Slave Carriers Update

[Rat Catcher]

How does that affect your messaging though? Does it disable global chat? I've always wanted more fine tuned block tools where you separate out language from actions. I wonder if (with EDO imminent) FD are looking a bit more carefully at the MP interaction aspect.

This game is woefully short of useful comms tools in truth - even I will watch system chat mainly to see if there is anyone I'd enjoy 'interacting' with (remember I deliberately choose PvE these days - so not someone to blow up...) when it would be 'nicer' to have a 'Help Wanted' or 'Looking for Trouble' sections to peruse instead

 

[VR StarLightPL]

The way this thread is jumping around, I don't think anything could be "Off-Topic"...
Perhaps me telling everyone about my 2 dogs might

If you're not walking them three times a day for a good long walk then you're a dog slaver you!

 

[LeoBartlet]

How does that affect your messaging though? Does it disable global chat? I've always wanted more fine tuned block tools where you separate out language from actions. I wonder if (with EDO imminent) FD are looking a bit more carefully at the MP interaction aspect.

One has to hope that they've given serious thought to all forms of MP interaction come the release because if the 20 thousand strong Anti-Bot brigade think cheating is rife now just wait until leg commandos are aim-botting, teleporting around the place and one hit killing poor commandos picking up their Kumo burgers at outposts and stations.

 

[Rat Catcher]

If you're not walking them three times a day for a good long walk then you're a dog slaver you!

Walk? Even 2 walks a day has them sleeping like babies!

 

[Rubbernuke]

This game is woefully short of useful comms tools in truth - even I will watch system chat mainly to see if there is anyone I'd enjoy 'interacting' with (remember I deliberately choose PvE these days - so not someone to blow up...) when it would be 'nicer' to have a 'Help Wanted' or 'Looking for Trouble' sections to peruse instead

I mean is, if CMDR XYZ is being gobby I can mute them alone, but keep them in my game (since the worst anyone can physically do to you in game is blow you up).

 

[Rubbernuke]

One has to hope that they've given serious thought to all forms of MP interaction come the release because if the 20 thousand strong Anti-Bot brigade think cheating is rife now just wait until leg commandos are aim-botting, teleporting around the place and one hit killing poor commandos picking up their Kumo burgers at outposts and stations.

When you mess with The Burger™ you cross the line.

 

[VR StarLightPL]

One has to hope that they've given serious thought to all forms of MP interaction come the release because if the 20 thousand strong Anti-Bot brigade think cheating is rife now just wait until leg commandos are aim-botting, teleporting around the place and one hit killing poor commandos picking up their Kumo burgers at outposts and stations.

Mark my words, it will be destiny-like clone with clearly defined PvP zones. I assume most missions will be PvE only and things like "on foot CZ" will be PvP.

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Walk? Even 2 walks a day has them sleeping like babies!
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I knew it! you've enslaved them and keeping them on a boat, now where do I contact Polygon over this?! I will mention to them that it's a pair of gender-fluent doggos, and they will arrive in a jiffy!

What a cute little buggers I have a labrador myself, dogs are great

 

[LeoBartlet]

I knew it! you've enslaved them and keeping them on a boat, now where do I contact Polygon over this?! I will mention to them that it's a pair of gender-fluent doggos, and they will arrive in a jiffy!

What a cute little buggers I have a labrador myself, dogs are great but cats are better.

FTFY

 

[VR StarLightPL]

FTFY

Nah, you broke it, but that's okay. Now if you'd kindly land on my Fleet Carrier, I have a little cat trinket to give to you...

 

[LeoBartlet]

Nah, you broke it, but that's okay. Now if you'd kindly land on my Fleet Carrier, I have a little cat trinket to give to you...

Oh I do live trinkets

 

[Rat Catcher]

I knew it! you've enslaved them and keeping them on a boat

That is my Feet Carrier, for sure - and was in a system so far from civilisation it took 4 days to get to a Supermarket!

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Oh I forgot, FDev pls ban @Rat Catcher because he deceived the poor two doggos on his ekhem... fleet carrier and keeping them there, on the basis that the doggos each having Elite accounts for themselves, cmdr Barking The Magnificient and cmdr Fluffy Waggle. They're being forced to do slave labour of mining tritium for their unscrupulous master for... I cannot hold my rage... for dog food! The heinous nature of this treacherous act has to be punished! Ban the slaver!

 

[Rat Catcher]

Fluffy Waggle

I am so gonna steal that name - even if only for one of my warships!

 

[VR StarLightPL]

it took 4 days to get to a Supermarket!

You're using it wrong. It should be the supermarket ;-) Because that's what Fleet Carriers are for, carrying a fleet of groceries

 

[VR StarLightPL]

I am so gonna steal that name - even if only for one of my warships!

You cannot steal it because it's a gift for you

 

[Screemonster]

This game is woefully short of useful comms tools in truth - even I will watch system chat mainly to see if there is anyone I'd enjoy 'interacting' with (remember I deliberately choose PvE these days - so not someone to blow up...) when it would be 'nicer' to have a 'Help Wanted' or 'Looking for Trouble' sections to peruse instead

Honestly what would make system chat actually useful is some sort of indicator that there's another player actually in the system

What good is it having a notification every jump to say I've joined that system's chat if I'm the only one in the system? If it only popped up when there was another player around to talk to right now then maybe we'd see more casual conversation.
As it is, unless I'm in a hotspot or I see someone there's absolutely no point in trying to send a message due to the overwhelming likelihood that there's nobody else around to receive it.

 

[galahad2069]

A fair point in your example but most people are not doctors. I think it is a bit disingenuous to think that I plastered that hypothetical question over every single trade or job.

OK, so a plumber (for example) is entitled to decide that someone is an evil racist whilst a doctor is not?
I'm beginning to feel a bit discriminated against, tbh.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

OK, so a plumber (for example) is entitled to decide that someone is an evil racist whilst a doctor is not?
I'm beginning to feel a bit discriminated against, tbh.

On the one hand doctors take a hippocratic oath that surely prevents them from such actions, on the other, I believe a doctor has to be present at a state execution, so you know, complex.

 

[Eeka]

I'd argue that a player consents to any actions that are within the bounds of the game, including the possibility of being deceived and exploited. Indeed, the game itself has had plenty of examples of this that doesn't have anything to do with other CMDRs, and I regularly have my CMDR engage in deception to accomplish his goals (I used to fill trade and exploration ships with undersized railguns to discourage interdiction, and still give cheeky names to my CMDR's unEngineered vessels to convince people that they are too fast to catch) and I will certainly have my CMDR bluff or outright lie through his teeth if that serves his purposes.

It's probable that these slaver players didn't have the best intentions toward their fellow players, and that is unfortunate, but unless they were violating the rules of the game it's also irrelevant. Indifference, or even antipathy, do not constitute harassment.

Oh ok, great. Thanks.