Code blockading Sothis
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Let's gang up on him .
There is very little risk in these long distance smuggling missions. Not much Dangerous here really.
...Never scanned when leaving Sothis with illicit cargo.
...When interdicted en-route by authorities wanting to scan - boosted away and don't get scanned.
...Interdicted twice by NPC - fairly easy to defend against a single NPC.
...Scanned once on arrival at destination - 50k fine against 3M reward for mission.
When I took my first long distance smuggling run, I did feel my heart pumping when an authority vessel appeared behind me, lining up for the interdiction - now - no big deal. It's all very routine and no real skill required. In the early days, was looking forward to putting in the practice with 'Silent Running' for dodging partols, etc when smuggling - not needed now.
All reward with no risk. Good in real life - but not what you want from your 'Dangerous' sim.
I am happy to have the big rewards - but there is no justification for the large payday - take these 5 tonnes of tobacco 400ly to xxx for 5M credits???? How is that Justified in any way. At lease give me a 50% chance of hitting a wing of 4 Elite Anaconda along the way - that would make some CMDRs think twice.
...Never scanned when leaving Sothis with illicit cargo.
...When interdicted en-route by authorities wanting to scan - boosted away and don't get scanned.
...Interdicted twice by NPC - fairly easy to defend against a single NPC.
...Scanned once on arrival at destination - 50k fine against 3M reward for mission.
When I took my first long distance smuggling run, I did feel my heart pumping when an authority vessel appeared behind me, lining up for the interdiction - now - no big deal. It's all very routine and no real skill required. In the early days, was looking forward to putting in the practice with 'Silent Running' for dodging partols, etc when smuggling - not needed now.
All reward with no risk. Good in real life - but not what you want from your 'Dangerous' sim.
I am happy to have the big rewards - but there is no justification for the large payday - take these 5 tonnes of tobacco 400ly to xxx for 5M credits???? How is that Justified in any way. At lease give me a 50% chance of hitting a wing of 4 Elite Anaconda along the way - that would make some CMDRs think twice.
I have a cobra docked at Sothis - gonna take it out, do some code interdicting and run.....
To be honest, not knowing some obscure lore from a computer game doesn't really make me feel silly...
Lol - "a good pirate never takes another person's property"
Yay for Jake and the Neverland Pirates!
This is just making people to go in Private mode to do the same, is not helping nothing.
Also Spoonsy when you do copy and paste while interdicting give the time to the people to leave now that you asking.
I understand opening fire on a Cargo to stop him, but engaging 1 sec after you spam the message on an emptu cargo ship is ridiculous, do it but at least dont spam bull. Just say We are the code you are ed thats it.
Again pirate should attack and fight to steal cargo and ship not to just simply destroy everything.
Anyway you guys are one of the few nice things of this game for people that play in Open, just revise your ROE.
Good job I said "look" silly not "feel" silly.
Using the old - it's got dangerous in the title, d'uh - style argument just shows you read nothing before buying the game.
Any idea how many games out there have titles that are nothing to do with the game play but are based on the game lore? (this is rhetorical, you clearly don't)
This game is touted as everything from single player, co-op through to an MMO.
FD are trying to find a balance and the game is still new, these thing don't just magically sort themselves out.
I've got old games in my Steam list that still have balance patches and game play tweaks going on, so instead of misusing the title to make a point (and look silly to those who know about the title),
why not show some support and encouragement and hold on for your mega difficult content that will challenge what must be a superior skill set and not whine about how others must be having it easier than you.
I yawned.
Just thought I'd mention that.
Just thought I'd mention that.
shush.
His point was perfectly valid.
the "its elite : dangerous"- argument is silly and always was.
X-Terminator
Banned
So Sothis is Anarchy system I take it. But surely has a faction to fund the station so they need Navy to help protect the build. Why we can not sign up (as we supposedly are when ranked) and join squads to intervene these blockades? FD are missing out on great features.
Basically a CZ should have been created here due to player behaviour.
Basically a CZ should have been created here due to player behaviour.
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ASP rebuy screen v this screen?
Worth the risk? Hell yeah.....
Worth the risk? Hell yeah.....
The way I see it, all the grindy mechanics are placeholders for better ones that are starting to get introduced in the game.
So I really hope that all this grindy stuff dies. Doing something boring for a long time is not difficulty, as some seems to think.
Also, the number of ships has been steadily increasing, so to me it makes sense that they increasing the income along with the spending
potential. I suspect that if they introduce crafting / player owned mini-bases, it will be an other credit sink.
Finally, if players have enough money, they will be more willing to take risks with expensive ships (that if losing your ship does not
take a 5-6 hours grind, but 1-2 hours of fun gameplay, it seems like a win to me). Taking risks usually somes along with having fun,
along with a bit of dread.
To be clear, I think the long range missions need adjusting : larger cargo requirement, fail on detect. Done.
So I really hope that all this grindy stuff dies. Doing something boring for a long time is not difficulty, as some seems to think.
Also, the number of ships has been steadily increasing, so to me it makes sense that they increasing the income along with the spending
potential. I suspect that if they introduce crafting / player owned mini-bases, it will be an other credit sink.
Finally, if players have enough money, they will be more willing to take risks with expensive ships (that if losing your ship does not
take a 5-6 hours grind, but 1-2 hours of fun gameplay, it seems like a win to me). Taking risks usually somes along with having fun,
along with a bit of dread.
To be clear, I think the long range missions need adjusting : larger cargo requirement, fail on detect. Done.
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@Bigskill
We have learnt a few things from Hutton, note the msg to leave is sent direct to the player, not on local. The interdiction comes about 40 seconds later, more than enough time to leave the system.
Also note there are groups operating in the system (such as Smiling Dog Crew) who do not have player warning restrictions inforce.
It is not about stealing cargo, it is a blockade, no ships in.
We have learnt a few things from Hutton, note the msg to leave is sent direct to the player, not on local. The interdiction comes about 40 seconds later, more than enough time to leave the system.
Also note there are groups operating in the system (such as Smiling Dog Crew) who do not have player warning restrictions inforce.
It is not about stealing cargo, it is a blockade, no ships in.
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Hey,
In that chat you had with the devs, in which they said they want to make Elite Dangerous more competitive with these 'more fun' games, did they perhaps mention that they would be adjusting the other professions as well so that traders and bounty hunters and CZ pilots in Cobras and Asps can also make 10-20 million an hour? Because, see, I like to do CZ's and now I'm all jelly of my friend who got his Conda in a week and is almost Elite Trader to boot. And getting to rank 5, where I will be able to make that much money, well, it's such a grind.
You know what, let's just sell in game credits or ships for real money while we're at it - Conda's for everybody! And that guy who likes to fly his eagle in open? Who am I kidding, there will hardly be any people flying eagles in open. What's the fun in that when there's wings and wings of 'pirate' Anaconda's interdicting you all the time.
Cheers,
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