OTOH ship fuel is free and easy to scoop, while tritium is much more expensive / hugely more work to mine. Plus you have to wait a billion years to jump...
Seriously, what's the point in open play?
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You forget one thing: Games like WoW reset gear stats with every major update. We have had no "back to basics" power resets in EDs far. It is just one long continuous bit inflation getting more and more out of wack.
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honestly I don't know. I had a big gaming weekend with some mates and I persuaded them to buy elite just for CQC but was warned off it due to map broken issues as well as lobby /matchmaking issues. we would have played in our own little group so would not have had a problem with good players owning us...... however after the warning I could not in good conscience let mates pay cash for a broken game so we played other stuff .
No, because in Elite the materials needed to synthesize limpets are massless and volumeless, and they are abundant in asteroid fields and on planet surfaces (but you can't buy them in a store), so there's no need to carry any limpets. And one can go with a lighter power plant when not powering a shield, which is one of the most thirsty modules power-wise.
But for me it's not about shaving off a ton or two to gain 0.01 LY of jump range, it's about the fun of actually having to be good at things like landing. Bouncing off the ground, relying on shields to save me is not "gud", it's lazy (at least for me) and ultimately boring. As for loosing a couple of percentage points from the hull here or there, that just adds to my immersion! Well, except for the fact that a ship with 1% hull flies just as good as a ship with 100% hull...
OTOH ship fuel is free and easy to scoop, while tritium is much more expensive / hugely more work to mine. Plus you have to wait a billion years to jump...
It's a different compromise
Reminds me of speeding through neutron highway and carefully nursing the FSD to last until home...Was flying Cutter home from longish trip, and at some point I realised I do not have self-repair system installed...made some rough calculations, it should last neutron jumping most of the way home..
Mexico's big problem is cartels. Do you really think if some rando with tons of weaponry showed up in their terf and started killing random people, that they wouldn't respond?
You're forgetting something. Their identity in the game is very public. And there's interstellar communication. If a serial killer carved their own name and address on every victim, even in a lawless area, they wouldn't last long.
And there's a difference between organized crime, piracy, kidnapping, etc, and what gankers do. In the former, they have a goal in mind outside of the crime, (power, money, food, etc). Ganking is mindless mass slaughter just for funsies. Even in "lawless" areas, that will draw the wrong kind of attention.
That's not even adding in the Pilots Federation bit.
The point is that much of the country is lawless. And it is. The number of unsolved murders and other crimes in its cities is astronomically high. It's far worse in some places on this planet where law and order is completely nonexistent. There are plenty of places on earth where crimes against you will go completely unreported, including your murder at the hands of people who want your wallet, people who don't like the color of your skin, and people who just enjoy inflicting pain.
If you don't think this is the case, you are extremely sheltered.
I disagree. It wouldn't draw attention. People here keep thinking of deep space, even in the most secure systems, as the cosmic equivalent of a cozy Connecticut town. Nothing could be further from "realistic" than the expectation of safety from aggression in the stars, particularly in anarchy and low security systems.
Stars Hollow amirite?
Are you accusing Ichabod Crane of ganking?Safest place east of New Canaan!
Well I never...
I would never do such a thing!
I'm accusing the Horseman of ganking. I mean, he clearly is a ganker. He's supernaturally powerful thanks to all the material grinding he's been doing down in Hell, and he just goes around cutting the heads off all these hapless small town people who just want to travel safely to Fareseer Inc. and engineer their FSDs.
but what is missing is the risk to the would be serial killer. perhaps nothing at all could stop you blowing me up. but so long as I reported the crime against me you should not be allowed to flounce into a station and dock, the pilots federation who pay the insurance claims would not allow one of their members to indescrimiately blow up ships whilst happily covering the insurance costs, Inc the insurance of the serial killer if eventually bought down.
Correct. In this regard, the system is broken. It isn't that the killing is unrealistic. It's the treatment of the killer by pretty much everyone else that's unrealistic. And I completely agree with you. If you're going to be a ganker (indiscriminate PvPer), you should be notorious. In this regard, the way Frontier programmed things is pretty stupid.
I distinctly remember jumping ship from my happy little alliance in EVE and joining a particularly nasty group of pirates who were as famous for honoring ransom payments as they were for the punishment they inflicted on those who didn't comply with their demands. One of the prerequisites for joining them was having a -10 security status, meaning that you were not welcome in any high security space. They literally could not travel there, because they were outlaws.
Members of that corporation wore -10 sec status as a badge of honor - proof that they were notorious thieves and killers. It still meant that we were forced to live in lawless space where we could hunt freely... and where others could freely hunt us. It was brilliant, but also reasonable.
god, back in the day I had a system that was (at the time) statistically almost perfect for spawning LTD-carrying trade ships, flipped it to anarchy so I could rob them in peace - except for the fact that it was a powerplay control system so nearly all the spawns in supercruise got bogged down by powerplay ships that I (a non-pledged cmdr) had no interest in.
I'm a space nerd
Have you played a Bethesda game at all?My other half dragged me back to Fallout 76 (she's a long time fan of the series) and I'm currently averaging 2 or 3 crashes per session. Slide show lag if there's anyone else around, objects slow to spawn in or just plain invisible.
I laugh at anyone who complains about Elite's bugs.
I'm not touching Starfield until there's an unofficial patch, a ton of qol mods, and at least one significant nsfw mod. That's how you know that a Bethesda game is moddable to the point at which it is finally playable.
Skyrim on release? No thanks, not right now. Skyrim once the modders added a patch, the ability to smoke a pipe, and the option to romance the local lusty Argonian? Game is now a game.
hookah on my fleet carrier wen
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