My friends list only contains some people from this forum, mainly some regualrs from this thread and a few Buckyball racers.
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.
Another option if your build can stand it is to go to 2 pips in Sys 4 pips in Eng and hit full throttle and boost as you go through the slot the Phantom can be a faster ship than the Python II and can boost more frequently to get you out of effective Frag range.I'm still engineering, minimaxing my krait builds by getting into the saddle and finding out what they can do!
... On my explorer adventurer phantom, I've just upped the shields from 700Mj to 1000Mj because 700 was not enough to protect me from a ganker who waiting outside my corolis home station with a fully combat fitted python mkii armed to the teeth with frag cannons, and the shield could not survive them repeatedly pulling the trigger from point blank range as I few out.
Takes a lot of skill to just pull the trigger that fast from point blank range without needing to do a thing. [said with a heavy does of irony in the tone]
Most times I've been attacked by players it's more or less instant, no social dialog, whether they scan you beforehand is debatable, it varies.
Since we can't name and shame - a certain religious figure? There are a few PvPers around who will actually respond to a friend request and give you a rematch, and the location notification always goes both ways.Hi
Most times I've been attacked by players it's more or less instant, no social dialog, whether they scan you beforehand is debatable, it varies.
I've befriended quite a few players in the past, sadly most of them haven't played Elite for months if not years now. Most of them were a friendly bunch though there were a couple I befriended after being ganked by them that I kept on my list out of curiosity. One person in particular ganked me in Deciat while I was in an unarmed Courier. I was actually testing out that system with the intention of seeing if the tales of nefarious commanders in that system were true...obviously they are or were!
It's interesting, this one particular commander stays in or around Deciat and never seems to leave the surrounding systems / area, (when they are in the game the same times as myself) that's where I can usually find them on my friends list. (if I wanted to)....so I imagine for most of the time they are 'career' criminals. I sometimes see this player in live CG systems too which leads me to think they might practice this form of gameplay there too in open, that's ok, there are various ways to avoid them. It just seems pointless to me as there's so much more to enjoy within this game imho....each to their own I guess as the saying goes.
I don't do much open / socialising in the game most of the time anyway*, if I do CG's I'll mostly play in solo. While I'm in the bubble at the moment I might re-visit some of these systems in open in a cheap ship, no weapons ect. just to test out ganker activity and the methods / tactics they use, and how to avoid ....might be fun as well as gathering some useful information!
*The in game chat system I personally find a bit cumbersome too, which to be fair maybe due to my lack of use of it, but usually it's also because when there are many players in a system chatting the text gets updated so quick I can't type fast enough to reply or send messages.
Jack
Isn't it true that gankers have multiple accounts therefor generating more revenue and making it less likely that Fdev would do anything about it. We law abiding citizens have no choice but to go solo, I think they have a tiny manhood problem.
The gankers I encountered so far were already offline by the time I returned from the rebuy screen...
I’d long eyed EVE with interest, the exciting visuals of ships, space stations and epic battles having grabbed my attention - though noted that the game itself seemed to mostly consist of maps & spreadsheets, with those epic battles being more like old Warcraft than “Star Wars” in terms of gameplay?Not an EVE Online fan then?
That's exactly what I've done, no social discourse or communication, straight into the bin !
...Well, I've just sold most of my mined materials and metals, I've also been topping up my materials and data in readiness for any engineering modules I'll maybe need in the future (I'd used some up for some of the Mandalay's modules). Incidentally, I haven't done any collecting of mats for ages, so I had to scratch my head a bit to remember where to get some of the rarer ones. I was in a system the other day (in the course of doing a trading mission) and got interdicted by a few Anacondas, after destroying them it suddenly occurred to me it would be as good a time as any to collect some materials from the battle. I could only see a couple of materials floating in the area which puzzled me...until I realised I'd chosen to ignore a fair few mats in the contacts menu, and hadn't re-set them, (from way back) Anyway, once I'd set it to 'not ignore' it was like a snow storm on my scanner!....there were (I counted them) 40 imperial shielding showing at one point, I only needed about 5 of those to top up my materials count to 100 so the rest went to waste. It was roughly the same for some other stuff I collected later on. I seem to remember seeing some time ago that Frontier had upped the number of materials etc. but hadn't needed any then so I'd forgotten about it.
Right, I've given this a spin and it's actually a pretty good alternative to Observatory. There are a couple of things to get used to (naturally).It seems like Observatory is going through some changes. I completely understand and respect the dev on this and have to give him kudos and rep for swallowing the costs up till now.
Unfortunately, the tool no longer does what I want it to which is a shame.
After a bit of reading, ED Exploration Buddy may well be what I'm looking for.
Tomorrow, I'll download it and it and put it through its paces
One thing I want to do on top of this is looking at adding some Windows TTS voices which can be used in EDEB.
Yes, please keep us posted on that, I use Observatory every time I explore. I should go by his website and make a donation.It seems like Observatory is going through some changes. I completely understand and respect the dev on this and have to give him kudos and rep for swallowing the costs up till now.
Unfortunately, the tool no longer does what I want it to which is a shame.
After a bit of reading, ED Exploration Buddy may well be what I'm looking for.
Tomorrow, I'll download it and it and put it through its paces
One thing I want to do on top of this is looking at adding some Windows TTS voices which can be used in EDEB.
...on the subject of friend requests, nice enough though it may seem to receive them from strangers, considering the apparent use of them to stalk potential victims in-game - would anyone here be inclined to accept this one... and why? ;p
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