The 15 second logout timer in action

[Smaste]

Or, that it had been exposed as impossible to do with the game as designed. Certainly it's not a big enough issue to invest in a redesign. It's just pixels organized to look like an explosion.

and the satisfaction of knowing you costed another player up to 50m credits

especially in a time as crucial as the end of all gold rushes. AHHHH INTOXICATING

 

[Mohrgan]

and the satisfaction of knowing you costed another player up to 50m credits

especially in a time as crucial as the end of all gold rushes. AHHHH INTOXICATING

I can't bring myself to stoop to schadenfreude over a video game.

 

[Smaste]

I can't bring myself to stoop to schadenfreude over a video game.

PKing has always been a test of skill to me, and as such there should be consequences.

There's nothing that gets the adrenaline pumping that thinking that everything you worked for could be completely useless because another player is better than you.

I get rekt ALL THE TIME in PVP in Elite Dangerous. I'm a decent pilot, ode to a decade playing flight games, but I'm nothing compared to people like Rinzler

I want there to be risk, I want there to be reward. There is NONE.

 

[Mohrgan]

PKing has always been a test of skill to me, and as such there should be consequences.

There's nothing that gets the adrenaline pumping that thinking that everything you worked for could be completely useless because another player is better than you.

I get rekt ALL THE TIME in PVP in Elite Dangerous. I'm a decent pilot, ode to a decade playing flight games, but I'm nothing compared to people like Rinzler

I want there to be risk, I want there to be reward. There is NONE.

I remain unimpressed. My interest in gaming, especially in E|D, is to personally play well. I don't need someone's loss to enjoy my game time.

 

[Smaste]

I remain unimpressed. My interest in gaming, especially in E|D, is to personally play well. I don't need someone's loss to enjoy my game time.

I think you're a relic of a simpler, happier time. Man it must be awesome seeing things the way you do.

 

[jasonbarron]

Clogging & logging threads seem to be all the rage right now. Nice to see the pressure coming off of those goddamed exploration changes

 

[Smaste]

Clogging & logging threads seem to be all the rage right now. Nice to see the pressure coming off of those goddamed exploration changes

just wait until I can actually bothered (is this game pg 13 or something) be to look into the exploration changes

 

[Morbad]

is this game pg 13 or something

NC-17 for cognitive dissonance and moral outrage.

 

[Smaste]

NC-17 for cognitive dissonance and moral outrage.

careful, someone might report you like they reported me lmao

 

[jasonbarron]

careful, someone might report you like they reported me lmao

Some of the people you were arguing with will brigade you with the report button. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Smaste]

Some of the people you were arguing with will brigade you with the report button. Don't ask me how I know.

god I can only wonder

 

[M00ka]

Do we need a second combat logging thread?

Menu logging = legal, but frowned upon
Combat logging = illegal, also frowned upon.
Staying and fighting = frowned upon
Running = frowned upon.

/Thread.

Cosmic you forgot a few:

Low Waking = legal but frowned upon
High Waking = legal but some place it will menu logging
Fighting back and winning = rarely happens as the aggressor will normally log out

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

I was reading this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/442697-Opinions-on-combat-logging and decided to try out the timer at the CG when sure enough, immediately griefed non-stop by wanted players who want me to be their content. Not wanting to spend 12M a pop on rebuys, I used the timer. It worked as advertised, normally followed up by "friend" requests that turned out to be anything but, and threats to send the video to something called "elite combat loggers" (that's like a shaming site i guess).
Why am I only finding out about this wonderful piece of kit now?

I had a good laugh at this. Thank you Commander, duly repped

 

[LeoBartlet]

I was reading this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/442697-Opinions-on-combat-logging and decided to try out the timer at the CG when sure enough, immediately griefed non-stop by wanted players who want me to be their content. Not wanting to spend 12M a pop on rebuys, I used the timer. It worked as advertised, normally followed up by "friend" requests that turned out to be anything but, and threats to send the video to something called "elite combat loggers" (that's like a shaming site i guess).

Why am I only finding out about this wonderful piece of kit now?

Googled the Elite combat loggers and wasn't disappointed.

It's my mission now to get on that sub-reddit, Anyone know if NPC can report me to ECL?

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Googled the Elite combat loggers and wasn't disappointed.

It's my mission now to get on that sub-reddit, Anyone know if NPC can report me to ECL?

I combat logged on an NPC once.

I'd mildly annoyed and entire base in my SRV and was making a run for my ship while under heavy fire.
Did a pretty awesome handbrake slide directly under the hatch, boarded my ship and....






..got stuck in the elevator.. just a black screen, and gunfire.

The shame of combat logging still haunts me.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Julio Montega]

It's easy - the ship could stay in instance for a few minutes if it's owner disconnects while in range of other players.

Sadly P2P Architecture prevents that easy server based fix

P2P used to stand for Peer to Peer,
i translate it to Pain to Play.

 

[BDelacroix]

You know, this all goes on your permanent record.

 

[Lori Jameson]

My CMDR has been in situations where he has repeatedly engaged and destroyed the vessels of one or more other CMDRs, multiple times. Not once was I targeting another player, or attempting to cause them grief. I was having my CMDR act in accordance with his character by responding to wholly in-game events, with in-game actions, in the context of the game's setting.

There is nothing against the rules of the game or in the TOS that can reasonably be interpreted as prohibiting a player from having their CMDR initiate or respond to hostilities against in-game enemies, even if it's the same enemy over and over again.



That is utter nonsense.

I can have my CMDR act in a manner blatantly contrary to their CMDRs' goals or interests, making the most obvious and proper course of action for them to pull him over.

What are other CMDRs supposed to do if my CMDR is causing problems for them? Ignore him? A major part of why I'm in Open is so other CMDRs have a shot at opposing my CMDR.

If I instead behave in an insulting and/or belligerent manner, then menu log to remove any chance at my CMDR facing consequences, there by wasting everyone's time, that is as clear cut griefing as it gets.

Aye.

The thing I find frustrating here is when I play in Open no one attempts to oppose my CMDR much anymore. I'm a pirate, a smuggler, and an outright miscreant. When I pull over people to ask for a few tonnes of cargo, they log out. When I'm in SC no one interdicts me because most people just log.

It's sad that while playing in Open, where I'd expect to find opposition, there just isn't anymore. I have to go out of my way to find people who are willing to interdict me or to find people to rob that realize that I only want cargo. Hell, my group even gives CMDRs a 24hr pass where our group won't come after them if they comply with the cargo demand and people still log out.

Honestly, people just need to grow up. You have Private Groups like Mobius, DRX, and Solo to work with if you don't want to run the risk of player interactions contrary to your playstyle. Why troll the players in Open? It just makes things that much worse for everyone if you go around griefing through repeated murder or griefing through logging.

Both logging and murder hoboing are just as bad as each other. They take legit gameplay options and twist them around just to screw with people for the lulz. It's childish.

edit: Not ragging on you Morbad, btw. People forget the roleplaying part of an MMORPG. Glad to see some haven't!

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

These threads:

Just stay in solo/pg.

It's pitiful!
LOL


Some of you people just can't stand not being able to simply play as part of the largest group of players.
So you cry about it, or brag about trying to weasel around the social contract, and try to cajole people to your "side".

It's a pathetic display really, but I've no doubt you'll keep patting yourselves on the back.

Bunch of bench warmers.

 

[Bryan K]

These threads:



Just stay in solo/pg.

It's pitiful!
LOL


Some of you people just can't stand not being able to simply play as part of the largest group of players.
So you cry about it, or brag about trying to weasel around the social contract, and try to cajole people to your "side".

It's a pathetic display really, but I've no doubt you'll keep patting yourselves on the back.

Bunch of bench warmers.

The trouble is that smallest group of players (PvPers). They won’t leave the largest group of players (PvEers) alone.