As we have an Orange Sidewinder Bar at Lave, I was wondering if we could have something similar next to Hutton Orbital and call it 'The Free Anaconda'?
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The Free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital
- Thread starter Phoenix_Dfire
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At least this wouldn't be a lie anymore: There's a free Anaconda for all who go to Hutton Orbital.
But it's parked in colonia.
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Why not a literal free anaconda? Like a literal anaconda. A rare good that's free, described as a large snake, and once you get one you can never get another one. If you ever sell it you'd get a message about how sad it looked as you handed it over, and then later in space you'd get a message that your snake died shortly after you disembarked.
We could put a bunch of other rare pets throughout the bubble so you could always get a new thing, but never the snake again unless you stole one. Some people might make zoos, but you'd have to log these things around so it's kind of impractical.
We could put a bunch of other rare pets throughout the bubble so you could always get a new thing, but never the snake again unless you stole one. Some people might make zoos, but you'd have to log these things around so it's kind of impractical.
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And yet, people have their own responsibility for what they do. And one thing that should be clear to most new players is that this game is not going to hold their hands and protect them from bad stuff. And just as in real life, if something sounds to good to be true, it probably is. and a quick search on the web for free anaconda at Hutton Orbital should pretty soon alert the player of this meme.
And trying to play Elite Dangerous without resorting to using 3rd party tools, like searching the web, is for most players not a thing, and IF you are a player that do not use any 3rd party tools to play Elite, you are in that case most likely not going to interact with other player and trust their words on "free stuff", you would blaze your own path and learn as you go. And reading the this forum is using a 3rd party tool...
Disagree completely.
Who are you to decide what a player should or shouldn't do, especially as it's their valuble time you are wasting.
To knowingly misinform somebody for a joke, or teach them a crappy lesson isn't funny.
It actually is a form of bullying/picking on vunerable people who don't know any different.
Why go out of your way to upset people?
I will raise a ticket about this point with fdev next time i log on.
I don't thing you are considering this with the new Mechanics. People will jump into the system and once they are there will have access to the whole system map. They will be able to see that there is a Free Anaconda Bar next to Hutton Orbital from the jump point and then hopefully 'get the joke'.
It will save people the 0.22 ly supercruise trip for them to realize there is a free anaconda there but its not the one they're looking for.
To be honest, that doesn't seem to matter, people seem to be able to get anaconda quite quickly these days.
I thought that one was round Barnard's Star at Boston Base around Brimingham's world. It's where Dockers is set.
Fair call, I sit corrected.
Where have I said anything about what players should or should not do?
So on the subject on bullying, what are you doing now?
Now I do recall that little joke people had a long time ago at Achernar 3 where it was put out by, well I don't know who, that there was a lot of money to be made delivering a particular item there, of course all the new players rushed in to make millions....not realising it was a 6g planet, I hear the sight of T9's nose diving into the ground at around 600mps was spectacular.
The point being this is 1) A simulation of the universe, 2) filled with real people, and 3) with no real world costs apart from a little time wasted because it's a game.
Banning practical jokes and japes would be a huge over-reaction, and getting upset because you get taken in by one is pointless because, in the end, it's a game. I suggest people objecing to just lighten up a little, the free conda at Hutton Orbital joke has been going on for, well years, at least a free snake once you get there is some reward for the trip.
Which might seem fine to some like minded individuals, but to have a request that ED should help and encourage this childish kind of humour by putting something in game should be a non starter from the go.
So back on issue then.
Elite has never been a game about hand holding and it has always been a game that you have to account for your own actions in one way or another. Just trying to figure out to leave the landing the first time can prove to be quite challenging for new players. there is nothing right or wrong about that.
How do you hear about this meme while in game? How likely is it that you randomly will hear about this meme in game? I would expect it to be HIGHLY unlikely to hear this meme from in game, as that requires that you by chance get a chat message about this and seeing how we do not have a global chat, and it used to be instanced chat, very unlikely. So that leaves random ingame encounters with other players and text/voice chat.
Now if you hear this from OUTSIDE the game, that is a different thing, as you now clearly know how to use things OUTSIDE of the game, and thus already have access to the basic tools some basic fact checking on these kind of stuff, just like you probably are using the same kind of tools to find different things like material, cargo, ships, modules etc. How should we information about stuff that used to work but no longer work or had the mechanics changed? This is now obviously FALSE information. Should we remove the Cobra MK 4 from the game just because this is no longer obtainable by players who missed that opportunity? So telling anyone that this can be bought a specific station is a lie if you do not have access to this ship. Where do we draw the line?
And if you believe ANYTHING someone random stranger tells you, especially things regarding "money", then how do you survive in real life? This is not about right or wrong, it is about the basic life lessons that you should never trust what other people, especially strangers, are telling you, and today it is often very EASY to do a very basic internet search about this, and if it involves "money", you should probably spend more time checking the facts, instead of hoping for the best or expecting to be "saved" by others about this