While I'm not playing the ganker myself, I'm certainly not going to discount the possibility that it could happen at some time, so I think I'll pass judgement. For the moment I use gankers to test a ship build, and myself, so I just see them as a sometimes useful benchmark for combat. I very rarely meet one unless I go looking.
Why do people wait until a community goal, to be oles?
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Yeah, I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the open only proposal was discussed at fdev, just to hear the resoning behing the decision to try a 'compromise' i.e. bonus for open mode rather than open only.
The bonus offset was always floating about before that, interestingly.
I did like this but suddenly realised the implications for the Solo player
Still not saying I disagree....I have contact with several groups in the game with an open only policy In general, but especially power play, so I wonder what the percentage is of players that do PP in open already, excluding module shopping: it could well be over half.
i left pp,i also left the allegience but i still getting shot by npc and people alike for the cargo.only think i dont like about it is that people can still hide in stations furniture and pick off people at will.
2nd option: is that many ships are now customised to the brink of non-destruction able. due to the Ax Engineering and grade updates.
So to blame I would say it was the engineering sided of the game.that the cause of most grieves. if you get a player come in for the first time with an un-engineered ship or a level 2 mod ship and you get a ganker after you, that player will not return to open play.
due to bad experience, also that would cause a lot of headaches for the game devs if everybody started leaving open play for the hard noses who probably started way back in 2018.
2nd option: is that many ships are now customised to the brink of non-destruction able. due to the Ax Engineering and grade updates.
So to blame I would say it was the engineering sided of the game.that the cause of most grieves. if you get a player come in for the first time with an un-engineered ship or a level 2 mod ship and you get a ganker after you, that player will not return to open play.
due to bad experience, also that would cause a lot of headaches for the game devs if everybody started leaving open play for the hard noses who probably started way back in 2018.
From my experience and very limited conversations anecdotally, it seems that even today a lot of newer players still see PP as something to be done in the future, they think it will bring more attention than it will or than they are ready for....or it just seems too complicated and right now they're doing something else, maybe later. Its usually the Prismatics that drive / draw people to PP once / if they get into combat or just want to survive easier.
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This is one of the reasons that when I'm building any ship I intend to use in open in any kind of populated system, the last stop I make when putting the experimentals on is Deciat. If it doesn't make it to Farseer then it's obviously not ready for open.
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Just FYI, you (a mod even) sound just as bad as the people who you are complaining about.
Which now reminds me of the people who build super-fast, but vulnerable, ships (equipped with interdictors and bait = docking computer) designed for one purpose: to gank the gankers and grief the griefers. A bit hypocritical. FDev: is this what the game has come down to vis PvP?
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