tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post8962452367537066797..comments2023-09-15T05:54:48.691-07:00Comments on SERIAL GANKER: Ganking a Serial Gankersid67http://www.blogger.com/profile/16656756657483499337noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-25350548445351631732010-03-24T18:04:04.893-07:002010-03-24T18:04:04.893-07:00but ganking an unclanned player in an NPC city is ...<i>but ganking an unclanned player in an NPC city is more or less impossible unless they are afk.</i><br /><br />LOL. Nope. I was semi-AFK at best. Laptop was in my lap, I was watching little bars move while watching a movie. I wasn't even alt-tabbed.<br /><br />I can't tell you exactly what happened or what they did, but I died in maybe 8-10 seconds. I fully realized what was happening about 5 seconds into it.<br /><br />Part of this has to do with me being new (which is why I say lesson learned). Had I been more paranoid, not been naked, or faced in such a way that I saw them coming -- I might have survived it. Or might not.sid67https://www.blogger.com/profile/16656756657483499337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-85110578625207031422010-03-24T12:02:32.641-07:002010-03-24T12:02:32.641-07:00First, jacking a mount and getting away with it ne...First, jacking a mount and getting away with it never gets old, ever. Sure it may only be worth 700-800g and they are readily available in trade, but for whatever reason, stealing a mount feels better than getting other loot worth twice the value.<br /><br />As for your town ganking, you must have been more than semi-afk right? Because that strategy only really works if the player never moves or if you box someone in (which usually takes more than two people and is obvious if you are watching the screen). If you had started running around as soon as the guy landed the first hit, he would have no chance finishing you before the tower got him, especially since I doubt he was tower-ganking with a good weapon.<br /><br />War-dec abuse (fixed in the next patch) is one thing, but ganking an unclanned player in an NPC city is more or less impossible unless they are afk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-91490440081247419792010-03-23T01:42:14.900-07:002010-03-23T01:42:14.900-07:00You have to admit, a game where two people can con...You have to admit, a game where two people can conspire to bypass a safe zone like that is an interesting emergent game mechanic. Cruel and clearly not what the designer intended, but. . .<br /><br />Well, I guess what I'm getting at is a caveat to your definition of griefing: Sometimes a "broken" game element is better left unfixed (or doesn't actually merit the title, if you'd prefer to see it that way), because the gameplay it winds up creating is actually more interesting. One example would be "skiing" in the Tribes series, a radical bug exploit which went on to become a defining game mechanic.<br /><br />Of course, it still sucks that you had no warning.Dagda (Brooks Harrel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12719198062375441018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-19165252099832193032010-03-22T16:20:47.669-07:002010-03-22T16:20:47.669-07:00Liking Darkfall drops you some in my estimation. ...Liking Darkfall drops you some in my estimation. Telling Darkfall stories on your blog drops you more. A lot more.<br /><br />That said, I understand. I have some nice EVE stories I wish I could tell, like getting podkilled wormhole mining and coming back and finding and taking my killer's jetcan stuffed full of arkonor. Or taking an obvious shill courier contract and totally evading the setup gatecamp, winning millyuns and millyuns of juicy ISK for 40 minutes' work.<br /><br />Anger me again with Darkfall stories and I shall tell these tales ... and more.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621479454236011547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-81100559606154300242010-03-21T21:35:57.586-07:002010-03-21T21:35:57.586-07:00That's a wonderful story!That's a wonderful story!Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-8416130383684510242010-03-21T20:06:45.954-07:002010-03-21T20:06:45.954-07:00The difference between DF and EVE is that at least...The difference between DF and EVE is that at least the station is safe. <br /><br />Its understood that traveling is unsafe anywhere, but at least when you get there -- there is some measure of safety allowing you to freely craft or trade items. Such places don't exist at all in DF.sid67https://www.blogger.com/profile/16656756657483499337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-27817248254674929422010-03-21T18:30:35.122-07:002010-03-21T18:30:35.122-07:00Yeah, it seems that the guard towers provide the s...Yeah, it seems that the guard towers provide the same "CONCORD is here to punish the guilty, not protect the innocent" level of security as in high-sec space in EVE - and that the exact same "suicide gank" techniques used in EVE are also being used in Darkfall.Carson 63000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10900682924502279486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-72724207485977756862010-03-21T16:22:46.444-07:002010-03-21T16:22:46.444-07:00I do all my crafting at one of the lesser used NPC...I do all my crafting at one of the lesser used NPC cities. I also wear some decent armor, keep my back to a wall, and keep a sword and board on me so if any of the griefers try to kill me I can just parry until the tower zaps them to death. However this does force me to remain at least within eye-shot of the comp so I can tell when I am being attacked. It is also good to stay solo, otherwise the griefers will just wardec your clan and kill you freely.Mighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07712210999607899502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-46227759414689263442010-03-21T11:07:53.521-07:002010-03-21T11:07:53.521-07:00@Carson
Oh sure, I read it. But what bugged me on...@Carson<br />Oh sure, I read it. But what bugged me on Thursday wasn't the loss -- but where I lost it.<br /><br />I've always maintained the position that 'griefing' for me personally only occurs when players take advantage of broken game design to harass other players.<br /><br />Spamming chat channel, sitting on mail boxes, and so forth.<br /><br />I'm pretty much willing to accept anything else as part of the game.<br /><br />Now if I had been attacked by one guy and he had time to kill me, loot me, and run out of the area without getting killed by the towers. I have no complaint.<br /><br />But I was killed by one guy who suicided himself to the towers while his buddy looted me without consequence. That's broken IMO.<br /><br />But I chalk it up to a lesson learned now. One that I'm glad I learned this way rather than when trying to trade something valuable.sid67https://www.blogger.com/profile/16656756657483499337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-71887391381790669132010-03-21T06:46:10.747-07:002010-03-21T06:46:10.747-07:00My method for gathering is to stay near the ocean ...My method for gathering is to stay near the ocean or a river. Creative swimming/diving can be very useful, especially if there is a guarded town on the water nearby.Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419441414045755394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3249541406364691686.post-723880781727774842010-03-21T04:06:08.629-07:002010-03-21T04:06:08.629-07:00I assume you read SynCaine's piece the other w...I assume you read <a href="http://syncaine.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/tales-from-darkfall-dropping-the-soap/" rel="nofollow">SynCaine's piece the other week</a> about a night of horrific losses in Darkfall?Carson 63000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10900682924502279486noreply@blogger.com