It is. So next week you'll get the smarter ones...
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It is. So next week you'll get the smarter ones...
Wasp0 Rep coming your way sir!
It's just my opinion I haven't seen a player in the last couple of weeks?
My pleasure. Open Play is by no means risky, the risk is linked to the location you choose to go to.
Now, do you have any argument against that or do I have to argue against: "Is not!"?
Finally, show me a normal person.
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Gadzooks Ziggy, you mean i am not Normal? Damn and Blast how am i going to cope for the rest of this Friday
Don't worry about it. It's normal not to be normal
Don't read too much into my use of "chess" for the open playground analogy, I just meant that we're happy doing something ELSE and aren't interested in playing your game (remember, this was in response to the suggestion that we form a squad and start fighting back).
How times have changed, Chess in the playground, in my day it was footy and stuff behind the bike shed (Not Chess
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You could fire back of course? and after ship transfer arrives you could summon some serious firepower when exiting the station
You could fire back of course? and after ship transfer arrives you could summon some serious firepower when exiting the station
Actually, no. Not without being instantly destroyed by the station the moment you squeeze the trigger. The sacrificial Eagle or Sidey (or their wingmate) doesn't have a bounty, so attacking them only paints the bullseye on you, instead. That's part of what makes it an effective ganking method; the station protects the gankers on top of lending them insta-kill firepower.
It just underscores the need for a crime and punishment system with actual teeth.
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Oh YES!!!!
ok that to me is ganking or 'griefing via an exploit', and like any exploit that is up to FDev to shutdown. Crime and punishment is a separate issue and shouldn't be used to stamp on exploits.
You've nailed it CMDR! Rep. I can't believe there are so many who try to minimize this problem. If they're not bothered by it, why do they engage in these threads anyway?
Something has to be done, that's for sure.
I'd suggest something like this:
- Rising the speed limit to 120 around the stations.
- Enforcement of the no fire zone as follows: Anyone who opens fire whatever the reason (even if it is just shooting empty space) should be destroyed, unless he was not fired upon in the first place (the system security is of course the exception). A visible warning could be displayed if the hard-points are deployed, in order to prevent as much as possible the involuntary triggering of ones arsenal.
That's it. It will solve some of the problems. Like having psychos firing at you along with the station.
It could be a start. There are many solutions, the only thing needed is the willingness to acknowledge the current state and improve the current system.
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You're right. It's more of an exploit than a legitimate bit of gameplay. Still, it seems to me that closing this particular exploit would be tricky at best. All of the solutions that come to mind strike me as draconian and potentially disastrous to new or unskilled players.
The obvious solution is to just keep the speed around stations under control. They can still camp-gank and boost-ram in the hangar, of course- but at least the suicide tactic is out.
The Solution i have in mind is Not draconian or difficult and it has no effect on new players or old players, this solutions is............
WAIT FOR IT.............
are you ready?.........
Make the actual No fire zone, which we all know about, an 'ACTUAL NO BLOODY FIRE ZONE'!!!
You see it's not draconian, it;s not difficult, it just needs FD to actually make the damn thing work. If ANYONE fires in the 'No Fire Zone' the security ships and Station fire back? Simples
I really don't know how simple i can make it FD!
as i said in my first post on this thread, i watched these 2 clowns sit outside the station and insta fire missiles and all weapons at cmdrs coming out of the slot. Yes they got a wanted status eventually, and when scanned the system security ships started on them, but the clown in the conda had Prismatics, Loadsa Shield Cell Banks and just stayed motionless firing at the ships coming out of the slot, 4 security ships were firing at him at this stage, and all he kept doing was SCB.........SCB....SCB
If the Station opened fire he would have been dead in about the time it takes to say ' This Moron is now dead meat'
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Bla bla bla you keep saying that, as if griefing with no consequences was ok. Then you act surprised when people use their magic disconnection drive on you... Poor baby, the other children don't want to play with you, maybe next time you should ask yourself WHY k?
Apparently with 2.2 the station will get much more powerful weapons with added "ignore shields" special effect.
I imagine a football field where a group of friends are playing. Then some random guy comes on the field and just starts getting in the way, obstructing play. It's a free country. It's hardly honourable. It's how it should be.
Really?