Do you think when odyssey drops three elite cmdrs will hide behind some rocks jump out on a noob and kneecap him for no reason?
Question for Open players who don't like PVP/ganking... help me understand
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I know right? If you drop it at Jameson you don't even have the excuse of needing it for the BGS.
If you mean misuse the sampling tool and extract the noobs kidneys, yes.
This is what I mean about you having control- you decide your ship, how you fly and where you fly too.
Only the most tender meat gains entry to pie heaven.
All I know is I'm tired of being "ganked" by explorers who sneeringly tag the galaxy like a swarm of graffiti-ists with little to no regard for those of us who are limited to single digit jump ranges. I have zero problems with the idea of striking back against these callous villains.
I am not sure we can describe any player with Elite rank in anything as a "new player".
Braben's quote in the video talks about how they're bringing all the richness of Elite as it is today forward into the Odyssey expansion, and whatever that will prove to be.
Part of that richness he describes - part of what Braben literally presents as the tradition of Elite - is, in his actual words, when "you make things go wrong for other people."
Granted, the old games were purely solo. But in Elite Dangerous, multiplayer - where you, as a player, can choose (if you want) to "make things go wrong for other people," is one of the game features and it would seem, by extension, that ganking and PVP are the game working as intended.
Sorry guys but I think you're going to have to really stretch credulity to spin that direct statement from Braben, less than 24 hours old, any other way.
Explorers are egotists. Just wait until foot discovery and is going to get crazy with unending footprints on moon X with an Asp somewhere in the background. Its going to choke Reddit like a badly masticated pretzel.
Im slightly surprised theres an 'if' in there.
But you can have that excuse if you go to the DW ground bases.
Nobody is trying to 'spin' anything. Wheres the sudden hostility from?
Jetpack teabagging. Think of the videos- Yamiks is going to wet himself dunking those modules.
Just you wait and see my waistcoat made out of chicken thighs.
i cant wait to do this at beagle point
it will be even better than a gank at beagle point
Its going to make FD livestreams high stakes affairs...
Cut the stream! CUT THE STREAMOHMYGODTHEDUNKING
I think Open PVE mode, and putting it main menu's default would solve all these problems. Of course then whining of some player section would be unimaginably intense. As traditional Open would really become consentfull PVP mode and player population there would quite likely take big hit.
i doupt that. many would still go to the normal open also they would still cry in the forums for being ganked
Apologies - no hostility intended in that statement, though it's clearly worded more strongly than my norm.
A different reply from a different respondent seemed to indicate that there was some "slyness" in the statements from Braben, implying that what was clearly and unambiguously said wasn't in fact clear and unambiguous.
There's enough of that kind of doubletalk in real life, I do not want for a minute to brook the same here. But I think the heat of that mindset spilled over into my reply to you, and gave the words more force than I actually intended.
I, for one, have been genuinely enjoying these mostly civil interactions. I do feel like Braben's quote is worth engaging with and accepting for what it is. It doesn't mean that people seeking peaceful co-op are wrong, either. Those things are absolutely part of what Open is and can be about, too. It is intended gameplay. Hell, I do co-op stuff with my ganker friends all the time, lol.
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We call it Tactical Crouching these days. Very important feature.
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