Just over 15,000 hours for me so far.
someone's trolling in an orca at cemiess
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Not so. If you're in an instance with his friends and he (blocked guy) tries to join, he'll be in an empty instance. If he's already with his friends and you try to join them, you'll be in an empty instance.
Oops, ninjad.
Both.
The DOOM brigade will finally get their wish.
Try Elton John.Foiled again!
So it was the game mechanics, ok my bad then
this was fixed. The game will prefer to create an empty instance to avoid putting you with the blocker/blocked one together. This is even true for drop-ins through wing beacons.
Noob question, but how would it even be possible to do this? I'm assuming that the trolling Orca was blowing up ships by banging into them somehow, since deploying your hardpoints (never mind firing them) inside a station seems like a quick way to the rebuy screen. You get a limited amount of time to dock or leave the station before being explodified, can an Orca really do enough damage in that time while travelling under 100m/s?
If I were in charge of station ATC, I'd definitely be wasting that fool, and I believe that would be entirely within the spirit of why the punishment for loitering and blocking in Elite is punitive.
If I were in charge of station ATC, I'd definitely be wasting that fool, and I believe that would be entirely within the spirit of why the punishment for loitering and blocking in Elite is punitive.
PvP Orcas, which are typically hulltanked and thus weigh quite a bit, do have quite the reputation for being effective battering rams. However, at such low speeds, the only ships that should be exploding are those that skipped Hull / Shield Day which 2-3 Rank 1 Scavengers could waste in an instant... or ones whose pilots fell asleep at the stick after switching on the ADC
And that's exactly what would happen if actual humans were running the traffic control at the station. The fact that there are no actual humans running traffic there means the troll is exploiting a flaw in the programming. Realistically the controllers would see what the troll is doing and would, as you say, waste the troll into space dust, boiling him up, then picking his bones clean.
Well, I'm glad to hear that FD fixed that. I was going by "last information on blocking I had said that..."
Yeah, I've seen people complain before about being ganked "for no reason" when it turned out they were pledged to a powerplay enemy.
I can't think of any other reason why the station wouldn't blow the attacker out of the sky.
Unless OP is wanted, of course, in which case all I can say is "lol, lmao".
Sure sure, the low numbers are because gankers, not because botched DLC
Now what might merit a cheering section in good fun, is they coulda be having battering ram contests to beat the Orca, outside the station. Wouldn't that be fun to watch or do? I say! pssht step right up and test your hull strength! Sell your carto data first then come test your mettle against Bruno the Orca!
But anyway, see ya in open mode! Toro! Toro! or, Orco! Orco!
But anyway, see ya in open mode! Toro! Toro! or, Orco! Orco!
I see nothing has changed then.
