In case you wonder why you get ganked in open

[peteuplink]

Seeing as COD is a highly-polished game, I don't think we ever need to worry about ED turning into it.

It's also the same shallow thing year after year, a short campaign with some maps to allow some pretend soldiers to shoot each other online. But it's popular because people like that sort of thing. Others, though, prefer to play something a bit different.

ED was never designed with PvP in mind. In fact, in an early interview, Braben said that open was meant to be cooperative.

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Seeing as COD is a highly-polished game, I don't think we ever need to worry about ED turning into it.

Sick burn!

 

[Snowygerry]

I would say at least 80% of my encounters are non hostile i.e. we simply ignore each other, then I usually send an o7 unless the cmdr is an imperial loving scum (aligned to an imperial power). In that case, well ...

07 - yes took me a while to figure that one out,

once I dropped into a system with 2 commanders in it, I typed "Hi" and they both ran like the wind,

now I just fly silent

 

[VR StarLightPL]

07 - yes took me a while to figure that one out,

It's commonly o7 (oh-seven), rarely 07 (maybe for eggheads ;-) ) and definitely not Z0 (run), unless you're trying to pose as an old egiptian painting ;-) it's a simple emoticon meaning salute.

And yes, open has a certain reputation and because of that people are cautious. Compare:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqYDFZG7pk

 

[Rubbernuke]

Sick burn!

Thats a full 360o Sino wrist incinerator of a burn.

 

[babelfisch]

Seeing as COD is a highly-polished game, I don't think we ever need to worry about ED turning into it.

The good thing about CoD is, you can buy it on Steam, finish the campaign and refund it.

 

[Rubbernuke]

I hope you have some Steam charts to back these locational assertions up

Wait a minute, is this an accepted methodology for creating gameplay, as 'mashed banana' seems to be Frontier's chosen method?

Well, we use a banana for scale, why not used its mashed flesh as a gameplay yardstick too?

 

[peteuplink]

Sick burn!

Thats a full 360o Sino wrist incinerator of a burn.

I see the children are online this morning... be nice when the schools are reopened so the parents can have their PC's back

 

[VR StarLightPL]

I see the children are online this morning... be nice when the schools are reopened so the parents can have their PC's back

I see the funpires are out of basements...

 

[peteuplink]

I see the funpires are out of basements...

Did you write that yourself or did your mummy do it for you?

 

[MarkAusten]

You kind of feel for the blokes that brag about it though all the same. Takes a certain level of dedication to get your jollies from that sort of thing.

Takes a certain amount of something that's for sure. Not entirely certain what that something is though...

 

[amigacooke]

Well, we use a banana for scale, why not used its mashed flesh as a gameplay yardstick too?

I'm thinking it's more of a development philosophy, where Frontier sticks features on a plate in front of players and then watch to see where we stick them!

 

[CenturionPuch]

It's also the same shallow thing year after year, a short campaign with some maps to allow some pretend soldiers to shoot each other online. But it's popular because people like that sort of thing. Others, though, prefer to play something a bit different.

ED was never designed with PvP in mind. In fact, in an early interview, Braben said that open was meant to be cooperative.

right, they must have found the whole PvP part of the game under their armpit one bright morning

 

[Ian Phillips]

That's enough of the pages full of silly insults.