Elite: Game talk
29 Apr 2021, 1:15pm
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29 Apr 2021, 4:01pm
MeowersIt's too easy and fruitful to play the opportunist or a bootlicker. Game mechanics actually drives people to do this.
p.s. It's really hard to counterweight the player-supported superpower-affiliated factions while playing alone. Numbers matter. How much of benefits I won for independents in CZ wars now taken back? Perhaps all of them.
Not sure if this was directed at my statement, but I'll reply anyway.
A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. Its beauty comes from the fact that it existed at all.
Battles are won and lost and things change, but that doesn't diminish the effort if it means something to those fighting for it.
As George Orwell said in Homage to Catalonia, “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
29 Apr 2021, 4:08pm
Isaiah EvansonMeowersIt's too easy and fruitful to play the opportunist or a bootlicker. Game mechanics actually drives people to do this.
p.s. It's really hard to counterweight the player-supported superpower-affiliated factions while playing alone. Numbers matter. How much of benefits I won for independents in CZ wars now taken back? Perhaps all of them.
Not sure if this was directed at my statement, but I'll reply anyway.
A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. Its beauty comes from the fact that it existed at all.
Battles are won and lost and things change, but that doesn't diminish the effort if it means something to those fighting for it.
As George Orwell said in Homage to Catalonia, “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
Yep. I'll agree with philosophical context of this, this is no doubt right. Sometimes it's about how much of yourself you put in those efforts. How much you're at that "inner place where you do belong to" when doing something.
29 Apr 2021, 4:49pm
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29 Apr 2021, 5:35pm
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...I wonder if CrimsonGamer and the VomitComet will compete?
29 Apr 2021, 6:21pm
MeowersIt's too easy and fruitful to play the opportunist or a bootlicker. Game mechanics actually drives people to do this.
p.s. It's really hard to counterweight the player-supported superpower-affiliated factions while playing alone. Numbers matter. How much of benefits I won for independents in CZ wars now taken back? Perhaps all of them.
I'm dealing with this right now. My small coalition is fighting a bigger force, and we're outnumbered 15 to 1 by my estimations. We've been using guerilla attacks, and this helps maintain control over our systems since we're concentrated, but wars seem to be based purely on raw contributions. I pretty much treat this like a player driven storyline, a way to give some weight to the various missions and bounty hunting other than the credit/influence/reputation rewards.
29 Apr 2021, 11:02pm
Daiyousei7I pretty much treat this like a player driven storyline, a way to give some weight to the various missions and bounty hunting other than the credit/influence/reputation rewards.
Yup. A way to go. Gives your imagination a boost and makes all the stuff interesting. Like... What could be interesting in 500 lookalike CZ fights? But if one adds some details about factions, locations, reasons, etc., it could be a little story too.
p.s. Reputation system is strange nevertheless. I was destroying their ships by thousands, month by month, and... a pair days of trading goods between two stations made me a good girl again.
29 Apr 2021, 11:18pm
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