Question for Open players who don't like PVP/ganking... help me understand

Once you've finished scanning somebody, you can see what their ship build consists of - but you can't tell if it's engineered or not.
This is literally the thinking behind my cargo 'vette. You can't tell what size prismatic it is. You can't tell what grade the boosters are. You can't tell whether I'm running reinforcements or cargo. You can't tell whether the SCBs are in the 7 slot or the military 5 slots. Are those weapons actually powered, or are they all small-sized with lightweight engineering for show? That's not to say it can't survive an interdiction (it is still a prismatic shield with a double-bank and a stack of boosters) but I've had people avoid me because of it.

That said, it's not my only corvette, so I don't have a problem revealing my cunning plan on the forums since you won't know which one it is I'm flying :p

Tempted to make a stealth courier armed with 3 long range rails with premium ammo and test your theory.
That will certainly teach them evasion techniques and then i will tell them to try other modes too 😊
When Eravate was a thing, I ran into a guy armed with cytoscramblers and his whole thing was going around interdicting people to give them a scare without killing them.

I ran into them when I was there in a sidewinder full of 4 tons of void opals that everyone kept running away before I could hand over.

The best part is that both of us had named our ships "Mosquito" for our respective harmless-bothering antics so we had a spiderman-pointing moment in chat.
 
A new player here, about 6 weeks into my time in Elite. So apologies if this is repetitious, but it's something that's been on my mind.
400 hours into the game and I still have no idea how PowerPlay or the BGS are supposed to have any meaningful impact on my experience.

You shouldnt binge Elite that much frankly. It's a slow burn. Actual life gives at best 4 hours of leisure time per day with work and sleep and so on. On average you're doing 10 hours of gankening per day since June. Assuming you're not joking. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
 
Gank based gameplay has been totally neutered, from trivial high waking to HP inflation, massive power gaps, menu logging, starter systems locked, block lists and a constant gold rush negating rebuy impact. Elite is, now more than ever, a sandbox.

So Deciat is still the Harmless Dangerous of Elite Dangerous.

Why a 40 page thread with casuals trying to convince people they're the cool guys tho... Isinona in the station trenches dodging FAOff the whole SDC, that was ganking. That's why I bought this game. Point and click adventures at Deciat with telemarketers, nobody cares.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moITRrezrUI&feature=emb_title
I'm not "casual" some 1300 hours on clock double Elite and so on. I just do not like uninvited combat.
 
That made the cigarette fall into my lap when laughing!! You sod lol!

Plus, to save quoting several messages, being called a Quaker could be quite a compliment over here - I'd take it as meaning you have a lot of oats to go sowing...!? Maybe I'm just very strange though ;)
We (as a squadron) get a few trolls follow us around - nothing special or too unusual, except there is one who if the retaliation is of my usual subtle quality appears to report them to moderators, so these days retorts are carefully balanced to not hurt fragile feelings (y)

But as this account isn't in Carcosa, I should rightfully be heartbroken over the comment and report it myself, wouldn't you agree?
 
That made the cigarette fall into my lap when laughing!! You sod lol!

Plus, to save quoting several messages, being called a Quaker could be quite a compliment over here - I'd take it as meaning you have a lot of oats to go sowing...!? Maybe I'm just very strange though ;)

Quakers are the best of what PC gaming could yield truly. Rapha, Cypher, Toxiq. Superhuman aimbots.
 

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Oats. Oats everywhere.
 
We (as a squadron) get a few trolls follow us around - nothing special or too unusual, except there is one who if the retaliation is of my usual subtle quality appears to report them to moderators, so these days retorts are carefully balanced to not hurt fragile feelings (y)

But as this account isn't in Carcosa, I should rightfully be heartbroken over the comment and report it myself, wouldn't you agree?

I think that would be a reasonable response dear sir ;)
 
And of those two, my dear sir: which would characterize your contributions to this thread so far?

Look, I'm just new to the forum. Been here for six weeks or so, like you, but after hundreds of hours of reading , I can tell you one thing :

Watch the video I posted. The guy there, he's going to a station where a CG takes place. You dont know CGs right? You're so new to the game... Sorry, you wont, ever. So this guy, he is roleplaying ironman. That means he wont use insurance for rebuys. And there he meets Hydra, SDC. Those were ruthless gankers, they used to abuse engineering to gank entire stations, so they could point to FDev their deisgn flaws. And the first guy, he's FAOff, in the trenches of a station, and kicking the beehive.

So tell me again about your epic casual adventures where inconsequential ganking led to you getting spoonfed game mechanics so you could grind mats and mine more easily, while pretending you're some endgame lvl100 boss content...
 
Look, I'm just new to the forum. Been here for six weeks or so
Really?
So this isn't one of your posts?

If I were you I'd report whoever it is for pretending to be you.
 
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