Out of Pod Experience

You forgot the schizos who like to pay for the game and stick around in the forums but actually really hate the game.

Checking in

Cheers to Star Citizen, I hope it is a resounding success. RSI, please make your single-player online environment and stark dissimilarity to EVE your key selling points.

New Eden will owe you a debt of gratitude.

Good morning kids! This morning the SC community is debating gate camping.

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/forum/showthread.php?13885-Random-spawn-points-when-exiting-a-jump-into-new-system



And by debating I mean waging the war against evil no-skill pirates and griefers.

I like it how they call anyone who kills someone who doesn't want to be killed a griefer.

yeah if only i didnt mention cov-ops in my post

Srsly, what just happend to this thread?

What are the Goons so afraid of?

When Tiger Woods was at his peak in his career, golf course designers started to make "Tiger Woods proof courses".

A lot of golfers likes the changes and the additional challenges.

They obviously never lost site of golf being a game. But then, most golfers are not basement dwelling neckbeards using an MMO to fill the void in their lives (such that being a basement dwelling neckbeard is a life fraught with voids, we can assume).


So a space MMO that is "griefer proof" is bad why? One of the chief complaints about this game orbits around grief-supporting mechanics.


All they want really is a game where it's not as easy for people to sit there all day and kill everything that moves for no reason. If there is no arbitrary mechanic against that, then at the least a means to bypass it using your brains.

Hence the agenda of making my proposal for all ships to warp without gates. I notice that I get less ridicule for this idea now that more people are picking up on it, as if there is some directive out there to pretend that the idea does not exist at all. Getting rid of the dependency on gates would open the Eve universe up to endless possibilities for PVP, exploration, and conquest and even PVPers who like to deserve their prey don't mind it.

Such that as it appears, resistance comes from those who want to sit on a gate and kill everything that moves for no reason, and nobody really wants to play with people having that kind of spirit, in a game that funnels you into their delights.

I expect the "join a big alliance (and be a renter/slave) and use their gates/cynos" excuse. No, I speak of system-to-system warp for EVERYBODY.

Imagine if the Millennium Falcon had to use gates? The Empire could have had every gate camped - but then it gets caught in a gate camped by a bunch of guys who were just sitting there killing everything that moved. Imagine any story, series, etc, where every space ship had to travel this way and all but the heavily patrolled spaces were camped out. Star Ship Enterprise - destroyed in a gate camp just outside of Federation Space - no more Spock. Firefly? Gate camp. Lexx... well maybe not that big bug had a DD of the old school variety.

Let the combat patrol replace the gate camp for people "looking for lulz" and a good time will be had by all. I've been to nullsec via wormholes and it's DESERTED out there.


There was once a time when the goons would have supported these ideas, drooling over the kind of mayhem they could cause.

ccp please take note.

I'm not sure I 100% agree with Herzog's idea because it's pretty radical (not to say it's a bad idea), but I feel most of the posters in here have a pretty one-sided view.

Would having the NPC Authorities react to in-game events such as Burn Jita be such a bad thing? I would think you guys would want to have an effect on the game...