Comparisons to real life are always a bad idea, however..
We're not civilians in this game. In the Elite galaxy there are trillions that don't get to fly spaceships. Only a couple thousand that do.
Simple Solution to Gankers versus Carebears
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We're not civilians in this game. In the Elite galaxy there are trillions that don't get to fly spaceships. Only a couple thousand that do.
Wait are'nt you criticizing combat builds though? Let's try to avoid double standards shall we.
^This is the issue. For example the trade ships base weight and small FSD's almost ensuring that they cannot jump very far, or the FDL's base shield multiplyer/six utilities allowing such {REDACTED} levels of shielding, etc etc.
I'm aware but you implied as if it was comparable to elite, which it isn't.
We aren't, we're members of Pilots Federation, still closer to civilians than actual military structure. You buy your own ships, equip them your own way and do with them as you please. There are no orders given and conflicts between each other, even though within the same faction (pilots federation) are allowed.
No, I was criticizing engineering and the fact that maxed explorers and traders are open for criticism while combat ships aren't, eventually agreed with Phisto as he made good points. I see you also like to read out of context.
And like a couple before you, you missed a quote bellow that statement where Phisto stated that maxed out explorers and traders get their butts handed to them. That was the point I was addressing.
EDIT: You're also beating a dead horse at this point as I already stated I eventually agreed with Phisto
And as was also said a few back, the engineering is'nt so much the problem as the baseline ships themselves.
After all you can't polish a poop.
Can we please move on now? Also it would be far more beneficial to argue the argument and not the person behind it.
Like a lot of space opera there are parts of Elite that are aiming more for ye olde pirate swashbuckling feel (in a completely different setting of course), when merchantmen were often armed.
Who knows what we'd end up with now if fighter jets often attacked airliners? At least part of the reason we've got that disparity in the real world is because that sort of encounter is very rare.
I agree that engineering isn't the problem. It just emphasizes an already existing problem. If SCBs, HRPs, MRPs and SBs were removed from the game and engineered shields and armour were the only sources of defense, the game would work much better. Balance between ships and roles would be manageable and lots of silly special effects and weapons would be redundant.
I think Pilots Federation members aren't civilians and way scarier than military. More like special individuals granted enormous power that affords us de facto above the law status.
We're amoral Avengers.
It's hard to determine what exactly as it encourages its members to kill each other (you progress through combat ranks faster when killing other commanders, unless I'm wrong?) So it's a very shady organization and not in any way relatable to real life, that's all I tried to point out.
That's fair.
I don't think Commanders have much of an effect on your combat rank.
Well, killing Bigmaec didn't increase my rank, and he's elite and I'm only a scrub....
(I'll be honest - it was suicide... but very good fun)
Really when you come right down to it we're framing the "balance issue" all wrong, drawing the wrong categories. It doesn't matter whether a player is PvPer or a PvEer, whether they are a BGS jockey, a PP enthusiast, a determined hunter of the most beautiful screenshot in the galaxy, what mode they play in or anything else.
Right now, being a jerk is OP compared to other play styles. One can be that to others no matter what else you are doing in the game, one can also not be and still have a competitive play style. But boorishness is way OP. That's the real imbalance in ED. If it wasn't there, these other false "divides" in the player community would not exist.
How to fix it? I have no idea.
Right now, being a jerk is OP compared to other play styles. One can be that to others no matter what else you are doing in the game, one can also not be and still have a competitive play style. But boorishness is way OP. That's the real imbalance in ED. If it wasn't there, these other false "divides" in the player community would not exist.
How to fix it? I have no idea.
But it made you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
The special snowflakes could take a page from their boorish breathern and buck up a little.
I suppose the trade equivalent would be to successfully bankrupt another CMDR but there aren't any real means to do that trade-wise. Dunno what the exploration equivalent is, give someone the wrong directions?
Probably buying off the ganker's ship, and then go off exploring in Solo.
Which is where all them gripy PVE types should go.....
The salt is gone. After the beginner area was made, if you are out of there, I suppose you have already had time to learn and develop your survival skills. It was always my only complaint about it since 2016 when I started playing.
After all you do not wake up in the nursery, the nurse changes your diapers, give you milk and the key the car that is waiting in the parking lot for you to go home alone.
After all you do not wake up in the nursery, the nurse changes your diapers, give you milk and the key the car that is waiting in the parking lot for you to go home alone.