Hm, sounds like that other guy in George Lucas we were just discussing in this thread seconds ago...
So what does Bananaman do differently from Code, Goons, Rangers, or any other self-professed "group"?
Hm, sounds like that other guy in George Lucas we were just discussing in this thread seconds ago...
So what does Bananaman do differently from Code, Goons, Rangers, or any other self-professed "group"?
There's something that always bothered me. If I get interdicted by CODE (assuming it's them and who they claim to be), ordered to halt my engines and drop my cargo, what happens if in fact I have no cargo? I could explain that I have no cargo but then the indictors would probably pass it off as buying time to jump or something.
At the same time, if I was doing a mission which has haulage provided by the client, would I be forced to turn over that 5 tons of scrap?
While Bananaman, on the hand, expresses his hatred for a player group and exploit by station ramming.
Piracy is an advertised profession and role within the ED universe by FD.
Oh I understand Piracy, it's an inevitable and indeed integral part of the Elite universe. What people like Bananaman aredoing, is not piracy by certain standards (although no disrespect to Bananaman, he can of course do what he likes) but it's perhaps off-putting to other players. They may not want to visit certain systems when this kind of behavior is tolerated by the larger groups that pretend to exert influence upon the universe at large. If certain large groups want their influence to be anything other than a rumour and a couple of bytes in a string that nobody really pays any attention to, would it not make sense for those groups to do something about it?
If you are going to be famous, at least make some effort. Otherwise it's like wondering what happened to Big Brother Housemate #3 from 2003.
Interesting idea.
One thing that should be fixed, Code pirates take over system and force their own jurisdiction on that system but they run around with wanted tags and bounties on them, why isn't the local securities forces taking them down?
Going back to the lad who is ramming in station, why didn't the station take him down, he was going in and out of the station with a wanted tag not once did the station open fire, I am now thinking that "possibly only an idea" that Code is in fact run by one of the ED crew to hot things up a bit in system and are able to enter stations without been fired upon. Interesting idea.
What if Bananaman is David Braben, and Cobra sidekick is Sandro? Oh the horrors!
I commend your creativity and extend you are willing to go to accuse Code...
But other than that, no comment.
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I personally would be very honored, if that is the case.
Since the devs used all the profanity they can think of to throw at me simply for docking at the station, with terrible spelling, btw.
And players that rely on conspiracy theories and make their text intentionally hard to read should be hung with a rope from the yardarms.Seeing as the game has come on a long way since 1984 and now we have proper open play, I should imagine each dev has and over sees their own main faction, office war games if you like and we (cmdrs) are the pawns and when 1.3 lands this will be more so, there is plenty of people working within ED to set up and run a faction just like Code and any other splinter group/pirate/trade/exploration group and each dev runs their own, mixing it up a bit. and of course you can't give up your identity in any of the groups because it would not be seen by players as fair.
If I am right in my assumptions it does add a lot to the gameBut pirates should still be hung with a rope from the yardarms
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Or you can do so instead of us? Ever thought of that? See what I did there?@Wolfzx12r
Nah, just make them walk the plank out the airlock.
It's part of a longer term strategy that will put some pressure on FD. We have no idea whether it will succeed, but as FD sees player groups working on specific in game goals in a coordinated way and the result is to just drive more people to solo or private, we hope it will either influence their view of how CGs are handled (unable to influence while in solo or group, or at least vastly reduced influence) or to cause them to redesign group and solo play altogether (tracked as different accounts - your fortune in solo stays in solo).
Now if you do command a fairly old way of piracy you should recognise the word "Parlay" if the group are true pirates you must take any cmdr to your captain unharmed to discuss terms of the Parlay called by a cmdr. Am I right?
OK, just to be sure I follow you: (you means group)
1. The game doesn't play how you think or want it to play. You paid $60/£35 and this entitles you to tell FD how to make the game.
2. You complain about people going into solo or group mode. But your "long-term strategy" is to force people into solo or group to use as a weapon to smack FD with and make them change their game.
3. "If others want to meta-game it and shift over to a parallel universe where only their friends exist, that's on FD to figure out whether that's good for the game."
It seems to me that the "pirates/CODE/whatever" are playing a metagame themselves; to force the devs and gamemakers to listen to their ideas on how to make the game. That's OK, but it's not OK for other players to have their own metagame?
Thank you for precisely stating the "pirates" goal, stripped of all bombast & rhetoric. Next time some "pirate" is blathering all about "the higher cause" "our philosophy" etc, I shall refer them to this post.
GluttonyFang does your band of merry men fly to the old world rules of piracy?
I know each group will have their own rules (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code ) and seeing some of the rules that you and the group have lashed together in the name of piracy which you "try" to keep the group flying to! in most instances you as an individual are not there to over see each battle for cargo, so you have trust in each one of your cmdrs.
Now if you do command a fairly old way of piracy you should recognise the word "Parlay" if the group are true pirates you must take any cmdr to your captain unharmed to discuss terms of the Parlay called by a cmdr. Am I right?
Empirical as in basic and something derived from experience, code as in principles and guidelines.I'm not sure the expression "empirical code" makes sense.
Empirical as in basic and something derived from experience, code as in principles and guidelines.