They haven't changed it, this was simply an unintended consequence of FD helping players out after a bug by moving their location.
Elite dangerous and bug/ch abusing has gone to next level.
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They haven't changed it, this was simply an unintended consequence of FD helping players out after a bug by moving their location.
A bit of pitchforking is a great way to spend a friday at work.
Yes I'm waiting for that.
I disagree with that - game has rules. Exploration is pretty neglected enough as it is in this game. One of the rules for exploration is "if you can't return with the data you don't get the plaudits". If an explorer has chosen to go explore an area of the galaxy knowing full well it's going to be a one way trip, only then to have the Hand Of God magically move them to where they can return to sell their data - then that, for me, is just not on.
I'm not a great believer in getting a Participation Medal.
Agreed. This will probably be nothing more than Support being their usual and awesome super-eager to help a player in trouble. In which case all the discovered-by tags should be erased from history.
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But is it really an exploit? Using the boost for the FSD then then filling the boost up again right before the jump sounds like clever, creative thinking.
Before everyone goes on kicking and screaming that Frontier enabled players to "cheat the system" I'd like to point something out.
It is quite possible that the discovery tags belong to players who experienced legitimate bugs while in the cluster. If these bugs were severe enough to prevent the individual from being able to play the game (such as a bug preventing CMDR data from loading) then that person would have opened a legitimate ticket to request Frontier fix their problem. Frontier's standard procedure, iirc, in such an instance would be to move the player to safe location which is usually a starport.
If this is the case then one can hardly fault Frontier or the player.
It is quite possible that the discovery tags belong to players who experienced legitimate bugs while in the cluster. If these bugs were severe enough to prevent the individual from being able to play the game (such as a bug preventing CMDR data from loading) then that person would have opened a legitimate ticket to request Frontier fix their problem. Frontier's standard procedure, iirc, in such an instance would be to move the player to safe location which is usually a starport.
If this is the case then one can hardly fault Frontier or the player.
I totally agree - and in that case the discovery tags should be removed.
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They all knew what they where getting into when they decided to go there. They should have self destructed and bitten the bullet.
Agree. None of this is "malicious", by FD or the players, it's just an unintended consequence of a support ticket. Although, the players could have chosen to destroy their data by self-destructing (that's what I would have done).
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lol
are you serious? there are loads of threads about many of the "exploits" in ED.. I know as i usually moan about them
(I use exploits in " " because some have argued that its intended in the design and i cant prove otherwise)
They can now be returned from!
Somebody found a trick where you can get 2 neutron star boosts from 1 neutron star by flying through the cone whilst the FSD is counting down to enter the next system with a boost already in the tank.
Not sure if anyone said but made it big enough to get peoples attention, sorry if it was too big
In short I don't think this was a support action but maybe Brett C can confirm.
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Been caught in the NS bug where I was insta-pulled into the middle of a cone in normal space, and has happened multiple times to a friend of mine.
In all instances the ships were repaired and returned to a safe point within the system.
I see no reason at all explorer ships in deep space would be ported back to the bubble because of a bug. To the majority of explorers this could be weeks of travelling down the drain.
This would therefore be either a deliberate concession, or someone at FD decided the explored region was intended to allow travel back and is therefore bugged.
Weak argument on both sides to be honest.
This has been mentioned previously but was pointed out in the explored region in question, there are no neutron starss available to get back once you're in deep enough.
Do you have information to the contrary on that?
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I really don't care about the tags, i care about what frontier support has done (if the case is that there is way back then nothing wrong) but if support do this kind of stuff then players will try abuse it more and more. I wouldn't care that support move them out there if they would have lost that exploration data. Support shouldn't make possible for players do things that are impossible other vise. Its actually good that this came up with this chase instead of some competition or bgs battle between two player factions etc. This isn't that important case, but it means players will start to get advance by abusing support. This could have impact to colonia competition cg if support doesn't check what players have done between dying and them moving them. I wouldn't be surprised if this has already happened.
I hope the support will make sure that they don't effect the game/competition between players by mistake. I don't think this is indented move from support.
The whole first discoveries mechanic reminds me, how close to the animals we are
Yeah they said. Maybe they should have used a big font to get your attention
Thanks, this thread grew a bit rapidly and the last page didn't mention it so I wanted to just get it out there. Font size reduced, rep applied.
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You can get back from one system Ah candri and its acceptable that it has been claimed, but you can't explore whole cluster and then come back s you can't do douple super charge, then save super charge and do normal jumps around and then use the second super charge. If there is some way back then there is no problem but currently there is no way back
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Yep, though I'm not surprised it happened to be honest.
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Ahhh, fair enough, I retract my previous statement then and am feeling rather silly. Thats ok though, it's Friday and I have beer.
In that case yeah I agree, kinda poor form that unreachable bits are tagged...
