I should be licensed in two weeks!
this was before it needed permission to run queries. That was a later "feature" added.
Argendo, you are forgetting the real time tracking of players that EDR will do. And it only tracks "outlaws" while redacting "lawfuls."
Arguendo
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Are you talking about the "Last seen..." information from the query? That's really not real-time, as there is some caching involved for all that info afaik. And that bot was made by a Bounty Hunter for Bounty Hunters, so having the "last seen" for lawfuls redacted isn't really an issue for the intended users
Thanks CMDR. Get a hold of Photoshop and you, too, can have a purple do.
Actually those mechanisms are in game already, but carebear friendly design and opposition of solo oriented players prevent pvp from becoming meaningful and relate somehow to territory in game. Power play should be natural arena of spontaneous and meaningful pvp, but FD is scared of at least giving initiative to make PP stuff in open or enforcing open only entirely. Game require combat rebalance, current state is also victim of carebear friendly design, invincible shields, long cool down on grom bombs, huge afford has been made to make game EXTREMALY easy in both pve and escapes in pvp as long as player have access to some engineering, it's all by design.
Who's bazooka?...
Bazooka, Bazinga, Baloney, Bammanza, I can't remember his exact name. All I know is he has a cult following here on forums.
Bazmeson; lest you forget.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/bazmeson.430209/
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/bazmeson.430209/
Its fine to have fun. But that kind of fun is the equivalent of a lion attacking a kitten. As a cat lover I am strongly opposed to this.
Also: Cat Bobblehead
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Make supercruise like the oceans during WWII
So here's my line of thinking this morning that lead me to the simple suggestion to follow. I'm running cargo for the CG in a T9. I think to myself, "Why do gankers need to destroy my ship, why not just ask me to drop my cargo like NPCs do and let me continue?" But then I continue this line of...
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Make supercruise like the oceans during WWII
So here's my line of thinking this morning that lead me to the simple suggestion to follow. I'm running cargo for the CG in a T9. I think to myself, "Why do gankers need to destroy my ship, why not just ask me to drop my cargo like NPCs do and let me continue?" But then I continue this line of...
I mean this is cool and all but in the time this discussion was going on yall could have killed countless innocent cmdrs.
Wasted time is what that is.
Wasted time is what that is.
Visited the Golconda for my first time earlier today in my exploration Mamba and was torpedoed just as I scanned the last log uplink...starting a fight that lasted 30 minutes before I was able to read them.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BM8KzFhXJo
Certainly could have been bit boring for spectators when my CMDR was nailed with the second volley of torpedoes and had to withdraw for several minutes to repair and restore his shields. Still, despite some mechanisms that I don't particularly enjoy, I find encounters like these to be a fun, educational, and suitably organic.
Regarding the educational part, I always try to identify my mistakes and make an effort to correct them. In this particular case the ones that stood out were:
1. Being too stingy with my heatsinks early on...had I used them as I was kiting around the first salvo of torpedoes, they could have lost me as a target and perhaps even reacquired the launching vessel. I was trying to drag them into my opponent, but this was probably doomed to fail as long as they were still locked to me.
2. Not dumping all of my torpedoes in my first salvo. I was trying to avoid excess heat build up, but the first salvo was one torpedo short of knocking out the Cutter's shields.
3. Accidentally wasting my last two torpedoes. I had thought I was on a different firegroup, so that salvo was unintentional.
4. Not realizing my opponent still had torpedoes remaining and allowing myself to be hit by his second salvo.
No matter how the fight goes, or how bland it appears on the surface, there is always something to learn from it.
Certainly could have been bit boring for spectators when my CMDR was nailed with the second volley of torpedoes and had to withdraw for several minutes to repair and restore his shields. Still, despite some mechanisms that I don't particularly enjoy, I find encounters like these to be a fun, educational, and suitably organic.
Regarding the educational part, I always try to identify my mistakes and make an effort to correct them. In this particular case the ones that stood out were:
1. Being too stingy with my heatsinks early on...had I used them as I was kiting around the first salvo of torpedoes, they could have lost me as a target and perhaps even reacquired the launching vessel. I was trying to drag them into my opponent, but this was probably doomed to fail as long as they were still locked to me.
2. Not dumping all of my torpedoes in my first salvo. I was trying to avoid excess heat build up, but the first salvo was one torpedo short of knocking out the Cutter's shields.
3. Accidentally wasting my last two torpedoes. I had thought I was on a different firegroup, so that salvo was unintentional.
4. Not realizing my opponent still had torpedoes remaining and allowing myself to be hit by his second salvo.
No matter how the fight goes, or how bland it appears on the surface, there is always something to learn from it.
Look, I can hardly undock, let alone fly a distance of 5 jumps without dying on open. Solo or private group is where the game comes alive.
Like someone pointed out, the game and systems are FULL of gankers. Looking hours for them, then I think you are in a session locked out of others. We are not all in the same session in open it seems.
ED needs to create something new for the gankers to do, and make ganking so hard and revolting that no one wants to attempt to do it.
Yes, I am a bit salty, for open is ALL about killing on sight. and this breaks the game. How about taking away insurance. You die, you loose the entire ship and all its engineered modules and no option to buy back that ship. you keep the wealth, but loose the ship.
Then let people duke it out for a while in open and come back in a year. Imagine interdicting someone, only to loose and have to go back and engineer all over again. and loose a 400.000.000 credit ship. no 20.000.000 credit buy back.
Form what I gathered so far, people are lacking action, they want a game like CQB Arena, but with more ships, they want PEW PEW in space against a human player, they want space quake, of Battlefield in space. They want to sit down, have 1 hour, duke it out with humans in a tight quarter and pew pew. I understand that. But I just wish ED would be something else.
The most fun I have had in elite dangerous whilst defeated by another player, was when someone pirated my cargo.
I got interdicted, and asked to let my cargo go. I said no, and shooting started, I was asked again, and we had a discussion about it and ended up giving up half my load plus one unit over the half, to cover scratches. NOW that is good space interaction activity right there. I lost, but within a construct where I understand what the player is trying to gain. He was a pirate, and I got pirated. Fair. I loved that! Hated loosing my cargo, but loved the interaction between me and a random player.
ED give gankers something to do, or find a way to destroy their efforts to ruin open play!
Like someone pointed out, the game and systems are FULL of gankers. Looking hours for them, then I think you are in a session locked out of others. We are not all in the same session in open it seems.
ED needs to create something new for the gankers to do, and make ganking so hard and revolting that no one wants to attempt to do it.
Yes, I am a bit salty, for open is ALL about killing on sight. and this breaks the game. How about taking away insurance. You die, you loose the entire ship and all its engineered modules and no option to buy back that ship. you keep the wealth, but loose the ship.
Then let people duke it out for a while in open and come back in a year. Imagine interdicting someone, only to loose and have to go back and engineer all over again. and loose a 400.000.000 credit ship. no 20.000.000 credit buy back.
Form what I gathered so far, people are lacking action, they want a game like CQB Arena, but with more ships, they want PEW PEW in space against a human player, they want space quake, of Battlefield in space. They want to sit down, have 1 hour, duke it out with humans in a tight quarter and pew pew. I understand that. But I just wish ED would be something else.
The most fun I have had in elite dangerous whilst defeated by another player, was when someone pirated my cargo.
I got interdicted, and asked to let my cargo go. I said no, and shooting started, I was asked again, and we had a discussion about it and ended up giving up half my load plus one unit over the half, to cover scratches. NOW that is good space interaction activity right there. I lost, but within a construct where I understand what the player is trying to gain. He was a pirate, and I got pirated. Fair. I loved that! Hated loosing my cargo, but loved the interaction between me and a random player.
ED give gankers something to do, or find a way to destroy their efforts to ruin open play!