I did fight some of these guys years later (they cost me a fair few rebuys in the past, not so much now with my experience gained over the years in evasive flying) and while our ships may not have been on par in terms of abilities, they were very tough to fight against (1v1) and I either had to eat another rebuy or bail out.
Precisely. I like French: the verb for being bored, "s'ennuyer" is reflexive. It's not something that happens to you, it's something you do to yourself.
Don't forget world class instancing issues.
if you fight someone fighting back or is really hard to overcome, that is a totally different thing - I was talking about gankers who prey on ships, which do not fight back. Those stopping ships to get their cargo is another area, where one could argue, it is roleplay - as in piracy. But just ganking for "salt mining" is lame.
The ganker mini-game is an optional extra in this game. No player needs to play along with them, if they don't want to.
They're not - as one can upgrade ones ship to improve aspects other than combat survivability.
I expect that Frontier's in-game analytics would prove that contention to be a false one.
Those gankers are such heroes. Putting in hour after tedious hour exploding ships in Deciat which never give them an interesting fight, putting up with all the opprobrium and ridicule they get, unjustly looked down on by all the other players. Misunderstood, demoralised, isolated... but never giving up. All because of their quest to provide the right level of "dangerous" for the rest of us ingrates who don't even notice what they're achieving for us.
Hi wake then, ez
and then complain after been ganked
do you?
Are you sure?
No, it would be called Elite: Dangerous
Well, you, maybe
Maybe not you
... or just don't give them any opportunities for "emergent content" in the first place.
Some complain indeed - just as those who attack them complain when players choose not to play with them.
I do.
you have solo /pg for this. no one is forcing to play in open. nobody complains about those who play solo.
People throw these terms all into the same bucket though - gankers, pirates, PvPers, all the same innit.
I think you not even believing it is possible to learn the absolute basics of the game is possible in Open is part of your problem.
True. But the Calimero-types will never acknowledge that. Better to feel like a helpless victim than spend an afternoon learning the basics of the game. Better to blame others for your own failures than take some responsibility. And somehow these people tend to accuse others of 'fragile egos'.
Indeed.
Plenty of people complain that all players affect the BGS, Powerplay, CGs, etc. - they'd much rather that those who play in Solo and Private Groups be penalised or even totally excluded from affecting the galaxy to satisfy their desire to be able to oppose any player action using PvP. Unfortunately, for those seeking to PvP-gate game content, we all bought a game where we all enjoy the privilege of affecting the game with absolutely no requirement to engage in itsi-PvP when doing so (apart from in CQC, of course).
This is a fair assessment - kudos.
And all the excuses, I can hear it already - "have to fly a murder boat to survive", "why should I gimp my ship". It's perfectly achievable to fly ships that are both durable and retain their utility (I do this all the time, means that I won't fully engage in PvP beyond a few pot shots, but that's ok for me). Engineering is required, sure, but that's just the way it is, you either play by the games rules or keep whining, which isn't really going to change anything.
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