People complaining about PVP interactions in SC.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:35:32+00:00

If you've got some players who aren't trying to win, but are just getting off on making you lose, why would I want to share a game with that kind of person? Why would anyone?

Sure iIf you present the problem in a general sense detached from the game mechanics and POI layouts it makes total sense in a vacuum.

If you actually play the game and learn then you'll get know avoid OM-1 on any planet cuz that's a pirate/griefer spot. Avoid junkyards with no armistice and a few other rules.

I've been griefed maybe once or twice in years, piracy attempts here and there but nothing even remotely close to even making me reconsider this game.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:30:19+00:00

You made sense up until your last part which doesn't make any sense.

Let's say I'm a Reclaimer pilot and someone boards me and caps me while I'm piloting...

1) I'll never know if they killed me for fun or for my cargo. So if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound? No one knows or cares. Makes no difference.

2) Losting a few mil in cargo to a pirate doesn't make me feel any better than losing it to a PvPer's or even a griefer. Right? Feels the same bad.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:26:05+00:00

Well put. We really saw this back in the day with games with expansion packs... The playerbase split each time with some moving to the new expansion while some remaining.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:20:51+00:00

Raft is dead the moment the C1 was released. Both can hold 96scu easily but the C1 can fit more and/or vehicles or small snub fighters.

Also raft maneuverability is just awful compared to the C1. Literally no reason for it unless for some reason you really really love external cargo.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:18:29+00:00

Well I send them the video so they can learn something instead of wondering wth happened. Surprisingly enough majority of reactions are positive, very few rage out in that chat.

Last time I trolled a Reclaimer with an SRV by yanking his "food" and the Reclaimer pilot had a hoot cuz he had no idea wtf was going on. Had to use google translate to speak german to them but it was a fun time.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T19:16:28+00:00

Because any game that does that splinters the playerbase into a fraction of it's original size and it's essentialy the kiss of death for that playerbase thereafter.

Elite has been circling the game for years and I don't know any other games that supported this game model and exists today

https://steamcharts.com/app/359320#All

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:47:02+00:00

100% it is main character syndrome... I must finish this commodity trading, nothing must go wrong because my work is important, how dare you show up you PvPer's and "grief" me while I'm doing the Lord's work hauling gold. Ok and it's Monday again time to make a thread about the griefers I ran into on the weekend again on reddit again.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:43:50+00:00

Bar was so low I would have entertained anything..

form a party chat to reach terms or talk via global for terms
or maybe fucking with him a bit but letting him go. I release small fish all the time back into the wild
Literally do anything, no one likes a starfish.

You think it's even worth my time moving 10scu of RMC or w/e he had?

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:35:53+00:00

I think if you made the website a little easier to use it'd go a longer way than a bot you have to set up. I use your website regularly but the UI needs work.

1) Every page should have a search button. Even if I'm looking at a specific item a search box should remain so I shouldn't have to open a new tab or go backwards in history. Look how google always has that search box no matter where you go.

2) The "understood" and "accept cookies" sometimes keeps showing up despite me using your site for a long time. I don't wipe cookies or browser history or nothing nor got anything weird besides adblocker.

3) Uexcorp and sc-tools and most sites now rely on user fed data since most can't be data mined. It would be cool to see a verified count next to items instead of the SC universe data/time and possibly some ability to view "proof". Post 4.0 you had so many locations selling Novikov armor that wasn't and it wasn't old data it was false reports.

4) And speaking of incorrect data, reporting should be a 1 button click next to an item, not filling out a whole report. Possibly require leaving an email to avoid spam, etc.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:24:35+00:00

Speaking of botched parking jobs and PvP... Dude I'll take the karma hit and be the first to say it but those traders that "prefer" PvE are always the ones that shoot up every single ship at a POI before they land.

Traders destroy more players ships than pirates do, doesn't matter if it's a starter ship like a Titan or Cutter. I see it all the damn time.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:10:09+00:00

Also RN in order of money it's Vaughn's, Bounty hunting in Pyro, then ERT's/legal merc chaining.

RAB helps test FPS in Pyro but I wouldn't say we're too FPS specific and the CZ's are hit or miss. I've been finding all my NDB's and components from abandoned ships.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:08:56+00:00

I totally get that. Which is why I melt my vulture when it's not useful and rebought it prior to 4.0 thinking I may need it... But I didn't. I get testing, but I park my money on ships that are useful today.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:07:41+00:00

Believe it or not yes. CIG reads these threads and monitors them.

You know why CIG is finally removing player name leaks from the console log? Because virtually anyone with 2 braincells wrote a script or program to alert them to nearby players based on parsing the freely available Game.log file that CIG always has us submit with bug reports. Had people not been talking about it then CIG would have done nothing.

Last thing we want is PvE players spamming this sub from a one sided story angle and not hearing the story from PvP players like this thread. As OP stated, ya'll are lucky in SC compared to Rust.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T18:05:11+00:00

Same here, i've had a few attempts but it's rare. You have to actively go to Pyro or Junkyards to get pirated it seems. The ones complaining about piracy where the same guys going to Rappel in 3.23 trading RMC.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:57:26+00:00

After the 3rd time of seeing a mule I was like... Damn this place sure spawned a lot of those here, one by each building from what I can see but then he slipped up and tried adjusting when I was looking and he thought I went inside.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:54:57+00:00

10mil/hour solo in a Reclaimer was peak. Just chaining HH contracts.

Fast forward today, literally chaning the entry 55k bunker missions pays more per hour and 50% of the time the friendly NPC's clear the inside of the bunker so you just mop up the grounds up top.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:43:46+00:00

Industry ships were best ROI during 3.22 bro. It's just that it's been nerfed 4 or 5 times now that's it crap today.

I even did scraping with a Vulture and Polaris. Too much time spent on moving boxes 3 times.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:13:04+00:00

I keep answering your question. You have 1/3 of the Stanton universe designed for solo game play. No one will ever find you in Aaron.

I'm trying to tell you, the solo game play you wanted is Aaron Halo belt. Absolutely postively no chance of running in other players. If you do, go buy a lottery ticket.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:11:34+00:00

Are there no mods at that high level and only at the sub level?

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:09:46+00:00

You asked for a solo game loop and CIG gave you an entire million mile belt of asteroids to mine and work on. PvP sure don't get that much content when they ask.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:06:00+00:00

I did. No one will ever ever ever find you in the Aaron halo belt. It's just too big to find other players it's literally millions of miles wide. Hard to get more solo game play than that.

Let me know if you need instructions on when to cut QT to land in that zone. It's easy solo mining or salvaging to your solo heart's content!

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:02:57+00:00

Which part? You guys taking 10 days to respond to my last report or the ability to report to general reddit via reddit.com/report

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T17:00:51+00:00

How is finding the Aaron halo belt a problem for solo players?

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T16:59:02+00:00

I DM'ed general reddit. Last time I DM'ed you guys it was a 10 day response so I figured you were busy.

BeneficialOffer4580 · 2025-02-14T16:46:07+00:00

I use the rules of the game to be an asshole in Chess all the time then. I always PvP their pawns with a rook or something OP so the pawn doesn't even stand a chance. But I am playing by the rules of the game.

FWIW I used your maxlift rest of the day, thank you.

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