Is it wise to go AFK in Open?

[MissMeYet]

No, no it is not:

[video=youtube_share;w9NFtdBl2V4]https://youtu.be/w9NFtdBl2V4[/video]

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

It's fiiiiiine!

Just not anywhere someone else is likely to be. Lol

I once saw a shieldless Anaconda just hovering a few km away from an engineer base, at about 5km up. I was really really tempted to shoot out it's engines just to see what would happen.

But alas, my conscience got the better of me, and I guarded him for 15 minutes instead. Lol

 

[Riverside]

Going AFK is fine as long as your ship is in a safe place. Experience teaches the player what's safe & what isn't depending on the system you're in. Sometimes the game just has to take a back seat to RL & you have to accept you might return to a rebuy screen.

 

[CMDR Carbo]

It's never wise to go AFK.

When I did Smeaton runs during the high paying passenger missions, I set course to Smeaton and walked away.

One time when I came back my Tradeconda was sitting shield-less with 40% hull at about halfway the distance to the station.
I was really confused about what had happened. I mean I wouldn't have been surprised to come back to a rebuy screen, but this?
Had to look at the comms to see that apparently some pirate interdicted me, system security arrived and chased them away (or destroyed them) 600'000 ls
out from Smeaton.

 

[Majic-12]

For this, I must invoke Betteridge's law of headlines.

Also, duh.

 

[CMDR John Casey]

Only if you're docked

 

[mpfj]

Bit confused here, but how was this CMDR AFK ?

They submitted to the interdiction and, after a few volleys, boosted away and jumped out.

If they were AFK, the interdiction would have been longer and there would have been no reaction to being shot at.

Unless I've missed something ... ???

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Bit confused here, but how was this CMDR AFK ?

They submitted to the interdiction and, after a few volleys, boosted away and jumped out.

If they were AFK, the interdiction would have been longer and there would have been no reaction to being shot at.

Unless I've missed something ... ???

i was wondering that myself. There's a pause of about 1-2s where the Commander just sits there, but given that their shields weren't about to collapse they may just have been deciding between low or high waking.

 

[furrycat]

The safest place to go AFK in Open is docked on a medium pad at an outpost.

Hutton Orbital being the safest of all.

*scampers away*

 

[Crank Larson]

Well, who'd have thought it?

 

[StiTch]

Bit confused here, but how was this CMDR AFK ?

They submitted to the interdiction and, after a few volleys, boosted away and jumped out.

If they were AFK, the interdiction would have been longer and there would have been no reaction to being shot at.

Unless I've missed something ... ???

They were throttled at zero while AFK. That means instant submission and not moving once interdicted.

They must have come back after interdicted, and displayed lightning fast reactions on alt+f4.

 

[mpfj]

They were throttled at zero while AFK. That means instant submission and not moving once interdicted.

Ah, didn't know that ...

They must have come back after interdicted, and displayed lightning fast reactions on alt+f4.

Lightning fast, as you say !!

 

[GreyAreaUK]

and displayed lightning fast reactions on alt+f4.

Looks to me like they low-waked. Doesn't CLing (which you seem to be implying) leave an indestructible ghost behind?

 

[Aashenfox]

Meh, 1/10, you can do better herc.

 

[Zebaoth]

Am I the only one who expected a "Killing afk players in open" compilation?

 

[StiTch]

Looks to me like they low-waked. Doesn't CLing (which you seem to be implying) leave an indestructible ghost behind?

Might be a graphical bug in there, you can see the thrusters still firing after he disappears.

 

[Stealthie]

Hey, when you gotta pee, you gotta pee.

 

[Lateralus]

Might be a graphical bug in there, you can see the thrusters still firing after he disappears.

Didn't log, definitely a low-wake. Leonoptryx is one of ours, legit.

 

[babelfisch]

And I hoped you are going to reverse pirate him.

Anyway, open is perfectly safe as long as you avoid other players

 

[babelfisch]

They were throttled at zero while AFK. That means instant submission and not moving once interdicted.

They must have come back after interdicted, and displayed lightning fast reactions on alt+f4.

This is the reason players should not be trusted when it comes to clogging.

You are clearly wrong, if you look at the screen and radar you can even see the wake icon.