Agreed, FDev don't provide players to be targeted (well I remember this livestream...). The Pirate (or whatever) needs to have a playstyle that others are willing to go with.
Blocking feature being abused or was it intended to be this way? FDEV?
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Agreed, FDev don't provide players to be targeted (well I remember this livestream...). The Pirate (or whatever) needs to have a playstyle that others are willing to go with.
Shields were 6A, plus a booster. The guy kept behind me despite my best efforts (including FA-Off) and I hit the FSD for high-wake the instant it cooled (and I'd submitted, so that was fast).
I always have a high-wake on speed dial in likely hot-spots, and I genuinely don't mind a fight if I'm at least vaguely on the same playing field. But I wasn't. Not even close. So, in this instance (no pun intended) I blocked the guy simply as a convenience. I needed to be in that system and didn't want the faff of him fly-swatting me again. I'll probably never 'git gud' (and Gods but I hate that phrase) but that doesn't mean I want to fly in an empty Galaxy, which PGs largely are. My defensive skills aren't that bad, but were completely not up the the task of fending off a 100% PvP build flown by a fly-swatter (no comms? No respect).
Do you mean to use the word emergent there? I don't think it means what you think it means
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Well no, the OP can still absolutely play in an environment where his "own ability is the sole rule for survival". If the developer has also provided means for people to choose to play another way (as is being argued) and not forcing the OP to do so, they've delivered the game to him as promised.
Antisocial is subjective.
Pillock coming from me isn't meant as a derogatory beyond the point that people behave badly from time to time. As I do, and I myself can be quite the pillock at time.
So at most I'm putting them on par with myself in different situations.
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It exists from the main menu, does it not? Search for a username, block them?
Sorry, just where does it say you can hunt every player regardless of what they want? More hyperbole.
Nor does it give you the right to demand to be that risk. Players need risk, but they don't need you to be that risk.
Quite. I am your content, and you are mine. I avoid you (not just you of course), and you try to find me. It adds a little thrill compared to playing Solo (or mobius). It's not for everyone though. Sometimes I'm not up for it & just play solo, I guess you aren't always up for a fight either.
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Sorry, but where did I say this is about being able to hunt every player?
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verminstar
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As is the personal choice of who one plays with...or doesnt play with as the case may be ^
By the way, during Community Goals this is working as advertised.
I know people love to quote from the Frontier page, and so will I
I know people love to quote from the Frontier page, and so will I
Your whine for the day appears to be that you can't hunt every player because some of them block you... so....
In fact at one point you were implying that "everyone" would do so and you would be "lonely".
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In fairness your quote (and the website) aren't especially specific.
Personally I think it would be better if the motive for hunting another Commander was a bit more involved than just "hey look, a hollow rectangle. Let's kill it".
Ozric
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No.
You miss the point.
You should not have the power to block whoever from instancing with you in OPEN (no matter what they do). Sure, you can block communication, but not more.
FDev allowing this was a mistake from the start.
Edit: otherwise we can rename "OPEN" to "Mostly OPEN with a blocklist".
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Because ...?
Pretty sure that if that were doable then Harry Potter would have about ten people in his 'Open' galaxy
Really? Why not? FDev put that function in because that's exactly what they DID want players to be able to do. I think what you mean is that YOU don't want players to be able to block YOU. Everybody else however, including FDev, wants to have the choice of playing with you or not.
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