The block feature should only be used for people who are being foul, hateful or abusive in comms. Using it just to cull Open for players who fit your skill cap is just another exploit. Why not just play in group where you never have to equip or learn to fly in a controversial situation? Heck, if you're going to spam the block button every time someone looks your way, why not just hit save & quit just to skip the formalities?
Modes To Corvette in narri that merced me and my buddy for literally no reason then killing us as we fled
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The block feature should only be used for people who are being foul, hateful or abusive in comms. Using it just to cull Open for players who fit your skill cap is just another exploit. Why not just play in group where you never have to equip or learn to fly in a controversial situation? Heck, if you're going to spam the block button every time someone looks your way, why not just hit save & quit just to skip the formalities?
Hi there. I’m regularly at the CGs purely to shoot other players. It’s great fun to do and don’t forget it’s just a game. The game allows you to do this and it’s well within the rules. There are so many different ways to kill that it makes it far more interesting than delivering supplies from one place to another or discovering a planet that looks just like another planet. I never say nasty stuff to people even though I get called names and verbally abused.
I particularly like to kill people outside the station when possible, I’ll kill it attampt to kill anything from a defenceless trader to indestructible elite cutters. Occasionally I get killed or mess it up and the station kills me, it’s all good fun as it’s just a game. Have a good day folks the sun is shining and it’s good to be alive. There’s greater things in this world to worry about. CMDR Tharg2017, come and kill me if you want
I particularly like to kill people outside the station when possible, I’ll kill it attampt to kill anything from a defenceless trader to indestructible elite cutters. Occasionally I get killed or mess it up and the station kills me, it’s all good fun as it’s just a game. Have a good day folks the sun is shining and it’s good to be alive. There’s greater things in this world to worry about. CMDR Tharg2017, come and kill me if you want
Not everyone in Open behaves the same way. Some people want random encounter of one kind, not the other.
How the block feature should be used is not your call. It's a decision of the player who paid money for this game and can use the feature they have paid for any which way they like.
Edit: look at the post just after yours: "The game allows you to do this and it’s well within the rules." Same applies here. It's not an exploit. It's a feature.
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Yes, that would make sense, wouldn't it? Besides blocking comms, it also works to prevent people who might challenge you from appearing in the same instance.
I am probably wrong but in the thread I was some time ago I got the impression that it doesn't actually stop you from appearing in the same instance.
It's not guaranteed, but instancing will attemp seperate instances.
As far as I'm concerned the block feature is just another way to erode Open mode. Of course it's not my "call" but I feel quite free to point out my opinion to the devs and the players who crutch on it that they're chiseling away at the foundation of Open when all they needed to do was switch to safe mode instead and play with a group of people where there was no chance of anything controversial ever happening.
^^^^^^^ This
Not unlike what you guys want the PvP section to be like then?
Chiseling away at the foundation of Open. Oh my! The drama [big grin]
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Open mode, must deal with humans, and NPC's. Humans don't utilize algorithiums like NPC's do, they use human logic, The differences in utilizing human logic is as numerious as there are humans. NPC's on the other hand all use the same alogorithium.
Solo mode, must deal only with NPC's and their agorithium, and not the illogicalness of humans. Basically, playing in solo is to ED, what playing offline is to other games.
Solo mode, must deal only with NPC's and their agorithium, and not the illogicalness of humans. Basically, playing in solo is to ED, what playing offline is to other games.
PvPers want to be able to play the game with the full range of possibilities, as opposed to players who are constantly on the lookout for ways to keep the game and it's community strapped down.
It does seem very weird to see it here in Modes.
Pvpers can play the game with a full range of pssibilities. Another CMDR using the block feature has no influence. "The game and it's community strapped down". My lord JB, you're very hyperbolic today.
Not this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
One day a couple of months ago as I entered the Founders World system on my way toward Jameson Memorial in my DBX to buy a new ship, out of nowhere came a Corvette whose CMDR had decided I was an easy target in my tiny little DBX. I guess he forgot to check out the systems on my fully A-rated and modified DBX before making his decision. He attacked, I evaded. Even A-rated and modded I knew my little DBX was not going to win a head to head fight against a Corvette so I made a quick FA-off pitch maneuver and boosted past him going the other way, absorbing some weapons fire and losing a ring of shields. By the time he was able to turn around I was out of his weapons range, boosting away and spooling up the hi-wake drive. As the 5-second countdown started I received a message in my COMMS window: "Well done, well done indeed . . .".
A very large part of Elite Dangerous is knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, knowing when to walk away and when to run (see what I did there?). Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and run away. BTW, If you had both run in different directions and hi-waked I doubt he could have blown up both of your ships. Another huge part of Elite Dangerous is "gittin gud", not just at fighting back but also at evading your opponent(s). It is not always the biggest ship with the biggest guns that wins. The game relies even more on the piloting skills of the CMDR than it does on overwhelming firepower to either win a fight by destroying your enemy, or escaping to fight another day. Against a huge, overpowered ship like a Corvette: Escape is victory!
What was your buddy doing while you were taking fire from the Corvette? What were you doing while your buddy was absorbing punishment? That neither of you were able to achieve victory against the Corvette nor able to evade and escape tells me you need to polish up those piloting skills. Go grab yourself a tiny combat ship (like maybe an Eagle), learn to properly outfit it, to modify it, to fly it and to fight in it. Learning these skills in the smaller, relatively weaker combat ships will teach you about tactics, combat maneuvering, power management and decision making. o7
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Because ...
Excellent. I'll start using it then for Open players who kill other players that don't want combat
then complain on threads about it being an exploit as well as not enough Open players. Thanks!
I have a brand new second account, it plays almost exclusively in open, I really suc at PVP after flying since game launch but am getting good at escaping ... +1 for your advise !!! thanks