Do "purple-haired heroes" scare everyone into Solo?

[IndigoWyrd]

The PG limit is, apparently, 20,000 members on PC and 1,000 members on consoles.

I have a 2 year old XBox I've turned on all of 4 times, and never played a game on since I bought it.
I have a PS 4 I have turned on in over a year and half, and the last time I did it was to update No Man's Sky.
The thought of trying to play Elite on a console with its limited control options makes my insides want to jump out of my nose.

PC is my only concern, and 20k is no small number of people.

But aren't most large PGs empty these days?

The ones I play on - not at all. I see all kinds of people, at all kinds of times. A large number of them are also on my Friends list. It's pretty rare that I don't have at least a full page of people to talk to at any given time.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Go on. I died way more often than that

In death, a member of Project: Mayhem has a name.

His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.

 

[babelfisch]

Did we reach the point yet where we all agree that everyone can play the game as they want as long as it's within the rules?

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Did we reach the point yet where we all agree that everyone can play the game as they want as long as it's within the rules?

Almost - just have to do something about the ADS hold-outs, all what, 6? 7? of them? I'd opted for a wood chipper, but they told me that wasn't very nice.

 

[Old Duck]

The ones I play on - not at all. I see all kinds of people, at all kinds of times. A large number of them are also on my Friends list. It's pretty rare that I don't have at least a full page of people to talk to at any given time.

I would be interested in joining a PG like Fleetcom or Mobius, not because I'm looking to flee Sopn, but so that I have more opportunity to meet other cool players. How does one go about joining one of these popular PGs on PC?

 

[Brrokk]

I would be interested in joining a PG like Fleetcom or Mobius, not because I'm looking to flee Sopn, but so that I have more opportunity to meet other cool players. How does one go about joining one of these popular PGs on PC?

The info about joining Mobius is here: https://elitepve.com/page/join
NB you have to fill in the web form before requesting the group in-game.
Mobius also has a Facebook group.

 

[fu9ar]

Did we reach the point yet where we all agree that everyone can play the game as they want as long as it's within the rules?

But the seal clubbers don't get to play the game they want when people can use solo mode to avoid them.

 

[Old Duck]

Did we reach the point yet where we all agree that everyone can play the game as they want as long as it's within the rules?

No.

 

[Rick6549]

Once again...

 

[askavir]

Did we reach the point yet where we all agree that everyone can play the game as they want as long as it's within the rules?

Are you suggesting humans to stop caring about what others do or do not, and each go about his own business instead?

Good luck with that.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I would be interested in joining a PG like Fleetcom or Mobius, not because I'm looking to flee Sopn, but so that I have more opportunity to meet other cool players. How does one go about joining one of these popular PGs on PC?

Fleetcon I'm not sure about. Mobius has a sign up: https://elitepve.com/page/join

Other groups are handled in similar manners.

 

[Old Duck]

Once again...View attachment 147580

You did predict this, though I can't remember if it was this thread or another, it's been so long ago (posts-wise).

 

[Rick6549]

You did predict this, though I can't remember if it was this thread or another, it's been so long ago (posts-wise).

The secret is that these threads are always the same

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

But the seal clubbers don't get to play the game they want when people can use solo mode to avoid them.

Seals are like suckers.

 

[jasonbarron]

Seals are like suckers.

The seals are suckers as in...like lollypops?

 

[Old Duck]

Those who say there are no G-Force (my new politically correct term for gankers / griefers) at the CG, you are correct. Those who say the CG is overrun with G-Force, you are also correct. Those who say there are no players countering the G-Force, you are correct. Those who are participating in epic battles between various forces, you are also correct.

The cat has purple hair! I was in an epic battle myself, then the game crashed (my entire computer, thanks Frontier), and when I finally got back in, I was all alone, in parallel universe instance jail..... ARRRGHGHGHG!!!

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

Tonight I turned into a ganker....
Ok ok now you can stop laughing....

My intent was only to disable shields and then let go
I first interdicted a Python... He jumped away with the three rings red, so I failed (of course).
Then I interdicted a Type-6 (poor boy). I took his shields down then I immediately stopped firing and his hull was already at 75% (oh my god what have I done! ). Then I let the poor cmdr fly away with my salutations "fly safe cmd"... he didn't reply, I probably have the profanity filter on
Then everyone disappeared from my radar.
I've waited a little bit but nothing... I scared the hell out of those poor guys...

So @Old Duck, to answer to your original question: NO, you don't need a purple hair hero to push everyone to solo, you just need an idiot like me with a basic combat ship (no engineering) with a FSD interdictor (1A) to do the job

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

As soft as so many ships are, even an unengineered ship with plasma and frags can do some serious hurt.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

As soft as so many ships are, even an unengineered ship with plasma and frags can do some serious hurt.

A Laser beam and multicannons here

 

[Old Duck]

Those crazy G5 DD FDLs are kinda OP IMO. Talk about insta-turn-n-burn. Lost a ramming match to two of them, mighty hard to dodge in my sluggish, heavy (for its size) hauler. Please tell me that if the fellow who made the final ram (the one that says "killed you" on contacts) got a bounty for that.