Now that board flipping is going to be gone here's an idea to fix combat loggers.
- Thread starter HazardousMatt
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Mate people CL to stations and AI. There's no moral victory here. Everyone loses. Even the winners lose. It's just a garbage bin fire and Frontier are like "yo, we'd fix it, hey but we didn't think people would do that.. so.. what about the new thargoids, hey, good stuff, right?".
It's been five years. Frontier are clearly in no hurry; foot is off the gas pedal and they're just doing what seems like a good idea at the time. Is what it is. Rage, or move on, really. Life is too damn short.
People are supposed to be held accountable for their actions and it's important that accountability exis^H [No Carrier]
How about mounting engineered multicannons on speed cameras? Same overexaggerated measure for a non-issue, impacting precisely nothing than e-peen size of the attacker.
Easy way to remove combat logging is to remove combat all together. Weapons are replaced with the following, projectiles like MC or cannons now are paint balls guns , missiles become fireworks and frag cannons become confetti launcher and energy weapons become disco lights. No combat, no need to log every one is happy as they fire off those disco tunes
TheMegaTurnip
Banned
If they can do a dedicate mission server they can switch the game FULLY over to run on dedicated servers.
And the prize for the worst idea on the forum goes to...........
Fly safe Cmdr's
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The idea is a 10, feasibility null
Same here. Don't understand why someone does it, don't understand all the salt after someone has done it as well.
Not making a drama, just wondering whether your statement has any support beyond 'just your opinion'. You will not get kicked in Elite when you have a poor connection. You can join Open, Solo, Private Group. That's not an opinion, that is a fact.come on, ziggy. it's basiccivismcivility. if you have a bunch of players having fun and just spoil it by joining with your poor connection ... odds are you will be kicked, for a reason. this varies with the type of game, but really don't see how you can make a drama out of that. it's just life. i swear i didn't invent it!
As a wise man once said:
Achilles7
Banned
You must be, either that or you haven't thought this through.
Lets say that what you suggest is even possible, what happens if I log off on the only medium pad at some very popular outpost being very persistent sitting there weeks on end blocking the pad while I play on my second account. How you gonna deal with that genius?
If we're going to have this discussion, you REALLY need to start paying attention to what's written instead of just posting up my quotes and replying with a rant about whatever you happen to be thinking about at the time.
As I said, the current system benefits those who are the "loser" in an engagement - be it a station, an NPC or another player.
In that situation, players can still take comfort in the fact they won the engagement and, as for stations and NPCs, they just don't care.
Mate.
That IS infinitely preferable to a system that would encourage people to make use of P2P network architecture in order to create player disconnects.
When/if a player can jump into a system where there are other CMDRs in their Contacts tab, run a script and cause them to disconnect,thus causing them all a rebuy, causing them all to lose their cargo or causing them to be suspended from the game for an hour, ED will be completely dead in every mode other than Solo.
This.
And we've had this discussion before too. And some people suggested that surely nobody would do this on purpose. But we all know this not to be true...
Combat Logging sucks. It does. But frankly, there's no good way to fix it unless we moved all combat interactions to a client/server architecture which Frontier will absolutely never do.
The best we can hope for is to get a hybrid system (see link in my signature) that uses C/S for a set number of areas of interest. Heck, you could even make it so there's a special ranking section that you can only advance in by participating in fights in such a controlled area where you can be SURE that if someone combat logs, you know that HE disconnected (for whatever reason, TBH I'd say shaky internet connection is no excuse)
Well, you must be pretty new if you don't know that it has been proposed so many times already. It's not really meant to denigrate. Just take it as "encouragement" to check, whether your topic hasn't been done already 3,751 times. Tho I hear the search function is kinda not working properly.
in elite you can't kick players. choose any online game where players do host matches or instances, try to enter them with a high ping or after being known for frequent disconnects, see how it goes.
an extreme case, just to illustrate: in overwatch you get automatically punished with a steep demotion in rank for any disconnect, whatever the reason. disconnect 3 times in a row and you will be even temporarily banned altogether from competitive play.
this last example is extreme because overwatch is just that competitive, and by disconnecting you leave your team in a bad position, and actually spoil the match. so disconnects are considered game breaking.
of course depending on the type of the game this will be more or less of an issue but it shows that to have a good online experience a working and stable connection is just not optional.
so facts, imo. i really have no opinion on this except i find it is basic good education not to spoil other's experience unnecessarily.
Exactly.
Depending on the game, as you said.
What's the worst that can happen in Elite?
I agree. So lets stop acting as if players with poor connectivity need to play in solo.
To fix combat logging you need to fix the HUGELY UNBALLENCED PVP sysystem as well as Crime and Punishment system
Because some one is in a PvP no matter what you got, your dead.... Traders in 1 sec, combat ship in 5-20secs depending on engineer level and there is NO MINI GAME to get out of being interdicted because you cannot escape a Pro PvP player because how elite coded it. baseline ya dead!
Once PvP is fixed, having your ship linger on if its constanly taking damage is fine, and will have a timer of 15secs and without getting damage then it will disapear but refreshes on damage
Heck... Battle star galactica online ALREADY did this! and it works flawlessly! and that use to be a browser game!
Because some one is in a PvP no matter what you got, your dead.... Traders in 1 sec, combat ship in 5-20secs depending on engineer level and there is NO MINI GAME to get out of being interdicted because you cannot escape a Pro PvP player because how elite coded it. baseline ya dead!
Once PvP is fixed, having your ship linger on if its constanly taking damage is fine, and will have a timer of 15secs and without getting damage then it will disapear but refreshes on damage
Heck... Battle star galactica online ALREADY did this! and it works flawlessly! and that use to be a browser game!
if you disconnect and your ship is left on autopilot for a while and can't come back in time to remove it from danger? you might loose it to space. not a tragedy, really. however, if your connection is so bad that this happens often, you might consider alternative forms of fun.
ok, then let's start acting like players are as responsible for their own connectivity as they are for their gpu, skills and actions.
we'll arrive at the same place: good multiplayer gameplay.