I'm not sure if I have any real skin in this game. I've been playing Elite for not quite 3 weeks, now. I was advised a couple of weeks after I started to check out Ceos/Sothis, to help me get a leg up into the game. I took my trusty Hauler and headed out there from the other side of the bubble. So many jumps... anyway, I get there, I run a few missions, I'm feeling pretty positive, and I get my faction up a bit to be offered what seemed to me to be an absolutely immense payout of just shy of 3mil to make a 400ish ly jump back into the bubble. I take it, I complete my haul, then I get sidetracked with planetary landings in & around the system I hauled to. A few days pass, then I wonder, hmm, can I return to Ceos & maybe do that again?
Guess not. Glad I wasn't terribly invested in it, but this whole fracas just seems blatantly petty. But, again, I'm a newbie. I haven't been playing the game long enough to have a vast understanding of how the BGS works, how it can be affected positively/negatively and what might result from such manipulations, how fast someone 'should' be making money, how easily someone 'should' be able to upgrade their ships. Note: the 'should' being in parentheses is my way of saying two things at once... a legitimate 'should' due to my lack of knowledge as to if someone doing either fast actually IS damaging to the game (or someone else's way of playing it), or whether it's a very smarmy 'should' because it's just a group of someones determined that their opinion is The Right And Correct Way.
I dunno. I'm still trying to figure the game itself out, much less the player dynamics that help shape it. I just have to say that this whole attack on Ceos/Sothis (and I guess Robigo? but that was before my time) screams 'petty bully'. I hope I'm wrong. I have to play in the same universe as those people, and I absolutely detest bullies.
