yea, what a surprise?!
i recently decided to play open exclusively. i don't pvp. i know and i accepted the fact that i can get ganked by other players. when i went to deciat today, i knew there are players specifically aiming to gank other players. i knew that. i got interdicted and got killed. but it made me realize something that i didn't before. this was actually the first time another player, actually it was two players, killed me.
the realization was that getting ganked simply isn't fun. for either side i would presume.
first the interdiction. maybe there was a little bit of excitement at the beginning. but quickly it was very clear that i couldn't escape.
ok, then i need run away. so, i put everything into engines and shields and boosted away. didn't help. then i charged my fsd to jump to a different system. was interrupted. could i have done something against that? i don't know. then i was completely disabled and shot down by the two other players.
the entire encounter was me flying forward, boosting until i was disabled. then i had to wait a couple of seconds to get blown up.
i lost 7m credits and 5-10 minutes. wasn't fun in any way for me and i was wondering, was it fun on the other side? because i didn't stand a chance. i didn't fight back and i couldn't do anything against the interruption attacks and i couldn't do anything against all my modules being disabled.
first and foremost i want to have fun in the game. and even though i do accept the fact that i can get ganked by other players, it's simply not a fun experience. so, now what? i will avoid playing open until i figured out a way how i can get fun out of this experience.
any suggestions would be much appreciated. also interested to hear the other side of the story. is it fun to gank? how do gank encounters usually look like for you? do some actually decide to fight back? do they stand a chance? i suppose no.
i recently decided to play open exclusively. i don't pvp. i know and i accepted the fact that i can get ganked by other players. when i went to deciat today, i knew there are players specifically aiming to gank other players. i knew that. i got interdicted and got killed. but it made me realize something that i didn't before. this was actually the first time another player, actually it was two players, killed me.
the realization was that getting ganked simply isn't fun. for either side i would presume.
first the interdiction. maybe there was a little bit of excitement at the beginning. but quickly it was very clear that i couldn't escape.
ok, then i need run away. so, i put everything into engines and shields and boosted away. didn't help. then i charged my fsd to jump to a different system. was interrupted. could i have done something against that? i don't know. then i was completely disabled and shot down by the two other players.
the entire encounter was me flying forward, boosting until i was disabled. then i had to wait a couple of seconds to get blown up.
i lost 7m credits and 5-10 minutes. wasn't fun in any way for me and i was wondering, was it fun on the other side? because i didn't stand a chance. i didn't fight back and i couldn't do anything against the interruption attacks and i couldn't do anything against all my modules being disabled.
first and foremost i want to have fun in the game. and even though i do accept the fact that i can get ganked by other players, it's simply not a fun experience. so, now what? i will avoid playing open until i figured out a way how i can get fun out of this experience.
any suggestions would be much appreciated. also interested to hear the other side of the story. is it fun to gank? how do gank encounters usually look like for you? do some actually decide to fight back? do they stand a chance? i suppose no.
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