Newcomer / Intro Why did they kill me?

[Frankymole]

If it was a settlement owned by a faction with an anarchy government, there will be no bounty or notoriety. You can go on a "critically injuring" spree with no repercussions.

Bit daft of him to play in Open then anyone could wipe him and his ship out, ganking with no repercussions.

 

[metatheurgist]

Here is a new stupidity.

You copy the ID of the power room technican, so now you ARE him, with the same authority.

You turn off the power.

How does it know you aren't him? Why would an alarm go off?

I think the power going off in an installation on a planet without atmo should sound an alarm on principle. Of course, we'll have to see if it works differently when we get atmo worlds.

 

[Frankymole]

I think the power going off in an installation on a planet without atmo should sound an alarm on principle. Of course, we'll have to see if it works differently when we get atmo worlds.

Power outages happen, they don't have to turn everyone into a psychokiller, I'd hope... mind you this is the universe where a parking infraction results in instant death. Maybe the next time BT has the power go off on my internet connection I can hunt them down and shoot them with plasma.

 

[metatheurgist]

Power outages do happen, but for us, they happen in a lovely warm world with sunshine and air. If it happened in an environment where that power was your only lifeline, like even in a submarine, I'd prefer there was an alarm. 'coz it's not like you're going to take a break and have a smoko outside while you wait for the power to come on; you're waiting for someone to make it possible for you to live again. Especially when you consider these places don't even seem to have a spare Power Regulator sitting in a cabinet you can steal install.

 

[aRJay]

Here is a new stupidity.

You copy the ID of the power room technican, so now you ARE him,

No you are you with a copy of his IDs and access codes anyone/thing that ‘looks’ at you will spot the difference IIRC.

with the same authority.

You turn off the power.

How does it know you aren't him?

Assuming it does it could be he is now in two places at the same time.

Why would an alarm go off?

Why wouldn’t there be alarms on life critical systems?

lf the power goes off in my home there will be multiple alarms going off.

 

[Frankymole]

No you are you with a copy of his IDs and access codes anyone/thing that ‘looks’ at you will spot the difference IIRC.

Assuming it does it could be he is now in two places at the same time.

Nope and nope. The console doesn't scan you. When something scans you it says "scan detected" even on foot in a suit.

Also, he's dead... so I'm the only version of him.

 

[Frankymole]

Power outages do happen, but for us, they happen in a lovely warm world with sunshine and air. If it happened in an environment where that power was your only lifeline, like even in a submarine, I'd prefer there was an alarm. 'coz it's not like you're going to take a break and have a smoko outside while you wait for the power to come on; you're waiting for someone to make it possible for you to live again. Especially when you consider these places don't even seem to have a spare Power Regulator sitting in a cabinet you can steal install.

Yes, the Level 3 guy running the power plant who lives there permanently for just that purpose. I.e., now me

Everyone has helmets and suits with air in and just strolls between buildings in a vacuum. So they're fine...

Being level 3 authority, these guards should be able to switch back on authorisation scans, power, alarms, defence turrets, etc... but they don't. Why not? Because they assume they were turned off by someone with authority. Maybe they're stupid...

 

[aRJay]

Nope and nope. The console doesn't scan you. When something scans you it says "scan detected" even on foot in a suit.

Also, he's dead... so I'm the only version of him.

Well I hope you hid the body so noone could trip over it.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

live and learn lol.

 

[Frankymole]

Well I hope you hid the body so noone could trip over it.

I'd love to but for some reason Frontier won't let you shove bodies out of sight... Sometimes, as they die, they helpfully leap into the sink though.

 

[Screemonster]

What seems odd is my contact list shows his vessel destroyed, but not the fact I killed him - sorry, critically injured, we can't kill other players - on foot and on the ground. Well, close to the ground. Inara shows it in my combat log, but I also have no notoriety. I thought the crime and punishment was changed so you got notoriety for killing other players. Or does it not count in an anarchy, and/or when defending a settlement against an attacking CMDR?

I've noticed that killing another player on-foot when you're also on-foot doesn't seem to register as an event in the journal.
Being killed gets logged (even in a CZ if you arrive by non-frontline means). Destroying their ship gets logged. Using your ship to do the deed gets logged.

But foot-on-foot violence? Nada.

It isn't even logged as a crime. Even at a lawful settlement.
No really, as long as you don't shoot any NPCs, you can just blast a cmdr at any settlement with no legal repercussions whatsoever.

(Disclaimer: this does not preclude other repercussions, such as the cmdr respawning in their ship and carpet bombing you)