Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Markov Chaney]

A few other people have noticed this I think: because PP 2.0 gives you some context and some Things To Do, I've spent a lot more time looking at the state of systems and what's in them as a whole in a patch of the Bubble, rather than flitting about more or less at random. So now I'm hanging out somewhere that, between two systems, I can follow more or less any game-loop, and there's a mix of nearly every kind of economy. That means whatever hop the game-loop is going to demand I make, I can fit in some trade along the way.

That's not just PP 2.0 though, the only reason this works is SCO because in both cases the B star is a long way out, so SCO has basically made these two systems into four systems.

It also means I'm swapping ships a lot more and actually using the fleet. For example yesterday I filled the Python on a mining run, shifted most of the cargo at two ports, and then what had left was small enough to move into the Cobra, so then I did some much more efficiently-done planet hopping to offload the odds and ends, whilst stacking missions to keep the hold full.

 

[Wily Rites]

Also, I found myself pondering what exactly is in the game engine to make this atmosphere green. As far as I know, no planets are green to look at directly, so there must be some fancy stuff going on to account for atmospheric composition even at orbital altitudes. That's kind of neat

Did it have ammonia in the atmosphere?

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I discovered recently that random friends in the friends list is a big no no, I cleaned mine out recently and that has really helped. I'm now instanced with nice people rather than toddlers. Other than that, there was a calm period just recently, because most of the worst offenders went off on a carrier tour of tourist spots in the galaxy, they just got back and are likely making up for lost time; Which might explain your perceived increase in frequency. I've noticed a marked quite period whilst they were gone, and I'm based right in the centre of the bubble next to an engineers system, but also as mentioned have just cleared out my contacts.

My friends list only contains some people from this forum, mainly some regualrs from this thread and a few Buckyball racers.
Most of the places I frequently visit are close to one of the engineers, if not in the same system.
How long was this calm period, by the way?
I'mwondering because these three ganks were the first ones I experienced ever since I started flying in open about a year ago.

 

[Wily Rites]

My friends list only contains some people from this forum, mainly some regualrs from this thread and a few Buckyball racers.
Most of the places I frequently visit are close to one of the engineers, if not in the same system.
How long was this calm period, by the way?
I'mwondering because these three ganks were the first ones I experienced ever since I started flying in open about a year ago.

Oh a week or so. From what I can gather, the thing with the fiends list is that these folks use alt accounts, so one instance is used as a radar whilst the killing is done from another account. I think picked up a few rotten apples whilst learning to fly PvP with some lovely folk who are engaged in that activity.
Now I've decided to just make sure that I do interact regularly with the people who I befriend, and not gather contacts who I never interact with.

I had one ganker who knew exactly where I would fly to from the system that they ganked me in, faster than could have been done with a wake scanner and they never carry wake scanners. The only way that could happen is either they are stalking from a contact and have already seen where I tend to go, horrible thought, or they just followed my friend icon on their radar from another account.

That was one of the reasons why I wiped the list.