So it's like I thought. You cheesed your way to the meta gear. To get that little edge against the normal peasants?
And cheesing isnt cheating.
To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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And cheesing isnt cheating.
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What are you talking about?
Whats the non-cheese way of doing the rank grind, in your opinion? I did missions for federal stations. I chose missions that i find more fun than space trucking, as far as im concerned i did it literally the intended way.
Edit: Oh, and a Corvette is hardly a gankers tool, lmao. Hint: They are slow.
Don't overrate PvP gear, big ships are most of times a easy target... an engineered 300k rebuy Cobra MkIII can make wonders against them.
As if you'd need a fast ship to alpha strike unwitting players.
Robert Maynard
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That the general difficulty level (not the opt-in more challenging content) of the game is not designed around players flying around in combat optimised ships all the time.
Im coming to the conclusion that you dont actually play this game at all. You have a very weird (wrong) impression of how it works.. and alpha strike?
You dont play mechwarrior online do you, lol?
Does it matter? You kick in reverse and kick the other dude until they flee or blow up. Long range mod is all you need and your ship speed is no factor anymore.
You are aware that in a gank / non consensual PvP situation, one player is usually trying to run away, right?
Reversing wouldnt exactly be the go to tactic when trying to chase people.
You're right, he's said before that he doesn't play ED anymore.
Seriously, it's always amusing to see a forum moderator blatantly defending combat logging (i.e. cheating) in an online multiplayer game.
Speaks volumes about this forum tbh.
Robert Maynard
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Menu exit - certainly - Frontier approved (and they acknowledge that not all players will agree).
Actual combat logging - not at all - that's against the rules.
The two are often conflated by those who don't accept that menu exit is permissible - that does not change the distinction though.
My theory is that many people do little equation pirate=ganker, and react accordingly. I have never been pirated myself, normal player interdiction goes: submit, interdictor opens fire, no comms at all. At that point I come to conclusion that ah we have a ganker. For a player pirate I would gladly give some stuff, as long as it is not mission specific cargo.
Stealing that data has same consequences as blasting whole ship -minus rebuy. When I do exploration home run is always in solo. I would not care about ship itself, it is cheap to replace. But that data and name tags on it is what I do care about.If only we had the opportunity to steal explo data...how many explorers would have been spared by someone's overpowered hardpoints
"We can't have you influence our game like that."
Chicken & egg situation.
Pirates want to rp but their victims almost always flee or clog on them (due to inexperience, not wanting to rp, etc)
So they turn to ganking and kill their victims without a word.
Victims who were fine with a bit of piracy rp become disillusioned because they keep getting killed even after submitting. So they either flee without giving a chance for the pirate to rp or clog.
Pirates want to rp but their victims almost always flee or clog on them (due to inexperience, not wanting to rp, etc)
So they turn to ganking and kill their victims without a word.
Victims who were fine with a bit of piracy rp become disillusioned because they keep getting killed even after submitting. So they either flee without giving a chance for the pirate to rp or clog.
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Good point.
Well I don't care
I do business where I like, in the mode what I happen to choose, and if certain shoot'em all people do not like it, thats their problem.Pirating is harder to do than straight gank.
Robert Maynard
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It started before launch - some combat enthusiasts made Open not so much fun for players who don't like PvP - so the first Mobius Private Group was founded.
Such entitlement. I'm speechless.Good point.
Well I don't care