I have been enjoying the latest bounty hunting community goal with friends and with new friends I have met in open. Most of my haz res fun was in my corvette, and I decided to take a break and pull out a modestly engineered eagle to do some more bounty hunting in open.
I met some folks that were new to the game and we had a great time in a very disorganized wing.
This morning I popped on to drive my eagle back to the station and cash in a few million, and I noticed a commander icon close to the station while I was in supercruise. It is commander Zaphod Hawke. I know nothing about him and I continue to approach the station.
Yes, I could have dropped down and flipped to PG or Solo, yes I could have tabbed onto and hi-lighted another system for a quick exit - no I did not do that.
Zaphod interdicts me (modded FAS advanced plasma accelerator build with thermal upgrades), I submit and boost - doing about 440 m/s (nothing I know) and Zaphod attacks. I'm clean with crimes against me listed as on. He is wanted. I'm juking (not doing the appropriate spiral of course), and he is easily keeping up with me - pretty sure those are level 5 DD's on him. I escape once, (silly me I did not hi-wake), and he grabs me again. I try to drag him into the feeble security forces to buy a sec (now I have another sytem highlighted), but my modules are damaged and I can't hi-wake. I type "gg" because I know he's got me. He's a better pilot, and in a vastly superior ship. I reboot my systems to try to repair, but I know that reincarnation is on its way. I sent him a friend request, he declined.
Zaphod Hawke did NOTHING WRONG. He played the game fairly and according to the rules. He destroyed my ship because he wanted to destroy my ship. There is NOTHING WRONG with his personal psychology or target selection. I did NOT combat log.
The one thing that troubled me about the encounter was the game rules about the encounter. I don't need any personal compensation from Zaphod, or break on the rebuy cost - that's silly, he killed me fair and square. I do however, feel that he's still chilling in the system waiting to snare other folks without any meaningful game rule-based consequence.
I am aware that a karma system is in the works and I think it makes sense that laws against crimes should have meaningful consequences for players. Through recruiting other players, purchasing the game for family members, and picking up in-game and out of game swag I think I've spent over 300$. I think I'll hold off sharing any more of my wealth with FDEV until they get that karma thing up and running. Not because Zaphod Hawke is bad, but because the game will feel broken to me until this flaw is addressed.
I met some folks that were new to the game and we had a great time in a very disorganized wing.
This morning I popped on to drive my eagle back to the station and cash in a few million, and I noticed a commander icon close to the station while I was in supercruise. It is commander Zaphod Hawke. I know nothing about him and I continue to approach the station.
Yes, I could have dropped down and flipped to PG or Solo, yes I could have tabbed onto and hi-lighted another system for a quick exit - no I did not do that.
Zaphod interdicts me (modded FAS advanced plasma accelerator build with thermal upgrades), I submit and boost - doing about 440 m/s (nothing I know) and Zaphod attacks. I'm clean with crimes against me listed as on. He is wanted. I'm juking (not doing the appropriate spiral of course), and he is easily keeping up with me - pretty sure those are level 5 DD's on him. I escape once, (silly me I did not hi-wake), and he grabs me again. I try to drag him into the feeble security forces to buy a sec (now I have another sytem highlighted), but my modules are damaged and I can't hi-wake. I type "gg" because I know he's got me. He's a better pilot, and in a vastly superior ship. I reboot my systems to try to repair, but I know that reincarnation is on its way. I sent him a friend request, he declined.
Zaphod Hawke did NOTHING WRONG. He played the game fairly and according to the rules. He destroyed my ship because he wanted to destroy my ship. There is NOTHING WRONG with his personal psychology or target selection. I did NOT combat log.
The one thing that troubled me about the encounter was the game rules about the encounter. I don't need any personal compensation from Zaphod, or break on the rebuy cost - that's silly, he killed me fair and square. I do however, feel that he's still chilling in the system waiting to snare other folks without any meaningful game rule-based consequence.
I am aware that a karma system is in the works and I think it makes sense that laws against crimes should have meaningful consequences for players. Through recruiting other players, purchasing the game for family members, and picking up in-game and out of game swag I think I've spent over 300$. I think I'll hold off sharing any more of my wealth with FDEV until they get that karma thing up and running. Not because Zaphod Hawke is bad, but because the game will feel broken to me until this flaw is addressed.
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