Greetings.
I'm Karn, leader of a fleet with more than 400 members. We're active in Discord and got our own player owned faction.
Working with our BGS team, we wanted to gain full control of our assigned system. Unfortunately since about 2 months ago, this is prevented by One. Single. Player. A player that I have banned for his hostile actions against our fleet.
This stems from the simple fact that changes in BGS are based on the amount of transactions, not the value of the transactions (Which is a horrible gameplay flaw). More info here.
Because of how the BGS works, every crime he commits ingame counts as one transaction, equal to one point of influence loss. Every single kill.
Instead, countering this in an attempt to increase the system's security, killing a pirate only counts as one transaction if you go claim his bounty at the station. So while he can just around in an open space and see influence drop in real time, the effort to counter his piracy are effectively tenfold for each player of our fleet, since each player has to run back and forth between pirate locations and station.
But if that wasn't even enough.
This single player has managed to infiltrate our Discord Server with multiple accounts, using illegal tools to spy on channels he shouldn't be able to read (which he proved to us himself) and apparently he would even be able to nuke the entire server, like it has never existed. I'm not sure if that's right or not, but knowing he has used hacking tools before, I wouldn't play with the odds.
Unless we comply to his demands, my fleet, with me being the leader, are held hostage by one single player who felt like messing us up entirely.
His demands are that he regains access to my server, and in return he would stop the war against us. Even though he can't provide me any warranty, that he just won't start the war again at any time he didn't feel like we were doing what he tells us.
I think I don't need to explain to anyone how much crap this is, but here it is.
I seek advice how to deal with this situation, and I would love to have someone from Frontier help us out on this issue, since this has gone far beyond just an ingame war. It has become harrassment and blackmail against an entire community.
I'm Karn, leader of a fleet with more than 400 members. We're active in Discord and got our own player owned faction.
Working with our BGS team, we wanted to gain full control of our assigned system. Unfortunately since about 2 months ago, this is prevented by One. Single. Player. A player that I have banned for his hostile actions against our fleet.
This stems from the simple fact that changes in BGS are based on the amount of transactions, not the value of the transactions (Which is a horrible gameplay flaw). More info here.
Because of how the BGS works, every crime he commits ingame counts as one transaction, equal to one point of influence loss. Every single kill.
Instead, countering this in an attempt to increase the system's security, killing a pirate only counts as one transaction if you go claim his bounty at the station. So while he can just around in an open space and see influence drop in real time, the effort to counter his piracy are effectively tenfold for each player of our fleet, since each player has to run back and forth between pirate locations and station.
But if that wasn't even enough.
This single player has managed to infiltrate our Discord Server with multiple accounts, using illegal tools to spy on channels he shouldn't be able to read (which he proved to us himself) and apparently he would even be able to nuke the entire server, like it has never existed. I'm not sure if that's right or not, but knowing he has used hacking tools before, I wouldn't play with the odds.
Unless we comply to his demands, my fleet, with me being the leader, are held hostage by one single player who felt like messing us up entirely.
His demands are that he regains access to my server, and in return he would stop the war against us. Even though he can't provide me any warranty, that he just won't start the war again at any time he didn't feel like we were doing what he tells us.
I think I don't need to explain to anyone how much crap this is, but here it is.
I seek advice how to deal with this situation, and I would love to have someone from Frontier help us out on this issue, since this has gone far beyond just an ingame war. It has become harrassment and blackmail against an entire community.
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