If its any help, I always use a curved approach to the spaceport. It keeps you out of the way of everything until you get to the 'letterbox'. On exit I tend to angle off to one side to avoid traffic, then boost to get rid of the mass locking ,then jump.
My first 2h open play after 100h solo
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I wasn't waiting for rares to restock but flying around and exploring to arrange a new route. I know that i could make cr faster, but i wanted to explore new rare stations.
Without being in the exact situation or having a video of it, I can't really answer this question, there are too many unknowns.
What I can say is that you need to be more than 5km away from a large station and at 75% thrust or higher in order to jump.
Depending on the exact type of station and your orientation to it, that means you'd probably be at least 2km from the 'mailbox' and heading away from it at around 200 m/s. If we assume that the other player can hit 400 m/s under boost, that means he'd be gaining on you at 200 m/s. With a 2km head start that would give you at least 10 seconds to notice his approach on your scanner.
All of my play has been in open.
I have earned about 20 million from trading, a couple million from bounties.
I have yet to meet another player who attacks me, or interdict me.
All player encounters have been friendly
I dont really understand all the moaning on this forum:
There are 160000 inhabited systems, yet everyone wants to go to Lave.
I have earned about 20 million from trading, a couple million from bounties.
I have yet to meet another player who attacks me, or interdict me.
All player encounters have been friendly
I dont really understand all the moaning on this forum:
There are 160000 inhabited systems, yet everyone wants to go to Lave.
It's not about not wanting to encounter other players or be interdicted or engage in PvP. It is just about exploiting the ramming mechanics. And, Lave, well, the rare are clustered there. So i expect pirates but, again, this is different.
You should listen, you can't escape anything in a type 6.
If you want to throw your hands up and quit at the 1st sign of trouble, that's fine. At least make a minimal attempt to be sensible in how you play. Flying around the most dangerous area in the game right now with a ship that can't defend itself is just asking for trouble.
You know what, you should probably just stay in solo. More your speed.
You got burnt, time to post it on the forums and declare there's something wrong with the game that let you lose. For every story of woe to come on here there are more stories of triumph that never get posted, it's just we only here from the people who want to complain, such is human nature.
If you don't want the risk then play in Solo or Private Group, simple.
The advantage is that you feel good about it when you get not blown up
If you enjoy solo trading, something that is for me pure grind than by all means go for it, it the better deal to grind credits. Is it more fun? Depends on your personality. Care bears who get grieved frustrated about any lose in their grind endeavors will for sure not enjoy the possibility of losing. Other players might find trading much more interesting in open if there is the chance of getting intercepted. But I have to admit, it happens so rare outside of lave that you might fall asleep first and not enjoy getting attacked at all, because it will feel totally random (outside of lave). If hard to always check your six if so rarely someone tries to get on your six.
And you base your experience off of these two examples - that's pathetic. No doubt you will crawl back to your solo hole and use these two examples for the rest of your life about how "bad" Open Play is. For every negative story like yours, there's 100 positive ones to be told to counter them. There's also two polls that demolish this "griefer" action supposedly going on in OP.
Presumably when you go place you only stay 2 hours and then proclaim to be an expert on it and you only need 2 hours to meet people to know all about them. I assuming that the 2 naff examples you use to try and justify how bad OP is took a matter of minutes and yet you ignore the other 95% of the time when you had no issues at all?
The OP is nothing but a whine about how he died because he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings. This is expected from solo players because they aren't experienced enough to play OP to know what to do. OP can either learn and carry on in a world of living people or shrink back to boring, sterile soloplay with very limited depth and lasting appeal.
1. Your mistake was not to blow the sucker away for stealing money from you.
2. Your second mistake was not to keep an eye on your radar I guess. Crashing into another ship can happen in open nearly as easy.
3. Your third mistake was calling people who do anything you don´t like stupid children seeking the GTA experience. In your honor I will now kill 100 clean CMDRs. It will be my first cleans;-)
My first mistake reading your rubbish.
My second mistake was thinking that you would care about other cmdrs.
My last mistake is writing this text.
I'm the opposite. I'll take the risk in OP (I mix between OP and GP right now as I play with a friend and MP is so absolute crap it's a joke but MP games are only a new thing. It's not like they haven't been around for decades....). Flying around knowing I'm vulnerable in my little hauler makes the game far more interesting for me and makes the interactions more intense. It also makes me think about my actions and placement and where I'm going which makes me work out contingencies, Playing it safe keeps you mediocre, not Elite.
This is the nature of these games where open PVP exist. Be prepared and don't hesitate to shoot. I have to try open play sometimes.
Btw open play sounds alot like DayZ. Hi, I'm friendly...gets shot in the head the next second.I have to start playing it again, that was alot of fun.
No it's really nothing like DayZ. Nobody is competing for resources here, everyone can make money easily and you always have time to talk as long as the other guy doesn't start shooting first and if he does then you choose to fight or run.
Exactly the OP just assumes this Asp pilot rammed him deliberately because that's what he wants to think - it's called confirmation bias and now he can safely go back to SP now he knows what "OP is like!"
i have not time to read all.
atm because i am casual, i play solo.
but i have solid experience in mmo. (eq and eq2 since 1999).
the big difference, (i know pvp is only 2 serveur in eq), is the penalty death.
Penalty death in many mmo is nothing. (except eq in beginning).
in elite, more money, big ship, big penalty death. with a class A big ship, penalty is 5 or 6h or more grind. so many players like me, with not playtime, not take risk.
i suggest : keep insurrance cost for death from npc and event not caused by players.
and inssurance cost=0 for a death from a players. (bounty or piracy)
or cap inssurance cost at 200K. (the cap game can give us if we not have the money)
and many players, like me, go without prob in open.
ego is enought to play and take care, no need inssurance cost from death in pvp or "grief" situation.
atm because i am casual, i play solo.
but i have solid experience in mmo. (eq and eq2 since 1999).
the big difference, (i know pvp is only 2 serveur in eq), is the penalty death.
Penalty death in many mmo is nothing. (except eq in beginning).
in elite, more money, big ship, big penalty death. with a class A big ship, penalty is 5 or 6h or more grind. so many players like me, with not playtime, not take risk.
i suggest : keep insurrance cost for death from npc and event not caused by players.
and inssurance cost=0 for a death from a players. (bounty or piracy)
or cap inssurance cost at 200K. (the cap game can give us if we not have the money)
and many players, like me, go without prob in open.
ego is enought to play and take care, no need inssurance cost from death in pvp or "grief" situation.
Have you ever played ETS2? The aggressive AI means I fear for my life at lights and roundabouts
They could go and play another game? If I get bored of something I'm not that stupid to keep on playing it and can't imagine many people really would. I don't think it's far off the truth however but I think it's more of a case that what excites some players is interacting with other real people.
ED is dead without MP.
So practice with your BF or other friends that play. Go to an anarchy system and start fighting it out. You stop shooting when your shields are down, wait for them to charge and go at it again. You could mix it up by going to an asteroid field of planetary rings, practice where it's each just one of you shooting the other (this will teach gunnery and evasion techniques) then a duel (this will teach you tactics). Try with flight assist off on and also a race around space stations, follow the leader type of thing as the station will allow you to see how your ship moves with FA on and off.