Alien Hunt

[Roger Wilco Jr]

I don't want to suggest this on the main board for obvious reasons.

If FD doesn't want to have shadow ban servers, but wants everyone to play in open, I have the following suggestions. Let the little babies have anarchy systems where they can do whatever they want. If the skid marks kill a clean commander in any other systems, then the next time they are killed they end up in a starter system with a Sidey and 1000 cr.

It's obvious that paying insurance claims is not a hardship for them, as it's not for most people that have been playing a while. Of course, it would also be nice if security forces showed up and prevented them from killing clean commanders, and hounded them until they were destroyed, regardless of whether they get insurance (didn't kill the clean commander) or not.

[Cmdr Kharma]

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CMDR's - I have chewed off my own foot!!

'nuff said

This game just gets better and better.......

Sheesh.......

[*Al*]

FDev have said that some parts of the hunt will take place in Open only. So that's me saying, "screw this."

I'm out. Have fun CMDRs.

Could you please post the link to that statement.

Sigh. Mired with the usual suspects in the usual way.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost4423791

Dont quite understand the comment, however thank you for the link.

[CMDR Abil Midena]

It's been 2 yrs guys. Consequences for commanders that kill clean commanders are not coming.

[*Al*]

Might be stating the obvious but;

If FD must have some of this hunt in Open it indicates (as already happened with the Red guy getting killed) that the hunt is not/cannot be fully coded. It must need a 'human' level of interaction.

If this is the case it is very badly flawed thinking.

Firstly it is going to/has irritated all mode players, stirring up Opens paranoia that Solo and Private want to sneakily ruin the BGS for them, and Our/Solo's worry that we are being phased out/second rate players.

So, what is going to happen..
Some idiot/spoiler/griefer in Open will try to kill the 'human' clue giver every time they appear, Private/Solo modes will not join the first contact party (a general FU happening already).

If these things happen/continue to happen this project will be an epic fail and I am afraid that it will impact bably both internally and externally on the game.

[Falcon_D]

Something that's been bugging me about needing an RL CMDR to get the clue.
We have NPCs (the "Looking for Weapons/Medicine", T9s) that send out messages on comms when you arrive in their instance (Signal Source). Why can't they have coded these clue givers to work the same way?
Then Group/Solo could get involved too.

But no... They had to get a RL CMDR to fly in open to give clues.

[Cmdr Kharma]

You would have thought FD would have had the sense to see this coming and make the ship invulnerable.......

And make up sthg stoop and call it Zargonian armour with Tesla shielding or something.....

[pargyrak]

You would have thought FD would have had the sense to see this coming and make the ship invulnerable.......

And make up sthg stoop and call it Zargonian armour with Tesla shielding or something.....

Or better yet put in the area around him a few squadrons of police fighters that would obliterare anyone taking a pot shot at him...

This way the "bad" guys would feel the pain too

[Cmdr Kharma]

Yea....All carrying grade 5 modded rails and multis.....

[Walter]

Firstly it is going to/has irritated all mode players, stirring up Opens paranoia that Solo and Private want to sneakily ruin the BGS for them, and Our/Solo's worry that we are being phased out/second rate players.

Equally, it might have the opposite result. If the SDC and its ilk, in spite of all the encouragement they have been given, have prevented the story from moving forward, FD will have to face up to the fact that shutting down Groups and Solo would lose them a large number of players.

Falcon_D wasn't the only one to exercise his options: many players made their feelings known on the main forum. The whole exercise could change FD's perspective.