FD: Apparently Elite got noticed, not in a good way

[Lancing]

I'm not sure if FD may already be aware (I assume yes). But apparently your success has gotten noticed.
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One of my old corp mates from EvE mentioned last night. Apparently a large group of players from multiple corps on EvE are deliberately targeting Elite, this was going on before to a limited degree but has apparently reached a much more serious and organized level since the Steam launch. The intent seems to be to run Elite into the ground before it can take off. The plan is apparently to target and grief the living crap out of people, new players specifically until people quit and the game dies off.
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I'd imagine eventually they'll lose interest and give up, but from the sounds of things you'll have a very large group (by Elite standards) of players from outside of the Elite community targeting your player base.
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Anyway, for what its worth.

 

[kurush]

Good thing Elite is not Eve and has the Solo button If we should be worried, it is about people asking to make Elite another Eve.

 

[Lancing]

Good thing Elite is not Eve and has the Solo button

Thankfully that's an option for most of us. Unfortunately most new players will have no idea what's going on.

 

[Derath]

Are they gonna wreck faster than light too? I mean it has about as much in common as ED does to Eve! Kill those rockmen and their missile launchers! Grief the noobies!

 

[Rubbernuke]

If this is true it's sad as hell people get kicks doing that sort of thing.

 

[lilikin]

So they buy a game to run people out of it?

Thank you for the £40 and the solo mode, most of the negative reviews on steam are from people who wanted a campaign

ps Eve is Crap

*stepping away from the thread

 

[Rykzon]

Good thing Elite is not Eve and has the Solo button If we should be worried, it is about people asking to make Elite another Eve.

Many people get ED for the multiplayer part of the game, not to fly alone all day.

 

[kurush]

Unfortunately most new players will have no idea what's going on.

They have to be educated! Bring on the griefers

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Many people get ED for the multiplayer part of the game, not to fly alone all day.

If this type of people get chased back to EvE, good riddance

 

[Stigbob]

This is nothing new, the offlinegate mob have been cheating/griefing since day 1 of open release. They do this (in their own words) to drive people into solo/leave the game to force FD to implement offline/go bust and release the source code.

They've failed its a small (but vocal) bunch of sulky types who can be completely neutered by switching to solo to visit Lave/playing in Mobius or practicing evade and hyperjump.

 

[Ydiss]

So a "huge" number of players are going to ruin the game by buying it, being new players and needing to learn the game, then concentrate on killing new players repeatedly.

Sounds like gamma launch, only without the beta players.

Sounds great for the game and FD. Thanks for the warning...

 

[HipToss]

Wouldn't they be NEW players as well?

 

[Fen Harel]

Whatever they are doing in EVE, for good or ill, it has certainly given them a drastically inflated view of what they can do in Elite.

 

[Deep Blue]

That's just... Pathetic. Get a life!

 

[noodle]

Hilarious. Significant numbers of people paying £40 to troll a game? I'm sure FD will be disappointed to take their money off them.

 

[Lancing]

Wouldn't they be NEW players as well?

I'd imagine, honestly I stopped playing EvE cause of this . That entire community is ridiculous.
It sounded like they are fairly organized and I assume bored. If you see a significant uptick in the griefing going on I assume that it will be them doing it.
Aside from playing in solo or private I have no idea what else you can really do about it for now. Like I said hopefully after a few months they'll get bored and move on.

 

[ZeeWolf]

That's a good idea. Attempt to keep the space game market as slim as possible to ensure Eve continues to be an obscure title in a relatively unfamiliar genre. Seems to be the strategy of fanatics drooling over some other space game titles too. If only they thought it through

 

[1500]

Many people get ED for the multiplayer part of the game, not to fly alone all day.

Any proof of that? Or did you just make it up?

Most people play PVE, not PVP. To try and attempt to claim that most people picked it up for the multiplayer is just not something you can back up.

 

[Roybe]

Offline players fantasy comes true! Elite dies, they get their server code for the 'true, promised, offline, experience!' Gotta love this world we live in...and people complain that the Elite Universe is to bleak!

 

[HipToss]

An easy way for FD to "help" this would be to spawn new players all over the place, and not in just a few systems.

 

[noodle]

Any proof of that? Or did you just make it up?

Most people play PVE, not PVP. To try and attempt to claim that most people picked it up for the multiplayer is just not something you can back up.

Figures?