🚀 go-pugleaf

"John Secker" <john@secker.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:EqFH1HFYo5rEFwgp@secker.demon.co.uk...
> In message <MPG.1f19d539f3904aa4989a20@news.individual.net>, Peter Huebner 
> <no.one@this.address> writes
>>But no, other than that I have little difficulty with the suspension of
>>disbelief. I have a lot more trouble with the griefers (being) in the 
>>game.
>>Gate campers shooting up newbies - sheesh. Maybe if I stay around long 
>>enough,
>>I shall form a company of bounty hunters one day. Just as soon as I get 
>>that
>>Deimos running. By the time I have the skills to fly one, the price will 
>>be
>>small change .... but I doubt I'll be paying a sub for that long; I do 
>>have a
>>real life as well.
>>
>>-P.
>>
> Peter - where are you having trouble with gate campers? There are not that 
> many in Empire space - some, but not many, and a bit of care, plus most 
> importantly the use of instas, should see you safe enough. It was two or 
> three months before I encountered a gate pirate - and then it was really 
> my fault because I was travelling afk and came back to my PC to find 
> myself in a clone. In my humble opinion things like that add to the 
> experience, rather than detract - they add a challenge, and the fact that 
> you are competing with other humans, rather than a programmed game 
> function, makes it all the more interesting. Your mileage may vary, of 
> course.
> And of course, if you are being gate camped in 0.0, you have only yourself 
> to blame. :) It's dangerous enough out there for the most experienced, so 
> a noob is not going to have much of a life expectancy.
> -- 
> John Secker

There also seems to be an issue with pk'ers preying on noobs in the tutorial 
training areas (i.e., using ploys to get them flagged, so they can kill 
them).