Pirates

fresher

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I got pirated by a real person the other night. And there was me thinking all this talk of 'griefers' was a myth. Any way, I wouldn't say I was 'griefed', he did send me messages saying stop or die a couple of times, and well, firstly I haven't bothered to even learn the control keys for comms as I've never needed them, and secondly I stop for no man (or woman) :)

Flying my T6 I wasn't going to bother putting up a fight, tried to run and predictably got blown up and lost a days worth of progress in cargo. Hopefully he didn't benefit from any of my canisters.

Never thought I'd say it, but I'm going to be in Solo mode from now on. Not sure why I was ever in open play, really, other than a vague idea that it's 'better'. I wasn't intending to be cannon fodder for those that find it an enjoyable play style to attack other players with overwhelming firepower. I'll be back in Open for consensual PVP when I'm in a combat ship, but blowing up unarmed civilians won't be my gig.
 

Quineloe

Quineloe
Philip Coutts said:
So he sent you messages say stop or die, you didn't stop so he blew you up. Sounds like he was playing the game as he should. If you hjad just stopped and given him some cargo he wouldn't have blown you up. I can't see the issue.
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What makes you think there is an issue?
 

Sugarat

Sugarat
fresher said:
I got pirated by a real person the other night. And there was me thinking all this talk of 'griefers' was a myth. Any way, I wouldn't say I was 'griefed', he did send me messages saying stop or die a couple of times, and well, firstly I haven't bothered to even learn the control keys for comms as I've never needed them, and secondly I stop for no man (or woman) :)

Flying my T6 I wasn't going to bother putting up a fight, tried to run and predictably got blown up and lost a days worth of progress in cargo. Hopefully he didn't benefit from any of my canisters.

Never thought I'd say it, but I'm going to be in Solo mode from now on. Not sure why I was ever in open play, really, other than a vague idea that it's 'better'. I wasn't intending to be cannon fodder for those that find it an enjoyable play style to attack other players with overwhelming firepower. I'll be back in Open for consensual PVP when I'm in a combat ship, but blowing up unarmed civilians won't be my gig.
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To be fair I would say that by playing in open you are already consenting to PvP.
 

bootsam

bootsam
? Shoulve stopped and gave the cargo. Pirating is just a bit of fun players have. I like the idea and have given freely some cargo for those who choose this path. Especially if they are polite. Both mine have been polite and friendly after the initial threat of death. :) Its a laugh. Jim lad.
 

Asrar

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Mhhh,

first off all, i hope now you know how to chat ^^
secondly, if you had stopped and dropped something you would have now a ticket to always pass the system with any goods.
the most frustrating thing for a pirate is : a player that dont understand the game, not even how to contact someone, and acting like a bot even worse.
you choose the boredom of the game and flying from one station to the other and only listening to : landing gear deployed, landing gear retracted, permission to dock granted, scan detected.. so you listening to 4 sentece the whole playtime and looking at 4 different station types, just to see your credits growing.... for me your the victim of your own playstile, but ok if that is what you like, its up to you and i hope you enjoy "landing gear deployed" :)
 

antonygoldrick

antonygoldrick
Sorry I think this is the cowards way out (personal opinion).
I am mainly a trader and have been since I re-wiped at launch and have never played in Solo mode.
I have managed to go from a Sidey to Clipper without to much worry but the reasons for me is simple. Realism.
You need that risk. Without it your just playing a game of no meaning.

Keep in Open and next time give in to the interdiction.
When you do your FDS cools quicker and you have a chance of turning flight assist off and boosting away before they get you.
or give the pirate some goods and keep your ship.

But its these chances that make each trade run real.
Sorry but I really think people playing solo mode are taking something away from the game (I know your choice but not for me).
 

Britannkic

Britannkic
Adept said:
Nobody has clicked "accept" on that. It is your view, not some universal truth.
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It's a galactic truth though... An Open galactic truth and anyone entering Open without their eyes wide Open to the reasonably foreseeable occurrence of player piracy or other PvP encounters does so at their own risk
 

snotface

snotface
fresher said:
I got pirated by a real person the other night. And there was me thinking all this talk of 'griefers' was a myth. Any way, I wouldn't say I was 'griefed', he did send me messages saying stop or die a couple of times, and well, firstly I haven't bothered to even learn the control keys for comms as I've never needed them, and secondly I stop for no man (or woman) :)

Flying my T6 I wasn't going to bother putting up a fight, tried to run and predictably got blown up and lost a days worth of progress in cargo. Hopefully he didn't benefit from any of my canisters.

Never thought I'd say it, but I'm going to be in Solo mode from now on. Not sure why I was ever in open play, really, other than a vague idea that it's 'better'. I wasn't intending to be cannon fodder for those that find it an enjoyable play style to attack other players with overwhelming firepower. I'll be back in Open for consensual PVP when I'm in a combat ship, but blowing up unarmed civilians won't be my gig.
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Sugarat said:
To be fair I would say that by playing in open you are already consenting to PvP.
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I have to agree with Sugarat here Fresher.

When you are in Open play you will be around human's playing their personal games. I would not advise using the words you have to describe people on this forum as it will get you into trouble, But as you have use those particular words This is what I say.

Open mode is not easy as a trader because that is all you end up doing. Where as Solo is for killing pirate scum (be it NPC or not) and where you can make serious money killing. Yes I can make X amount per hour killing or trading, but the fun goes.

Use your trader to make a few hundred thousand then buy a viper and do it up and get some revenge in open. Have a break and do some trading in Solo, then come back in open on viper and so on. You may start enjoying both Solo and Open. I do
 

Tigga

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I don't really see an issue either. If you don't want to be pirated, or the risk that you may be pirated, solo mode is the place for you. IMO you're missing out on a large part of the game experience by moving your trading into a lower risk environment, but that's up to you. I would rather traders who would rather get blown up than drop 1t of cargo move to solo, tbh. Saves time when selecting targets.

OP cannot complain that he got blown to bits really. He had the option not to get blown to bits, but chose to get blown to bits. Heck, it might even have been me who blew him to bits, I blew a few people to bits yesterday who were completely uncommunicative, and would do nothing but run run and run some more. Lots of messages, such as "I'm going to blow you to bits unless you cut engines/drop x cargo", but they fell on deaf ears, so I blew them to bits.
 
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Aircool

Aircool
I had two attempted interdictions last night (same dude, only about a minute apart) whilst carrying 100 tons of gold in an unarmed (but shielded and armoured) T6 whilst LS's away from the space station. It was sphincter twitching and 'exciting', but fortunately, I have a beast of a power plant and engines which gave me enough time (along with some manoeuvres (listing lazily to the left)) to charge up the FSD.

I only enter 'solo' mode when I'm testing something I'm not familiar with - like the first few runs with the T6. Trading without risk is boring.
 

Captain Breton

Captain Breton
Sugarat said:
To be fair I would say that by playing in open you are already consenting to PvP.
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I agree completely :)

And though I've never honestly treated the idea of fighting players any different than fighting (and potentially loosing to) an NPC ship-captain, I agree with the idea that you should, be prepared for the event of being targeted by players in Open-play.

That said? I'm mostly playing this solo, even if I got lucky in my first open pvp fight (driving a T6 vs a Cobra)
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It's said before ,but ..the chance of meeting other players outside the beaten track is a rare event, and more likely than not, they'll be friendly. I suppose people tend to forget all the friendly / no-chat encounters.
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Also guys, give the people who share their experiences some slack, some of us may be forum-rats reading most every post, and thus feel inclined to complain about those posts.
For all you know ,it was one of his first posts ever. It's not really adding to the forum-atmosphere.
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Loosing days worth of Progress is quite a big thing for most people I imagine, so trashing people for sharing that? Bad form :(
 

Tigga

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Captain Breton said:
Loosing days worth of Progress is quite a big thing for most people I imagine, so trashing people for sharing that? Bad form :(
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Sure, yes, it's a fairly big thing maybe. Though he did chose that path, rather than the path that would not lose him a day's worth of progress (ie. dropping some of his cargo), so there's not much room for sympathy.
 
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QSL

QSL
Pirates are in some certain systems. Find another routs and don't worry. There are a lot of stations with rare goods, but yes, they are a bit in outscirts and the profit is not that high, but there are no pirates as well. Also you can always submit to interdiction and escape due to the 5 sec cooldown of your FSD.
 

Tigga

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QSL said:
Pirates are in some certain systems. Find another routs and don't worry. There are a lot of stations with rare goods, but yes, they are a bit in outscirts and the profit is not that high, but there are no pirates as well. Also you can always submit to interdiction and escape due to the 5 sec cooldown of your FSD.
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Not if you meet my Asp in your T6 you can't.
 
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