Finally succumbed to being rammed to death

Stench · Jan 12, 2015

It's been tried before, but not succeed. Just now, a Python starts flying around me while I am hunting at a resource extraction site. I slow down and attempt to open comms and keep getting nudged. Ok. One of these. So I fly away a bit and try to lose him. Think I did. But no. While opening comms again the jerk rams my Cobra and I'm out.

*sigh* 76k insurance and 200k + of bounties gone.

salad · Jan 12, 2015

What a loser, I'd imagine someone flying a Python would have the balls to at least destroy a ship properly and take the 200CR.

Jarn · Jan 12, 2015

salad said:
What a loser, I'd imagine someone flying a Python would have the balls to at least destroy a ship properly and take the 200CR.

So someone had a bit of fun. Big deal. OP could've just gotten out of there and into another RES. Its called Elite: Dangerous, not Elite: Daycare

Flyinpiranha · Jan 12, 2015

jarn said:
so someone had a bit of fun. Big deal. Op could've just gotten out of there and into another res. Its called elite: Dangerous, not elite: Daycare

omgrofl daycare. You are probably the funniest person on this forum if not the entire world.

Executive · Jan 12, 2015

Jarn said:
So someone had a bit of fun. Big deal. OP could've just gotten out of there and into another RES. Its called Elite: Dangerous, not Elite: Daycare

Looks like the Pythonjerk showed up...

Quineloe · Jan 12, 2015

Jarn said:
So someone had a bit of fun. Big deal. OP could've just gotten out of there and into another RES. Its called Elite: Dangerous, not Elite: Daycare

permanent ban for griefing sounds like another good alternative

Rall · Jan 12, 2015

salad said:
What a loser, I'd imagine someone flying a Python would have the balls to at least destroy a ship properly and take the 200CR.

It is pretty cheap. Personally I would have unloaded my entire stock of dumbfires into him and just eaten the bounty.

Jarn · Jan 12, 2015

Quineloe said:
permanent ban for griefing sounds like another good alternative

A decent suggestion, but allow me to counter with mine: Anyone who uses the word "grief/griefer" gets permanently banned.

sbdags · Jan 12, 2015

Stench said:
It's been tried before, but not succeed. Just now, a Python starts flying around me while I am hunting at a resource extraction site. I slow down and attempt to open comms and keep getting nudged. Ok. One of these. So I fly away a bit and try to lose him. Think I did. But no. While opening comms again the jerk rams my Cobra and I'm out.

*sigh* 76k insurance and 200k + of bounties gone.

Viper rammed me yesterday (both our faults) and my insurance is 231k! You have some ways to go on your upgrades

Extrasmooth · Jan 12, 2015

If they kill you through ramming presumably they don't get the police fighters after them?

Skip Intro · Jan 12, 2015

Permanent ban for killing anyone, anywhere, by any means, then take off and nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Dragging myself back from my meta "post a lot of scifi references" game - so if the guy in the Python shot the OP to bits, you'd all say "fair cop, gov!" I don't see the difference, as the OP still gets his ship deaded.

salad said:
What a loser, I'd imagine someone flying a Python would have the balls to at least destroy a ship properly and take the 200CR.

Jarn · Jan 12, 2015

Extrasmooth said:
If they kill you through ramming presumably they don't get the police fighters after them?

True, ramming doesn't count as an attack. You can ram police vessels around stations and they won't care.

Quineloe · Jan 12, 2015

Jarn said:
A decent suggestion, but allow me to counter with mine: Anyone who uses the word "grief/griefer" gets permanently banned.

Which of our suggestion is actually backed by the TOS and EULA? Hint, not yours.

Skip Intro · Jan 12, 2015

Quineloe said:
Which of our suggestion is actually backed by the TOS and EULA? Hint, not yours.

Where's the "permanent ban for griefing" in the ToS or EULA? Asking for a friend.

Jarn · Jan 12, 2015

Quineloe said:
Which of our suggestion is actually backed by the TOS and EULA? Hint, not yours.

Here's another hint: Neither is yours. Do you know what spawn-camping is in FPS games? That's griefing. This is not.

Quineloe · Jan 12, 2015

Jarn said:
Here's another hint: Neither is yours. Do you know what spawn-camping is in FPS games? That's griefing. This is not.

[ ] I have actually read the EULA

and really, ramming someone to death in multiple attempts with deliberation can easily be classified as griefing, even if you don't like it.

Midgardsormr · Jan 13, 2015

Skip Intro said:
so if the guy in the Python shot the OP to bits, you'd all say "fair cop, gov!" I don't see the difference, as the OP still gets his ship deaded.

If Python had opened fire, though, at least the OP could have shot back. Probably not to much effect, but there's always the catharsis value.

I lost my first Cobra to a ram attack, too. Wasn't a player, though, just a ridiculously aggressive NPC pirate.

Jarn · Jan 13, 2015

Quineloe said:
and really, ramming someone to death in multiple attempts with deliberation can easily be classified as griefing, even if you don't like it.

No it cannot. Most of the people crying about griefers dont even have experienced real griefing, in this game or any other. They just dont like to see their ship go buh bye.

Arindor · Jan 13, 2015

OP, he deliberately rammed you, you moved, he followed and did the same. A clear cut case of griefing IMO. Bad luck OP in meeting one of the world's gaming idiots! Have some rep to soften the blow. (No pun intended.)

Lethargus · Jan 13, 2015

It's not griefing, it's exploiting a known bug in the way the system handles repercussions for attacking other ships. The problem FD has now is addressing people doing this while still preventing the random cargo trader from gaining a bounty because NPC pilot jerk bumps him during docking.

And welcome to why I no longer play open. I don't mind being pirated, but if you're going to find ways around the (already extremely light) punishment for attacking another player, or find camping outside a station with rail guns amusing I don't need to play with you. Since there's no POINT to wings right now I have just as much fun treating this game as a single player event.