Did you nope out on Horizons ?.
Did you nope out on Horizons ?.
I personally have not blocked anyone or never will, I usually add them as friends and talk to them, for perhaps a possible duel,besides you will know all time where they are.
All my problems (if I ever had them) are solved by changing to solo, I think it's even simple and faster to do.
I guess also the fact of playing alone or with friends / squad, but I don't want to imagine number of problems that could be created with blockages of people who are friends or from the same squadron. Sincerely I see it as a way to destroy your own game, in real life there are also gankers, you just have to deal with it as much as you can, In this case you can do it easy just by changing to another mode, elite universe is already depopulated enough to make people "disappear".
All my problems (if I ever had them) are solved by changing to solo, I think it's even simple and faster to do.
I guess also the fact of playing alone or with friends / squad, but I don't want to imagine number of problems that could be created with blockages of people who are friends or from the same squadron. Sincerely I see it as a way to destroy your own game, in real life there are also gankers, you just have to deal with it as much as you can, In this case you can do it easy just by changing to another mode, elite universe is already depopulated enough to make people "disappear".
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Thing is, I block people who attack without any level of Comms.
So... Just blocking Comms kind of ruins the whole thing there.
If your gonna destroy my ship for some reason, sure, tell me, then I'll see if I want to run or fight.
If your just gonna destroy it for lulz, I'm not too interested.
Why can't you stick with expressing your opinion that they add a spark of life to your game why then go all silly with the scuttle off to safe space stuff?
It detracts from your credability.
I would also point out once agian that its not just about 'getting gud' there are times when the disproportinate numbers of massed gankers stop some people from having fun when doing some things.
Would you rather that they a) goto solo, b) stop playing, c) block a few to thin it down but then keep playing in open?
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You shouldn't be able to cherry pick your encounters in open... that's why there are other modes.
It's such a stupid concept.. There's a reason you can't do it in any other open world mmo game, it completely undermines core intended gameplay.
"Any other open world MMO game" I've played properly separates PvP from PvE, so I must disagree with you here.
Would that be the "Rare" PvP encounters that DB,OBE mentioned?
FTR: I have an empty block list - but that says nothing really
How noble these groups seem to be, even 'cheating'/gaming an advantage in an arranged fight. Remind me why I want them in my game again?
Say I have 2 platforms, PC & XBOX. Say I decide that for CGs I will use my Xbox acct as less griefers in the first place, even at CGs. Both accts are currently separate but in the future they may be able to be merged or have crossover. Either way, isn't this the same as blocking? They don't have access to me and I don't see them.
They're supposedly the honourable, lawful defenders of innocent players... however that does not seem to apply when they are fighting against outlaw groups. They generally use every cheesy tactic/ unbalanced weapon going, whether it's healing beams, premium ammo, selective blocking, huge number advantages, zombi'ing, ghosting etc you name it, lawful groups do it.
It's not the same because it can't be manipulated and gamed by players on the fly... The xbox players are set, the PC players are set, the PS4 players are set, that's it. So it's fair as everyone is aware of who they can and cannot instance with.
Same here I was in open for the first time in over 12 months travelling in a type 10 to help out the blight situation no sooner do I drop out of hyperspace, I get 2 who are wanted and blow me me up, a couple of hits my shields were gone, I would not mind if I was wanted but I wasn't nor am I aligned to any power play
I do see the argument that blocking can cause some "side effects" in very large instances, like we have at CGs. I'm not sure it's the doomsday scenario that some have prescribed, however. That said, I have abandoned the idea of using "strategic blocking" at CGs, electing rather to use private group instead when I want to avoid "ganker hell".
Still, I am using the CG as a vetting and "interview" process to find candidates for my block list, the cheats, creeps, exploiters (includes station rammers) who I have no interest in encountering EVER, be it at a CG or in deep space. This has been a very small subset of the gankers, so my list should remain small, and it should maintain the spirit of why Frontier created the block feature in the first place.
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Powerplay needs to run on hate and intolerance frankly, and is the place in ED to go full Palpatine on each other.
In Powerplay, one of the main pillars is that you can kill other pledges indiscriminately (and that none of that is forced on you as you opt in). How does having a block feature sit with that in Open if you do indeed have solo? Its not griefing in this case so why is it pledge v pledge can block?
That is what PP was designed for, open voluntary full on PVP and you could opt in or opt out....but seemingly all fdev got for it was grief...unlike every other development they have introduced, one can only assume they compare the numbers complaining to the numbers playing and using the new features and not bothering to say ty or how much they like it as they'd rather be playing it....and one must massively outweigh the other
There is an argument for making PP Open only, or making the advantages (weapons etc) available in open mode only if gained in open play, but that gets muddled in with demands that others must do what I say so it loses all credibility.
Zombiing & ghosting? Sorry never heard these terms, if not against forum rules please enlighten me
There is an argument for making PP Open only, or making the advantages (weapons etc) available in open mode only if gained in open play, but that gets muddled in with demands that others must do what I say so it loses all credibility.
Zombiing & ghosting? Sorry never heard these terms, if not against forum rules please enlighten me
I can think of a couple of reasons. First, many griefers and also law-enforcers use PP specifically for "exploiting" PvP. For example, if I pledge to Arissa, I can do to Deciat and shoot at "enemies" coming out of the station. I need no actual loyalty to my power, and thus I can switch at my pleasure to whatever power owns the current CG station.
Another "exploit" is using PP to trick enemies into ignoring you. The guy who ended up being my escort when I took my T9 into Open was pledged to your buddy Archon (or whatever his name is). I asked him why a good guy like himself was pledged to a villain, and he said it's to confuse the griefers. I guess this works, as I saw many people doing this.
Forgive me, but I think your error is believing that PP is a feature-complete and popular part of ED, when in reality it's just a broken mechanic that's exploited for modules and PvP totally unrelated to actual PP (despite the pledges). I personally wish PP was more than this, but that's not been my experience...
Oh, and of course the obvious reason to block PPers is if they use exploits like station-ramming, are creeps, cheaters, etc.
This is all too confusing. I'll stick with just going into solo when I'm feeling anti-social.
Doing a round trip every minute means a considerable amount of reloading. In so much as I'd been there for 4 hours prior doing reload after reload, one might think I CL'ed when in actuality, I was simply doing another reload. After being fired upon, in the next reload I looked and saw whom it was, though I didn't bother checking anything else, he/she/it was the only one listed, thus I assumed he/she/it was the one who fired upon me and blocked them.
I generally do material hunting in solo to avoid such tom foolery, but since the last up date, for some reason, while reloading, the game will start in open rather than solo. Believing I was in solo when I actually wasn't has cost me a couple of re-buy's recently, once entering Decait and again returning home at Shinrarta. I didn't block them, it was my bad, not theirs. Thus I do play the game according to the rules the vast majority of the time. But in case's where as one is just being a "Richard Noggin" and I'm the judge of when that is. Things happen!
I generally do material hunting in solo (at hotspots) because I don't want to share those mats with a dozen other CMDRS, even if they are harmless care bears!
