Darkspace Dispatch - Vol. II, No. 2

Ambrosius

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GrimGriz

Hmmm Quants can rip Oct and Sol civs and keep their insurance.....this could be interesting.

Radi

And/or messy.

Ambrosius

Interesting interpretation.

Radi

The most problematic will be transiftion period. Because, new set of "normal rules for combat" will be defined by the new tags.

What is fair and what is griefing debate and flaming will be introduced again.

Hopefully, that will not happen. (yeah right, not in Jumpgate)

Jump

What would prevent it from happening is if ND came out and said. "This is how you can and cannot use this feature. " That would be a definite improvement over a vague TOS from some now defunct company of 4 years ago.

GrimGriz

Quote:

I am hopeful that if there are more fun, consensual occasions for combat, incidents of what have been called "grief play" in Jumpgate will be less frequent.

<snipped for relevance>

For the time being, a pilot will only lose insurance if he possesses a negative PR with his home faction.

Seems to me he's removing the penalties for civving other factions without adding any 'more fun, consensual occasions for combat' unless he just failed to mention the fun consensual occasions for combat that are coming with this patch.

Jump

He has stated earlier, that because he has to make gradual changes to the backend before some things can be implemented, there will be some short term problems.

spork

Since when has no insurance been a real deterrant to "grief players"?

Radi

Only when they die too much and dont have money to re-equip.

GrimGriz

Quote:

Originally Posted by spork

Since when has no insurance been a real deterrant to "grief players"?

It's deterred me from being a grief player, so it was working on that level.

spork

You had a conscience problem with exploiting farming (which would have enabled you to afford no-insurance griefing). I doubt you would have been a griefer had you been insured; I doubt you'll now become a griefer once you get insured.

Radi, you can never run a griefer out of money. He's got 2nd accounts feeding him cash.

One thing, this will certainly make escort work more important and hopefully less boring.

Wild_Bill

What I see GG, is a time coming when you go to "Missions", choose "Combat" and instead of shooting another round of worthless flux, you get to choose shooting down a combat ship from another faction. It could mean that a HG pilot from another faction is as likely to attack you as not. I can even see a time when a faction might put out combat missions for another faction's miners or haulers, although I think that's unlikely.

So I see some exciting days in our future...

TRI Pilots On Duty
On Duty:	27
In Flight:	15
Solrain:	8
Octavius:	10
Quantar:	9
TRI:	0

Category	Pilot	Score
Kills	Algore	2,836
Kill Ratio*	_KROM_	470.000 %
Bounty Collected	Killntime	407,838,097
Munitions Accuracy*	Psycho	85.893 %
Projectile Accuracy*	_Zora_	98.148 %
Total Conflux Kills	vorlon31	149,553
Experience	-JPR-	1,002,662,560
Mission Success Ratio*	Arkady	100 %
Insurance Rating*	Farve	10 %
Net Worth	McPlowed	c21,994,151,286
Duty Hours	RedDwarf	18,715.8
*minimum requirements to qualify


	Ambrosius Member Pilot Name: Ambrosius Faction: Quantar Joystick: MS FF2 Join Date: May 2004 Location: The Stone Temple Posts: 1,864 Nominated 4 Times in 3 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 3	Darkspace Dispatch - Vol. II, No. 2 [dsd]Ambrosius[/dsd]


	GrimGriz Highest Order Hypocrite Faction: non-aligned Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Portland Posts: 2,712 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Hmmm Quants can rip Oct and Sol civs and keep their insurance.....this could be interesting.


	Radi Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 638 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	And/or messy.


	Jump Big Daddy Pilot Name: JumpDemon Faction: Solrain Joystick: MS FF2 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tracy, Ca. Posts: 7,037	What would prevent it from happening is if ND came out and said. "This is how you can and cannot use this feature. " That would be a definite improvement over a vague TOS from some now defunct company of 4 years ago.
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	spork Member Pilot Name: spork Joystick: FF2 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: sporks foons Posts: 241 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Since when has no insurance been a real deterrant to "grief players"?
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	Wild_Bill Member Pilot Name: Wild_Bill Faction: Octavius Joystick: MS Sidewinder Precision Plus Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Abilene Texas Posts: 800 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	What I see GG, is a time coming when you go to "Missions", choose "Combat" and instead of shooting another round of worthless flux, you get to choose shooting down a combat ship from another faction. It could mean that a HG pilot from another faction is as likely to attack you as not. I can even see a time when a faction might put out combat missions for another faction's miners or haulers, although I think that's unlikely. So I see some exciting days in our future...