Modes Three Hours in Open

[Goose4291]

I was in open for three hours yesterday.

Saw five commanders. One in an Asp Explorer, two in Pythons, one in a sidey and the other in a cobra
Had a little message chat with the Cobra pilot.
Helped the Sidey out with a bit of bounty hunting.
Ignored by both Python pilots.

Three hours.

Real Nice.

 

[Arthur Shappey]

...

Real Nice.

I hope you forgive my cynicism, because my instant reaction was that you were being sarcastic. But after re-reading, I think you being genuine? In which case - great!

I rarely see other commanders in Open - but it depends what you are doing, which platform, as to whether there is any likelihood or not. I don't do CGs and therefore rarely encounter griefers.

 

[zarrazee]

I played in Mobius since it was created. After my save wipe 3 months ago, I decided to play in Open. I wish I'd done it earlier.

In 3 months, I've worked up from a Sidey to a fully G5 rated Cobra Mk3, AspX, FAS & Python - in that time I've never been griefed, ganked, seal clubbed, murdered or even attacked for that matter.

All my CMDR interactions have been positive. Most respond to my o7 hails, much more so than CMDRs I came across in mobius.

I've not found Open to be the dog eat dog nightmare killing ground other CMDRs have posted about.

 

[ALGOMATIC]

The current CG in Wangal is extremely busy and at 6am server time on a weekday.

 

[verminstar]

I’ve been in open only fer the past month...said hi to all of a score of players, if that.

Only two replied, the rest either completely ignored it or just didn’t see it...bout half a dozen tried to kill me, none succeeded and the salt because I wouldn’t stand my ground...oh my....

So far, that’s my experience of open...hmm...

 

[ethelred]

OPEN IS GOOD AND SOMETIMES IT IS BAD.

/thread

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Need to get something out of my system, pay no attention, move along, nothing to see here.

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
3 hours in Open
The hands that threaten doom.
3 hours in Open
To kill the unborn in the womb.

 

[Ophion]

Depends where you are. All my ships are at Founders World because of outfitting options. I wouldn't last half an hour there in open. But I hope new C&P system will change that. We'll see.

 

[Lucifera Danzig]

Need to get something out of my system, pay no attention, move along, nothing to see here.

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
3 hours in Open
The hands that threaten doom.
3 hours in Open
To kill the unborn in the womb.

Is it two minutes to midnight already? Later than I thought.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Is it two minutes to midnight already? Later than I thought.

I was actually born 2 minutes to midnight.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

I hope you forgive my cynicism, because my instant reaction was that you were being sarcastic. But after re-reading, I think you being genuine? In which case - great!

I rarely see other commanders in Open - but it depends what you are doing, which platform, as to whether there is any likelihood or not. I don't do CGs and therefore rarely encounter griefers.

It's a new take on "5 min in Open".

 

[dragonmuzz]

so whats the point in open then?.....just go solo and enjoy

 

[jasonbarron]

Need to get something out of my system, pay no attention, move along, nothing to see here.

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
3 hours in Open
The hands that threaten doom.
3 hours in Open
To kill the unborn in the womb.

That's a whole new level of griefing right there.

 

[Rob At Work]

You wanna live out in D prapper c*ntry me ole lurrrver - 5 people in a week is alat 2 many.

 

[Martian Successor]

I was in open for three hours yesterday.

Saw five commanders. One in an Asp Explorer, two in Pythons, one in a sidey and the other in a cobra
Had a little message chat with the Cobra pilot.
Helped the Sidey out with a bit of bounty hunting.
Ignored by both Python pilots.

Three hours.

Real Nice.

You're doing it wrong Goose. You should have been ganked by those 2 Pythons in the first five minutes. Then the Asp should have tried to pirate you but blown you up instead. The Cobra should have sniped your power plant from outside of the no fire zone and the Sidey should have pad blocked you or suicide rammed against your hull when you were speeding. Finally you should have signed off your OP with "I am never playing in Open again!"

You're completely going against the forum meta here man.

 

[Rob At Work]

another option - you could combat log 5 times and then report yourself - you will get in the longest thread of week - apparently

 

[Mae Tang]

I am in Open 99% of the time. I love the risk factor. Apart from one singular attack from an Elite player a month or so ago, I am usually greeted with a friendly o7 in local when near another commander.

When I visited one of the main Thargoid sites out in the Pleiades, I noticed another Commander already landed, and my heart started to seriously race. I did what I needed to on one side of the site, got back into my ASP X and started heading over to the area the other Commander was in because I needed an item from there, then the Python lifted from the ground, and started soaring toward me, and my heart near stopped and I was rammed - then the pilot apologised in the local channel, so he didn't mean to do that! But it was such a thrilling experience

 

[Jenner]

You spent some time in Open and had a few positive interactions with fellow commanders, eh?

That's great!



Unless the point was that it's bad, then.... that's unfortunate?

 

[Goose4291]

Thanks for moving my thread Jenner.

Is there a reason that the 5 minutes in Solo thread is still in Dangerous Discussion, but you've moved mine off to die?

 

[Beezzi]

You're doing it wrong Goose. You should have been ganked by those 2 Pythons in the first five minutes. Then the Asp should have tried to pirate you but blown you up instead. The Cobra should have sniped your power plant from outside of the no fire zone and the Sidey should have pad blocked you or suicide rammed against your hull when you were speeding. Finally you should have signed off your OP with "I am never playing in Open again!"

You're completely going against the forum meta here man.

Perfect. But you forgot that the Cobra stole his lollipop and the Spidey said something awfully rude about his mother!

But seriously, I use to hear all kinds of horrible things about the Eve community, but when I joined it turned out most people were pretty friendly.

I think the Elite community is kinda the same. People throw salty shade on the forums when another player gets the jump on them and they can’t afford the re-buy, but in reality most of the playerbase is fine.

(I’m avoiding open right now only because my docking has become so terrible after a long break that if anyone else saw me they’d die laughing. I already think the station NPCs are snickering behind my stern.)