Do "purple-haired heroes" scare everyone into Solo?
But there are pirates, which might "force" combat on you.
My point is to always expect combat or be fine with a rebuy.
The game world is indeed imagined as a violent dystopian future where the rule of law is a thin veneer over a core of barbarism. The preponderance of gameplay mechanics, rules and tools lean heavily to the use of violence as well, from a design standpoint. Of course the game can be played as a pacifist, but that assumes the player makes crafty use of the modes and removes themselves from 99.99% of all game content (exploring away from the bubble, preferably in a PG).
Remember Paolini!
I can do this in 2 letters and a punctuation mark: "so?"
No he doesn't, because they did exactly that.
Are you calling Dilbert a type 9?Ziggy is laughing at all you nuts from his shieldless, weaponless, perfectly safe Type-9
disclaimer: Dilbert is sporting lots of shields because he is flown by captain kangaroo who likes high gravity planets. I am sure people will interpret that as me being in combat with said planets
Lets chalk the earlier disagreement up as miscommunication, and agree to that.
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Indeed it does - and, of course, other players as they are also an optional extra in the game.
Ones opinion is not necessarily "objectively right". This game offers many options to its players.
Oh I thought you were here already... one year ago, the famous exploration expedition into the Cone Sector that turned into a thargoid fest...
Exploration ---> Combat
Elite Dangerous Players Feel Misled After Developers Interfere With Big Expedition To Unexplored Space
"Players had a brand-new kind of fight on their hands, but they weren’t impressed—this wasn’t what they signed up for, and bugs marred the moment even further. On top of that, many hadn’t prepared for combat, gearing their ships up for exploration rather than war. Players now feel disappointed and misled."
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I am aware of the event. Does that one event make the game revolve around combat?
Again, explain how the search for Raxxla revolves around combat.
edit: or in my case, explain how me ignoring 1% of the galaxy (the bubble) in favour of exploring 99% of the galaxy (not the bubble) still means my game revolves around combat.
That was the exact moment I started to fear the incoming exploration update was going to be worthless.
It shows that combat is all to common in the 'ol ED universe, and that just because you think you're safe you really aren't
I'm not arguing against: combat is common.
You're arguing that combat and violence don't form the lynchpins of the ED game ethos simply because you can pop into solo and fly away from the bubble and all NPC's; you are wrong.
It definitely does, FDEV even used an Exploration event to introduce a new type of Combat scenario.
It clearly demonstrated that FDEV was not prepared to develop an exploration content and they had to use the only resource they had (pew pew) as emergency exit.
ED is more oriented to Combat than anything else. Maybe in the future this will change, but at the moment it is what it is.
No I wasn't. I never talked about ethos or violence.
Faceplanting a 10G planet or getting microwaved by a neutron is pretty violent and very much a part of my game.
And since you didn't provide any arguments, I can easily counter this with; I am right.
ED is more combat oriented than anything else. That is a different claim than: the game revolves around combat.
Whether or not the game revolves around combat is dependent on how you play it.
You're not going to explain how the search for Raxxla revolves around combat are you?
For more than a year I played avoiding all combat - and I was in the bubble most of the time.
When you can do that in a game, it means it doesn't revolve around that gameplay element.
The only thing Elite is based around is flying a spaceship.
Instead of ducking and diving behind the goalposts, perhaps you should explain what you'r position is relevant to post #590 where you attempted to debunk Birdy's assertion that the game revolves around violence, because I'd say I've summed it up pretty succinctly.
Just because you opt out of combat scenarios doesn't mean that the world at it's core isn't a violent place. As if you were never interdicted by pirates while making your climb to Elite in trade, for instance?
I am Groot.
Birdy "The whole game (world) and background story revolves around combat. "
and background story revolves around combat
revolves around combat
combat