That's one option of course although it would be much nicer if the OP was allowed to Name and Shame the child so we could all laugh at him and ridicule him mercilessly
So, apparently im a Hacker now. Seems to become a common excuse.
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That's one option of course although it would be much nicer if the OP was allowed to Name and Shame the child so we could all laugh at him and ridicule him mercilessly
Were you wearing a black hoodie, hunched over your KB in the dark with Matrix stuff cascading on the screen ?
In this case my advice to the OP would be outfit a combat ship and go find the player again. If you've got the measure of them in a trade Cutter...
I get a lot of salt out of a fictional shieldless T9 in solo already
Even less reason to go straight to calling someone a cheat.
Haven't you heard old MMO wisdom?
Anyone worse than me is noob / slacker / filthy casual.
Anyone better than me is a cheater / no-lifer / elitist snowflake.
Don't worry about this - it's really common. Last month, I built an extreme-tanky T9 (the "Tectonic Tribulation"). The very first flight at a CG, I got this:Did some kind of Trading in Orerve for the Community Goal. Then someone with a 11 Mil Bounty interdicted me with a Conda and a quadrillion Plasmas, i stayed and fought. He missed quite a lot of his shots tho before i got the message: "your shields are hacked"
I got a message like this before when someone else interdicted me a week ago in a Vette. Is this a common excuse now? I mean, i fly a cutter max engineered. Do you expect me do die in 10 seconds just because you got a C8 PD?
Ill gladly open a Support ticket to get confirmation for you that i dont run anything that could alter any shipstats but for the Gods Sake, get yourself some Honor.
Player #1: you realize we have you cheating on camera right?
Player #2: cheating harrrd
Player #1: Unless you don't have any cargo, the amount of phasing and shield damage is impossible
Player #2: nice tools you have there bud / so your aware this is being recorded and will be sent to FDEV
It's all fine - people just sometimes get so used to seeing the same sorts of engineering builds they can't get their heads around the atypical ones. Their first thought, unfortunately, is that the other person is running cheat tools, etc.
Anyway, I got chatting with those players. They called over one more guy to "check out the tanky T9", lol. At least one of them is on my friends list now.
Whenever I get rubberbanding I think Mrs Stigbob is hogging the wifi to letch at Monty Don rather than dreadful hacking shenanigans.
But muhahahaha is definitely gameplay. It's the perfect response when you get the better of them!
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I suspect a lot of people are over-thinking this.
In my experience, most of the accusations of cheating levelled at players are made for the benefit of the accusers teammates.
What they're actually saying is "The reason I can't kill this guy is coz he's a cheat and NOT because I'm not as good at the game as I say I am".
I've seen the same thing in every multiplayer game I've played, from Quake and Counterstrike to ESO and ED.
People get embarrassed about ineptitude and seek to make excuses.
In my experience, most of the accusations of cheating levelled at players are made for the benefit of the accusers teammates.
What they're actually saying is "The reason I can't kill this guy is coz he's a cheat and NOT because I'm not as good at the game as I say I am".
I've seen the same thing in every multiplayer game I've played, from Quake and Counterstrike to ESO and ED.
People get embarrassed about ineptitude and seek to make excuses.
Exactly. I can live with gankers, but this kind of childish griefers annoy the hell out of me.
In the words of David Braban "I want to be able to play a great game without being griefed by teenagers."
Unfortunately there is no guarantee that the 'players' mentioned in the OP are teenagers. Just look at some of the vitriol expressed in this forum by supposedly mature adults .... lets just say physical age and mental age are often decades apart!
No you!
PMSL, you nearly made me spray bourbon all over my monitor !
I think he was using "teenager" in the common derogatory sense rather than a purely chronological one.