Griefing

[Crimson Kaim]

What do players get from camping by a nav beacon and constantly attacking an unarmed ship with no cargo, or no bounty? Is it just the pleasure of ruining the game for someone else, or what?

So many reasons, feel free to read through the thousands of topics regarding that. There are human right activists, lawyers and even poems out there to be discovered, all covering the topic of griefing in games and Elite Dangerous.

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

"Some want to test the response of the victim."

An unarmed Asp.. clearly an explorer trying to get to Deciat to engineer his ship, so yeah, probably just doing it to be a . Rebooted into solo play... not time for this childish crap. Oh well, schools are back next week.

Why not go to Elvira Martuuk instead? Did you know she provides G5 FSD upgrades?

Heck, if you plan on going to Colonia you can get a pretty sweet ship without ever visiting Farseer.

 

[Rick6549]

Why not go to Elvira Martuuk instead? Did you know she provides G5 FSD upgrades?

Heck, if you plan on going to Colonia you can get a pretty sweet ship without ever visiting Farseer.

I dont even have farseer or palin unlocked and i can get g5 fsds and thrusters

 

[Screemonster]

Why not go to Elvira Martuuk instead? Did you know she provides G5 FSD upgrades?

Heck, if you plan on going to Colonia you can get a pretty sweet ship without ever visiting Farseer.

elvira is even less of a pain than farseer to unlock 'cause grabbing a few soontill relics and hopping across the bubble in an early-game ship is way easier than trekking out to the pleiades or witch-head

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I imagine they all look like this.

 

[DaggerSnake]

What do players get from camping by a nav beacon and constantly attacking an unarmed ship with no cargo, or no bounty? Is it just the pleasure of ruining the game for someone else, or what?

Maybe they are hoping for someone to get frustrated in real life and post about it..

Actually, how can you establish the real world motivations of a player? Are they pursuing some ingame result? Are they just trying to ruin other people’s experience? You can probably extrapolate with in game behaviors tracked over time...like some kind of Kharma system....hmmm .

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Considering that my heart has never been beating faster in this game than when I flew my paper dart Courier through Shinrarta Dezhra whilst being chased by players in a Krait mk2 and FAS. Rebuy was insignificant but it was a game if whether I could evade them and get to Jameson. Where would the fun have have been there if not for those gankers? It's not like there's an anarchy system somewhere that would give the same challenge.

elvira is even less of a pain than farseer to unlock 'cause grabbing a few soontill relics and hopping across the bubble in an early-game ship is way easier than trekking out to the pleiades or witch-head

This was how I did it. I've never understood why people do Farseer first. Being able to g3 your shields at the same time is no bad thing either.

 

[CMDR Big Mike]

I assume it’s because they enjoy ing people off. Which is a fine motive I guess.

Typically, I fly in solo or Mobius when I’m engineering. TBH no point in flying around in open unless you want a fight

 

[kaokao]

Why?

To hear the lamentations of the carebears.

And also because there is little to no actual gameplay around pvp.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

there's no griefing in solo and mobius

 

[Bigmaec]

there's no griefing in solo and mobius

You've never been pad blocked in mobius? Lucky you...

 

[S~P]

"Some want to test the response of the victim."

An unarmed Asp.. clearly an explorer trying to get to Deciat to engineer his ship, so yeah, probably just doing it to be a . Rebooted into solo play... not time for this childish crap. Oh well, schools are back next week.

Most of them are sadly not kids on holiday, this is just how they play the game. The only way to avoid them is to go solo or Mobius, just avoid open in hot spots like engineers.

 

[Ian Skippy]

What do players get from camping by a nav beacon and constantly attacking an unarmed ship with no cargo, or no bounty? Is it just the pleasure of ruining the game for someone else, or what?

Killing NPC's is a given. When fighting a player you might get the kill. Due to the absurd way the game is balanced even the weakest ship has a chance to escape, and better outfitted ships can only be killed if they allow a 'gentleman's death'. Killing weak ships' simply is the only way to kill cmdrs 'on your own merit'.

Beyond that: anyone who goes out of his way to remove the weapons of his ship deserves to be killed over and over and over.

 

[Bryan K]

Sounds like a nice place to fill out one’s block list. Maybe I should drop by in my bait ship.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

The claim ‘there is no gameplay’ reminds me of this:

Source: https://youtu.be/0VH-tJSpkjA

 

[Vandaahl]

...that you acknowledge their existence, with threads like these for instance.

 

[Powderpanic]

What do players get from camping by a nav beacon and constantly attacking an unarmed ship with no cargo, or no bounty? Is it just the pleasure of ruining the game for someone else, or what?

For the salt

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KquFZYi6L0


Powerpanic
The Voice of Griefing

 

[pookeyhead]

Devotional reasons. In a vain and imperfect world like ours is, correctly ethically aligned works like these are actually emanations of love. You will understand this when you understand Paradise.

Dude... too much weed.

 

[Rick6549]

Obviously. The OP is asking why people find it fun. I know I wouldn't. I also know other people evidently do. It's not my job to complain, unless they're being massive edgelords about it, like a lot of people on this forum.

Theres really no way to explain it, they just do i guess.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Dude... too much weed.

Unpopular opinion: or not enough. There is this wishy-washy phase you have to plow through...