Crytalised tears? You mean ice?
Code blockading Sothis
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Crytalised tears? You mean ice?
Self appointed titles are great!
Newman
The voice of the entire Universe, but you may call me Galactic President Superstar McAwesomeville.
Elite: For casual gamers (not Dangerous at all...)
Majinvash
Banned
Not at all, me and BD are BFF's. He gave me the title after I beat him in a game of tiddlywinks.
Majinvash
The Voice of Open
Master of Tiddlywinks
I really hope that was meant to be "waist", because otherwise...
Well, my title is worth more then; the person who gave it to me is someone I respect the most in the whole wide world
Newman
Inventor of the concept of fun. That's right, everyone was bored before I came along.
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Well, honestly I think trade rank has very little to do with Dangerous part at all, heck smuggling missions are more dangerous then normal and still very profitable trading. So all this is really doing is making people need to use less time trading to get said Elite trade rank. So yeah......dunno about that, unless you mean that you become Elite when you invest x amount of hours in running back and forth with trading.Elite: For casual gamers (not Dangerous at all...)
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Fashion victims, surely.
Somehow I knew CQC wouldn't keep the comedy villains occupied. Give them a porta-potty and they'll still pee in the sandbox.
Fly safe Cmdrs:-
So you bought a video game, and you dare think that you can bring balance to it, in game, to what you think is broken or not working as intended, to your opinion...
HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHHAH !
Ok, I really can't take your group "RP" seriously anymore : It is immersion breaker.
Just fill a ticket and send it to the relevant support team if you think something is not working as intended, to your opinion.
Or find a better story teller to "justify" your actions in game.
Or, well, who cares anymore ?
Just go and have fun !
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It's all nonsense, they claim "roleplaying" but in reality if they truly were roleplaying they would realise ANY blockade of a station would bring the station authorities AND any close allies out in force to squash the blockade.
A station lives and dies by its incoming and out going traffic, ANY attempt by a third party to halt or slow that traffic would be instantly squashed with extreme prejudice.
If they were roleplaying it would go something like this,
Code planning meeting: stardate something or other.
Foolish commander: "I know, lets blockade Sothis, there appears to be a lot of smugglers arriving there, we could make ourselves feel important"
Sensible subordinate? "Look sir, we've been over this before, way back in beta testing, if you attempt to blockade a station, the station will use it's great big guns, it's security forces and the resources of its factions based in other local stations to squash us like the irritating bugs we are for damaging it's economy and endangering its inhabitants"
Foolish commander: Oh yeah, sorry I forgot, still, I have this other great idea......."
A station lives and dies by its incoming and out going traffic, ANY attempt by a third party to halt or slow that traffic would be instantly squashed with extreme prejudice.
If they were roleplaying it would go something like this,
Code planning meeting: stardate something or other.
Foolish commander: "I know, lets blockade Sothis, there appears to be a lot of smugglers arriving there, we could make ourselves feel important"
Sensible subordinate? "Look sir, we've been over this before, way back in beta testing, if you attempt to blockade a station, the station will use it's great big guns, it's security forces and the resources of its factions based in other local stations to squash us like the irritating bugs we are for damaging it's economy and endangering its inhabitants"
Foolish commander: Oh yeah, sorry I forgot, still, I have this other great idea......."
dayrth
Volunteer Moderator
Quite a small one then.
Yea that one was predictable. If they were interested in PvP they'd be dueling 1 on 1, not this "blockade" malarkey where they hope they can wing up and kill some type 6's and shieldless Asp's if they happen to go into their instance. I mean, the whole ED instancing architecture makes blockades completely ineffectual; past examples confirm this (they certainly didn't prevent the Hutton CG from being a massive success). The fact that what their stated goals are so obviously out of reach by methods they utilize points to a simple fact that the goal is to score some easy kills while feeling all good and tingly in a "respect my authoritah!" kind of way.
This is getting old *sight*
I was interdicted by Code in Sothis recently - by a Code CMDR who has posted already in this thread. Code gave me a chance to leave, but I decided to chance a run to the station. He plays his game, I play mine.
So, we had a 1-on-1 Asp/Asp battle (of sorts). Essentially my totally lame PVP skills allowed him to quickly drop my shields and obliterate me - and I accept that as due wholly to my lack of experience/preparation.
It was a farce from my side - managed to use a bit of chaff, tried a bit of reversing to get him in my sights - even managed a few good laser blasts, but nowhere near enough. I know about pips - I know 3/4 pips to shields is essential - when I checked, just before the demise - only 1 pip on shields. Oh yes, that reminds me - I did bring that SCB just for this type of eventuality - forgot to use it.
Thanks for the lesson. I'll be back. I'll always be in open (and sometimes in an A-rated Uber cruiser).
So, we had a 1-on-1 Asp/Asp battle (of sorts). Essentially my totally lame PVP skills allowed him to quickly drop my shields and obliterate me - and I accept that as due wholly to my lack of experience/preparation.
It was a farce from my side - managed to use a bit of chaff, tried a bit of reversing to get him in my sights - even managed a few good laser blasts, but nowhere near enough. I know about pips - I know 3/4 pips to shields is essential - when I checked, just before the demise - only 1 pip on shields. Oh yes, that reminds me - I did bring that SCB just for this type of eventuality - forgot to use it.
Thanks for the lesson. I'll be back. I'll always be in open (and sometimes in an A-rated Uber cruiser).
Majinvash
Banned
It was fun
See you again soon
Majinvash
The Voice of Open
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You have played CQC right? Its not very good.
Its fun for about an hour, once you have ranked up to about level 20 and come top almost every game.
There isn't much left to do.
Majinvash
The Voice of Open
Well said.
FD have great graphics and sound teams, but their understanding of game economy and game balance is unfortunately very poor
Agreed, but at least before this exploit, there was a fairly well paced progression and way of doing things. I have never devoted myself to trading or merit grinding and my earnings have remained below 250 million since before 1.3, but I'm happy with enough to fund my viper and FDL - I like small, fast ships. Other friends of mine do trade or grind merits in power play, dovoting a couple of hours an evening to this, and every few weeks or months I will hear how they have finally earned enough to buy a python, or a conda, etc. Even though I do not grind in this way, I respect the players who do. As MrSpoonsi says above, this exploit will change what used to take weeks or months, into a day or two's work and this can only ruin the game.
It's not a matter of the rich and powerful worrying that the new players will be able to afford big ships and threaten them, it's a worry that the already established Elite will reach GOD MODE. Who wants to take their newly earned conda with a half dozen rebuys against a syndicate of players who all have condas, who do not worry about dying in them?
I know for a fact that one or two player groups, with many billionaires to begin with, have been hitting this exploit harder than anyone, making 2-4 billion out of it already.
I do not see big danger here, especially if you compare with reward:
1) Weak NPCs are trying to interdict you
2) Usual security scans at stations, that are easy to avoid
Ok, if you play in Open you have some chance to get interdicted by Players, but a lot of those new "smugglers" are playing in private or solo to avoid any risk and go for maximum CR/h rate...
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You might want to learn about instancing and making fewer assumptions. I've played for very long stretches including significant crossover with US time zones. I was always instanced with other players in Open. Do you think in 2 months I wouldn't get instanced with CODE if they were there?
There are many little "honey pots" of piratable traders flying in Archon space...and CODE patently have no interest in them. If they stopped spending their time chasing CGs around the galaxy then they'd realise that the "emergent gameplay" they say they crave was right under their noses.