There are plenty of activities that are possible without shooting at each other. I do that all the time.
If you don't know about them you haven't dive deep in the game.
To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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If you don't know about them you haven't dive deep in the game.
Not for all players, just a (relatively) small subset of them. Half of the players are below the median skill.
Robert Maynard
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Three of the five in-game Elite ranks don't require the player to fire a shot in combat....
Outside harder thargoids, you dont need any skill at all. Driving a corvette backwards with pips at 4-0-2 spamming gimballed multicannons is not exactly difficult, lets be honest.
And yes, that will defeat literally any non tharg enemy in the game, without any problem at all.
You would never see every play affecting the game. You wouldn't even know of all the factors influencing the game. Players aren't omniscient and picking some random players as "responsible" for influencing the game is nonsense. For all you could know it could be a random number generator rolling the dice to influence the game. Even if you knew who was influencing the game you could impossibly be at all the places in all the instances in all the timezones, regions to "counter" them. It's a child's fiction.
Robert Maynard
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Which seems to presume that the ship being flown is combat optimised - and a rank locked one to boot. Not all players play the game for combat.
And this applies to wing trade / wing mining / wing infiltration... How exactly?
Not all players own a vette. Not all players want to engage in combat related stuff. There are goals to achieve and activities to fullfill that doesn't have an "enemy" in the way you think of. For some players it is difficult enough to land on a 2g Planet or receiving a guardian FSD booster. Instead of killing other players you could choose to help them, to play with them not against them. That's a realistic possibility and believe it or not... It makes fun!
The idea is that players accumulate the skill while grinding for the corvette. Unless you maybe know a way to cheese your way in credits and reputation gains - whch wouldn't surprise me, since the average ganker is not known for fair play.
Works perfectly fine in an Anaconda, too, or a Krait MKII even (though that might get a bit beaten up after 3 or 4 elite wing assassinations).
And yeah, obviously combat optimised. You wouldnt expect to do all the combat in the game in a trade ship and if you could it would be a RUBBISH game.
I have literally never interdicted another player, in 4 years.
I am not a ganker.
It may surprise you to learn that not all people wanting a 'dangerous' galaxy want it so they can curbstomp noobs.
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Robert Maynard
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The point being that not all players fly around in combat optimised ships....
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Federal and Imperial rank can be gained by players who choose not to engage in combat - by design.
Yeah right.
I mean, i said all combat can be done solo. I didnt say it could be done in any ship, so im not sure what your point is.
You can choose not to believe me, but i have no reason to lie.
Im perfectly happy to say that ganking noobs is a legitimate playstyle, its just not one im interested in.
Pull the other one its got bells on.
It took me a total of like... 3 days play if i recall correctly to get full fed rank, just by spamming pirate assassination missions. Its not really hard...
I dont really appreciate the unfounded assertion that i cheat.
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