Excellent write up, thank you for taking the time and explaining it to me!
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Newcomer / Intro Can you overthrow a government/regime?
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Excellent write up, thank you for taking the time and explaining it to me!
You can do it for sure, I've done it a few times, but if you're being actively opposed then doing it solo is gonna be a tough slog. I'd advise hooking up with a group that supports your preferred government type (or at least a particular faction you like) and take it from there.
noob player starts BGS, swaps RL-philosophy into the game, won´t read the BGS Basic threads, get´s one explaining post, thinks he understands the world, and tries to change it to his way of understanding.
I guess, he will fail. Because, as in RL, nothing is as easy as some want it to be.
I guess, he will fail. Because, as in RL, nothing is as easy as some want it to be.
This is not exclusively a communist affair - I've seen theocracies having elections with dictatorships and even corporations with democracies. It seems to be that player minor factions do not always get placed into game properly and adopt the wrong social group.
Player Minor Faction being a faction, like those regimes of yours, which a player group submitted for approval and insertion into game. Custom name, hopefully custom system description.
There is also this thing called Power Play between the eleven powers in the inhabited bubble, who pay attention to which sort of factions are in governance of star systems. You will eventually run into them, and they can become your largest opposition if you're trying to overthrow their preferred faction out of control.
I was vague on purpose. It's not quite a degree in its own right, but it's probably a master's paper to understand it all.
The thing is to try to stop huge flame-wars on the forum, the discussion of one's political beliefs or attack on other's beliefs is not permitted. So it is OK for you to decide in yourself that you want to oppose a "communist" regime in the game but it is not OK for you to go making personal remarks about the real-world. Note that there is a role-playing sub-forum where you can play-out your in-game fictional persona's actions.
Ooh there are commie guilds? I'm down for that, so thanks for the info. Eat the rich!
If you are making assumptions about me, then you are correct in two things, I am a noob and I do swap RL philosophy into the game, as does everybody else... Many people are RL amateur astronomers, explorers, physicists, whatever, and they transfer they RL ideas, wishes, imaginations to the game, thats completely normal...
Everything else is just happening in your imagination...
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I am fine. Thank you.
edit: I will explain: Elite Dangerous is a game, where I can leave all the real life (sorry) behind. All this political hassle, all that crazy stuff that is going on in the world. Lefts, rights, Communists, Capitalists, I don´t give a damn in the game. In game there is a new world. I don´t like to have the immersion within get occupied by that stuff.
edit: I will explain: Elite Dangerous is a game, where I can leave all the real life (sorry) behind. All this political hassle, all that crazy stuff that is going on in the world. Lefts, rights, Communists, Capitalists, I don´t give a damn in the game. In game there is a new world. I don´t like to have the immersion within get occupied by that stuff.
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Is the fact that you are fine a reason for you, to set on a crusade into the newcomers corner and make condescending and demeaning comments?
Don't get me wrong, I'm too old to be annoyed by random outbursts... If you are annoyed by this stuff, the easiest thing for you to do is to ignore posts like this. Leave it to people, who have different view of the game than you have... I am an explorer now, I'm out there, exploring, enjoying the views, learning how to fly, scanning stuff etc... I am a noob and Im very happy with it...
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How do you know you are someone else in the game? Maybe you are someone else in RL and you alter ego is just projecting itself in ED...
One day, when I get bored with exploring and have enough money to afford decent ship, I will project my RL beliefs and start my crusade against certain ED factions... And I believe it will be fun... One day...
As we've seen (and as is also my experience), people play games for a wide variety of reasons, and bring a range of attitudes to games, from a sandbox to enact personal beliefs, to pure escapism.
Each player has the freedom to play as they see fit, as long as it's within the terms of service.
that´s how it occured to me. If it was not ment that way, than I apologize. Exploring in Elite is one of the best Things someone can do.
Thank you.
I agree, the exploration is amazing, I have my own thread in the exploration corner, I'm at the beginning of my journey in my lightly modified DBX with only 27ly jump radius...
It's one of those unpopular opinions, but FSD doesn't matter for exploration.
It really doesn't. It only matters for long-distance traveling, but that's not exploration.
Whether your ship's range is 20 or 70LY, you're going to explore the same number of systems per unit time.
It's one of those unpopular opinions, but FSD doesn't matter for exploration.
It really doesn't. It only matters for long-distance traveling, but that's not exploration.
Whether your ship's range is 20 or 70LY, you're going to explore the same number of systems per unit time.
That I agree only partially... I plan my route as most economic, which means I do a lot of shorter jumps... But I run several times into situations, where I could not proceed further, because I simply could not make the jump long enough... Therefore going back and choosing different destinations...
Oh yes, there are parts of the galaxy where extra jump range comes in handy. But let's call that an "extreme, end-game exploration" and put it on the bucket list.
I can't remember* when I last synthesised jumponium. Took a full load out in my exploraconda on DW2 and still have not used any and that ship is still journeying back, now wandering through The Conduit towards Ishtar.
*EDIT: I do remember using it when "The Gnosis" was down under the plane some time back. (Yes I was one of those "Marooned on the Gnosis and all I got was this dumb Tee-Shirt" crowd.)