What do we learn from Lugh?
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I think more likely than the fact that Crimson State players have more integrity, are better looking and just plain excellent in bed is the fact that the Equality party is paying out much more because of the capital ship. Equality are attracting more players who can't really afford to rebuy anything bigger than a cobra and it's the Crimsons that all 1%ers who can afford to have principles are siding with.
But people aren't playing the way I want them to! Somebody do something!
I'm with you here though, interdictions in general are nothing but a way for NPCs to grief you.
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Is that not just the same thing though? Just making the AI so good that it kills 90% of solo players is effectively the same thing as banning that 90% from doing the event in solo.
Well, this blew up over night! Thanks for the input everyone, I'm sure the devs know about the issues by now and have ideas how to improve it for the future. I'm very optimistic in that regard, seeing FD regularly reacting to community complaints.
No: Fast travelling would make easier the quick grind of goals that would come together in different places of the galaxy.
The reward are good enough to make you "bother". And if you dont, it's your call.
I hope you reported them.
I think we need better mini-objectives instead of 'haul this' or 'kill that'. So if for example Crimson State can knock out a Cap ships guns for 5mins they win a bonus or if the Feds Interdict a Hauler and steal/prevent the weapons arriving then that could be a goal too.
More variety would add a lot more depth imho and more people could be involved without it 'just' being about Combat Zones.
More variety would add a lot more depth imho and more people could be involved without it 'just' being about Combat Zones.
Imagine rare trading with fast travel, shudder. I guess there's no possibility this will make it into the game, since FD don't like to conform to standard game design systems, but the thought alone makes me sad.
Do you want to get into a semantic argument about the word I used? Or can we agree that it's nothing but an irritation to be less than a light second from your destination and have an NPC interdict you, leaving you with the choice of either submitting (and ending up much further away from your destination because it dumps you where the interdictor is) or escaping (and ending up much further away from your destination because you flew away from it while avoiding the tether)?
I can wholeheartedly agree to this. Last night I took the mission for CSG only to find myself in CZs with 4-6 enemy CMDRs ending up playing the cat and mouse game. That wasn't so much fun.
It's been going a lot longer than two days, I think.
Lugh has been going on for over a week.
I don't know what can be done about the unbalanced conflict zones with the way the instancing works. In a client-server model maybe we would be able to have a lot more players consolidated into instances, and that might help. Another option might be to do a queuing system where the instance isn't created until there are a minimum number of players on either side, but I don't think players would like that in the context of the main world (though it would probably be how the arena piece that has been rumored works).
I don't know what can be done about the unbalanced conflict zones with the way the instancing works. In a client-server model maybe we would be able to have a lot more players consolidated into instances, and that might help. Another option might be to do a queuing system where the instance isn't created until there are a minimum number of players on either side, but I don't think players would like that in the context of the main world (though it would probably be how the arena piece that has been rumored works).
I imagine there is already something going on behind the scenes when it decides what instance to drop you in. Queueing doesn't really work though given the way we drop out of SC, would it make us pause for x minutes?
As for the guys complaining about jumping into 6-8 enemy commanders, they're usually very spread out. I find if you start killing some on the outskirts the others rarely even notice what's going on until it's too late, I think most people must be running E class sensors or something and just not see when I turn red next to their buddy.
On top of that most of them run gimballed weapons in these sites, bring double chaff and a shield booster and you're laughing. Not that you have any incentive to do this given that they pay out no more than NPCs. But hey.
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But it isn't unbalanced, it is great fun and perfect the way it is.
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Is the smuggling Intel still going. Stuck in middle of a forest at moment but hoping to get on tomorrow maybe even tonight if I do a runner
I was in an instance with eight enemy commanders last night. A guild mate invited me to a wing and they tried to drop into my instance, but it just wouldn't let them. We all friended each other, etc., but it wouldn't let more than nine people into the instance. There is a LOT of room for improvement here.
What we can learn is that these events need more explanation and communication in the forums: Where to join; Where to choose a faction; Where to cash your bonds; etc. Even now its not clear to me what the idea is of the tiers and the reward scheme: Do we have to wait until the event is over for a final reward? Anyway: Communication, advertising, it could be MUCH better!
Yeah, I assume the tiers are the reward amounts and as more and more players contribute the tiers progress. I think it ends at the given time. I could be completely wrong, this is just what I assume.
Fast travel doesn't mean free travel, it can be a 1-time purchased ticket to go alongside the community goal itself, say, 20% of the ship's market value, plus fuel costs for the distance? That should deal with any rare/exploration abuse issues with a general fast travel.
It can be implemented as a bulletin board item so it doesn't need any unique UI, and then the ticket appears as a nav point in the Systems panel that can be jumped to. (As a path of least resistance solution to get it in the game, rather than wait for some earlier proposed space taxi thingy using cruisers etc...). Only valid for the current community goal.
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