Why would someone do this?

[Ko Shiji]

This thread reminds me of what newbies post when they experience EVE Online PVP.

Judging by the lack of communication tools and the game's features, ED appears to be a solo game. You're playing a full PVP game unless you choose the Solo option, and you'll get all kinds of PVP'ers preying on you. No sense analyzing motives.

The problems with open PVP are that you don't get attacked at the best moment when YOU feel like PVP'ing, and that eventually every trader, explorer, and non-combatant goes solo, leaving the pirates to pirate each other (no profit in it - no one is carrying cargo). And typically they're not looking for fair fights, they're looking for easy kills.

Squidhammer sounds like CODE. Hi.

 

[Drathmar]

Or, OP could harden up, like this guy did. Seems like he has more fun because he didn't expect hello kitty online where the friendship drive spews rainbows out of it's behind while you fly next to the space unicorns and there is a fluffy kitten dispenser right next to your right hand side UI panel.

Neither did the OP if you bother reading his post. He even said there is nothing wrong with pirating and attacking other players FOR A REASON. If you are interdicting and attacking people just to make them lose their ship, then you are a griefer and should be dealt with as such.

Actually, scratch that. The more I think about why this upset me so much, is that he just shot his thrusters and left him. That was honestly the most move out of it. If you are going to attack someone, at least HARDEN UP and actually kill them and stop being a pansy about a 600cr fine. If the guy had just killed him I probably would have just told the OP thems the brakes and deal with it. But when you just shoot the thrusters out and then leave them... that to me just seems like griefing.

 

[Remiel]

Neither did the OP if you bother reading his post. He even said there is nothing wrong with pirating and attacking other players FOR A REASON. If you are interdicting and attacking people just to make them lose their ship, then you are a griefer and should be dealt with as such.

Squid posted his reason above. It wasn't the one our resident angry nerds accused him of.

And if you attack a player just to kill his ship, why does that make you nothing but a griefer? Qualify this claim please. I can think of dozens of other reasons just off the top of my head for attacking players just to kill their ships, not the least of which is the potential glory of exchanging fire with something that has active synapses.

 

[Erasmus Dynamo]

Whole lotta crybabies on these forums; I keep forgetting that this game attracts old people and truck simulator junkies. If you can't handle the heat, stay in solo mode.

 

[Drathmar]

Squid posted his reason above. It wasn't the one our resident angry nerds accused him of.

And if you attack a player just to kill his ship, why does that make you nothing but a griefer? Qualify this claim please. I can think of dozens of other reasons just off the top of my head for attacking players just to kill their ships, not the least of which is the potential glory of exchanging fire with something that has active synapses.

Your right, hence why I edited it above. The more I think about it, it wasn't that he attacked him for no reason. It's that he forced him to self destruct his own ship. If you are going to attack someone, at least have the balls to actually kill them.

 

[Amaze]

Neither did the OP if you bother reading his post. He even said there is nothing wrong with pirating and attacking other players FOR A REASON. If you are interdicting and attacking people just to make them lose their ship, then you are a griefer and should be dealt with as such.

Honestly the part that is the most annoying is that he just shot his thrusters and left him. That was honestly the most move out of it. If you are going to attack someone, at least HARDEN UP and actually kill them and stop being a pansy about a 600cr fine.

Exactly, he is the one that needs to harden up and finish his kills.

I understand why he didn't though, he was either scared of that massive 600cr fine or.. the more obvious reason.

Whole lotta crybabies on these forums; I keep forgetting that this game attracts old people and truck simulator junkies. If you can't handle the heat, stay in solo mode.

I wonder who is going to have the tears when open is empty and everyone is in private groups or solo?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

It's kind of a pity...

I never come along a "griefer'.
Even now, sitting in my small and harmless looking, innocent tiny Viper that I took a tour around quite busy Systems today.

Needless to say, it's just a toy ship for me - fully kitted out to the max (needed severe power Management to just keep the Weapons usable ). Still merely 200k rebuy cost, darn cheap ride compared to my other ship...

 

[Remiel]

Your right, hence why I edited it above. The more I think about it, it wasn't that he attacked him for no reason. It's that he forced him to self destruct his own ship. If you are going to attack someone, at least have the balls to actually kill them.

Exactly, he is the one that needs to harden up and finish his kills.

I understand why he didn't though, he was either scared of that massive 600cr fine or.. the more obvious reason.

Again, he posted his reason above. It has nothing to do with whether or not he had the balls to kills someone, that is so presumptuous and vexatious and I'm starting to wonder why you're referencing someone else's balls.

 

[Dan Dare]

Glory be the righteous hammer of my Cephalopod might.

The Empire sent me on a mission this day to sow chaos in the system to achieve a sense of dread. To strike fear into the hearts of pilots that the Empire is mighty and just! Beware the sleeping squids of lore. For they come to eat your fuel. No pilot nor ship is safe from my aquatic heat beams of Imperial justice. I come and go like the ink from my sack. So beware!

(Also I never received comms and the callsign I was using to determine friend or foe was never used so he was caught in the crossfire. Tough luck.)

A terrorist commander? Ok, well it is supposed to be dangerous out there..

 

[Drathmar]

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Again, he posted his reason above. It has nothing to do with whether or not he had the balls to kills someone, that is so presumptuous and vexatious and I'm starting to wonder why you're referencing someone else's balls.

Basically he posted that he was going it to be a . That is what his post boils down to. And because the only reasons not to kill someone are because you are so ball-less you are scared of a very minor bounty amount... or you are a griefer.

 

[SE-Apocalypse]

Aye, neither I.

Because this is intended by frontier. If you don´t like it than be a carebear in solo. If you like positive and negative player interaction than play open, and if you want to limit your player interaction to nearly only positive interactions than play private group. Besides frontier for sure does not want to deal with the problem of false accusations. If you like to deal with that, feel free to create your own website for that, frontier has no problem with that. Name and shame somewhere else. Ain't hard to understand right?

Besides, my bet in this case would be actually a failed attempt to pirate instead of intentional griefing.


As others have mentioned: Squad travel is right now annyoingly hard and disstress calls complettely missing, many multiplayer features are either not working, are not finished or are not reliable. In this regard elite truly is a mess. Hope they fix those things soon.

 

[Squidhammer]

Basically he posted that he was going it to be a . That is what his post boils down to. And because the only reasons not to kill someone are because you are so ball-less you are scared of a very minor bounty amount... or you are a griefer.

I wasn't scared of the 4k murder bounty fine. I racked up a few dozen kills while I was there. I picked at random who to kill, who to spare. People can't have fun roleplaying any more? A shame.

 

[Erasmus Dynamo]

I wonder who is going to have the tears when open is empty and everyone is in private groups or solo?

I never said I approved of solo mode. Frankly I think having the option of a solo mode, *especially* while still affecting the persistent universe, is what's going to kill the game in the long run. But that's just me.

 

[Drathmar]

I wasn't scared of the 4k murder bounty fine. I racked up a few dozen kills while I was there. I picked at random who to kill, who to spare. People can't have fun roleplaying any more? A shame.

Except you didn't spare him. You forced him to self destruct. That's not roleplay. It's a bull response to try and not make yourself look like such a dbag. If you wanted to 'spare' someone you wouldn't shoot their thrusters out so they can't even FSD out of the system.

 

[TheEponymousBob]

Neither did the OP if you bother reading his post. He even said there is nothing wrong with pirating and attacking other players FOR A REASON.

Why assume there was no reason? I can think of many reasons to discourage other players from interfering with local politics.

Honestly, I suspect the player involved probably was just in it for a laugh, but not only is naming and shaming open to deliberate abuse, it runs the risk of accidentally "outing" people who have done nothing wrong.

 

[Erasmus Dynamo]

I wasn't scared of the 4k murder bounty fine. I racked up a few dozen kills while I was there. I picked at random who to kill, who to spare. People can't have fun roleplaying any more? A shame.

Don't bother defending yourself against these ninnies, Squid. If I ever see you in-game I'll happily be your wingman. We'll have some fun!

 

[Remiel]

Basically he posted that he was going it to be a . That is what his post boils down to. And because the only reasons not to kill someone are because you are so ball-less you are scared of a very minor bounty amount... or you are a griefer.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think in false dichotomies, and penguins.

Since when did you get to decide when someone else's reasons for doing something are illegitimate? More illegitimate is you putting words in his mouth, and your false dichotomy, which together literally make you full of crap.

 

[Squidhammer]

Don't bother defending yourself against these ninnies, Squid. If I ever see you in-game I'll happily be your wingman. We'll have some fun!

Glory be the Cephalopod Might!

 

[Erasmus Dynamo]

Glory be the Cephalopod Might!

ALL GLORY!

 

[Remiel]

This whole thread is nothing but a personal attack and smear campaign against someone who did nothing wrong within the rules and mechanics of the game despite your attempts to apply real world morality to fantasy, which is a clear indication of a mass disconnection from reality going on.