Just another rant about how new CnP is ruining my enjoyment of the game.
I fly my courier a lot. It's fast. Because it's fast, I use it for planetary scan missions, it's perfect, lands anywhere, in and out in seconds. Ah, but planetary scans get you a bounty nowadays (but not notoriety unless you are forced to defend youself from a patrol, I'll get to why that doesnt matter in a minute). Prior to 3.0.3 dropping, I had some friendly fire incidents in my corvette, got me some notoriety. Didn't expect it would be such a pain in the bum to get rid of. OBVIOUSLY I woulnd't have done what I did knowing what I know now, you know, have fun in the game. But that's not what this particular rant is about. I'll save that other rant for next time. This rant is about not being able to pay off my bounties for EIGHTEEN HOURS of play time. More than most games last. I play a lot of hours a week by most standards, my notoriety has gone down from 9 to 3 since Saturday, so thats, what, approximately 12 hours in game since Saturday night, 5 days. I haven't been punished enough?
The problem is that because I have a large bounty on my corvette, and teensy tiny one on my courier, from the planetary scans, I can't now take my SRV out of my Courier to have a race with a friend, because I have notoriety from the corvette incident so can't pay off the bounty on my COURIER! GRRRRRR!
I am again finding this is making the game not fun, for the second time in a week I cannot do what I logged in to do. Now I have to fly around in my courier WITH the SRV reducing my top speed to only ballistic levels, rather than sans SRV supercalafragalistic levels and just wait.
Yes, I'm paying the penalty for my 'crime' (I won't go into that again, but how I got wanted is ridiculous as well), as I said I won't be committing any crimes of ANY kind in future. This means no more CZs, no more HAZRESes, because I do not find it fun to have to leave and re-enter an instance every time someone takes offense to a few stray multicannon rounds. I'm always careful, obviously I could be 'more' careful, but also obviously, something is going to fly in front or behind a target when you're shooting 5 multicannons at it and the NPC drops chaff, result, bullets EVERYWHERE. So now that's CZs and HAZRESes, as well as some planetary scans, blackops missions, some skimmer missions, and probably others I can't think of are off the board for me now, because I find it immersion breaking and EXTREMELY frustrating to not be able to do something with my ship at any given time.
Someone's going to say I can use outfitting in an anarchy system. Sure, but I don't wanna. I'd rather fly about with teh SRV until my debt to society is paid than go find a station, dock at it, sell the thing and then go on my merry way. Perhaps that's just cos I'm annoyed and I don't want to play along with the system, but that's how I feel, burn the system /rage /dogkick
In closing...which is it? The ship has problems or the player? Cos previously it was the player that had jurisdictional problems, then it was the ship that had jurisdictional problems, now it's the ship and the player that have jurisdictional AND galactic consequences. I dread to think what the next evolution of that model will be! Yikes!
/rant
I fly my courier a lot. It's fast. Because it's fast, I use it for planetary scan missions, it's perfect, lands anywhere, in and out in seconds. Ah, but planetary scans get you a bounty nowadays (but not notoriety unless you are forced to defend youself from a patrol, I'll get to why that doesnt matter in a minute). Prior to 3.0.3 dropping, I had some friendly fire incidents in my corvette, got me some notoriety. Didn't expect it would be such a pain in the bum to get rid of. OBVIOUSLY I woulnd't have done what I did knowing what I know now, you know, have fun in the game. But that's not what this particular rant is about. I'll save that other rant for next time. This rant is about not being able to pay off my bounties for EIGHTEEN HOURS of play time. More than most games last. I play a lot of hours a week by most standards, my notoriety has gone down from 9 to 3 since Saturday, so thats, what, approximately 12 hours in game since Saturday night, 5 days. I haven't been punished enough?
The problem is that because I have a large bounty on my corvette, and teensy tiny one on my courier, from the planetary scans, I can't now take my SRV out of my Courier to have a race with a friend, because I have notoriety from the corvette incident so can't pay off the bounty on my COURIER! GRRRRRR!
I am again finding this is making the game not fun, for the second time in a week I cannot do what I logged in to do. Now I have to fly around in my courier WITH the SRV reducing my top speed to only ballistic levels, rather than sans SRV supercalafragalistic levels and just wait.
Yes, I'm paying the penalty for my 'crime' (I won't go into that again, but how I got wanted is ridiculous as well), as I said I won't be committing any crimes of ANY kind in future. This means no more CZs, no more HAZRESes, because I do not find it fun to have to leave and re-enter an instance every time someone takes offense to a few stray multicannon rounds. I'm always careful, obviously I could be 'more' careful, but also obviously, something is going to fly in front or behind a target when you're shooting 5 multicannons at it and the NPC drops chaff, result, bullets EVERYWHERE. So now that's CZs and HAZRESes, as well as some planetary scans, blackops missions, some skimmer missions, and probably others I can't think of are off the board for me now, because I find it immersion breaking and EXTREMELY frustrating to not be able to do something with my ship at any given time.
Someone's going to say I can use outfitting in an anarchy system. Sure, but I don't wanna. I'd rather fly about with teh SRV until my debt to society is paid than go find a station, dock at it, sell the thing and then go on my merry way. Perhaps that's just cos I'm annoyed and I don't want to play along with the system, but that's how I feel, burn the system /rage /dogkick
In closing...which is it? The ship has problems or the player? Cos previously it was the player that had jurisdictional problems, then it was the ship that had jurisdictional problems, now it's the ship and the player that have jurisdictional AND galactic consequences. I dread to think what the next evolution of that model will be! Yikes!
/rant
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