Yes but we don't live in a fantasy world.
I'm offering a practical and realistic solution.
You know I'm not wrong.
I feel like anyone new enough to get tricked into mining slavery would not figure out this method of escape. Try to remember being that new.
I was never that new, after many years in a society where I observed other people being taken advantage of by charlatans and frauds I have developed a keen sense of understanding that almost no-one gives you stuff for nothing, always check the fine print, ask for advice, seek help from more experienced people, in this case players, ask questions. Sure everyone gets caught unprepared at times, but if you get caught up in such an obvious scam it's not a matter of simply being new in the game.
smartOr people can learn to NOT. TRUST. RANDOMS. ON. THE. INTERNET.
Really, it's that easy.
dude i started last month and I have already 120 hours on the game since the start I've probably spent spent more time research crazy but fun as hellSweet jebus, people are still talking about it... Nice solution, but what if someone doesn't want shipyard in their FC, like AT ALL? There's not much reason to have a shipyard in most FC builds anyway, eh?
As for solution, folks who got stuck like that, could, you know, wait for another FC to appear in the system and ferry them all back? Like it happened very soon? Baddies that captured them also stated (in Discord iirc) that there was pretty big FC traffic going on. Some would definitely have no docking restriction. Why those poor "slaves" didn't jump ship is very curious question.
The biggest mystery here, is that when you start out with ED, for at least first 3 months, you spend a lot more time tabbed out in google than in actual game. Hell, even after years, I have like 15 tabs open at all times, to do some basic stuff. Because there's almost zero-zilch-nada useful info or much needed functionality available in-game, thus pretty much everyone is forced to use outside sources. It's given at this point.
How these "newbs" managed to play game in "blind mode" and didn't even try to google on how to get unstuck is worth freaking investigation... That not to mention that any relatively experienced player can mine x100 times faster and much more efficiently than 100 newbs, even if their life depended on it. I don't see any reason to do what they did, other than for poo poo and giggles. Feels like everyone overreacted HARD here, especially certain "journalists"...
I was never that new, after many years in a society where I observed other people being taken advantage of by charlatans and frauds I have developed a keen sense of understanding that almost no-one gives you stuff for nothing, always check the fine print, ask for advice, seek help from more experienced people, in this case players, ask questions. Sure everyone gets caught unprepared at times, but if you get caught up in such an obvious scam it's not a matter of simply being new in the game.
All carriers have a shipyard by default with a Sidewinder available to buy at 0 credits, with no option to disable this facility.
If held hostage, player can buy Sidewinder, self destruct, respawn in Freewinder in bubble, and have real ship transferred back with existing mechanics.
Boom. (Literally) No more hostage cases.
I don't know but is feeding a search engine with a few choice words, such as "Elite Dangerous stuck in system" too much to ask for? If it is, how do these people get through life?But apparently some are that new. It would be nice to teach people to prevent or solve their own problems, but the majority will just petition authority to punish someone else for their mistakes. FD have already set precedent by punishing people for creating bad publicity for them, so this solution probably wont happen. Shame too that the rescuing fleet carriers are now just out of the picture. Would've made a nice follow-up article, but then stories about cats being rescued from trees don't generate as many adclicks.
When a game is set for such a low age group the protection for the online interactions has to be strict.
But it is strange that Frontier have done nothing about ganking for so long and yet have taken this stance with a non violent scam.
Its an interesting situation![]()
Im going to hate being around in the next 50 years and having to listen people in my age group say the same things about the next generation like its a new take that hasnt been repeated since man was able to have kidsSuppose another question is how many children are playing Elite Dangerous as opposed to say Fortnite/Overwatch et al - I'd hazard a guess that the majority of players are middle aged neckbeards, not little kids - beyond basic pew pew I can't see today's children with usually rather short attention spans who are used to instant gratification play a slow burner game like Elite beyond a couple of hours before they get bored. Unless a neckbeard father decides to make their kids slaving away grinding credits on their behalf
(I don't have a neckbeard, nor kids ftr)