woe2you

Adding DownHillMinirider to the Wall of Fame for Benny Hilling the enemy IS-2-II around a rock long enough for me to turn around and kill the 53TP and KV-3 flanking us.

This is the first multiplayer Elite. FDev decided to make the game multiplayer without ever thinking through the ramifications, learning from existing MMOs or any of the other things you'd think would be pretty high on their list. Then they allowed anyone to create a Private Group large enough to rival Open, which kills Open. Then they allowed people to hide in Solo and affect other players by doing CGs and Powerplay. The whole thing is a total clusterfuck.

FV207 or Lorr 51 on defence is almost guaranteed General. Post up between two fronts and focus on getting resets on both, and as long as it's not a 10mins left failwin via the third front you should be golden.

I posted this on the official forums in the hope of reaching as many pubbies as possible, and robo suggested on Discord that I cross-post it here. Not expecting it to be news to longstanding Labbers, but if it helps someone... Episode 7 is upon us, and yet again we're plagued with people who seem to want to play Frontlines in the most self-defeating way possible and ruin the mode for everyone else, so here's the Idiot's Guide to Frontlines. Let's establish the victory conditions, and it's not what you'd expect: picking up a win or a loss is barely relevant. You'll still

There's a mission marathon in game where one option is using it.

Normally they pop up to give no details but say they're Very Excited about it.

Might as well be much fewer, with the way honking the same systems over and over pays compared to actually discovering stuff for the first time.

That would require FDev to realize that there's more to designing a multiplayer game than letting people play a game designed for single player alongside each other.

Congratulations, you just put more thought into the longterm storyline than FDev have.

It got better.

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I really like the character customization in Elite. Makes me vaguely hopeful that we can get realistic procgen people at some point. I just made my CMDR look like me and used my usual username so folks could find me. Not very RP but fuck it, either he wants to be like Prince or it's a callsign and his real name's a closely guarded secret. Whatever.

Seemed to work. Was enough for me to buy and fit out a Type 9 to do my mining in. Didn't feel right doing it in the shiny space dildo. I sold my old Type 9 scraping together cash for the Cutter and missed it - fantastic cockpit, and it really feels weighty and ponderous to fly. Took it back out to the same hotspot, and not an opal in sight.

After Frontline I should really finish fitting out my shiny space dildo. Opal mining still the thing?

Better dead than Fed.