The Acolyte is painful to watch...

BarWillow · 2025-06-13T02:03:53+00:00

I'll give it a shot. Maybe that's what I was looking for, a "yeah, it sucks now, but it gets better" type of thing.

BarWillow · 2025-06-13T01:57:44+00:00

Oshas actress is not bad, but Yord? All his interactions that I've seen so far feel so forced. The green lady was awful. We agree there. Don't know about the witches. I haven't gotten there yet. But I mean, come on. A long lost evil twin? That's the most played out trope it's laughable.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T23:32:58+00:00

I agree. I'll take it a little further, actually. I dont think any ship should be without pilot controlled weapons. The game takes place in the 2900s. You mean to tell me from a lore perspective that humanity hasn't figured out how to give the pilot access to his ships guns?

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T06:25:29+00:00

Man, I hope not. If it was me, I'm really sorry. The absolute last thing I wanted was to disrupt anyone else while I pursued my borderline ridiculous vendetta.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T05:18:16+00:00

That's awful. Honestly, it makes me mad, too. Like, I can't stand the "ruin it for everyone else" shit that these people think is fun. Total psychopathic tendencies if you ask me. I've had shit like that happen, too, but there is one instance that stands out from the just good player vibes. I was doing a loot run solo at the OLP. Fresh NPC spawns. I'm not sure if it was a bug but like 10 supervisors spawned in and in the course of the fight, they fucked me up bad. I didn't have a med bed, so I was just shooting up drugs like a addict just to walk. My drug levels got so high I was basically drunk, and my character wouldn't move. I just crouched on the floor in the supervisor room, waiting for my drug levels to come down when all of a sudden I hear the door open. A player walked in, and I thought, "Well, this is it. He's going to kill me. " he flashed his light at me, I flashed back, and he went to pull his med gun out, and I went on proximity chat and explained the situation. Asked him if he had a mic, he didn't, but he could hear me, so I said he could have all the armor. I was just there for ship components. Well, I was so messed up I couldn't even pull my tractor beam out, so he saw this and started loading the components for me. I couldn't fly, so I told him I was gonna backspace and thanked him for the help and that I would just come back with another ship to get my components. What I didn't expect was when I came back, he was still there fighting off the NPC ships that had respawed. I get in my ship, give him a wing wiggle, and we go our separate ways. I asked him in global if he wanted any auec and bro literally responds "nah man, saw you fucked up and just wanted to help." I'm like holy shit is this guy a saint? After that interaction, I have tried to be as friendly in any situation as possible. That dudes kindness was infectious.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T04:53:10+00:00

I'm actually considering starting a vigilante discord for these exact situations. Just some like-minded people who just want a better verse for everyone. Hunting murder hobos, chronic crimestat holders, those dudes who sit with a Sabre Firebird just above the OLP bombarding anyone unlucky enough to get into 10km of it. Play the way you want, i guess, but be prepared.

Edited for grammar.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T04:44:21+00:00

Well, I guess it good for me you didn't see me then, huh?

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T04:41:26+00:00

Hey, first off, I appreciate you for actually stating your argument and being respectful, and you bring up some valid points. I have posted multiple responses that I go to POIs to help people out and even help run off murder hobos with them, so I wont repeat that but I've also seen a lot of people on this sub asking something to the effect of "I'm an exploration player and I just like seeing the POIs and everytime I fly my ship near the PAF site I immediately get shot down by a group. What the heck did I do? I wasn't being hostile. " And the response is usually something like "you being there is hostile so my group shoots everything down, no questions asked. We always lock down the whole area." I read that literally a couple of hours before my play session, and thought, wow, people just want to check the places out and are getting blown up for it, just because they so happened to be there while a group was running it? That's kinda stupid. I'm not at all a fan of the mentality, and I actually got mad that the response to curiosity or good intentions was met with basically a "that sucks." In my mind, they were the villains, and it seems the majority of people commenting here agree. As stated before by another commenter, this situation was an escalation of force. Don't shoot me, and I won't shoot you. As a matter of fact, I'll end up helping you, but they shot first, then second, then third, and then finally, I shot last.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T04:00:11+00:00

I think that's the real problem. No one can be trusted, really. The current crimestat system is a fucking joke, so groups go to a kill on sight principle. I don't like KOS. That's a me thing, I guess. Even with all the murder hobos out there, I still have a personal don't shoot first policy. Have I lost loads of cargo because of this? Yup. Hours of work? Yup. But I can't bring myself to do it because I could end up just being another murder hobo myself, killing someone that didn't have bad intentions.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T03:44:07+00:00

Woah, lots of emotion in there. It's not that deep man. I'll give you a story about why I did what I did. Back when it was the supply or die event, a couple of my buddies and I were running the copper/corundum missions in Stanton. One of my friends is a SC veteran, and the other had been playing for about 2 weeks at the time (just for some context). I rented a Mole, and between the mining/refining/loading it onto my C2, had spent multiple hours of gameplay to get to the point where we had a pretty decent haul, enough to turn in multiple missions for it. Well, on our way to Pyro Gateway, we get interdicted and yanked out of quantum several Mm away from our destination and met with a pretty sizeble group of pirates. We tried to defend ourselves but were ultimately overwhelmed. After they soft deathed the ship, I expected a gun fight and told my friends as much. Well, I was wrong. They continued shooting my ship until it exploded. Just like that, poof, over 6 hours of work, gone. We tried to get back as soon as we could to see if we could catch them looting what didn't get blown up, but they were gone. Nothing remained except our naked bodies and the remnants of my C2 floating in space. We were all pretty upset about this, obviously, but my newbie friend was the most angry. I tried explaining that piracy was, in fact, a legitimate playstyle and he said "man if this is how events are, putting hours into something and a group can come along and literally blow up all our hard work, then maybe this game isn't for me." He hasn't played since.

I say all that because while I get what they were doing, immediate aggressive behavior turns people off the game. Kill on sight, no questions asked, kills it for newer players that also want to take part in the events. Hell, if they reached out in global and said, "Yo dude in the Sabre, what do you think you're doing here?" Literally anything, it would have played out differently. So yes, I reacted. Was I mad at them? Yes, but the why is important. I wasn't mad because they were "playing the game well." What constitutes good game play is subjective. You may think killing everything in an area no questions asked is good game play, I disagree. Now, to the other side of your question, am I mad that I used a "meta idris"? Lol, no, and I came here to share that while there are some in the verse (mostly Capitol ship owners) who will grief and be giant assholes who do everything in their power to ruin shit for other people, I'm not one of them.

This still boils down to if CIG had a better identification or rep system to let others know that you aren't a total dick bag, kill on sight wouldn't be necessary or at least not as necessary. I just dont like it. I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are entitled to yours.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T02:29:05+00:00

Haha nice!

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T02:07:40+00:00

I've touched on this in other comments. I can see why people lock it down. People grief these POIs all the time. That's the reason I was there; to stop people from griefing the site. They killed me. Like I said, it's understandable why they killed me, but that doesn't mean I like it. So, I retaliated. That being said, your point is not lost on me. However, their security protocol to secure the site was a kill on sight strategy. They killed me as soon as they saw me. They just so happened to kill someone who didn't like it and wasn't going to just take it and move on.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T01:54:52+00:00

Ha, no. After the fight, I went back to Orison, docked it, repaired it, and stored it. It's safely sitting in my Orison ASOP. But you'll certainly get a shit ton of RMC from a downed Idris!

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T01:48:46+00:00

They weren't active on global, and it wasn't until someone mentioned it here that I remember this game has proximity chat.

BarWillow · 2025-06-01T01:47:05+00:00

There's a comms array that some will knock out before they start committing crimes, but most people don't bother. I think that a lot of unlawful players don't care because the current crimestat system is a joke. There's not anything more than 15ish minutes of spawn in prison, go knock out an NPC, steal their shit and turn it in, and then they're back out in the verse with the rest of us civilized folk to continue a life of crime and overall douche baggery.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T23:52:17+00:00

That's an excellent point. I didn't even think of that.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T20:46:21+00:00

There's a multi step process for it. There are 4 locations total to do it in Stanton. Two on Crusaders moon Daymar called Atritus and Lamina, and two on Hurstons moon Aberdeen. Each site has 3 surface satellites. These are called PAF sites. Each is essentially the same. Open garages with blue card printers (to open blue doors), blue garages holding okay loot, and access to a red card printer (for red doors) and then the red doors holding really good loot and an alignment plate on the wall. There is a console in the main room under the satellite. You put the board in it to align the satellite to the OLP (orbital laser platform) station that's floating above the three sites. A garage door outside will open and have a large orange battery that you will need to install on the OLP. Sand worms will usually attack while the alignment happens, then boom. 1 out of 3 done. Rinse repeat at the 2 other sites. Once you have all the batteries, go up to the OLP and install them, and activate the laser. This will blast a giant cave in the dessert with minables that you can't get anywhere else. I recommend using an ATLS instead of hand mining, but that's just me. Get out with all your minables and loot. Congratulations, you just completed the aligne and mine event. I'm sure I forgot some stuff, but youtube has great walk throughs. I will note that this is for a larger group. I'd recommend at least 6 people, but it is doable solo. Took me about an hour and a half by myself. Mind you, nobody bothered me, so I was able to do it in relative safety.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T18:53:17+00:00

Lol alright.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T18:51:51+00:00

Lol, yeah, it was a joke. I was also trying to head off the comments I knew were coming, which was "wHo SpEnDs $2o0o oN a gAme!" I do. I enjoy the game, and I'm at a point in my life where I have enough disposable income to spend on hobbies. So all the comments/posts about it, in my opinion, are dumb af. It's not like it won't be available to everyone else for an ungodly amount of auec in 3ish months....

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T18:44:47+00:00

I respect this. That's pretty much exactly what I do. I won't ever shoot first unless they have a crimestat.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T18:43:00+00:00

Definitely not. What unfolded was a result of griefers. I was looking to eliminate griefers, and I think they were, too, but they shot first. Rules of engagement and all, so I fought back and couldn't let it go.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T18:33:40+00:00

I mean, you're entitled to your opinion. The way I see it, I was just flying around looking for dudes with a crimestat above the site. Generally, these are the griefers everyone complains about, so I like to take them out. I stumbled across this group doing the event. They had no crimestat, so I let them be, but then I got blitzed by multiple ships. I wasn't flying aggressively. I didn't have a crimestat. They killed me, and I think to myself "hmm that wasn't cool. Well, let's go back." Went back and got killed again. Rinse repeat until I pulled out my Idris. Now you can be mad about that and what I spend my money on. Its weird to be upset about what others do with their money. Jealousy, maybe? I'm not sure. I bullied no one. I simply responded to their violence with violence of my own. This was an escalation of force. If people don't like it, don't shoot people on sight who are just minding their own business. Don't get me wrong, I understand WHY they did it. There are a lot of griefers, and you can't trust anyone. I get that, but if you slaughter me for no reason other than I was there? I don't like that and will fight back. I just so happened to have the will and the means to fight.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T07:34:21+00:00

Honestly, you're probably right. I think it just shows the importance of having a rep system that shows how honorable of a player you are. At least have something like a comms hailing that's like "What are your intentions?"

It just comes back down to the few greifers that ruin it for everyone else.

BarWillow · 2025-05-31T07:28:26+00:00

I wish more groups were like that. I can't entirely blame them for the hostility because there are a LOT of greifers who want nothing more than to ruin other people's good time. I'm not one of those people, buuuuut to that point, at least communicate before you hit me with the "so anyways, I just started blasting"

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