I don't care about open-only PVP-oriented events.
Salome : The Crux 2 - why didn't you take part ?
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I've participated in an event like this before, last year, a message was supposed to be delivered at a set station at a set time. Everyone knew about it, it was a real FD employee piloting said ship and the intent was that the first person there would get some very important information.
As you might imagine, it didn't go that way, the first encounter with the messenger resulted in said messenger being erased immediately.
Wasted three hours for that.
When FD announced this, I knew it would be more of the same.
And I was right, spent my night drinking beer, watching TV and playing other games.
Had way more fun than I would have if I had tried to take part In this mess.
As someone said previously, these things are fun for the first five people to get there, everyone else is just wasting their time.
As you might imagine, it didn't go that way, the first encounter with the messenger resulted in said messenger being erased immediately.
Wasted three hours for that.
When FD announced this, I knew it would be more of the same.
And I was right, spent my night drinking beer, watching TV and playing other games.
Had way more fun than I would have if I had tried to take part In this mess.
As someone said previously, these things are fun for the first five people to get there, everyone else is just wasting their time.
this, atleast untill they implement a fair crime and punishment system. I do not mind dying if i know that justice will prevail eventually.
I am pretty far in deep space, took me a fair amount of mats to get this far off the map. I really enjoyed the book, am looking forward to the next, but I dont care either way about a spoiled rich imp millenial to come back to either kill/protect her. Plus didnt trust the p2p/instancing would work well enough.
For once I am perfectly cool with sdc. Didnt see any griefing or anything, and it all turned out in a way that writes itself into a book.
For once I am perfectly cool with sdc. Didnt see any griefing or anything, and it all turned out in a way that writes itself into a book.
Lets see;
1) Working
2) exploring way out of the bubble
3) Salome who?
4) profit......
About sums it up. Only people who are able to be online can take part in an event like this. Only people who are in the correct tiny bubble of stars amongst a galaxy of 400 billion can take part in an event like this. Only people who know something is happening and where etc.
I don't oppose scripted events for story telling, it suits some people, but that's all it is, storytelling, I don't play ED for storytelling, it's adventure, excitement.....well you get the idea, it's a big galaxy, I may find something interesting one day! After being burned at the Jacques CG I even stopped bothering with those.
1) Working
2) exploring way out of the bubble
3) Salome who?
4) profit......
About sums it up. Only people who are able to be online can take part in an event like this. Only people who are in the correct tiny bubble of stars amongst a galaxy of 400 billion can take part in an event like this. Only people who know something is happening and where etc.
I don't oppose scripted events for story telling, it suits some people, but that's all it is, storytelling, I don't play ED for storytelling, it's adventure, excitement.....well you get the idea, it's a big galaxy, I may find something interesting one day! After being burned at the Jacques CG I even stopped bothering with those.
Reasons for not participating:
1) Attitudes of people trying to dictate rules for a community event (e.g., "no weapons or we'll gank you")
2) Lack of good summary of the storyline to care about the event in the first place
3) Lack of in-game support to flag yourself as member of one side or another
4) Lack of other in-game support for anything that would make the event significantly different from regular gameplay
Meanwhile I must say the event got the perfect ending, I really must congratulate SDC on this, it was honestly a much more entertaining outcome than I would have expected, and totally in-character for them to betray their own side, who should have seen it coming a mile away. Well played!
1) Attitudes of people trying to dictate rules for a community event (e.g., "no weapons or we'll gank you")
2) Lack of good summary of the storyline to care about the event in the first place
3) Lack of in-game support to flag yourself as member of one side or another
4) Lack of other in-game support for anything that would make the event significantly different from regular gameplay
Meanwhile I must say the event got the perfect ending, I really must congratulate SDC on this, it was honestly a much more entertaining outcome than I would have expected, and totally in-character for them to betray their own side, who should have seen it coming a mile away. Well played!
I had been playing elite for a large part of the day, so took a break and decided to watch it via the youtube and twitch streams.
Enjoyed the drama and emotion of people who were invested in the story.
When a game can illicit the reactions we saw last night, which ranged from sheer joy, to denial, to anger, to melancholy then you have to say the event hit the mark.
Enjoyed the drama and emotion of people who were invested in the story.
When a game can illicit the reactions we saw last night, which ranged from sheer joy, to denial, to anger, to melancholy then you have to say the event hit the mark.
Why didn't I take part? Where to begin?
I did, however, watch several popular streamers and felt justified in my decision to sit this one out. Server issues/timeouts, infinite witch-space screens, instance lag, etc., etc.
Suddenly watching paint dry was high drama in comparison.
- Still new to the game and severely under-skilled and under-geared.
- On my best day, pizz-poor at PvP of any kind in any game.
- Figured the outcome was already pretty much baked-in before the event even started.
- [Related to previous point] - As I play on XBox, had an even more diminished role on the final outcome.
- I'm on a low sodium diet.
I did, however, watch several popular streamers and felt justified in my decision to sit this one out. Server issues/timeouts, infinite witch-space screens, instance lag, etc., etc.
Suddenly watching paint dry was high drama in comparison.
Nah. Why would I want to climb in the toilet and associate myself with the floaters who reside there? You get a smell just by association with them. Mmm - this was fun though. I wonder if said floaters will toss some of their friends at this fan. Probably not - I'm bound to be smacked by a mod so why bother. [To the mod - I know - I'm sorry - I'll be good from now on. I just couldn't pass up such a wonderful opportunity.]
1.- I had other things to do.
2.- Solo player.
3.- I got curious. But suspected things will go in drama and stupid because the mentality of the PVP community.
4.- Though I do like Elite, the game has NO PVP framework to accommodate events like this in a positive way, nor ways to regulate stupid behavior.
2.- Solo player.
3.- I got curious. But suspected things will go in drama and stupid because the mentality of the PVP community.
4.- Though I do like Elite, the game has NO PVP framework to accommodate events like this in a positive way, nor ways to regulate stupid behavior.
My killship is great for PvE but not really for hardcore dedicated PvP, I'm currently 16kly away from the Bubble, and my gaming computer is currently in the shop too :-(
Having said that, if a profitable CG is running then I tend to fly the killship and freighter over there to at least get on the ladder, oh altruistic me...
Having said that, if a profitable CG is running then I tend to fly the killship and freighter over there to at least get on the ladder, oh altruistic me...
This, so much this! And to think that an actual writer came up this, I mean to announce your location and your intentions well in advance knowing there are powerful people who want you dead and expect to live long enough to hand over the USB drive to whom ever need to have it? Really? Why not use the tranmission in witch you made the aforementioned announcement to transmit the info?
And if you really, really need to be somewhere to hand over the information then why not make sure as few people as possible know where, when and how you're going to make the delivery unless of course you want to make a dramatic sacrifice for maximum effect.
This "event" was only ever going to end with the death of Salomé and involving the SDC and that "wizzard" in the defence ensured it happened in the most embarrasing way possible.
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Why didn't I take part? Where to begin?
- Still new to the game and severely under-skilled and under-geared.
- On my best day, pizz-poor at PvP of any kind in any game.
- Figured the outcome was already pretty much baked-in before the event even started.
- [Related to previous point] - As I play on XBox, had an even more diminished role on the final outcome.
- I'm on a low sodium diet.
I did, however, watch several popular streamers and felt justified in my decision to sit this one out. Server issues/timeouts, infinite witch-space screens, instance lag, etc., etc.
Suddenly watching paint dry was high drama in comparison.
What Geezer said reflects for me also except I am a PC pilot and I am better at dieing than killing anything. Hell, I haven't even won at the training mission yet!
But I watched things on Discord and live stream.
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I found about it randomly on forums and I thought it is one of the worst ideas I've heard.
I knew I had no chance of actually meeting her (instancing issues etc.), I don't like the PvP meta (op engineer rolls and builds > skill), still I was considering making some fast Viper and checking it out for fun.
What little I read from various groups..well the toxicity was complete turn off. Unfortunately, some parts of this community is one of the worst I've met in any game so far and I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
How the event turned out is just hilarious for me at this point. I would like to know if people just staged it (why did Salome let herself get caught? why was notorious ganker as her friend and in the same instance?), if they are so gullible (I have some fresh mountain air for sale for them) or just have no idea what they are doing.
I knew I had no chance of actually meeting her (instancing issues etc.), I don't like the PvP meta (op engineer rolls and builds > skill), still I was considering making some fast Viper and checking it out for fun.
What little I read from various groups..well the toxicity was complete turn off. Unfortunately, some parts of this community is one of the worst I've met in any game so far and I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
How the event turned out is just hilarious for me at this point. I would like to know if people just staged it (why did Salome let herself get caught? why was notorious ganker as her friend and in the same instance?), if they are so gullible (I have some fresh mountain air for sale for them) or just have no idea what they are doing.
I haven't participated in Imperial v Federation stuff in the past and saw no reason to participate in what would clearly turn out to be a big instancing whine-fest.
I did, however, keep dipping into the forums - they were very entertaining. A chronological list of comments at the time would make an interesting book
Somebody early on in one of the threads published a poem by Salome, that was a leak of the outcome ... (can't find it now) ... it read like vorgon poetry, but one line was a give-away, about how (something along the lines of) "the dogs betrayed her" and I thought .... oh it's SDC that does her in. I had no idea at the time she was "escorted" by SDC.
This was a big give-away that the outcome was already scripted. Kind of patronising to the player base, don't you think? (EDIT - yet when I re-read that poem in the cool light of day, today, it leaves an open result, so my notion is not correct ! - sorry Drew .... terrible poetry, but it didn't predict the end as I had thought.)
Yes, I am glad I didn't participate in the game, and won't in future events of this kind.
I did, however, keep dipping into the forums - they were very entertaining. A chronological list of comments at the time would make an interesting book
Somebody early on in one of the threads published a poem by Salome, that was a leak of the outcome ... (can't find it now) ... it read like vorgon poetry, but one line was a give-away, about how (something along the lines of) "the dogs betrayed her" and I thought .... oh it's SDC that does her in. I had no idea at the time she was "escorted" by SDC.
This was a big give-away that the outcome was already scripted. Kind of patronising to the player base, don't you think? (EDIT - yet when I re-read that poem in the cool light of day, today, it leaves an open result, so my notion is not correct ! - sorry Drew .... terrible poetry, but it didn't predict the end as I had thought.)
Yes, I am glad I didn't participate in the game, and won't in future events of this kind.
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