The point of my post was that people play by the tactic of “we'll do whatever we can just to reach our goal”. But these people aren't even trying to be crafty or smart. My message is a message that the community has gotten a huge number of players who are ruining the game for the rest of us because of their mindset. I was willing to do RP, I would be only too happy for people to stop and write something that would allow me to rethink my decisions. My first encounter literally started with two merchants immediately rushing to the trading line, practically ignoring my words. That is, while I was writing, they were running away.
I realized that it's better to play the “Drop the cargo or die” tactic. And I swear to God, it was a damn good decision. I mean, the others didn't even try to play it any other way.
The player who plays with me (Marcus Reed) faced the following situation: while he was trying to play a clean RP (he have problems with English but wanna to learn this), powertrader just ran away. You don't like PvP, you just want to trade and do PvE? Then explore the field of commerce on Discovery. It's not just “fly from point A to point B”. If you're so darn-cool players and not roleplayers, I'll ask you the simplest questions I've ever encountered personally.
Just a reminder, you have a chat room. You can open the chat and look into it and study the nicknames. Do you need counseling? Email me on Discord and I'll explain how to do it.
You have about three alternate paths, using which you could evade a chase or not even run into a lawman. Can't you figure that out? Email me or someone else in Discord and it will be explained to you.
You have countless IDs, but the only ones you've taken are those of the Order, a faction that implies its ships will be immediately destroyed in Liberty space. Roughly speaking, your transport ships are a combat target for the law representative. “Drop your cargo or die” is still a sign of kindness on the part of the Navy/LSF/Police player. I could have just played right away with the “Red is Dead” style.
Did you open this before putting the ID of a faction that is totally hostile to you?
Have you thought about the fact that the player on the other side is the same person, and you should try to make an attempt to occupy their attention with your conversations instead of pressing the pedal to the floor? You didn't even try.
Have you ever thought about the fact that if you were caught the first time and refused any bribe, perhaps you should be more careful? No, people continued to make their way from Magellan to California by the most dangerous route possible.
Yeah, guys. That's ignorance. And not on my part. I was only being reciprocal.
Poor excuse to /1/2/3.
Now, let me abandon the Discovery Integrate Matrix: + 3 Toxicity, -2 Logic, -3 Common Sense, +5 Crying on Discord.
Lets do an objective analysis:
- Devs have been working all year around to revive Disco: new ships, economy overhaul, balance, etc.
- Holiday Season - fuck it, they deserve a break - organize a nice trade event, nothing big that requires even more work, give some $ rewards and a nice ID that is neutral to everyone (except Noms and Wild)
- Get a short trade route with multiple paths that are longer but the c/min is 1K, as said above, lots of cash
- Let the community handle itself (usual disco)
- Results: People started trading like lunatics, event has hours when its off so people do sleep.
- Lawfuls and unlawfuls started pewing - /1/2/3 or drop cargo or die.
- People switched ships, cause why the fuck would you lose 1.1-1.5M$ to some guy who logs a bomber and stays and camps a gate.
- Pews ensued
- Who's the first to complain about it? One of the known lawfuls! Why? Cause traders don't RP! See my previous post about it.
You're logging lawful, you don't take a bribe, however crafty I try to be and then complain all future encounters are either pews or "finger"?
At least the guys with the scarabs want cargo, which is understandable. Bombers get blues.
So, to sum it up:
- You take an event thats supposed to be chill and relaxed for all, where the Lawfuls and Unlawfuls get no points and can only get credits / cargo and turn it into: Traders don't RP after I /1/2/3 or Drop cargo or die and then blame the community?
The community acts and reacts to your actions. You come searching for a fight long enough, you're either getting one or being denied one.
You should learn a thing or 12 about "RP" vs /1/2/3 Drop cargo or Die.
Does this sum it up well?
