Then OK, they are weak and only pose a threat to beginners in unengineered ships. I repeatedly say: it wasn't me who wanted to rebalance them.
Griefers make open impossible, and how easy the solution is.
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Then OK, they are weak and only pose a threat to beginners in unengineered ships. I repeatedly say: it wasn't me who wanted to rebalance them.
Murder and Assault are still Murder and Assault.
Most players "get gud" at Engineering and credit grinding, not piloting. There's plenty of challenge for those who are willing to give up their easy-mode ships
Anyway, the AI is fine, difficulty-wise. If griefers want more challenging NPCs, then buff the police - I'd be all for that!
Except there is no murder in ED. Your CMDR won't die and you'll get back your ship.
It's only pixels.
Neither did Ian Doncaster, he claimed PvE balancing is far more important. Said nothing about rebalancing them.
Just like your posts - only pixels.
So there is Murder in ED, since both exist in the realm of pixels.
But that also means, the consequences have to be in pixels. No banning players for ganking or griefing. That would be silly and outside of the world of pixels.
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Most players "get gud" at Engineering and credit grinding, not piloting. There's plenty of challenge for those who are willing to give up their easy-mode ships
Anyway, the AI is fine, difficulty-wise. If griefers want more challenging NPCs, then buff the police - I'd be all for that!
This. People hunting traders in their fully specced G5 FDL or similar are not good pilots, they may have well made meta-ships copied from some online resource (exaggerating here). They are not here to help others git gud, they are here to kill easy targets for their own amusement and to collect the salt.
Improved police, but with a sensible update to the C&P to still allow piracy to work.
When you kill somebody who didn't have a bounty it pretty clearly says "Murder".
Then OK - but fixing things like skillbooster stacking, the canopy issue, premium ammo, packs and shadowrams (among others) surely wouldn't break the current PvE balance? I mean the NPC's are weak enough not to make it necessary to rely on these things in PvE?
I've said it before, but the biggest anchor on C&P is that Piracy should be viable. If there was a clear line between the two so it was easier to define pirate versus somebody just blowing up ships, Crime and Punishment could be much more impactful.
And yet you can meet the "murdered" again in 5 minutes?
Edit: I mean, with the exception of a certain not so young duck
Dang, I took my exploration T-6 to ShinDez 20 mins ago, to make a vid how to survive Shin...
Guess what? It worked.
Just that no one wanted was in supercruise and no one tried to gank my poor 6er McNuggets...
well, that exactly like I was flying a tincan T6 at Deriso yesterday to the rescue and the Son of the Lord wrote this forum instead of attacking me. Forums save lives!
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The Doctor is only pixels.
Why not both?
as I said....there seems to be a save time for tincans, while gankers do the forum. ;-)
Play solo if you don't want to play with the Gitguds and Elitists.
So you want to use the definition of murder outside of the game, but you want to keep the context of its application strictly applied to how the video game works and ignore the in-game mechanics that allow us to keep playing after ship destruction.
Congratulations, you've figured it out; you don't die in real life when you die in the game. You've nailed it.
Thank the Lord Braben! If I was forced to use premium ammo to win against NPCs, I would not bother. We already had one buff that turned NPCs into bullet sponges in CZs. This is the problem with Engineering and "stacks and packs" - it has little to do with piloting skill and everything to do with rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock meta-building. If real life mirrored your logic, the hunters in my town would demand that deer be equipped with body armor so they'll have a reason to use armor-piercing rounds in their guns.
I sometimes wonder if Frontier regrets their implementation of Engineering and HRP / SCBs in hindsight... I sure do.
Which frankly is myopic. Locking attackers out of systems further limits negative actions that destabilise system factions. By all means make sec response better (I've suggested many examples of that) but flat locking? Not going to work.
But I'm an Elitist
Not an indefinite lock. And not for a murder, or several murders. Locks for hours or a day for chainkilling.