Disclaimer to minimise grief?
- Thread starter Globusdiablo
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While I cannot speak for our friends across the pond, the American people need warning labels to not drink Brake Fluid. Not entirely sure this would be useful but I do support the idea of some in game way of explaining the rebuy/insurance mechanic that is invasive, early on, for new players. The idea of it being part of the pre-flight checklist is an excellent idea.
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Come on, you know it's not the stuff. It's the time invested in obtaining the stuff and the additional time required to get it back. If it was just the "stuff in a videogame", arcades would have had a constant stream of thin-skinned rage quitters pouring out of their doors throughout the 80s because Inky had caught Pac-Man once too often. There are videogames and there are videogames.
Announcers could alert upon departure if rebuy is negative/insufficient.
Before departure would be preferable.
Or maybe the station could broadcast to everyone that someone has just taken off without adequate insurance...
Flying without rebuy isn't the problem, it's complaining about losing the ship that's the problem
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Warning labels on Coffee? Wut?
Still would need an in-console link to a GalNet article or something, though.
Before departure would be preferable.
Consider it a penalty that you're reminded after takeoff. The re-dock of shame.
(why we even have to dock to pay anything in the year 3308 is for another thread)
WorldsGreatestForumDad
Banned
Couldn't stop players in world of Warcraft from standing in fire. Mostly hunters. Even with deadly boss mods yelling at them.
We won't stop monkeys complaining about PvP after they have played the game for 5 years click open play. Die. Come to the forums and complain about PvP because there is no definition.
But that's really not our fault. Or the player that died fault.
It's just how the game is made sadly.
Great game though. Just a bad flaw here. For all parties involved.
We won't stop monkeys complaining about PvP after they have played the game for 5 years click open play. Die. Come to the forums and complain about PvP because there is no definition.
But that's really not our fault. Or the player that died fault.
It's just how the game is made sadly.
Great game though. Just a bad flaw here. For all parties involved.
Ah, the eponymous Huntard. I do miss WoW, but I could never go through it all again now.
WorldsGreatestForumDad
Banned
Our group just started back up.
Really happy to have that needle in the arm again.
Don't get me wrong I love elite. I still play. But I really need something to move with these thargoids or PvP stuff.
Can't believe I went back to wow myself. But here we are lol.
It's fun though. Legion is amazing. Can't wait for the next xpac.
The station defences should destroy your ship if you attempt to take off without sufficient rebuy funds.
OP, nice idea but FD could have that front and centre of a player's screen from the moment of releasing locks to preparing to jump and we would still have players ignoring it. And yes then they would jump on here to complain, someone would tell them to put a ticket in (yep, tickets for stupidity, great idea), others would somehow manage to blame FD and call it a bug, and the rest of us would laugh ourselves off our chairs.
There's people who just don't agree with this mechanic. It's casual people used to savegames and not getting shafted for some stupid reason of "consequence" when they just play a game for fun. They are probably more inclined to SP. No disclaimer will make this rebuy thing more attractive to them.
I don't like it neither but made my concession to it. I don't think from a pure SP perspective it is worth that concession.
I don't like it neither but made my concession to it. I don't think from a pure SP perspective it is worth that concession.
This is the world we live in.
These are the signs we're given.
Read them and wonder what happened,
to things like common sense.
(read to the tune of Land of Confusion)