It's not a meme it was the actual topic.
I don't lose sleep over it but I'll call it out for the crap it is because I'd like players to actually have fun and see there's more to Elite than grinding credits.
Do "purple-haired heroes" scare everyone into Solo?
It's not a meme it was the actual topic.
I don't lose sleep over it but I'll call it out for the crap it is because I'd like players to actually have fun and see there's more to Elite than grinding credits.
Now that is bad advice. Don't drive a horse that did drugs.
Like I said it's a bad idea regardless of mode. Please, try to at least engage in the conversation honestly.
I have a problem in Solo, but not in Open.
In the former there is zero risk from anything, except my own incompetence, or the rare bug. In the latter, there is at least the possibility of encountering a challenging outside agent.
I fly shieldless because I WELCOME the challenge
I fly shieldless because there is a statistically superior cargo vs. defense ratio to spending a few 8-32 ton capable slots on hull and module protection than there is to wasting a 64-128 ton slot on a shield generator and trying to make up for it with smaller optionals devoted to cargo.
My CMDR (who I play in Open virtually exclusively) has hauled more cargo in a shieldless corvette than in all other ship's he's ever owned combined, and has never been shot down in that vessel on live.
If my CMDR can annihilate three high-ranked NPCs who, as evidenced by their words and actions, were all individually convinced he was going to be easy prey; simultaneously, while flying a shiedless cargo vessel, in under two minutes, while suffering minimal damage...there is a problem, but it's not PvP.
Then they can play in Open. They just need to be aware that hostile NPCs encounters have not prepared them for hostile CMDR encounters.
NPCs were a joke well before there was Engineering, but the existence of Engineering certainly makes this even more apparent than it was.
You literally made an entire post detailing a pretty clear example of how you play. Would you like to elaborate further, or just take your ball and go home?
If there’s anyone who knows how to get the most out of a ship, it’s PvP folks. Edit— forgot to finish this thought, They’re also great at knowing exactly how much Defense is just enough to survive an attack. More people escape ganks than you’d expect.
That sounds like a blast, really.
Unless it’s tranquilizers, that doesn’t sound nearly as fun.
That sounds like a blast, really.
Unless it’s tranquilizers, that doesn’t sound nearly as fun.
It is your topic, and it is a meme. You insist that they must experience your play style. I get that. It's not hard to percieve. People get just what they want from games. Even without your 'best wishes'.
I am very honest when I said the conversation was about flying a shieldless T9 in solo.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...veryone-into-solo.526281/page-22#post-8085667
I'll accept your apology for your insinuation I was being dishonest in your next post
To be fair, I ran a.... Wait, I take it back - I had shields on my T9, the smallest shields I could find, because of stupid NPCs running into me in the mailslot. Definitely not PvP worthy. Anyway, I ran countless BGS routes in Open (PS4) in a shield-tiny T9, never lost it once. After all, 99% of Open is solo.
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yes it is... To me a ship which is so powerful as to be able to survive whilst AFK in a RES is a bad build..... maybe you agree maybe you dont but some people think that would be a good build... therefore subjective.
why do you care how someone else specs their ship? generally i dont fly shileldless... however just for fun i have took a T9 out completely stripped down. it makes landing on planets as well as docking a real challenge - esp high G worlds.... and double especially trying that FAoff!!! (spoiler i usually fail!)
to me that is fun (on occasion it is not something i fancy doing too often)
how does me doing that for a personal goal because i enjoy it effect you in any way? I really hate the way collisions with the ground or the space station has been nerfed to oblivion. it was not like that at launch, back then the environment had proper teeth. landing a T9 shieldless brings back a bit of that challenge.
Phisto's Playstyle: Use Your Brain
Did the Mobius group have to split into, what is it, 3 or 4 now groups, because they'd reached the capacity of a single group? That's what, 20,000 players?
I've never seen more than 60 humans in any given location at one time, and when I did... the back-and-forth rubberbanding gave me motion sickness - and I don't get motion sickness, that's how bad it was. It make me so sick in fact, I threw up into a Private Group and wrote off Open as even existing.
I don't know how anyone could tolerate that kind of latency, unless they're just plain use to playing dial-up games.
I am very honest when I said the conversation was about flying a shieldless T9 in solo.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...veryone-into-solo.526281/page-22#post-8085667
I'll accept your apology for your insinuation I was being dishonest in your next post
I don't owe you jack.
Being the praiseworthy PvPer that I am, I will find you, and I will kill you in your inferior shieldless ship. Then you will be forced to repent on this forum for all the bad advice you've given to all these poor, incompetent players reading this thread.
Oh wait, I'm stuck in Colonia. Nevermind, you'll just have to take my word for it!
That is not exactly clear, when I read what you write. But, 'use your brain' isn't bad advice at any time.
It’s not how people build their ships so much as it is people that complain ‘cause their ship sucks.
“I died in open. I am upset.”
Here’s how not to die in open:
“DON’T TELL ME HOW TO PLAY!”
And the cycle repeats.
“I died in open. I am upset.”
Here’s how not to die in open:
“DON’T TELL ME HOW TO PLAY!”
And the cycle repeats.
Whomever does that is worse than the shieldless Type 9 player. Go play something else if you're not even going to bother actually playing.
Don't mistake screwing around for being good.
