Where do you draw the line? (in game behaviour)
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"Blaze your own trail"
To me that means everybody may do whatever he/she wants to do, as long as they stay within the boundaries of game-mechanics.
So no cheating, exploiting, insulting and the like, of course.
It doesnt matter what an individuals "lines in the sand" are, the game lets you kill other players more or less anywhere, so always be on your guard!
If there is a pychopathic gamer getting his kicks at Sagitarious A, then play in Solo mode when travelling there, problem solved.
If there is a pychopathic gamer getting his kicks at Sagitarious A, then play in Solo mode when travelling there, problem solved.
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There are 400 billion systems. Lets say something in the order of a billion are on viable routes between Sol and Sag A. If everyone did around a 1000 jumps to get to Sag A that's a about a million explorers on that route alone before they get used up. The Sag A visitors list is in the hundreds. In practice once you are more than about 1kly from inhabited space you rare see any discovered systems unless you are in obvious targets (e.g. Nebulae, Black Holes, Neutron Stars).
Killing explorers to preserve "first discovered" tags is a nonsense. Its like kicking over someone's sandcastle on the beach because you are worried they are going to use up all the sand.
Bountys for explorer kills proportionate to the worth of data lost - el jobo doneo
Yeah, but the fella that decided to create this post is trying to impose his rules with his conditions and that's about as silly as a chocolate tea pot... whats the point?
It's a game with freedom, rules that are imposed by the law of the systems you fly in. As much as a person might be considered an arss to destroy another players ship, that's the nature of the beast.
It's a game with freedom, rules that are imposed by the law of the systems you fly in. As much as a person might be considered an arss to destroy another players ship, that's the nature of the beast.
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Killing someone at Sag A is like being the worse kind of troll - it's attention seeking behaviour by someone who hasn't realised that good attention and bad attention are not equivalent. I feel pity for the perpetrator. How bad must their life be that this is the only way they can 'cheer' themselves?
'Because I can' is never, in my mind, a good enough reason to negatively affect someone else's gameplay experience, and the post-facto rationalisations some people come up with on threads like this are quite frankly pathetic.
'Because I can' is never, in my mind, a good enough reason to negatively affect someone else's gameplay experience, and the post-facto rationalisations some people come up with on threads like this are quite frankly pathetic.
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So visiting Sag A* is like family trip to grand canyon? Just for the sights?
I am 100% role player and therefore before each encounter I ask myself "what would Cobra Commander do?"
So, sorry everyone - I cannot stop killing new players or combat logging without severely breaking character.
So, sorry everyone - I cannot stop killing new players or combat logging without severely breaking character.
Your post is contradictory.
Role playing means being "in character" and acting / behaving as if events around you were real.
Combat logging is an out of game action done by the player not the pilot so you can't be 100% RPing.
Killing new pilots - well, that's perfectly acceptable
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Along the lines of an earlier post: cheats, intentional use of exploits/use of obvious exploits (logging for benefit, teleports, etc. the flaws in design/development) and personal verbal abuse in chat systems. Those are beyond my line.
As a player I'm fine with the Elite universe containing all sorts of people doing all sorts of things (if they don't step over that line). Not going to judge or sentence nasty behaviour off-game, but am definately going to affect it in-game (enlighting, educating, taking a moral stance, or if it comes to that: hunting solo or by gathering a posse).
As a player I'm fine with the Elite universe containing all sorts of people doing all sorts of things (if they don't step over that line). Not going to judge or sentence nasty behaviour off-game, but am definately going to affect it in-game (enlighting, educating, taking a moral stance, or if it comes to that: hunting solo or by gathering a posse).
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Either you don't get role playing - or I don't get sarcasm ...
Mainly. After a few hundred hours of gameplay, and a long time selling data, maybe 60m CR (so probably around a third to half the amount you'd have got for the same game time trading or bounty hunting).
I personally conduct my activity as I would in real life. I don't wish to destroy other CMDRs ships without a very good reason. However!
I feel its for Frontier to identify 'the line'. What exactly do they want the game to be?
Unfortunately they don't make such statements of intent, not recently anyway, and not statements supported by the games mechanics they choose.
The games mechanics allow psychopathic murder "because you can", and that is quoted from the Lead Developer. Sammo(lead dev) & Mr Braben also suggests that they want there to be consequences for murder. As yet, the bounty for murder is about 6000 credits (it was 300 in beta if I recall correctly).
6000 credit bounty compared to the victims loss of potentially millions, does not support the statement that there should be consequences, as 6000 credits is inconsequential. For me at least, until the devs show some real (balanced) intent, Elite Dangerous IS COD in space.
I feel its for Frontier to identify 'the line'. What exactly do they want the game to be?
Unfortunately they don't make such statements of intent, not recently anyway, and not statements supported by the games mechanics they choose.
The games mechanics allow psychopathic murder "because you can", and that is quoted from the Lead Developer. Sammo(lead dev) & Mr Braben also suggests that they want there to be consequences for murder. As yet, the bounty for murder is about 6000 credits (it was 300 in beta if I recall correctly).
6000 credit bounty compared to the victims loss of potentially millions, does not support the statement that there should be consequences, as 6000 credits is inconsequential. For me at least, until the devs show some real (balanced) intent, Elite Dangerous IS COD in space.
sadly there are no consequences . i am doing a lot of pvp , in fact i started doing it as soon as i upgraded from sidewinder to viper more than 5 months ago . there are some players that i kill on weekly basis like particular pirate players as i know at which trade routes are they and at what time . for last two months i am reporting to fd players that are combat logging and i do have some videos as proof . two pirate players whose name i cannot and wont post here i reported at least 10 times for combat logging and insults , with proof yet here they are still flying around combat logging and insulting me and other players . i guess fd cannot monitor them even tho everything is happening on their server in their game . i am not a computer a expert so i cannot say if it is possible to monitor them and check their game logs but as me and other players sent fd videos to prove them combat loging i think frontier just doesnt care .
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