Awww; no carebears to kill, so many tears.
Where have they all gone?
- Thread starter ZenSpider
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Awww; no carebears to kill, so many tears.
Of course not! It's just that a few more... sensitive... souls in this forum would have people believe Open group is full of rabid space cannibals.
I think Pesick's post is true, that poll was taken months ago; before 'multiplayer' had been implimented. So netcode hadn't become an issue.
1/3 is accurate.
I can only assume that there must be something wrong with the game for some of us, I for one have never seen the systems so busy with online players, I can't understand why some of you are not seeing them. (maybe time of day).
Having said that I also don't understand why some of us are so obsessed with being able to pick on player traders? there are plenty of NPC traders out there too, or is it just about being able to annoy someone? you should get used to it, because when we get 400 billion systems we will be so spread thin you may be lucky to see a player trader.
Having said that I also don't understand why some of us are so obsessed with being able to pick on player traders? there are plenty of NPC traders out there too, or is it just about being able to annoy someone? you should get used to it, because when we get 400 billion systems we will be so spread thin you may be lucky to see a player trader.
Of course not! It's just that a few more... sensitive... souls in this forum would have people believe Open group is full of rabid space cannibals.
He did say B1; not Public Beta. This I can believe, it's FD's plan...; less sarcasm Meritz.
I am playing in the all group in and around the starter systems. I have seen plenty of players in SC but only a few at stations.
No player has shot at me yet but that is the least of my concerns as exiting though the slot appears to give me more issues than entry, landing and NPC combat.
No player has shot at me yet but that is the least of my concerns as exiting though the slot appears to give me more issues than entry, landing and NPC combat.
Nah. People keep repeating this argument either because they're misinformed or because they wish this to be a lonely game like the previous Elites. Only a tiny fraction of those 400 billion systems will have stations. Obviously a number of explorers will venture away from civilization, but the rest will remain in the populated bubble. Traders, mission runners, pirates, bounty hunters have no business in empty space.
Anyway, we shot a decent numbers ships near Freeport yesterday and from that experience I can tell you this:
1. Pirating NPC traders is brainlessly easy and quite profitable. They're dumb and helpless. Most of the time they have nothing, but once in a time they drop you 16-ish personal weapons, sometimes even gold. You can get yourself a viper in a couple hours.
2. Pirating players is a bit more challenging. They run, sometimes try to shoot back, generally make things a bit more difficult
There is never time to talk about ransom. If you try to be nice and ask, they will frameshift away or hide inside the station. Eventually you either have to blow them up or let them go, so make sure they have big money in their cargo hold, otherwise it's a waste of time. Currently not many players carry anything valuable in non-negligible quantities. It should get better in a few days when there's more Lakon 6s and the first 9s/Anacondas start popping up.
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Get him!
I haven't played in solo yet, but have happily traded without getting jumped by AI or player. Guess that's because I stay in the reasonably safe areas or am just not worth blowing up.
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I don't have proof with me now, but I think the number is much smaller. Stations are made of prefabs, but they're not generated. A human needs to do some work to set it up (at least pick the variant, placement, set up market, etc). Just imagine the developers setting stations in 100k places, let it be a symbolic 1h of dev work per station. 35 years working 8 hours straight every day
Are you sure about this? I got the impression stations were generated by the background simulation!
Funny how when people get tools to fight griefers there is an endless rain of whining tears.
I'm playing multiplayer and nobody actually shot me. It's possible the smell of my fish cargo is a strong repellent.
that said, the day I take a big monetary risk in doing something ingame, I'll make sure to play solo, there is no way some guy with lot more playtime than me will decide I should lose something just because he wants it and has a better combat ship. Deal with it, psychos.
I'm playing multiplayer and nobody actually shot me. It's possible the smell of my fish cargo is a strong repellent.
that said, the day I take a big monetary risk in doing something ingame, I'll make sure to play solo, there is no way some guy with lot more playtime than me will decide I should lose something just because he wants it and has a better combat ship. Deal with it, psychos.
We now have the opposite problem - you rarely meet other players outside supercruise.
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Get him!
I haven't played in solo yet, but have happily traded without getting jumped by AI or player. Guess that's because I stay in the reasonably safe areas or am just not worth blowing up.
Somebody just tried - the police dealt with them.
Michael