But im PC and i dont cheat, Macro or voice control and i fly with an Xbox controller sprawled out on my sofa in my underpants like every console player.
I don't get the hate for bots, what's really wrong with that?
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But im PC and i dont cheat, Macro or voice control and i fly with an Xbox controller sprawled out on my sofa in my underpants like every console player.
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Just because it is possible to cheat does not excuse cheating. It is technically possible to cheat at all sorts of board games and card games, it doesn't make it right.
Now ultumately I DO hold FD partially responsible for making the game mechanically simple enough to bot and this is why I am worried for this new update which will without doubt make it easier to bot, BUT ultimately the buck does stop with the cheater.
IF the gameplay is so boring and grindy that you don't want to play... Just don't play, find a game you enjoy.
At its core I still love ED but it is stuff like this as well as pandering to removing a the grind and removing all long term goals which is killing this game for me .
Can I haz your autopilot? Oh, and your new free slots, as I hear these will give me a HUGE advantage.
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Maybe what Floaty Wombat should do is start doing their own research on other games. Just to name a few. Runescape, Lotro, Eve online and type in bots.
Oh be patient, you're getting one in like two weeks.
I never used autopilot either (even though I would like to) and never had a problem with it either. I actually think the flight mechanics of this game are way too easy, especially after you engineer your ship.
Your second paragraph just made me realize that FDev will simply not be able to stop botting in this game, until they make botting unprofitable (and, for a first step, make powerplay open only).
Which would require a complete rewrite of their core gameplay. Which is not going to happen, obviously. So people should get used to bots, I guess.
Why is it impossible to hate bot users and FDev's poor reaction to it?
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If Fdev wanted to produce a game full of shipping companies that relied on NPC pilots they would implement it like the X-series games.
Instead Fdev specifically stated that was not what Elite is about and claiming innocence regarding BGS manipulation is disingenuous.
Instead Fdev specifically stated that was not what Elite is about and claiming innocence regarding BGS manipulation is disingenuous.
Who says we don't?
The solution is very simple: make powerplay open only, and yet FDev hesitates to do it. Instead they create even more problems.
Some of us have a dressing gown and underpants. #stayingclassy
On the subject of bots. I have to ask those who do 'bot'- is this honestly how you want to play a game? I felt dirty enough gaining 6% of pioneer explorer rank down in Seos. Sounds like a complete waste of time where you could have played a game you actually enjoyed.
Obviously bots are going nowhere but I'll just never understand the mentality of buying a game and then deciding to build your own NPC to play it. Waste of money.
I say this as someone who doesn't care too much about powerplay or BGS. I completely understand how those who are into those would be annoyed with this practice.
You can have my autopilot if I can have your leather dashboard on your ship
In principle I am not botherd about AP, I guess it is just one more straw.
Fix the graphical problems with ADS in VR, as well as the rank progression in exploration and to lesser extent trade and I will be happy
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Devs realised a long time ago that its basicly impossible to do anything about it without investing serious resources.
Yeah im not entirely evil
i do feel a bit bad for people who game is being ruined. Ill just say this, if you are sitting there with this what are they doing feeling, this is how i felt when they gave us the FSS. You have to ask yourself who gave them the feedback that it was a good idea? (auto undock) At the time i said they were being given troll feedback. Got to wonder right? Whos coming up with these stupid ideas.
How do I expiate my dishonor?
Kill the Sacred BGS, and Power Play. Frontier pretty much makes it up, anyway.
Let battles in open decide things. Or, open trade. That way the players decide the outcome.
Of course, we will lose the servers for 16 hours a day, but Frontier is OK with that...
Let battles in open decide things. Or, open trade. That way the players decide the outcome.
Of course, we will lose the servers for 16 hours a day, but Frontier is OK with that...
Look, for my money they totally stuffed up engineers during a dodgy "Counterstrike, but it's spaceships" phase they went through a couple of years ago. The game became too focussed on combat. The kind of builds you're talking about ought to be all-but impossible and very rare and special, but they're not.
I will give you my leather dashboard FOR FREE! Heck, I might throw in some Void Opals if you take it from me.
I know. Living the dream!Well.... laaa deee daaaa...
Yeah im not entirely evil
Yeah, I get the standard docking computer and to a certain extent the SC autopilot, but I can't think of any time that undocking was ever a problem. I mean maybe in a T-9, T-10 or a Cutter you might catch the sides a bit, but for a new player in a Sidewinder? I'd have thought that's the easy part.
BGS and PowerPlay Botting is bad, because it allows a group of players, or a single player, to effect the BGS or PowerPlay 24/7/365.
It likely takes several real people to counter 1 bot.
PowerPlay may be a load of garbage, but it's still no excuse to cheat.
It likely takes several real people to counter 1 bot.
PowerPlay may be a load of garbage, but it's still no excuse to cheat.