Location, location, location

[Jack Schitt]

As has been pointed out in various threads, both by me and by others, the issue with the pointless PKing that seems to be escalating in Open play at the moment isn't that it's taking place, it's that it's being allowed to take place in systems like Lave, Zaonce, Leesti, even Sol. Systems that, according to Elite lore stretching back over three games and as many decades, should be policed much more heavily than they are and should certainly not be hotspots for random attacks rivalling the worst anarchy systems from the original games.

The blame for this lies not with the players doing the PKing, who are simply playing the game as provided, but with Frontier Developments for effectively throwing away 30 years of Elite history by singularly failing to provide a timely NPC police response to, or an effective punishment for, in-game "murder" in these systems. It's basically a sanctioned free-for-all everywhere in the galaxy.

Well, if the lore no longer applies to the game world then it shouldn't apply to licensed works either. In light of this, I present abridged versions of three of the official Elite novels, re-imagined to fit in with the new "anything goes anywhere" ethos of Elite: Dangerous.

Enjoy.
^{(With apologies to the original authors)}

Elite: Reclamation
by Drew Wagar​

The light of the Prism sun faded rapidly, a band of darkness sweeping in from the east like a thin ethereal shroud, the sky darkening from a bright azure to an inky blackness. The gas giant Mestra, though only a point of light, outshone every star in the sky and cast a shadow in the gloom.

From out of that shadow emerged a fleet of fully upgraded Viper assault craft whose pilots proceeded to annihilate everything in the system for no appreciably understood reason.

THE END​

And Here The Wheel
by John Harper​

Robert hunkered down around the corner from the bridge of the Python freighter, yelling instructions through the main hatch. "Throw us your weapons and we'll let you live."

The reply was lost amid the explosions and screams of tortured metal as several salvos of overpowered dumbfires from a throw-away Eagle fighter, the pilot of which cannot not be named for legal reasons, tore through the ship in an orgy of meaningless destruction and killed everyone on board in an instant.

THE END​

Mostly Harmless
by Kate Russell​

Angel rebooted the nav-panel as she watched the riveted maw of the space station hurtling towards her through the heads-up display.
"Hope, don’t fail me now," she said through gritted teeth as a random ship launched a missile in her direction, triggering her point defence module and causing the station to open fire on her Cobra with a devastating barrage of laser fire.
"P*ss and gravity!" she yelled into the comm system as her ship tore apart around her.
"ROFL LOL NOOB!" were the last words she heard in reply as her dying body was blasted into the void.

THE END​

 

[Skip Intro]

I understand that System Authority is being ramped up soon^tm I should think spawning some gunned up Pythons and Anacondas in these systems would make things interesting.

 

[Defacto]

I understand that that's being ramped up soon^tm

It is? Wher did you hear that?
That would be great news. In pirate-infested places, piracy should be a serious danger. In secure systems, security should be a serious danger to any criminal. In fact, NPC's in general should be a serious danger instead of the jokes they are now.
If this is changing for the better, I would be one happy Cmdr indeed.

 

[rapace]

As has been pointed out in various threads, both by me and by others, the issue with the pointless PKing that seems to be escalating in Open play at the moment isn't that it's taking place, it's that it's being allowed to take place in systems like Lave, Zaonce, Leesti, even Sol. Systems that, according to Elite lore stretching back over three games and as many decades, should be policed much more heavily than they are and should certainly not be hotspots for random attacks rivalling the worst anarchy systems from the original games.

The blame for this lies not with the players doing the PKing, who are simply playing the game as provided, but with Frontier Developments for effectively throwing away 30 years of Elite history by singularly failing to provide a timely NPC police response to, or an effective punishment for, in-game "murder" in these systems. It's basically a sanctioned free-for-all everywhere in the galaxy.

Well, if the lore no longer applies to the game world then it shouldn't apply to licensed works either. In light of this, I present abridged versions of three of the official Elite novels, re-imagined to fit in with the new "anything goes anywhere" ethos of Elite: Dangerous.

Enjoy.
^{(With apologies to the original authors)}

Elite: Reclamation
by Drew Wagar​

The light of the Prism sun faded rapidly, a band of darkness sweeping in from the east like a thin ethereal shroud, the sky darkening from a bright azure to an inky blackness. The gas giant Mestra, though only a point of light, outshone every star in the sky and cast a shadow in the gloom.

From out of that shadow emerged a fleet of fully upgraded Viper assault craft whose pilots proceeded to annihilate everything in the system for no appreciably understood reason.

THE END​

And Here The Wheel
by John Harper​

Robert hunkered down around the corner from the bridge of the Python freighter, yelling instructions through the main hatch. "Throw us your weapons and we'll let you live."

The reply was lost amid the explosions and screams of tortured metal as several salvos of overpowered dumbfires from a throw-away Eagle fighter, the pilot of which cannot not be named for legal reasons, tore through the ship in an orgy of meaningless destruction and killed everyone on board in an instant.

THE END​

Mostly Harmless
by Kate Russell​

Angel rebooted the nav-panel as she watched the riveted maw of the space station hurtling towards her through the heads-up display.
"Hope, don’t fail me now," she said through gritted teeth as a random ship launched a missile in her direction, triggering her point defence module and causing the station to open fire on her Cobra with a devastating barrage of laser fire.
"P*ss and gravity!" she yelled into the comm system as her ship tore apart around her.
"ROFL LOL NOOB!" were the last words she heard in reply as her dying body was blasted into the void.

THE END​

Carebear ------------> is that way

 

[AtheosisX]

I understand that System Authority is being ramped up soon^tm I should think spawning some gunned up Pythons and Anacondas in these systems would make things interesting.

Soon^tm. The motto of Frontier and many players on this forum.

 

[Extrasmooth]

There's too much PvP.
There's not enough PvP.
The NPCs are too hard to kill.
The NPCs are too easy to kill.
The Python is overpowered.
The Python is underpowered.
FD should listen to requests for nerfs.
FD should stop listening to requests for nerfs.
ED should be more like EVE.
ED shouldn't be more like EVE.

Welcome to the Elite Dangerous community.

 

[Dominico]

Being wanted is not an easy life in my limited experience.

It makes you a free target for anyone. It means the ai regularly pulls you and will attack also.

Finally where are all these "greifing" players. I live near sol and would gladly come try and police. I dont ever see it or hear.

If you tell people in chat mqybe they will go help. (I would)

What are they flying? Where do they hang?. What are they doing?

More detail plz

 

[Quineloe]

I understand that System Authority is being ramped up soon^tm I should think spawning some gunned up Pythons and Anacondas in these systems would make things interesting.

Having devtracked everything for weeks now, I have not seen anything indicating this. Sauce?

 

[Defacto]

There's too much PvP.
There's not enough PvP.
The NPCs are too hard to kill.
The NPCs are too easy to kill.
The Python is overpowered.
The Python is underpowered.
FD should listen to requests for nerfs.
FD should stop listening to requests for nerfs.
ED should be more like EVE.
ED shouldn't be more like EVE.

Welcome to the Elite Dangerous community.

Pfbt. The biggest complaint on the ED forums right now is ''Everyone is complaining, stop complaining''.
People post things like that and expect things to change, but if you really want to change things, you should help steer the discussion away from ''whining'' and make it more constructive, or just not post, since most complaints about complaints typically are met with more comlaints or discussion about complaints instead of what the thread was supposed to be about.

Forums are always going to be full of people thinking different things. If people just fight about their arbitrarily right view, things will never change, but if people actually listen to each other and discuss, all the ''whining'' and ''complaining'' tends to get toned down, at least in my experience from other forums.

 

[Extrasmooth]

You haven't met the internet before?

I haven't felt as exasperated as I have reading this forum before.

 

[Jack Schitt]

Carebear ------------> is that way

And the point you missed is somewhere out there too, along with your delete/backspace keys.

 

[Vasious]

Sharon Lee Free Market in the Orrere system has notices posted about an increased security presence and a Zero Tolerance policy to acts of Violence in and about the station.