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These look like artists impressions to me, but if the game engine can even get close I'll be happy. Gameplay next though. Awaiting videos.El Viejo wrote:Some very interesting pics on the Kickstarter page now!
Encouraging to see cargo canisters floating about there too...
Such people are also shut down HARD. I imagine there could be a kind of informal "bounty board," at least among players who fly alongside each other. Jameson-killers ought to be marked with additional bounty, alternatively.Disembodied wrote:No, it's not. Having criminals is realistic: people who rob and murder for profit is realistic. But criminals who go around killing insignificant people who are carrying little or nothing the criminal could possibly want are scarce, to say the least.Corbeau wrote:Having douchebags is realistic.
Better - and more realistic - not to have them in the game in the first place. That's the appeal of having restricted multiplayer. It wouldn't rule out player-versus-player combat (although it might, if that's what people prefer); it would just restrict it to actual piracy or factional fighting, without having to give house-room to the socially challenged.Rese249er wrote:Such people are also shut down HARD. I imagine there could be a kind of informal "bounty board," at least among players who fly alongside each other. Jameson-killers ought to be marked with additional bounty, alternatively.
Very good point as well. However, there will always be idiots on these games, and I personally plan to play mostly unrestricted. My bounty-hunting instinct will extend to those destructive players...Disembodied wrote:... the appeal of having restricted multiplayer. It wouldn't rule out player-versus-player combat (although it might, if that's what people prefer); it would just restrict it to actual piracy or factional fighting, without having to give house-room to the socially challenged.
Oh my word, so beautiful! It looks like there's some sort of structure sticking out around the bay there to help guide the ships into the bay along a 'corridor', i'll probably just crash into itdrew wrote:Can you hum the blue Danube...
Cheers,
Drew.
<Wonders when the Griff version will be out for Oolite>Griff wrote:Oh my word, so beautiful! It looks like there's some sort of structure sticking out around the bay there to help guide the ships into the bay along a 'corridor', i'll probably just crash into it
They'd only get in my way when I'm docking from a tight angle!Gimi wrote:<Wonders when the Griff version will be out for Oolite>Griff wrote:Oh my word, so beautiful! It looks like there's some sort of structure sticking out around the bay there to help guide the ships into the bay along a 'corridor', i'll probably just crash into it
.So, when was the last time you went to Somalia or sailed around Malaysia or went to a bit less glass-and-concrete parts of South America, or just about any place where 80% of the humanity lives? Hell, when was the last time you went to Bronx?Disembodied wrote:No, it's not. Having criminals is realistic: people who rob and murder for profit is realistic. But criminals who go around killing insignificant people who are carrying little or nothing the criminal could possibly want are scarce, to say the least.Corbeau wrote:Having douchebags is realistic.
I'm aware of what goes in in the world ... and there's a huge difference between antisocial first-worlders playing a computer game, and Somali pirates. There are no bored teenagers in Cigarette boats zooming out into the Gulf of Aden and blowing up cargo ships for kicks. The people who do it (many of them, undoubtedly, teenagers) do it for money, and it's bloody dangerous. Hell, boarding a big cargo ship in a rough sea from a small, rickety boat is dangerous enough, even without the live ammunition thrown in. If it goes wrong, they can't reload. The average career length of a Somali pirate, if you're interested, is about five years, and most of them don't get to retire.Corbeau wrote:So, when was the last time you went to Somalia or sailed around Malaysia or went to a bit less glass-and-concrete parts of South America, or just about any place where 80% of the humanity lives? Hell, when was the last time you went to Bronx?
Yes, there are guarded areas and there should be guarded areas. Like Rich Industrial systems where the biggest problem are multitudes of ships blocking your mass drive or Achenar or Sol-Van Maanen trade route in FFE. But a game of this type should be about anarchy. Teenage pimply douchebags abound? BRING 'EM ON! There are hungry pets in orbit around Isveve.
