And as a vindictive pedant I feel it should either be all or nothing- if its nothing the game actually has stakes while if its everything....well, its not for me.
My design assumption in the suggestion was that people would also use it for valid kills, whatever a "valid kill" is [1], and that's fine. The opt-out is for "I obviously didn't mean to kill you and we both know that" PvE friendly-fire situations and arranged duels between people who don't want the PK flag.
Well, you make an oopsie, and you face consequences. I think it's fair that the player must either escape from the system and find a place that can clear up that "misunderstanding" or turn themselves in and be transported to the jail ship for processing and paying off the minor bounty for accidental trespassing or a honest friendly fire incident with a wayward dumbfire missile. Sure, cops are jerks when they blame you if they carelessly fly into your line of fire when your shooting missiles, plasma or cannons (how did these clowns pass basic training?), but I find that very fitting to the Elite's universe
As I said, you have to be very deliberate or very negligent to get a friendly fire bounty. They can still happen if you choose to hunt in a non-haz RES, but really, for a seasoned bounty hunter it's just the cost of doing business. If it happens you just shrug it off, leave the RES to find an IF, pay it off, take a leak, grab a cold one from the fridge and head back to the RES
Easily avoidable by binding "target next/previous hostile", which is a huge QoL feature, anyway. And double-checking what you're shooting at when aggroing non-hostile bandits—learned that the hard way myself
But it is, once you learn how to do it. Fines are trivial to pay off, bounties only require you to travel a little to pay off. Granted, it's not explicitly well explained in-game, but a quick web search answers it. And it's not an exception to single out—nothing is explicitly well explained in-game, even basic things like the 6-second rule when approaching your destination in supercruise or how destroying the power plant of a ship actually affects it or how power priorites work or the CC and system upkeep in Powerplay. Everything could use a little more handholding and obvious help pages with concise and clear explanations in-game.
LMAO happens to everyone at least once CMDR.
I think your ships computer, being wholly owned electronically by Pilot's Federation, is programmed not to lie for contractual reasons. Like how you take an Odyssey hit man job, fly to some place then hide in the darkness to dispatch a plasma ball 100m into your targets forehead, with no one to witness it you still instantly receive the bounty, albeit with no notoriety because you were doing it for a job. At the end of the day, the bounty is 1000cr for ending a human life, whether it's for a job or not determines your ability to pay that and get forgiven instantly.
It's hilarious how Odyssey turned everyone into bloodthirsty serial killers overnight. Really sucks for Anarchy squads, their BGS is hard enough to handle without the constant randos pillaging their settlements.
Hahaha yeah that's kinda funny whoops. Of course I meant Multi, but it felt like Solo for all intents and purposes. As for the sparky ' been awhile since we've had a rage quit' Has it really ? No wonder no one is on the game or hiding away. There was another comment advising it would be an impossible situation for just a glancing blow non destructive within a has res. It may supposed to be impossible and the resulting 200 credit fine payable within the same system, however this is not what occurred, which is why I said the C&P system is broken. I now have a ship showing zero fines anywhere no notoriety and yet remains locked out. But everyone who points out a flaw is jumped upon by the self appointed forum knights, which is yet another reason why the game is dying on its . Anyways, its uninstalled, had fun whilst it lasted, well thats a lie, it was fun prior to the long awaited space legs. Good luck to all, I'm outta here.
It's incredibly easy and quick to send an SMS message, no high data bandwidth needed.
the main issue is that the current situation has lead to an incredibly risk-averse community where the idea of blowing up even once is completely unacceptable, and anything that blows players up gets the devs screamed at and yet more demands to file the edges off the game so nobody ever has to see a rebuy screen. People announcing their ragequit after one (1) accident. That sort of thing. Odyssey was great when I first started it because for the first time in years I actually felt like I had to play smart and avoid fights, even when I started getting upgraded gear, I actually failed a couple of times and got packed off to the incident report - sure, I didn't lose anything besides failing my current mission, but it was still something.
Since Odyssey happened I've visited many more prison facilities than before, it has inspired me to see how long it takes to visit them all...
...you've been watching me play?
Thats on FD really- I can think of several junction points where a couple of squealies put the brakes on sensible changes.
Yeah. One thing I learned from watching the AXI discord when spire sites became the meta is that whatever the current most lucrative activity in the game is, people will get foaming-at-the-mouth-mad if they experience any difficulty doing it. Hordes of people who'd never so much as sneezed at a cyclops before going into massive screaming invective in the voice chat because nobody had cleared out the banshees at the AXI private group instance at 2am, or someone started sabotaging the spires so medusas showed up, or even that someone triggered an orthrus that they weren't expecting and they got shut down and that hurt their credits per hour.
Its this reason alone that PP V2 needs to (sorry mods!) be Open slanted or simply be really, really hard at the top end where the players do the most.
The other issue is that when fdev do nerf credit fountains they often do so in a way that wrecks the activity for people who aren't going absolutely nuts with it.
If it is made hard, or dangerous, or even mildly challenging, given the 'average' ED player is risk averse, two things are likely to happen:
Nah, this stuff is stuffing the egg back into the shell. They should have just thought about mining better before unleashing that massive brainfart. E84 had precious metals and gems in Kilos and Grams. They should have thought about why that was a good idea in 84 before blazing their own trail in 2014. Mining was OK, we just wanted it a little more profitable, no one said blow it out totally and make us do nothing but mono-mine one "precious" gem at a time. I don't know how this stuff is "precious", I must have mined enough to build an entire Coriolis out of the stuff by now. Poor planning leads to poor games.
This is why I said top end - because its these players that really drive PP and not the casuals doing small amounts. FD should resist social media and grow a spine, given they listened to these people in the past and frankly made the game worse- for example the shield rework that went nowhere. I'd also wager that you'd be surprised at who switches.
With the Thargoid distraction gone, everyone and their mama is now going murder hobo in anarchy systems once again. We've already lost 3 of our 28 systems in the last two weeks, despite valiantly trying to defend them. There is too much downward pressure to cope with, unless you want to turn the game into a full time job. We had a good run, but it seems we're finally done for.
