Pru Aescus
06 Feb 2019Blackleaf
This leg of the trek was pretty quiet. I went slow in order to get more exploration data and consequently I missed the departure date by 2 days. No big deal. I did run into a "mystery CMDR" at the Abandoned Settlement Delta site. I hailed her, but got no response. C'est La Vie! When I was attacked by the hovering Vulture and Krait I hid my SRV under her Anaconda, which was funny.
I got drawn into the forum arguments about the gankers in E:D like an idiot. I don't feel anything but pity and disgust for the gankers -but their play style is 100% valid. They're not doing anything that isn't explicitly allowed by the rules of the game!
I feel like the whole situation is the fault of Fdev. They could implement policies and interesting game mechanics that would have real in game consequences for this kind of anti-social behavior that would curb it -but they flatly refuse to even acknowledge that there is a problem. Pathetic.
So now there is a fleet of gankers following DW2 in combat ships out to destroy as many explorers as possible, because... Help me out here... Why ARE they doing it? Because they can, I guess... There will always be miscreants who get off on ruining other people's fun; and given the tools to do so (100% blame to Fdev) THEY WILL.
A shout out to one CMDR "Sir Van Lyn" of the ganker fleet who hauled his combat rig all the way to Beagle Point. He's sitting there, all alone. Just waiting, on the off chance that some DW2 CMDR makes it all the way to Beagle Point and is flying in Open Play, just so he can hurt them and ruin their day.
Impressive. Impressively pathetic, but still impressive in it's own demented way...