising their chosen gameplay style within the Game

Some people like RP, some people like to min max, some people like to just do what they enjoy - be it trade, mine bounty hunt.
But since the BSG governs the environs, everyone acts in a way to play it as it is the rules of the game so to speak, even if the actual faction or system means nothing to them, but they all learn how the BGS words to best be played to fit their play style
 
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