How dangerous is Colonia?
- Thread starter Windsaw
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Thanks for the heads-up on this. I've never had problems with players in Colonia. I assumed there was an unwritten rule not to attack other players, especially as we all know how arduous the journey is to get there.
Maybe things are starting to change. I noticed there's now trading between sites with some missions available. This might have started to attract either more visitors or a small semi-permanent population.
A bored player with you in his sights may assume that you're a resident rather than new arrival, unless they get a twisted sense of pleasure in sending you back to the bubble. Nasty.
I left Colonia yesterday for founders world to buy a new type 9 and I'm now currently heading back to Colonia. Only 1800 jumps to go. I will definitely sneak in under the radar this time. Thanks.
Maybe things are starting to change. I noticed there's now trading between sites with some missions available. This might have started to attract either more visitors or a small semi-permanent population.
A bored player with you in his sights may assume that you're a resident rather than new arrival, unless they get a twisted sense of pleasure in sending you back to the bubble. Nasty.
I left Colonia yesterday for founders world to buy a new type 9 and I'm now currently heading back to Colonia. Only 1800 jumps to go. I will definitely sneak in under the radar this time. Thanks.
i'm confused by the OP. On one hand you say the exploration data was worth a lot more than you recalled it being worth before. On the other hand you say you were griefed and lost your data. Did you lose all of your data from the entire trip or did you collect new data while in Colonia?
Maybe I missed something.
Maybe I missed something.
There's another thread at the moment saying Colonia is pretty much abandoned. One guy spotted only four commanders in two days of open play.
So, if you consider solo cheating ("I can't even...." is what kids say these days, I believe.) then I recommend flying out to Colonia so you can play in open and not have to meet anyone.
So, if you consider solo cheating ("I can't even...." is what kids say these days, I believe.) then I recommend flying out to Colonia so you can play in open and not have to meet anyone.
How can it be cheating if it is an official game mode....muppet.
As for the OP the PVPers will congregate where there is likely to be players, Colonia and Engineers systems seem to be favourite at the moment.
Colonia is excellent for mining:
- all reserves pristine
- full mining equipment available (somewhere - Colonia Dream, Colonia Hub, Robardin Rock, TolaGarf's Junkyard are the stations with good outfitting) ... refineries, collector and prospector limpets are some of the few things available A-rated in all sizes.
- Foster Terminal provides an excellent reference point for returning to good rocks when Ice mining
- home to the Rock Research Ring mining and prospecting group, who have excellent maps of various belt clusters and rings
You may have to compromise a bit on distributor and powerplant, but I was able to build a decent mining Anaconda entirely from parts available out here, and have also been able to fit T-6s and Pythons up for mining.
You were seriously unlucky. The "One in a hundred" you don't mind would be a massive overestimate for how hostile commanders in Colonia normally are. During the last four CGs up here, I was interdicted once by a player, and then not by someone particularly dangerous; outside of CGs I've been interdicted twice by players in the past year -- all three of those players got bored of having not much to shoot at and went back to the Sol bubble months ago.
Colonia is 22kLY from any engineers, has player traffic comparable to a random piece of the Sol bubble, and has never had a "get rich quick" scheme anywhere near as good as the Sol bubble ones. People do occasionally come out here expecting easy targets and little opposition ... what they actually find is almost no targets of any sort and usually head back to the Sol bubble fairly quickly. (And that's the rare few that have the patience to come out here in the first place, because that's no fun if you don't actually like exploring...)
@Threeofseven: I certainly don't have anything against piracy, although I never gave in so far. Okay, I was destroyed, but that was my choice in the end.
@GraXXoR: Well, I am at colonia and did meet another player. That's how this whole thing started.
And really, I don't mind meeting other people. I even enjoy it. I just wanted to know if anybody knows how the estimated player-killer/non-player-kill ratio here is, that's all.
@Schmack: I was more careful when I arrived there first. I made sure I did not face any risks, player or otherwise, when I arrived at Colonia first. So I was able to land and sell my information there without any problems.
What happened to me yesterday was at the end of a several day long exploration trip that I did after that.
@Ian Doncaster: Thank you very much for your detailed reply!
@GraXXoR: Well, I am at colonia and did meet another player. That's how this whole thing started.
And really, I don't mind meeting other people. I even enjoy it. I just wanted to know if anybody knows how the estimated player-killer/non-player-kill ratio here is, that's all.
@Schmack: I was more careful when I arrived there first. I made sure I did not face any risks, player or otherwise, when I arrived at Colonia first. So I was able to land and sell my information there without any problems.
What happened to me yesterday was at the end of a several day long exploration trip that I did after that.
@Ian Doncaster: Thank you very much for your detailed reply!
Yeah, solo is cheating I agree, mainly because you affect others from there.
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verminstar
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And I consider tourists with that attitude not worth the time of day...open mode is pvp mode according to some so if ye died there, then its time to become a cheat or quit whining ^
verminstar
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Using that logic, so is just about every aspect of open play as that mode means ye can affect other players by default. Yer not very good at this are ye?
That was a rhetorical question btw ^
Could you guys please stop bringing the cheating thing up?
I mean, why should I care if other people in ED play solo? It does not affect me! I could not care less if other people do it!
Also, I have no idea why people seem to think cheating has anything to do with multiplayer!
Cheating started long before things went online. My sister repeatedly cheated when playing solitaire (before we even had a computer). Didn't affect me, didn't affect anybody, I still say what she did was cheating.
Same here. To me, using an easy way out does only affect me. I would be cheating myself! That game developers tend more and more to make mechanics I consider cheating official, does not change the fact that I consider them cheating. If someone uses them for himself, fine, let him! If the cheating mechanism involves other people (like pay-to-win) I don't play the game. Simple as that!
I didn't blame anyone!
But I was asked why I don't solo.
Okay, I blame myself now for having been so stupid giving an answer to a question I have been given, especially since it was totally irrelevant to the topic to begin with.
I mean, why should I care if other people in ED play solo? It does not affect me! I could not care less if other people do it!
Also, I have no idea why people seem to think cheating has anything to do with multiplayer!
Cheating started long before things went online. My sister repeatedly cheated when playing solitaire (before we even had a computer). Didn't affect me, didn't affect anybody, I still say what she did was cheating.
Same here. To me, using an easy way out does only affect me. I would be cheating myself! That game developers tend more and more to make mechanics I consider cheating official, does not change the fact that I consider them cheating. If someone uses them for himself, fine, let him! If the cheating mechanism involves other people (like pay-to-win) I don't play the game. Simple as that!
I didn't blame anyone!
But I was asked why I don't solo.
Okay, I blame myself now for having been so stupid giving an answer to a question I have been given, especially since it was totally irrelevant to the topic to begin with.
Just ignore the posts which keep going on about the cheating or open vs solo issue, you made your position sufficiently clear in your last post on page one of this thread.
I recently spend some time in and around Colonia on the way back from Sagittarius A*, hardly met any other players and was never attacked over there.
Always immediately select another star system when you arrive somewhere, so that you can quickly high wake out of the system when you get into troubles (make sure you have a button or key bound to select the next system on your route). If somebody interdicts you: throttle down to submit, put four pips into engines and two into shields/sys, spam boost to get away (if the attacker is too fast for that to work: boost towards him to get behind him, the attacker will lose time while turning) and jump out as soon as your FSD is online again.
I recently spend some time in and around Colonia on the way back from Sagittarius A*, hardly met any other players and was never attacked over there.
Always immediately select another star system when you arrive somewhere, so that you can quickly high wake out of the system when you get into troubles (make sure you have a button or key bound to select the next system on your route). If somebody interdicts you: throttle down to submit, put four pips into engines and two into shields/sys, spam boost to get away (if the attacker is too fast for that to work: boost towards him to get behind him, the attacker will lose time while turning) and jump out as soon as your FSD is online again.
I dont speak pirate, are ye?
Besides if you dont like me affecting you in open, you can jump to open and kill me, I cant do the same to you in solo.
Logic.
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Wouldn't have helped me here.
That guy was skilled.
He snuck up on me when I was leaving the station and started to fire at me just after I left the no-fire zone and before I could jump.
Like I said: I was a little careless. I could have evaded it if I paid more attention.
In my defense: This was a first one for me. I was never attacked in that kind of way before. Interdictions, yes, but not when leaving a station.
verminstar
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Im in open and have been fer some time but chances of ye finding me are between slim and zero because its roughly 13klys past colonia on the suburbs on the core. Yer quite welcome to try and find me, Ill even narrow down yer search by saying the system has a star and some planets, hows that fer generous?
As fer how I type...coming from someone who makes more grammatical errors than a 3 year old, thats pretty rich actually...ye tie yer own shoelaces too?
