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I still don't get why I have to suffer 2 to 7 interdictions every 2nd system I want to dock in order to reach a 400 Ls station just because the galaxy is not "alive enough" for the players who CHOSE to stay away from the alive population though. This is getting seriously ridiculous and extremely ironic.
Player:"I don't want to have my trade routes interrupted from player pirates, I'll go to solo"
A few months later:
Player:"FD, PLEASE, THE GALAXY IS NOT ALIVE ENOUGH"
FD: "OK, what can we do about it?"
Player: "Have NPCs pirating me follow me through wakes, I want to be pirated properly.It shouldn't be that easy to evade my interdictors."
A bit ludicrous and even though I wouldn't mind normally, I don't enjoy being at the receiving end of these changes who stem from exactly this thought process.
Player:"I don't want to have my trade routes interrupted from player pirates, I'll go to solo"
A few months later:
Player:"FD, PLEASE, THE GALAXY IS NOT ALIVE ENOUGH"
FD: "OK, what can we do about it?"
Player: "Have NPCs pirating me follow me through wakes, I want to be pirated properly.It shouldn't be that easy to evade my interdictors."
A bit ludicrous and even though I wouldn't mind normally, I don't enjoy being at the receiving end of these changes who stem from exactly this thought process.
You've gotten some of that mixed up. It's not the people playing Solo who asked for NPCs to act like that. That was the open advocates complaining the galaxy "is not alive enough".
Solo players were generally happy with the game and the NPCs.
It is just another form of griefing, if you cannot get to them to grief them, then demand the NPCs become harder to do it for you - and to some extent it worked, as FD started making the NPCs harder.
It comes, at least in part, from the belief some Open proponents hold that the only reason players have to play in Solo is to have an easier time. In their minds, make Solo as hard as Open and all players will pop into Open.
Actually, that isn't really the issue.
The issue was that the ease of killing NPC's forced those that wanted to play in Open into Private. During populated CG's there was no reason to play in Open...since any interactions with PC's interrupted the collection of PvE trophies and could be used to interfere (would this be griefing?) with the completion of the CG. This was exacerbated in PP...and was being balanced by MoM™. There is still some more to go to make this more balanced...and MoM™ has returned to her work on her children.
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Ah, but after months of disciplined playing, and learning how to find a trade route that's not on all the 3rd-party lists, and eschewing slave trading on ethical grounds, and doing Loops of Shame because you're half-asleep for "just one more run"... it feels fantastic when you get the message and the pretty show and can now honestly put the Elite Trader decals on your ship!
The rest of your post, excellent! Thing is, PowerPlay is not war - if you have war, it means politics have failed. PowerPlay combines the functions of a diplomatic spy or political agitator in its mechanic... There's subterfuge and all sorts of dodgy goings on. This simple point gets lost or ignored by most of the complainers.
Welcome to Ghost Army! Here is your Cloak of Invisibility. We all meet up at 1400hrs to flip Leesti. Bring a paperbag lunch.
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If you exclude all the deliberate ramming.
And sorry if I ignored you! Just ram me next time! There are so many instancing issues with the number of players it gets confusing!
LOL! You missed the second half of the statement! It is nice to know I am not alone in my love of self inflicted pain...
I am currently running two group members out there to help them out! And the truly masochistic part? I have not dropped anything off myself!
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Has there been much of that?
I haven't seen any agg first hand and I've done quite a few runs now.
LOL! You missed the second half of the statement! It is nice to know I am not alone in my love of self inflicted pain...
I am currently running two group members out there to help them out! And the truly masochistic part? I have not dropped anything off myself
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Mutton Hug?
That was a recent crossword clue!
LOL! You missed the second half of the statement! It is nice to know I am not alone in my love of self inflicted pain...
I am currently running two group members out there to help them out! And the truly masochistic part? I have not dropped anything off myself![/QUOTE
Actually I see I misread your comment now.
You still ignored me though.... (at Hutton)
Are you IanW in game? <hangs head in sorrow and shame> I can just blame the instancing!
Are you IanW in game? <hangs head in sorrow and shame> I can just blame the instancing!
No - I'm Astrodamus - I saw you in chat at Hutton and I said something like "Yay, Roybe - good to see you!"
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ETA - on reflection I should have probably added (ianw)
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No - I'm Astrodamus - I saw you in chat at Hutton and I said something like "Yay, Roybe - good to see you!"
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ETA - on reflection I should have probably added (ianw)
Mea culpa! I will try harder next time!
I went to Hutton in Open, flying a T6 bought to do the CG (my first CG btw).
I recorded it.......
90 minutes of me, on my own, flying in a line, on my own, no one around, no one to talk to, IN OPEN, all by MYSLEF.
A 90 minute trip, where the most exciting thing that happened to me was I got up to go and pee.
I checked, twice - to be sure I was in open not solo or group.
[video=youtube;NGrLb6W5YOM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrLb6W5YOM[/video]
Then I drop out at Hutton and suddenly.... laaaaaaaag..... people...... more laaaaag
And trying to get a pad to land on;
[video=youtube;cMcA-HGVo6o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMcA-HGVo6o[/video]
I did the next 2 runs in a private group.
I recorded it.......
90 minutes of me, on my own, flying in a line, on my own, no one around, no one to talk to, IN OPEN, all by MYSLEF.
A 90 minute trip, where the most exciting thing that happened to me was I got up to go and pee.
I checked, twice - to be sure I was in open not solo or group.
[video=youtube;NGrLb6W5YOM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrLb6W5YOM[/video]
Then I drop out at Hutton and suddenly.... laaaaaaaag..... people...... more laaaaag
And trying to get a pad to land on;
[video=youtube;cMcA-HGVo6o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMcA-HGVo6o[/video]
I did the next 2 runs in a private group.
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