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Interdicted and killed by real player
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Not wooden and with a small collection, of old men, taking an unhealthy interest?
Everyone probably deserves it in some way, depending on who you ask. Having said that, I can neither agree nor disagree since I've never met you in game (in a combat situation at least). I suspect that at least you'd be the talk first type.
There are ways to avoid, evade or engage in an interdiction situation, OP. I don't know which you'd be into, but the game won't prevent an attack by another player, at least not in Open, and as Vindelanos said, there may be good reasons, like an opposing PP faction, BGS shenanigans, Bounties or the person could be RPing a sociopath. Of course it's possible your opponent is also a real sociopath, but that's not a good reason and probably a rarer occurrence.
The one thing you really shouldn't do is force quit to avoid. It causes so much salt in the forum as well as being a cheat. Baring that though, anything goes.
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Personally I have my reasons for avoiding PvP, and they've been the same for decades now. When forced into it (as in Eve Online back when I played), I would finish it as fast as possible, usually winning, but not always. I never enjoyed it. Always been a co-op player. I know that's not for everyone though. I'd rather self destruct than engage in Elite.
As you have learned by now, it is allowed, and some players thinks this is good gameplay, lets just accept some people have strange ideas on what is good gameplay, and move on.
Most of these courageous players doing this, utilizes another feature of Elite, namely the mode switching, so just to generalise this a bit, the above players, only play in open, when they are in their best ships for killing other players, when they need to do some engineering in a "new" ship etc, they simply do nto do this in open, they choose to do this in Private Group or Solo, so they do not risk being another players amusement....
So you have quite a few options here.
* Rise to the challenge, learn how to avoid getting interdicted, as these players are most likely better at this than what you are.
* When doing this sort of things, like visiting Engineers, and other popular places, like Community Goals, do this in Private Group/Solo. This is equally accepted as the random killing of players that you suffered.
* Give up and play something else, do not forget to create I leave this game, so that other players can request to have your stuff.
* Get even, team up with other players, learn the tactics, build your own killer ship, and go hunting for these murderers.... should be easy to spot, these are the wanted players.... and if are better than they, you will learn a new tactic, that is not allowed todo, and that is what is called Combat Log, where certain players that is facing defeat uses a sneaky way to avoid death, in short, your computer/console encounters a catastrophic failure of some sort.... it can be that the network cable got unplugged, or the process that is Elite Dangerous mysteriously crashed/got killed, or the entire unit simply crashed, like the power plug jumped out of the socket....
And then there are all sorts of variants of the above.
So I hope this was useful and somewhat amusing, as this kind of threads often soon degenerate into a stalement, where both sides go to extreme end of the this and refuse to change, and the worst thing you can do is to try and resolve this by using logic and suggest changes could actually work...
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Killed a player, docked at small station, sat on landing pad, player respawned, saw me after undocking and opened fire..
Station turrets shredded.. ^^ feels bad.
Station turrets shredded.. ^^ feels bad.
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lol - really though, OP, even some of us who are trying to encourage you are making open sound like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
It's not.
In about 99% of populated systems you will be alone to do your thing unmolested. As you gain experience, you will learn to know and anticipate where the heavy traffic areas are, and you can avoid or engage them as you wish.
Fly Dangerous
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It's not.
In about 99% of populated systems you will be alone to do your thing unmolested. As you gain experience, you will learn to know and anticipate where the heavy traffic areas are, and you can avoid or engage them as you wish.
Fly Dangerous
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Indeed.
All you need to know.
Nope, never heard anyone get done for that(yes, it is wrong)
Kumbaya
And there we have it. No need to post anything further, we all know what happened.
Yep, this is allowed. Encouraged by some - mostly because of the immense butthurt felt by a small percentage of the population because engineers exist.
Hate to break it to them, but the engineers will be here long after the last of them is gone.
Best tactic: Avoid Engineer systems in Open mode. Switch modes before making that last jump, do what you need to do and jump out before switching back. There's nothing they can do about it, and it chafes them even more knowing it - and it makes them cry that Open is a lifeless wasteland, which is even funnier because they've no one to blame but themselves.
Few tips:
1 - Avoid going to Engineers in Open.
2 - When interdicted by a player (empty square in radar), submit and then find a random system to hi-wake to (15s fixed timer, not affected by mass lock factor).
3 - If you keep getting repeat interdictions by the same person, just block them - the game will then try and avoid instancing you together.
4 (optional) - Join Mobius https://elitepve.com/
1 - Avoid going to Engineers in Open.
2 - When interdicted by a player (empty square in radar), submit and then find a random system to hi-wake to (15s fixed timer, not affected by mass lock factor).
3 - If you keep getting repeat interdictions by the same person, just block them - the game will then try and avoid instancing you together.
4 (optional) - Join Mobius https://elitepve.com/
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If you're really new and did not start this thread out of trolling fun, then welcome to the game. And don't worry about it. Happens to most any new cmdr. The reality is only a minority do this ambush attack without warning or stated reason. I remember when there were brand new PS4 players last year a few of whom asked pretty much the same for their first griefed incident; why were they attacked and killed without warning by either a bigger or more combat power loaded ship(s). It can also be a circuitous disease unfortunately. Some react by becoming ED murderers themselves after the 'trauma'. So if you're brand new, now you know the ED verse is a wild west where the npc authorities of thousands of populated star systems have neither the range nor the tech to police effectively every square km.
Adding to the already mentioned suggestions. You could just count is as lesson learned, and thank the stars you were rescued in an escape pod and just had to pay a hefty rebuy with some embarassment. And suggested to learn to evade or ascertain when another player cmdr is looking to poach on your ship. (or the hardcore case where some restart their account with a new cmdr). Anyway, also good to be aware most mind their own business and chances are really low to encounter a griefer trap most of the time. o7
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