Mining and communism

[Stuart.croll]

Well, it does work as intended. It prevents pirates from logging on right in the middle of a mining field within CD range of miners.
It also prevents codehunters from logging on right next to wrecks and allows for a race before looting.
It prevents people from F1ing their ships in bottleneck areas to catch people instantly upon logging on.
Why do we call 2+ people working together communism?

My point is that drift prevents nothing it's just a minor inconvenience.

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[dodike]

My point is that drift prevents nothing it's just a minor inconvenience.

Having a ship spawn next to me and seeing it coming from 14k distance is more than a minor inconvenience.

[Hone]

I dunno, half of my wealth probly came from just flying around on my indy transport, enquiring if anyone had any ore to sell, and hauling it if so, or docking and doing something more fun if not.

And I have a lot of money.



I think the drift can make sense if you take it as the system orbiting.

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[dodike]

I think the drift can make sense if you take it as the system orbiting.

There is no orbiting in Freelancer. Hielor explained it once using tradelanes positions as proof.

[Hone]

I know there is no orbiting, there's also no going to the loo, eating, having sex, buying underpants, or filling in tax forms. That doesnt mean that INRP all these things dont happen.

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[AeternusDoleo]

Like others have said on this forum, when you want to mine there just isn't anyone else around to 'interact' with. Believe me I spend far too much time on this server and I know.

Please don't try to deflect me towards the 'official faction' thing because it doesn't suit me and there would still be massive parts of the day where no faction buddies were available.

"I don't like to play in groups. When I go out there aren't groups to play with". Problem exists between chair and desk here.

This whole social mining thing is a failed cause as far as I'm concerned. So basically kill the drift crap.
Lose the NPC thing. Accept the fact that solo mining is far more popular than the quasi social ideology.

Yea, no. I'm sure free beer is also popular, doesn't mean it's a good thing to have. As for the drift, that's more to prevent people from setting up ambushes using logged out characters at specific points rather then to annoy miners. There were issues with people cloaking out a pack of CAU8 gunboats on specific lanes, and logging in only when they knew a transport was coming. That is now (almost) impossible to do.

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[escopton]

OP: We are playing a beta. Don't expect yields/selling prices to keep up after alpha release.

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[arvg]

Moderator Notice:

Discussions on Communism is political. If it continues I will lock the thread.

As for the mining topic, have at ya.

~Alvin

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[Govedo13]

Well join IMG| you mine wrong.
If you want higher profits - work in team, the balance is nice there now.
Drifting is good thing too- even that I used to have 5-6 clocked pirates around- it is good that we got the Drift. So in general you understand Discovery wrong- it is multi player game not single player one- if you want to play alone just play single player- add money to your char so you wont need to grind them.
And social mining have nothing to do with communism.
It would be communism if you does not get any credits for mining but food and new boots, together with free room on any space station.

<strike>If you haven't lived in communism you could not get what is it really.
Socializing with the colleagues in the cafe room in any capitalistic profit orientated big and greedy corporation does not mean communism.
Communism means that you might get free 2 Weeks Vacation on any sunny beach with all drinking and food and sleeping inclusive- all full of nice Ladies that are on Vacation too, on the other hand the trade off is drive Lada and Moskivich only on really bad road to get to the Sea (400km for 10 hours or so) and you sleep in some crappy place with one WC for 10 people, meanwhile the members of the Party fly to Sea with the state jets. One of the Party residences in Bulgaria had build in Air-Conditional system- the air is taken 20 km from the residence in special grown Common fig Forest because researcher proved that the Common fig tress filtrate and produce the best Oxygen.
Communism is to have money to buy 4 Apartments in the center of the City that you live on but to be allowed to have only one- ordering it to the state and waiting 6 Years to get finished while you live 9 people on 60 square meters.
Communism means that the Professor at the University receives the half of the salary of constitution worker because one of them sits only in the Uni the other actually works for the great good of the country...
So ye go figure...</strike>

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[RmJ]

Then have OP edited. I am offended. I am communist.


This doesn't seem to be real drastic concern. Mining was fun when you could hire day workers.

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