ZentzlbWell it sounds like you dont know too much about gankers or what happened with CODE. But keep it up, its always nice when someone advertises their ignorance in such a public way.

"There are plenty who say they do so but only camouflage their selfish needs to dominate others due to their inadequacies in RL." Yes, all gankers are sociopaths and terrible people IRL. The only solution is playing in solo mode. You hit the nail on the head bud.

ZentzlbYou are kind of missing the point of this game.

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


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Sir Sprockettlive chat with Ganker live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lczZ998nZTY

"Today Pilot has an Interview with the Ganker; ACowForAllSeasons. Will he repent his ways? Probably not. Will anyone change their mind? Doubtful. Are we going to learn something new? Maybe. Today on the Pilot Livestream of Elite Dangerous; "Interview with the Ganker"

Zentzlb

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


[img=720x806]https://i.imgur.com/tJMFK4f.jpg[/img]

There are no game servers...

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


[img=720x806]https://i.imgur.com/tJMFK4f.jpg[/img]

Rotwhylr

Zentzlb

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


[img=720x806]https://i.imgur.com/tJMFK4f.jpg[/img]

There are no game servers...

"Frontier Games is a UK-based video game company. It turned to AWS to develop and host its games, including Zoo Tycoon, Elite: Dangerous, and Coaster Crazy."

Rebecca Hail

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


[img=720x806]https://i.imgur.com/tJMFK4f.jpg[/img]

I can assure you that Elite has zero problem attracting players at the moment, considering the insane amount of rescues the Fuel Rats are currently undertaking. The number of cases skyrocketed during the weekend by almost 700%.

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The next big money injection for Elite will come from Odyssey and they have a more or less steady stream of revenue with their microtransactions. Apart from that FDev does have a couple of other projects to rely on and are afaik not in a bad spot businesswise, even in the current pandemic.

Gankers are made out to be a much bigger problem than they actually are.

Rotwhylr

Rebecca Hail

RotwhylrMany gankers may in fact be nice people IRL who are dedicated to exploring and learning and even teaching an underappreciated part of the game.

Regardless, gankers who attack noobs are shitting where they (and by extension the rest of us) play.

The future of the game depends on new players and continued investment. Game servers are not free. Patches and updates and new content are not free. Without new and enthusiastic players coming in, the lights will go off sooner rather than later.


[img=720x806]https://i.imgur.com/tJMFK4f.jpg[/img]

I can assure you that Elite has zero problem attracting players at the moment, considering the insane amount of rescues the Fuel Rats are currently undertaking. The number of cases skyrocketed during the weekend by almost 700%.

[img=1820x282]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/220138969554223104/781234640521658368/unknown.png[/img]

The next big money injection for Elite will come from Odyssey and they have a more or less steady stream of revenue with their microtransactions. Apart from that FDev does have a couple of other projects to rely on and are afaik not in a bad spot businesswise, even in the current pandemic.

Gankers are made out to be a much bigger problem than they actually are.

Hmm. Not surprised to see Fuel Rat calls skyrocket after Epic gave the game away for free.

I'm not trying to quibble over the servers thing. My larger point is that the continued life of the game itself depends on two things - new game sales + ARX sales. First they have to bring customers in, then they have to keep them. When that stops, the game stops. First there's no new content. Then there's no new fixes. Eventually "Can't connect to Frontier servers" becomes a permanent error.

I don't know the arrangement between Epic and FDEV, whether Epic bought licenses from FDEV and then gave them away, or whether FDEV gave the licenses to Epic. My guess is somewhere in the middle - FDEV probably sold heavily discounted licenses to Epic as part of a marketing blitz, and Epic probably gave those away as a loss leader. However it happened, the obvious reason is to drive up the number of users who will later pay for the upgrade to Odyssey when it comes out, and who will hopefully buy ARX. By driving off new players, the noob-killing community is undermining the game.

DadebluntsI have a question for all the people complaining about gankers killing people and what not, and ignoring that they teach new players not to stick around in populated areas without a proper ship.

Why dont YOU do something about it.

Make a PvP build, go to starter systems or hotspots, start defending people.

DadebluntsI have a question for all the people complaining about gankers killing people and what not, and ignoring that they teach new players not to stick around in populated areas without a proper ship.

Why dont YOU do something about it.

Make a PvP build, go to starter systems or hotspots, start defending people.

Aleksander Majjam

DadebluntsI have a question for all the people complaining about gankers killing people and what not, and ignoring that they teach new players not to stick around in populated areas without a proper ship.

Why dont YOU do something about it.

Make a PvP build, go to starter systems or hotspots, start defending people.

LMAO.

Player - "Why did you destroy me? I was minding my own business."
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
Player - "I was on my way to do engineering."
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
Player - "......"

--

Player - "Why did you destroy me? I was minding my own business."
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
Player - "I was on my way to do an activity to get credits to upgrade my ship."
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
Player - "......"

--

Player - "Wow. That tutorial was pretty helpful. Time to get out there and explore."
*3 mins later*
Player - "Why did you destroy me? I'm new. I was minding my own business."
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
*10 mins later*
Player - "Another random person killing me?"
Ganker - "I'm a teacher and it's my duty to teach you that you can't fly wherever you want. Get a better ship."
Player - "......"

--

Player - *Uninstalls ED and installs a game that's newbie friendly, where great communication occurs, where PvE and PvP can be enjoyed with robust populations in an MMO environment, and it is his choice to engage in PvP if he so desires*

DadebluntsI have a question for all the people complaining about gankers killing people and what not, and ignoring that they teach new players not to stick around in populated areas without a proper ship.

Why dont YOU do something about it.

Make a PvP build, go to starter systems or hotspots, start defending people.