Arguendo
Volunteer Moderator
You letting your bias against previous actions of SDC get in the way of seeing that what they claim now, and claimed in their "part 1" of this series, is frankly your problem. Take a step back, do your very best to imagine that the OP was presented by say a representative of Adle's Armada, and then ask yourself if you would look at it differently. If the answer is yes, then you're seeing "SDC" and nothing else. That is unfortunate tbh.There is no getting away from the fact that SDC's reputation precedes them though, and will tarnish any reasonable assessment of their position. If they really wanted to be the game's vanguard of righteousness and getting problems fixed, they shouldn't have previously allowed members to engage in attery. It's hard to have much sympathy for them I'm afraid. It's sad isn't it, when being jerks comes back to bite hey.
I truly intended to answer this post with a full answer, but then I read through your responses to other posts in the thread. The conclusion I came to is that you have connection issues on your side, which you blame on the game and FDev, and you are therefore incapable of admitting anything that would put you in a precarious position. I have nowhere near the issues you describe when it comes to connectivity, so I can only surmise that the problem does not lie with the game or FDev, but with you and your internet connection. Until you accept that as well, there is really no point in discussing this issue with you. You will protect your position no matter what, because you don't accept that with the frequency of disconnects you experience you have no business being in Open Mode in a Multiplayer game.The common use of them "griefing" means exactly what I said it does.
According to FDev they can reliably spot this though, and they have said so numerous times. The problem isn't their inability to spot the issue, it's their apparant lack of action upon spotting it or it being reported to them.That's the thing though isn't it, if they could spot it reliably this thread probably wouldn't exist.
People don't want to lose. It really is that simple, and it's extremely prevalent among the noob-killersAs far as the combat logging goes -- I still can't figure out what drives people to do this; starting the game in Open Play isn't forced on anyone, so you're there for player interaction and when you get that player interaction you pull the plug? *boggled*
Please reconsider this. Your input is on-point as always.Think I'm done with this thread now because I don't particularly want to provide a reason for it being close again and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep my posts civil with some of the stuff I'm reading. Enjoy the discussion Commanders, such as it is.