Evil PvP thoughts...

[Pete]

I'm just waiting for the day when a PvPer with far too much time on their hands makes a special effort to fly his combat pimped ship out to Sagittarius A*, and wait very very patiently for explorers to slaughter...

The anguish would be huge to fly all that way and then be taken out by a fellow CMDR!

On the flip side, most explorers can out-jump any combat ship, so once they FSD out to another system they'd be safe.

Fortunately I can't imagine that anyone who is serious enough for PvP griefing would ever have the patience to make their way all the way to Sagittarius A*, let alone have the patience to just sit and wait for explorers (who may be well playing solo in any case to be able to take 4K screenshots)...

-- Pete.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I can't imagine anyone doing high-stakes endeavours like long-range exploration or a T9 full of palladium dawdling around in open

 

[Ian Skippy]

I can't imagine anyone doing high-stakes endeavours like long-range exploration or a T9 full of palladium dawdling around in open

I would. To me that is exactly the fun part. If you'd explore in solo you know for 100% that after some point you will not encounter ANYTHING. You can just fly shieldless and go to bed without logging off and be sure nothing could ever happen to you. In open that changes, and it would force me to plan my expedition. If I would go for truly long range ASP trips I'd bring a shield + shield cell bank. It would reduce my jump range but you'd know that you have the time to jump away from any trouble you find.

Btw: I so hope FD will add Thargoids without warning somewhere in both open and solo, so some "I am safe and dont need to prepare for anything" explores are gobbled-up in deep space from out of nowhere. Would result in some interesting forum posts me things.

 

[WiseDuck]

Well if these "greifers" (and that word is open to interpretation) didn't know about Sagittarius A* then they do now

 

[Pete]

Well if these "greifers" (and that word is open to interpretation) didn't know about Sagittarius A* then they do now

...and if they leave more other people alone to go chasing halfway across the galaxy just to eat one or two explorers, then that's a worthwhile trade.

-- Pete.

 

[Huita]

You just gave me an idea.

 

[vyrago]

i'd get a little pucker in the old ring-hole if I saw a CMDR on sensors that far out.

 

[Dwardeen]

You just gave me an idea.

Same, deep space pirating :v

 

[MARPATdroid]

Yeah this thought has already crossed my mind.

Would be super crappy to do, so someone will do it.

 

[Pete]

Same, deep space pirating :v

Well it's hardly pirating, as everyone knows explorers don't carry any cargo...

Besides, you guys can all talk the talk, but there's no way in hell you'd walk the walk and fly all that way just to get one or two infamous kills a week. It'd be a long flight for a ship not kitted out to maximise jumps, and a very long dull wait for the very few "victims" who actually fly there and do it in open play...

You'll just stay in inhabited space and dream of what it could be like to find an explorer on the other side of the galaxy, and strip him of his weeks of exploration data for your own twisted pleasure.

-- Pete.

 

[Joe Spivey]

Well if these "greifers" (and that word is open to interpretation) didn't know about Sagittarius A* then they do now

Knowing about it is one thing. Finding it is another. I doubt many of them have the brains to find their own backsides with both hands and a torch.

 

[Vandaahl]

Well, since its not very likely you are going to meet someone that far away from home, you might as well switch to solo. That way, that pesky PVP'er will be waiting until his bones are bleached

 

[Huita]

Well it's hardly pirating, as everyone knows explorers don't carry any cargo...

Besides, you guys can all talk the talk, but there's no way in hell you'd walk the walk and fly all that way just to get one or two infamous kills a week. It'd be a long flight for a ship not kitted out to maximise jumps, and a very long dull wait for the very few "victims" who actually fly there and do it in open play...

You'll just stay in inhabited space and dream of what it could be like to find an explorer on the other side of the galaxy, and strip him of his weeks of exploration data for your own twisted pleasure.

-- Pete.

I've already been way out of civilized space but gave up exploring for now until something that makes it interesting AND rewarding comes out.

But this idea sounds like a reward of each own. On my first trip, i promised myself to never come back until i find earthlike planet. Took me two weeks or so. Next time, i might just as well promise myself to never go back until i hit a player around center of galaxy.

Doesn't even have to be a kill, i hope by that time ability to transfer credits over would be around so i could pirate a guy for cash. 2mil or dai!

UPD: After reading the other replies, i get disappointed about modern players. What's the point of playing a space MMO if you do it in solo mode? It's like traders who trade in solo. Boring and spineless.

 

[Ozrix]

That's just (mildly speaking) douchebaggery for the sake of it.

 

[Pete]

What's the point of playing a space MMO if you do it in solo mode?

Explorers often go solo because it's the only game mode where you can take 4K quality screenshots, and most of us love to take good quality shots of the best things we find...

That benefit along with the odds of meeting other explorers being so small is the reason why many explorers play in solo mode.

-- Pete.

 

[TannakaObi]

Besides, you guys can all talk the talk, but there's no way in hell you'd walk the walk and fly all that way just to get one or two infamous kills a week. It'd be a long flight for a ship not kitted out to maximise jumps, and a very long dull wait for the very few "victims" who actually fly there and do it in open play...

Who exactly is this aimed at? Some imaginary griefers that don't really exist?

Look:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=97561
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84532&highlight=Poll:+what+do+you+count+as+griefing

(Basically a small % of people that think pirating is griefing. So this entire thread is targeting people that don't even exist.)

Unless it's just aimed at innocent pirates, in which case it's just stupid. Of course Pirates are not going to move to deep unpopulated space to do their pirating, that would be . You know what, traders are not going to trade there either...

Sheesh! Talk about flogging a dead horse.

 

[Ghostickles]

ino right
Huge anti multiplayer and PvP sentiment happening here. Witch hunting, name calling, passive aggression and concern threads. Starting to get offensive, and about as useful as this;
'It seems like some people just want to watch the game burn.
They hate multiplayer so much they want a mode where all the weapons shoot cotton rainbows, except at NPC's or Thargoids!
Well, this is shocking and disturbing to say the least. My little snowflakes have feelings, and we the big bad multiplayer crowd want you to know we care. Deeply.
If at any time I can self destruct to cause you a little brightness, or I can ram a station wall to help you hold back the fear, you just say the word little buddy, its a big galaxy and I want you to feel special.
Whatever it takes, we can be best friends and play nicely, and Im sure all the other big bad multiplayers can too.'
Can we not do this?

 

[Huita]

Explorers often go solo because it's the only game mode where you can take 4K quality screenshots, and most of us love to take good quality shots of the best things we find...

That benefit along with the odds of meeting other explorers being so small is the reason why many explorers play in solo mode.

-- Pete.

Well, to be honest, i've decided to just switch modes for a screenshot. But then i never made any screenshots in 4k because native resolution still looks good. Anyway, is there actually any statistics on explorers using solo or open modes? A poll or something? Because i personally play everything in open, exploration included. Not that i ever met anyone in deep space but i like the idea that some vasyan999 is drilling an asteroid in a system 10000 light years from me.

 

[Dwardeen]

Well it's hardly pirating, as everyone knows explorers don't carry any cargo...

Besides, you guys can all talk the talk, but there's no way in hell you'd walk the walk and fly all that way just to get one or two infamous kills a week. It'd be a long flight for a ship not kitted out to maximise jumps, and a very long dull wait for the very few "victims" who actually fly there and do it in open play...

You'll just stay in inhabited space and dream of what it could be like to find an explorer on the other side of the galaxy, and strip him of his weeks of exploration data for your own twisted pleasure.

-- Pete.

They Just need to implement P2P money transfer

 

[Morbad]

Well, since its not very likely you are going to meet someone that far away from home, you might as well switch to solo.

And erase any of the already slim potential for excitement?

That doesn't sound like fun.