PSA: Do not go to Pallaeni in Open

[Hellfire85]

Play solo or PG aka git gud or get rekt

More seriously, if you know how you can escape an interdiction even in a trading ship.

Take a look at Rinzler's guide to trading in open. Very useful.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

10,000 explorers showed up for the launch, and only thirty actually made it out alive.

Dear me!

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

Dear me!

Wait.

Did DW2 just gank everyone?

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Wait.

Did DW2 just gank everyone?

DW2 just ganked the entire game in one fell swoop!

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

Meanwhile at Fleetcomm...

Spoiler

 

[Siobhan]

DW2 just ganked the entire game in one fell swoop!

Buncha griefers! Ban the lot of 'em I say!
Now the servers will be down til Thursday as FDev restore all their lost ships in time to repeat everything next time they jump.

 

[Chaparral]

Feel bad for all those Explorers. Distant Swirled 2.

 

[Leadfoot]

DW2 just ganked the entire game in one fell swoop!

So revenge on the gankers that attacked them, then.
NOW we know who's more powerful, huh?
Take that, gankers.

 

[Krash]

Have you heard the term 'like shooting fish in a barrel?'

This is what it looks like when the fish build the barrel, fill it with water, climb in, and post a sign out front next to a pile of shotguns that says, 'Free Fish.'

Was Fleetcomm invaded?

 

[Siobhan]

Was Fleetcomm invaded?

I doubt it...especially considering the chat from earlier and the multiple form filling. Probably happened in open...
But if they were invaded, it'd be hilarious at this point.

 

[jasonbarron]

Was Fleetcomm invaded?

I don't know about Fleetcomm, but there was a serious gankening in Open at the DWE Beacon.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I don't know about Fleetcomm, but there was a serious gankening in Open at the DWE Beacon.

Yeah, from what I know the gankers just went full-on murder , killing everything in sight.

 

[Phazon Xenomorph]

1) don't forget that you MUST fill out a google form to get access to the fleetcomm PG, and it's NOT the DW2 sign up form. Requesting access without the form will automatically result in a rejection.

2) If you get killed by a player on the DW2 expedition, FDEV restores your ship, but ONLY if you are inside the Fleetcomm PG.

That just means you kill them again. I'm most curious which gankers are secretly hiding with combat ships in DW2. I'm hoping to see some sort of massacre at Beagle point or at one of the stopping junctions. DW2 looked interesting but I decided not to go cause I would have turned beagle point into a bloodbath (Guardian booster means even heavy combat ships can reach beagle point), but since DW2 is gonna be so long an endeavor it wasn't worth it over picking on Thargoids. That said I will be following what happens as I'm sure some PvP'ers are gonna turn one of the stops into a nice slaughter, but FDEV will ruin it with more non-sense handwavium.

 

[Phazon Xenomorph]

Yeah, from what I know the gankers just went full-on murder , killing everything in sight.

You mean... people who were dumb and made poorly equipped exploration ships then sat in OPEN expecting to NOT get murdered on a publicly announced event with every location and stage publicly shown? Sounds like the explorers being dumb in Open got a lesson about properly equipping their ships. If your ship isn't outfitted for Open and you lack the skills to fly in Open, expect it to happen. If their only goal is a mega stripped down ship with no or ultra light shields and they lack basic flight tricks to dodge gankers (such as in Rinzlers old guide to trading in Open vid) then they were basically asking for it.

 

[jasonbarron]

Yeah, from what I know the gankers just went full-on murder , killing everything in sight.

So I hear

 

[Florenus]

You mean... people who were dumb and made poorly equipped exploration ships then sat in OPEN expecting to NOT get murdered on a publicly announced event with every location and stage publicly shown? Sounds like the explorers being dumb in Open got a lesson about properly equipping their ships. If your ship isn't outfitted for Open and you lack the skills to fly in Open, expect it to happen. If their only goal is a mega stripped down ship with no or ultra light shields and they lack basic flight tricks to dodge gankers (such as in Rinzlers old guide to trading in Open vid) then they were basically asking for it.

I spit in your general direction

 

[Feros-da-Grundig]

PS4's Open was pretty clear half an hour a go, some chain-interdictions and generally boring them to death, got them to amble off.
Zippopot did most of the work (o7), although Jack_White looked menacing, and I spammed warnings to Local. I'd like to think we managed to save at least a few CMDRs from being exploded.

I fully expect launch time to be hectic, so as always take precautions, and fly safe all.

Yeah I was at the CG earlier on PS4, it's still pretty tame, at first I went there to kill Nova CMDRs but there weren't any so I won a sparring session to 30% with some imperial dude it was a gg

Then I decided my CMDR got drunk and accepted a bribe from Nova, and tried to find an imperial CMDR willing to fight

No dice, some FdL evaded me, i got bored now back on interwebs wasting time. I don't understand flying an FdL in open if you won't pew pew pew a human but whatever to each their own

PS4 DW2 launch on the other hand... I wasn't there not really my thing but I can assure everyone the PS4 launch in open for DW2 was extremely murder-y.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Yeah I was at the CG earlier on PS4, it's still pretty tame, at first I went there to kill Nova CMDRs but there weren't any so I won a sparring session to 30% with some imperial dude it was a gg

Then I decided my CMDR got drunk and accepted a bribe from Nova, and tried to find an imperial CMDR willing to fight

No dice, some FdL evaded me, i got bored now back on interwebs wasting time. I don't understand flying an FdL in open if you won't pew pew pew a human but whatever to each their own

PS4 DW2 launch on the other hand... I wasn't there not really my thing but I can assure everyone the PS4 launch in open for DW2 was extremely murder-y.

Were the wing of FDLs there?
Was gonna come over but I'm too far out.

 

[Feros-da-Grundig]

Were the wing of FDLs there?
Was gonna come over but I'm too far out.

I remember seeing a wing but not the details, maybe one was FdL pledged to AisDuval?

I think the FdL that told me to get lost before waking away was by him/herself.

Saw another FdL that was definitely by itself but I know the guy so no pew pew pew

 

[znôrt]

We're stuck with the same code that was in the Alpha/Beta development stage from 2013/14. The game was released to mark the anniversary of 30 years of Elite, so all the place holders went out with the official launch. That's what we're stuck with, and every update is just gymnastics around the code. It was rushed out, and it's stuck.

that's depressing, and probably true but ... what has this to do with ganking a hot spot? this is not a flaw, nor a bad implementation, nor a structural problem. it's by design, there is meant to be ganking in open, not much else to argue about here.