I'm in Colonia just for a week or so, and so far it was calm. A lot of ppl flying around, even was waitiing for a pad on an outpost, and i got a feeling it's kind of more peaceful here than generally in the Bubble. Turns out wrong then! Criminals are lurking nearby. Got to get careful. P
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I understand, I've calmed down now, luckily I was checking out everything and only lost about 16 million credits for the insurance, I'm not mad at you I think it was the shock of thinking he was taking out a deep space explorer with a lot of astrometric data, irreplicable to say the least. But what was the thinking? Nothing to gain but a bounty put on him.You can describe what happened - you just have to leave out the names if you're doing it here on Frontier's forum.
As for your hypothetical scenario - happened often enough. Which is one reason why we got three game modes: Open, Private Group and Solo - with the only difference being exactly that: who you can meet inside the game. And the blocking feature, in case you want to make reasonably sure that you won't encounter the perps again.
For the explorers who want to play in Open, there was/is/are groups who would run escort duty once they got into populated areas. And the (often repeated) suggestion to stop and drop their data before entering known hotspots or more densly populated space. Which all has declined somewhat in the last years, possibly due to the advent of Fleet Carriers, as you now can drop your data at any equipped FC, even out at Beagle Point.
But face it - you were in Colonia (which some people - see DD - want to be a hive of villains and scum), on your way to Jaques (the highest traffic system there), in an Anaconda, in Open. You definitely were not a newbie any more. Anyone could reasonably assume that you were aware of what you were doing. Of course, if it happens, it's pretty much rage inducing. When it happened to me, I lost a (engineered) Beluga full of passengers on the return to Jaques. I also had a (what I thought) capable combat ship stored nearby, so I grabbed that and went back. To get my backside kicked a second time (but was able to get away).
I'm glad I took that short trip, I discovered a system with 55 body's (just happened to bookmark it) and found a lot of biological signals. I mapped a moon, land a mere 100 meters from the plants, disembark on foot go to scan it and discovered I don't have an Artemis suit, dang! Didn't know I needed one, thus the reason for bookmarking.
It's a point for what I play only Solo as explorer. No more deal with stupidity because I have enough in my daily job. I like peaceful play for relax. It's main cause for buying fleet carrier - go to nowhere in black, perfect void, me and stars around, full self-sufficiency with home always waiting near me.
There are several excuses or explanations offered for this behaviour from role playing as a pirate or working for another faction to wanting to look good blowing stuff up for their video channel and on to just like to ruin someone else’s day. The latter case an explorer with months of data on board would be a prime target as good or better than someone just out of the starter zone.
Over in Dangerous Discussions there were some that said they attacked any player ship fitted with a docking computer.
At trade Community Goals supporting the Empire, Federation etc players who played as members of a rival superpower would attack ships to make them abandon their cargo to make the CG harder, but they would usually offer you the chance to dump the cargo rather than destroying your ship and saying nothing.
Well revisiting and scanning will get you that lost data.
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There are a lot (and I mean A LOT) of people who think it great fun to hang-out in busy systems looking for easy-meat just for the LULZ of blowing them up. What gives them pleasure is the knowledge that they have caused irritation and annoyance to someone else. They are not looking for one-on-one combat, not even role-playing a pirate, they are just anuses*.
(I was going to use a particularly apt extremely vulgar Latin description but I figure some smart-alec might report it and get me banned for swearing.)
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It's why the internet is such a flaming pile of garbage these days: companies protect griefers and cheaters. They're allowed to do anything they want with complete autonomy.
I mean, God forbid we should all squad up, hunt that jerk down and blow him to kingdom come every day to the point we run him completely out of open.
Fighting against stupidity is pointless, always incoming new jerks. Happily it is also Solo mode to filter all stupidity out in one shot.
I'm willing to bet he was one of those guys in the thread trying to force people into playing Open.
I have been mulling over Ashnak's post about losing a Baluga full of passengers and switching over to his combat ship and hunting them down, it would make things worse. Winging up with a group would probably trigger a response and things would get ugly quick, I did seriously think about doing just that.
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You can't outgank a ganker. Just like you can't outstupid an idiot. Better just leave them to their vices. They'll get bored sooner or later.
I was once very into PvP, believe it or not. Not in this game, but years ago in another game. I had fun with it for a time, but eventually the toxic environment and constant e-peen waving pushed me away. It's just not a welcoming environment, and it's full of macho-type personalities. But I was part of it for a while. I did my share of ganking, even. It wasn't really thrilling, more like kicking puppies. I can hang my head in shame now.
I'm not a super-social person anyway, I kinda prefer to do my own thing. I'm happy here in solo
I'm not a super-social person anyway, I kinda prefer to do my own thing. I'm happy here in solo
I was never really into PVP stuff anywhere, at least not for long, i find it kind of boring (to succeed you need to git gud, to git gud you need to get your skill up, and for that you need to spend time, and there i'm starting to yawn already - why, can't i just wander elsewhere, where i feel like today). I find however that the fact that the world around lives and someone cares enough to even hunt you sometimes is adding to the game (then you fight back, or run).
I'd raise a voice against the toxic environnement though. Yeah ofc where's pvp there's always a competition, and there surely some ppl do like being a nuisance. Maybe a lot of em. Okay and there're clearly bad ppl too, in numbers. But not all of em and not all the gankers i believe. I can pretty well imagine those pirates RP (piracy is just about RP in the game right now, isn't it, let em at least shot ppl sometimes), them saying sorry after they got you, giving advice on the build, getting that famous ganker tag on forum, or just having their own game here while being quiet and having fun, while being not toxic at all. Well maybe that went a little too far, but i'll keep that belief anyway. P
After all the only real thing you can lose is your data. And not paying attention (i. e. relog if you care or you can lose too much) can cost the explorer while negligently landing on a high G world too, that needs to be adressed anyway. Everything else recovers in no time.
I'd raise a voice against the toxic environnement though. Yeah ofc where's pvp there's always a competition, and there surely some ppl do like being a nuisance. Maybe a lot of em. Okay and there're clearly bad ppl too, in numbers. But not all of em and not all the gankers i believe. I can pretty well imagine those pirates RP (piracy is just about RP in the game right now, isn't it, let em at least shot ppl sometimes), them saying sorry after they got you, giving advice on the build, getting that famous ganker tag on forum, or just having their own game here while being quiet and having fun, while being not toxic at all. Well maybe that went a little too far, but i'll keep that belief anyway. P
After all the only real thing you can lose is your data. And not paying attention (i. e. relog if you care or you can lose too much) can cost the explorer while negligently landing on a high G world too, that needs to be adressed anyway. Everything else recovers in no time.
Death is never pretty. However, this one was... sort of funny:
For some reason, the corpse's legs kept kicking and I was reminded of Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
For some reason, the corpse's legs kept kicking and I was reminded of Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video...
Herbie Hancock. Man, that takes me back. I was in high school when that came out.
Holy ____!!! Wing of 3 T10s!!!!
2deadly 1 master, I have been following them a while, hoping they will bump up with something big and start shooting each others.... sigh....ended up watching them jump'ed intact.
Besides, I really love how the rails dictate the fights at distance, by the time my targets get close enough, their shield stripped and my MC SLF start chewing out their hull. Well but not those 3 T10s above.
2deadly 1 master, I have been following them a while, hoping they will bump up with something big and start shooting each others.... sigh....ended up watching them jump'ed intact.
Besides, I really love how the rails dictate the fights at distance, by the time my targets get close enough, their shield stripped and my MC SLF start chewing out their hull.
Well but not those 3 T10s above. I was on the same boat with ya, when I was playing eveo 10yrs ago. But that was very different environment tho. I did suicide gank'ed a miner that often compete with me for the rockz a few times.I was once very into PvP, believe it or not. Not in this game, but years ago in another game. I had fun with it for a time, but eventually the toxic environment and constant e-peen waving pushed me away. It's just not a welcoming environment, and it's full of macho-type personalities. But I was part of it for a while. I did my share of ganking, even. It wasn't really thrilling, more like kicking puppies. I can hang my head in shame now.
I'm not a super-social person anyway, I kinda prefer to do my own thing. I'm happy here in solo
I got gank'ed a few times in Hi-sec system, but was lucky enough to make some powerful friends and joined their alliance to start my ganker's life, when we were not at war lulz. Due to the very demanding nature of eveo, I eventually quited and here I am now in solo lulz
I wouldn't hesitate calling myself outright anti-social.
That being said, killing other people in game does have some therapeutical effects. But only in a game that manages to create somewhat level playing field. So not in Elite.
I'm really looking forward to: Glasto, Sunday, Pyramid Stage, 14:00 - 15:00 - prolly live on the Beeb's iPlayer plus highlights BBC2 20:00 - 21:00