Dropping the Ball

I Do .. In Mobius.

Luniticisi you have however just given me an interesting idea, if they implement a karma system they could make it so lawful pilots have less cost to having more high quality ships compared to lawless/criminal pilots which it would cost more for example a Corvette of a lawful player may be in stats terms better and thus meaning criminal pilots have to be better pilots.
 
What's killing me right now is that nobody saw this coming - no, I'm not talking about FD. I'm talking about the players following it. SDC were obviously going to try to disrupt things, so why didn't you guys have a sneaky word with the CODE boys and girls and "pay" them to act as fighter escorts?
 
What's killing me right now is that nobody saw this coming - no, I'm not talking about FD. I'm talking about the players following it. SDC were obviously going to try to disrupt things, so why didn't you guys have a sneaky word with the CODE boys and girls and "pay" them to act as fighter escorts?

*Looks at Majinvash, looks back at the forum, looks back at Majinvash*

*Facepaw*

*Chuckles in the background*

If FD promises us to fix piracy, we'll be on it like bloodhounds.
 
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Truth is the destruction of the ship that carried the message should have removed that clue from the game .. that would be "Emergent Gameplay"

Haha yes, I can't quite count how many time as a game master I have shelved an emerging campaign because the players stupidly destroyed every opportunity to progress it. That's what happens when you put the player in the centre, FD. Stop doing that and progress your campaign based on NPC activity instead. Much safer if you want to tell a story.

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*Looks at Majinvash, looks back at the forum, looks back at Majinvash*

*Facepaw*

*Chuckles in the background*

If FD promises us to fix piracy, we'll be on it like bloodhounds.

Oh, c'mon. An evening of PvP and the opportunity to get right up SDC's nose...are you really telling me that playing Elite: The Text Adventure on here is something you'd rather do than that? ;)

EDIT: Plus, even though you'd be mercenaries, it'd do your PR campaign a world of good...
 
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Haha yes, I can't quite count how many time as a game master I have shelved an emerging campaign because the players stupidly destroyed every opportunity to progress it. That's what happens when you put the player in the centre, FD. Stop doing that and progress your campaign based on NPC activity instead. Much safer if you want to tell a story.

:D S

From my experience in the DM chair, you foster a group who wants to play the game. If there are individuals who don't want to play, you cut them from the group. You may have a great story to tell, but it only works if people want to hear it.
 
Luniticisi you have however just given me an interesting idea, if they implement a karma system they could make it so lawful pilots have less cost to having more high quality ships compared to lawless/criminal pilots which it would cost more for example a Corvette of a lawful player may be in stats terms better and thus meaning criminal pilots have to be better pilots.

No, that would be an absolutely horrible system.
 
It's easier to get someone to tell a story by writing a few lines in a forrum than to actually encode that into the game and cover all contingencies. That's what I see going on here.

I mean, its also easier for all of us to use our imaginations than to build a game. But instead, we all decided to pay FD to do some hard work and code things into a game for us.

That is what they are paid to do and that is what I, as the consumer, expect them to do.
 
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Oh, c'mon. An evening of PvP and the opportunity to get right up SDC's nose...are you really telling me that playing Elite: The Text Adventure on here is something you'd rather do than that? ;)

I don't know, before the heat meta it would be an instant "yes, let's rock."

But now it's like "no, I don't want to play in the oven."

That's how I feel anyway. In a tournament, sure, that's fun because we limit ourselves to non-OP meta as much as possible. But just straight up free for all is just an oven-fest right now. I don't think either side will enjoy the experience other than holding down mouse buttons and spamming HSs.
 
I don't know, before the heat meta it would be an instant "yes, let's rock."

But now it's like "no, I don't want to play in the oven."

That's how I feel anyway. In a tournament, sure, that's fun because we limit ourselves to non-OP meta as much as possible. But just straight up free for all is just an oven-fest right now. I don't think either side will enjoy the experience other than holding down mouse buttons and spamming HSs.

Understandable. Still, it's got to be tempting to load up a Cobra with a bunch of thermal cascade packhounds and let loose...watch 'em run... ;)

I'd do it myself, but I cleared my save recently and I don't have the cash to burn on such things. Yet.
 
I agree that Fdev does seem a bit "out of touch" with how the community plays this game.
Some if them should really play their own game besides testings, take part in CGs and in open to meet the Aspholes and Terrorists. And read the forum of course to get a complete picture.
 
CODE/Goons types don't want to play online videogames for fun and immersion. They just use them as Schadenfreude-harvesting platforms, and enjoy creating needless drama so people are emotionally very invested in the games they are using to get their cheap kicks. If the game structure allows (and E: D doesn't allow it, FD did some research it seems), they go hard into RMT. Also, emotionally invested players will pay real money to hire them as ingame trolls, or to be left alone.

Sadly there's no point in playing internet spaceships with types who don't want to play internet spaceships, as they use the game as a tool to harass random players so they can feel good about themselves

They should be blanket banned, is it what Mobius is about? a private group for all but the griefer archetype?
 
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X-Files Episode 1:
Mulder stares into the distance thinking "The truth is out there."
BANG! The waitress screams as Mulder's brains spraypaint the next booth.
The End

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

"You take the blue pill; the story ends, you wake up in your bed and..."

BANG! Mr. Anderson recoils in horror as Morpheus' brains spraypaint the leather upholstery.
 
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