No need to “fix” it:
1) Wing up with them
2) If they won’t, launch a SLF and pilot it into their firing arc with report crimes on. You may now shoot them with impunity.
3) If both those fail, you can always shoot first and become a wanted criminal! If you don’t like the bounty just chase them away, then clear the bounty.
1) Wing up with them
2) If they won’t, launch a SLF and pilot it into their firing arc with report crimes on. You may now shoot them with impunity.
3) If both those fail, you can always shoot first and become a wanted criminal! If you don’t like the bounty just chase them away, then clear the bounty.
It's better than OK, it's encouraged! By the devs themselves: "Because the game actively encourages criminal behaviour".
And I have the proof: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ng-it-works!?p=5405555&viewfull=1#post5405555
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No? But passive agressive “just make the other commander stop doing something I don’t want” arguments are a dime a dozen at present. There are in game ways to solve this. Try winging up. But you are going to be in situations when you aren’t the only commander present, and the AI is not your personal chattel to cull when it suits you.
Wing up. Relocate. Fight. Be elsewhere. Lots of options. And if the entire notion of winging up is super weird, PG or solo it up and screw’ em. Either way - in a busy res site - you are going to have potentially more than one commander active.
The game does offer a ton of options. Pick one. I’ve lost count of the numbers of commanders who’ve asked to wing up. It’s been a lot. There’s very little reason not to.
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CGs are like watering holes on the savanna, except with waaaay moar actual killing. Honestly in a galaxy where you can be shot for incorrect vehicle placement I don't find the more predatory pilot styles out of place even if it's not my gig. There's a reason there's hardpoints on everything we fly.
A single turreted small beam laser will guarantee a clean kill steal. It seems like it's the last commander that takes the last hit point away that gets the reward. I always though bounty hunters fought over marks as a general rule. Looks like it's working as designed. If it really annoys you, get in the way of the stealing commander as suggested - or equip that little beam laser.
Did...did you mean to say "guyenas", like guys+hyenas? 'cause if so, that's somewhat creative.
I warned someone to wing up or leave.
Needless to say her lack of response to my wing request brought about a rebuy screen for him.
It was fun and naughty.
I apologized to a cmdr yesterday because I swooped in and stole one. I explained I hadn't seen the hollow triangle.
I chose to send a wing request and made that cmdr more money then they would have seen all night.
Wing up with an experienced cmdr and be prepared to go to war.
FD please don't fix this, its not broke.
fly dangerous
Needless to say her lack of response to my wing request brought about a rebuy screen for him.
It was fun and naughty.
I apologized to a cmdr yesterday because I swooped in and stole one. I explained I hadn't seen the hollow triangle.
I chose to send a wing request and made that cmdr more money then they would have seen all night.
Wing up with an experienced cmdr and be prepared to go to war.
FD please don't fix this, its not broke.
fly dangerous
Kill stealing, no matter which way it goes (me or another Commander doing it) is the absolute main reason I do bounty hunting CG's in solo. At that point I know for a fact that all the NPC ships belong to me and there will be no friendly fire incidents towards any Commanders either. To me it's just easier that way.
If I am just RES hunting for the fun of it and another Commander shows up then the other options open up like winging up or whatever. Or maybe I will bounce out to another local RES or reset the instance if need be.
If I am just RES hunting for the fun of it and another Commander shows up then the other options open up like winging up or whatever. Or maybe I will bounce out to another local RES or reset the instance if need be.
For me its the interaction. You think a cmdr stole from you but your not sure.
You zip past them, maybe nose to nose,
maybe nod to them. maybe fire lasers around their ship.
Maybe you wing up, maybe a fight breaks out.
That's the fun for me.
maybe
That's a shame; I've helped commanders empty instances and made them more money than had they been going it alone. All, all because they went to the top left menu, and asked to wing up. It's not difficult; but apparently it's easier to just complain that there are other people playing the game, also, and could they just, not?
The false sense of ownership on "all the NPC ships belong to me" is pretty amusing, though. Fair enough; but it is a fairly strong sense of entitlement. Game doesn't owe us anything. Anyhoo, happy hunting! o7
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Frontier could have made bounty hunting, actual bounty hunting. Some rapscallion who's scarpered and as a sworn bails bondsman (or bondsperson, all is good) you're off to go locate, ameliorate, or eradicate. Find that perp, punch their ticket and be home in time for breakfast. Frontier could have made bounty hunting actual notorious players, or AI, who are impacting CG activities. Or simply just harassing shipping lanes. With, friends, a payout to match that suave rouge's reputation.
Frontier could have made bounty hunting what it's name means.
What they did is encourage people to just sit like impudent children in a sand pit, destroying sand castles. Over and over again. Whilst traders rot in shipping lanes wondering where the hell the support is (with cops jumping in 5 minutes late, scanning everything except the highly armed, firing war ships; and commanders not empowered to go do anything, for fear this would somehow encourage and reward genuine reasons for fighting) and leave in vast number to solo.
I'll never forgive Frontier for that. The road to hell, is paved with good intentions.
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Last hitting / mob claiming has been a thing for a long while OP, not just in Elite. Im not sure why exactly it's so difficult to give all cmdrs credit who have done at least a moderate amount of damage, but that's Elite I suppose.
You could consider putting a high damage weapon on your ship to help with last hitting, or alternatively hang back and kill steal from them for a change.
You could consider putting a high damage weapon on your ship to help with last hitting, or alternatively hang back and kill steal from them for a change.
Just offer to wing up with them - say you don't want worry you're stealing their kills
See my post above - #2 is how you shoot them without getting a bounty. In fact it gives THEM a bounty. It’s underhanded, yes, but so is stealing your kills...
You can also ram them. As long as you don’t kill them, that is.
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It is not ok as in 'polite', but it is definitely ok as in 'allowed'. In ED, being a nice guy is optional. And if someone choses not to be a nice guy, you have big guns on your space ship to solve that problem.
If requests come in, I typically accept; but this is this sort of implicit expectation that the person who wants to wing up, shouldn't do the asking? might be why there's been no takers. All you gotta do - is ask. I leave it to people decide if that's for them; I'm not going to play internet dad for people who find such a thing awkward, sorry.
But a lot of people might be surprised if they ask to wing up. A lot of commanders will do that without batting an eye; even a lot of the ones that'll send kill stealers to valhalla.
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It is a specific and confirmed choice by Frontier to make the game 'adversarial'. Please don't ask me to find the reference
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I'll never forget doing a combat CG in a system without RES sites, my solution was to get "hunt pirate lord" Missions from neighboring systems. I spotted one of them in supercruise, but it interdicted a CMDR, and his wing mates dropped in to help him. By the time I showed up in the wake, they were landing the last few shots and I got -MISSION FAILED-. I was so , yelling at them to spawn their own pirates and everything. Lesson learned.