I'm just gonna leave that there, so you can think about it for a moment
Sweet jesus. The world is lost. Sausage Gravy.
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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Sweet jesus. The world is lost. Sausage Gravy.
8.8Mil rebuy. Was the 6Mil exploration data I lost I was more bothered about though. Not sure if it was the usual gankers or one of the defence force. The guy had Raan Corsen as part of his ship name.
See above. lets address the sausage gravy issue first.
I'm just gonna leave that there, so you can think about it for a moment
You magnificent b*****d! I salute you!
... outuendo.
umm seriously though, am I going to have to consult Urban Dictionary?
update:
Yes, after consulting UD, I confirmed my suspicion. Sigh. When will this world stop ruining my southern specialty menu items. I'm just glad I didn't say biscuits and gravy, y'all would have had a field day.
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Inara says 'Wolfberg' - which, to be honest, is kinda neat
Nice. Are youy interested in work together?
How about culling of the weak as a beginning?
Oh, I'm starting to sound like one of them. I need to get more tinfoil, they are getting in my head…
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Ahhh, sadly I'm known for my anti-Salome viewpoint, and my opinion on her death is very much 'Meh.'.
Did she die? Should be a Pac interest. I´ll be trying to fack those bullys.
We could find the remaining megaship hulls out on the Conflux and Hawkins. It'll be brute force, unfortunately, unless a listening post pops up somewhere and points us to these.
Just keep exploring. We haven't even reached 1% yet. There's a lot of Galaxy (empty true) out there!
Oh, we got a hint about what is going to happen.
Something along the lines of "… or they let you find it because it doesn't have to be kept hidden anymore…". There wasn't that much real opposition from "THEM" to prevent the finding of those listening posts.
It was too easy.
Here's my story. I thought my character wanted to be involved (backstory, etc...) So, I enlisted. Read the Discord. I was OK with no guns. It made sense to me--I can't shoot them worth anything, but I can interdict (I think?). Missed training (RL). Decided I shouldn't go. Then changed heart and filled in the forms to be assigned a role. Then sick kid (RL), tried to get out of it, but found my name still on the list. Managed to show up 10 minutes early to the waypoint in my fastest ship--a Sidewinder. Found some fellow scouts and winged up. We wondered where we were supposed to scout... No answers forthcoming.
Nervously, we manned our instance, chatting, and checking the contacts readout. Scanning new arrivals. It started to dawn on me. I was both bored and terrified (please don't let any hostiles show up in my instance...) Read the contradictory reports filtering in both from Discord, from the Discord voice channel I could hear over a wingmate's link (mine had too much static to hear). Followed orders and moved on when instructed. Still thinking "Oh god, don't let me have to interdict someone..." Our instances were quiet. We heard about Solome's death and the other's safe arrivals. A somber arrival at Teorge.
I'm still alive--didn't have to pay the 100,000 CR rebuy. Thankful to have not seen action, embarrassed by that feeling, and still vaguely proud of my contribution. It was great!
I think it's rather poetic how an explorer beat the combaters to the prize.
Agreed 1,000,000% !!!! One commander can make a difference, especially if that commander is an explorer!
A friendly advice. Get rid of that fear. It's what kills you.
It's understandable, it's the natural reaction to danger. Fear is helpful if you want to survive and flee. It's your death if you have to fight.
Get routine. Get a list, follow that list.
Keep in mind that most opponents are probably as bad as you or worse. (Me included
)And, if you interdict somebody you are fighting. Not taking weapons with you is insane.
You might not use the weapons, your whole combat tactic might be based around "not using weapons", but weapons are more than just devices to project damage.
Would you fear someone without weapons? I don't think you would. Now what do you think will your opponent think of you if you don't have weapons? You are at best a mild annoyance. Nothing at best, a dead CMDR in most cases.
Never underestimate uncertainty. Your opponent doesn't know that you have no combat experience. A sidewinder can be a nasty opponent in the hands of a skilled CMDR - if that Sidewinder has weapons. Without weapons you are telling the opponent that you are no threat.
Sorry for the rambling.
Wait... This is really how it went down? Wow... Even dumber than I thought...
Z...
I actually loved this evening, and Halceon and Zadian together have hit the nail on the head about why.A friendly advice. Get rid of that fear. It's what kills you.
It's understandable, it's the natural reaction to danger. Fear is helpful if you want to survive and flee. It's your death if you have to fight.
Get routine. Get a list, follow that list.
Keep in mind that most opponents are probably as bad as you or worse. (Me included
Before today, I'd basically never been in Open before. And I hadn't quite consciously admitted how much I'd internalised all this "all PvP players are vastly superior to you and will kill you in an instant" rhetoric on the forum. That PAC threat posted in this thread got under my skin a bit too, I think.
At about 6.20 PM UTC, I finished up some CZ work and decided I'd head toward the action. I was still in my Fer-de-Lance, with weapons and an FSD interdictor. I fully expected to die, and quickly.
When I hit F Eridani and saw the enormous number of player ships, I embarrassingly discovered I was shivering a bit. I've been in the odd real life fight and not been like this... I think I was more worried about embarrassing myself, and that really bothered me. I felt ridiculous, and then just found it funny. Logically I knew there was no reason to feel so worked up, but... here I was, shivering just being in the same system as player Corvettes, Cutters, etc.
That's when I decided what I was going to do. I was going to see this event through to the end, and I was going to put myself in harm's way as much as I could. I didn't fly 1000 ls out, I didn't answer the odd question about if I was an ally. I made it my personal mission to get my CMDR name mentioned as a potential hostile on PAC's livestream.
And I got interdicted, and interdicted, and inderdicted, and... after a while, I started to be less afraid of it.
I don't know if the interdictors weren't trying so hard, or if they weren't skilled. I've been interdicted in Open once before this, by a Corvette, and that pilot knew what he was doing: I lost it decisively, thinking I was doing well (I was vs. the AI!). And yeah, I always like to resist interdictions, at least sometimes. Anyway, none of the interdictions actually succeeded, and I started to get the hang out the feel of PvP interdictions a bit more. I relaxed. I submitted to a few, low-waking away – didn't want to high wake. By the end, I was almost disappointed not to get in a single actual fight. Most of the interdictions were unarmed PAC interceptors.
But by the end of it I felt almost comfortable being in a busy, aggressive player system. Half of them were more scared of me than I was of them. I've come away thinking that while I don't think I'll ever 'get good' at Elite (I just don't care to: I've got good at other games, and don't fancy doing it for Elite), I might go back into Open more in the future specifically to deal with this fear-of-embarrassing-failure. Teaching my subconscious to catch up with my conscious and figure out it's just a game, I'm not the worst at it, and it doesn't matter if I lose, is well worth doing.
Well, you know what they say about people sacrificing freedom for security deserving neither, right?
Z...
Some will dispute it, but you can't beat a good story. And if you think about it, it's a good story. About hybris, bad advice and a downfall and a sacrifice for a higher good.
People love that stuff.
Open isn't actually very scary. By the screaming you see on this forum, you'd think there is an SDC ganker with a "God Ship™" ready to slam you every few Ls... This is not the case at all, and even if there is a potential ganker, they are easy enough to avoid, one just needs to do what Salome and co. clearly did not.
Z...
Personally I have no issues with CoR but politically they don't fit with Sap Core.
Lets see where they focus next though