People need to stop calling everything they're not 100% comfortable with "griefing". I send out a warning first, asking people to pick a side or be treated as enemy when I see somebody loitering around at warzones, since there are some who likes to avoid picking a side just to be able to sneak up on you later while you're preoccupied. But one shouldn't be surprised if others aren't as accomodating. It is a warzone after all, you should expect to be fired upon.
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Talk about a knee jerk reaction. I never said I was space justice. This is a bloody warzone we're talking about, and I already mentioned there are those that likes to sneak up on people under the "neutral" flag. If you sent me a message stating you were filming a video I would probably leave you alone, but if you wander into a warzone without stating anything as such and loiter around for an extended amount of time then don't be surprised if you're fired upon. It's not like "Oh, I'm just here to film a cool youtube video" is the norm.
If you want to make a video you might want to get some people together and do this in a private group where you can actually get some coordination going. There's a reason these options exist.
What I said was far from being a knee-jerk reaction.
Yes it's a war zone in the game - with some defacto plot mechanics set up by the game such as;
1) There are two factions fighting - the Federation and the Eranin
2) You warp into the war zone area - at that point in time you have not yet selected a side.
3) This effectively makes you a neutral - neither Federation NPC's nor Eranin NPC's will target you as neither of which consider you a threat.
Okay I get your worry; you're concerned that a human player who hasn't declared a side yet will start attacking you - this has happened to players as reported above.
This is because some players have no sense of honour or trust. They have a selfish desire to go after other human players, and will ignore plot mechanics such as the three points I mention above - all they're looking for is pew-pew with human players in any way they can, and this includes ganking players who have not declared a side (i.e. neutrals). <---- This is the type of player I class as the lowest form of pond scum. They will use any form of excuse (e.g. It's a war zone dude! Anything goes!) as justification for ganking neutrals. This is a ridiculous argument given that the game plot mentioned above. It is an excuse and a bad one at that.
The NPC's in this scenario will not bother you unless you declare a side, so why should any human player.
You, Humbug, stated "
there are those that likes to sneak up on people under the "neutral" flag." <--- see "pond scum" paragraph above - I agree with you, they're greedy parasites sucking the life out of a game. However! What you are doing, is this: you spot a human player who hasn't declared a side, then demand to know from them which side they're on, then you stated you will fire upon them if they don't respond. Which is why I asked who made you Space Justice.
Here's a radical idea - why not just be aware of the neutrals, and only take action against them if they start attacking you? No need to interrogate them in comms asking what they're up to, and you can see from your scanner if a neutral is getting close to you.
And finally, we're all yammering about the current game mechanics as they stand in this Beta 1 - perhaps it would be better to stop wasting our time yammering about it (myself included), until after the rest of the game mechanics are rolled out in Beta 2, Gamma - especially Gamma, as that's supposedly at the stage when everything has been rolled out into the game prior to the full release. Because until then, all this is just noise until we players can see the results of the intended handling of pond scum players.
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