I've got the notoriety not decaying bug. Game's been running for 5 hours, and still at 1. I submitted a ticket, but they won't get to it for at least 72 hours, so I'm stuck with my crappy sidewinder until then, since I'm still pretty new and don't have much credits. I'd be okay with the new notoriety system if it actually worked as it's supposed to.
This reeks of "I done goof'd and faced consequences for it, GAME IS BROKEN!!!!!! FDEV SUXXX!!!!"
Yes my decision. With my limited opportunity for play time, a practical decision that I feel pressured into by the game design. But it isn't just me. Since notoriety only decays when you're online, I expect this will now become a common tactic - owing to the nature of FDev's design.
It is the first game mechanic FDev have invented that rewards players for leaving electronic equipment idle. And you think this should not be pointed out?
Ooooh, more people who didn't want harsher crime and punishment systems, they just wanted to hamstring PvPers! I'm glad the new system is frustrating all of you, you're the ones that asked for it, me personally? I've killed 52 players in 2 days in an anarchy system, toodles!
Learn to fly and learn to be careful about your surroundings. Then crime or accidental crime won't be issue.
Surely a weakness in the notoriety system is that it decays whether you're actively playing or not, you just need to be logged into the game? So I can just leave my ship in a port, keep the game running overnight, and return in the morning to find my notoriety is 0.
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Judging by noise alone that you have to be logged in for notoriety to tick away I will guess asking for to be actually playing would require dramatic shift in player brains so I dont think that would be wise.
It is fun how majority of people who complains don't even understand bounty is on SHIP.
What are you talking about? You dont need to go to Open if you dont want to...
Notoriety works in same way in all modes - you have to be logged in playing if you want it to tick off.
True. And some people don't seem to understand that notoriety is connected to the player and not the ship.
Well, it takes a while to explain how notoriety works if you switch hips - technically you don't have bounty, but everybody still knows you are technically a jerk
When so many people dont understand something it isnt fun but poor communication. FD should havev explained the changes IN GAME but I have given up hope they will ever grasp that lesson.
Having some kind of in-game manual, encyclopaedia, or reference guide accessible at any time wouldn't be a bad idea.
If those changes are ever changing you gonna chase target similar to running rabbit changing all UIs and tips. FD hinted they will do tutorial videos.
I don't disagree ED is lacking in-game help for simple things. I am not 100% sure how I would roll it out though.
Yeah, I have been advocating for that for ages. I understand FD have bigger fishes to fry, but can't they fetch some game design intern from Uni, give him task to mock up design for that and see if they can give some new one to implement it as trial?
At least that's how I would go about it.
Well, they do produce and continue to update a PDF manual. They should just make it accessible from within the game. They should also make any tutorials videos accessible in game too, lots of games do that now.
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That is not enough. When you fundamentally change a core adpect of the game you MUST welcome the user with a big fat warning stating so, plus linking to a detailed description. Otherwise people would need to go hunting for changes.
So users shoukd re-read the manual after every patch to find changes?
True, no reason why they couldn't do that as well. My point is, it wouldn't do any harm to have some basic in-game resources for both new and veteran players to refer to.That is not enough. When you fundamentally change a core adpect of the game you MUST welcome the user with a big fat warning stating so, plus linking to a detailed description. Otherwise people would need to go hunting for changes.
So users shoukd re-read the manual after every patch to find changes?
That is not enough. When you fundamentally change a core adpect of the game you MUST welcome the user with a big fat warning stating so, plus linking to a detailed description. Otherwise people would need to go hunting for changes.
Then such warning becomes part of some player youtube tutorial and good luck explaining how things changed since then.
Absolutely. Heck, I cant think of that many modern games in my library that dont have that.