Head on over to the CG in SIRIUS... get some bounties and go hand them in.. or no, log out, log back in on single player so you can land because.. well there is only one large landing pad and somebody is sitting on it AFK blocking everyone else... .. then log out and log back in to open.. YEA THIS IS FUN!!!
Kick players who sit on the landing pads
- Thread starter Wingnutt
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You can use solo or pg and dock without salt or punching your keyboard. There is nothing making you log back in and out to open. If you play in one of those other game modes you won't have to keep switching. Work smarter not harder
It's been suggested before. 10 minutes inactivity, boom offline you go.
Many other mmo's do it. Here would prolly cause ship loss tho.
Many other mmo's do it. Here would prolly cause ship loss tho.
....Or make going into the hangar automatic.
Why? The hanger interior isn't in a separate instance, all it would lead to is similar threads to this one, just whining about how it must be a bug with the game cos they can't see anyone sat on the pad and they still can't land...
Wen a cmdr is in the hanger the pad is not free
They could easily change that, though. Just assume that each pad is connected to multiple hangars.
Guess it's part of sandbox, blaze your own way.
And it shows that PVP can happen in supercruise, in normal space or inside stations
Pad blocking goes along well with the general policy that seems to be valid in ED pvp system - i'm not getting anything out of this pvp interaction, but for sure they will lose something.
And it shows that PVP can happen in supercruise, in normal space or inside stations
Pad blocking goes along well with the general policy that seems to be valid in ED pvp system - i'm not getting anything out of this pvp interaction, but for sure they will lose something.
They could deinstance a player that has been sitting on a pad for more than a few minutes in a CG system. Dump them off in their own instance and they can be AFK or peruse the stations wares, or try to grief by pad blocking all they like without actually bothering others.
I know more than one that would think blocking the only large pad at a CG location would be a just and right thing cuz , well, cuz they are wrong in the head. I really need to unknow a few people.
I know more than one that would think blocking the only large pad at a CG location would be a just and right thing cuz , well, cuz they are wrong in the head. I really need to unknow a few people.
Blow up the pad blocker if you encounter him again. That's what I would do.
Bamm, no communication, just blow him/her up. With any luck you get blocked and don't have to suffer those idiots again.
And yes, we need a queuing/unlocking. Or - stupid as that sounds - FD could make the next megaship for CGs a gasp Fleet Carrier
Bamm, no communication, just blow him/her up. With any luck you get blocked and don't have to suffer those idiots again.
And yes, we need a queuing/unlocking. Or - stupid as that sounds - FD could make the next megaship for CGs a gasp Fleet Carrier
Why not automatically drop people into a hangar below? Then the instance can be freed.
One's foes losing something is a fundamental goal of most hostilities, certainly most believable ones that don't feel like sport.
I'd be entirely ok with being able to attack and destroy facilities, or blockcade them until their owners capitulated (or died from lack of supplied), but under no circumstances should these facilities facilitate behavior that would rationally be harmful to themselves.
It's not player behavior that's the problem, it's NPC behavior.
Having people tying up pads when other traffic is waiting is clearly not in the best interest of any facility in any believable context. Business should be concluded as quickly and efficiently as possible and, any time there is traffic waiting, the facilities involved should enforce a queue system, where those who overstay their welcome either have their vessels launched automatically, or impounded.
This would be a good solution. Especially if no input from the user for some time.
Basically the game could compare which of those on required landing pads had been inactive the longest and then drop them down and reinstance them.
This seems an elegant and efficient solution.Blow up the pad blocker if you encounter him again. That's what I would do.
Bamm, no communication, just blow him/her up. With any luck you get blocked and don't have to suffer those idiots again.
And yes, we need a queuing/unlocking. Or - stupid as that sounds - FD could make the next megaship for CGs a gasp Fleet Carrier
May the Archon bless your burgers.
I feel offended by padblockers.
According to this Forum this should be enough to warrant a special PvP mode
(Players versus Padblockers)
Game working as intended, jump to another mode or shoot them off the landing pad otherwise there's nothing to see here.
You can't shoot them off the landing pad, docked ships are invulnerable.
There is a good argument for pad blocking being the contextless exploitation of a glaring oversight, whereas direct violence is only so in fairly extreme circumstances.
Of course, rather than trying to divine intent and punsh players for having their CMDRs sit on pads too long, I'd just have a queue...once all pads of a given size fill, it's first in first out, with, say a 120 second, auto-launch timer.