I'm CMDR TheBlackHole and I'm an occasional French E:D player since 2015.
I play in bursts: I rediscover the game a bit each time, spend a lot of hours in my ship, enjoying the unique atmosphere of the game (I will never get tired of the sound design) but the grind and the repetition end up annoying me and I abandon it for several months/years before starting a new cycle
I mainly do Exploration and Rescue missions and sometimes bounty hunting with friends. I used to play PvP years ago when there was honor and respect (in the sense of engaging in combat if mutually agreed or in accordance with roleplay) but now I only do PvE.
Recently I got back into the game wanting to do the Sol rescue missions where you can rescue people in the middle of Thargoid vs AX battles. So I equipped myself with the "new" (for me) Type-8 in order to make a large unarmed transport ship only designed to dodge Thargoid attacks (with hum few tries before finding the right formula
).This ship is clearly identified (in the name) as a rescue ship but that doesn't stop gankers (CMDR Dangerous.com and CMDR GreenSpandex) from having fun targeting me and other unarmed rescue ships (taking advantage of the fact that the stations turrets, authorities and players are busy with Thargoid attacks by getting inside the attacked stations in order to spawnkill players).
As much as, when I had an armed build but not powerful enough (or simply unprepared), I could accept being massacred by gankers during a random encounter, as much here it is just a desire to ruin the experience of the other player by taking advantage of the lack of consequences (and it is a war crime if we take the game a little seriously. And I would totally accept the behavior if it was roleplay: a little message in the chat showing that he is a traitor to humanity for example).
Everyone recommends to switch to Solo but it is, for me, the multiplayer that gives life to this game especially with the majority of respectful pilots... but whose experience is ruined by a few and as long as the game does not offer punishment big enough, it will continue.
So after too many spawnkills, I was looking for a way to set up bounties on other players (too bad FDev didn't implement this, it would be an interesting gameplay that would be a win-win situation) or to launch a multiplayer PvE-on game. So I came across a Steam discussion where someone mentions this PvE group, giving me hope of finding back the good ambiance of the beginnings of E:D (minus the PvP, too bad to have to come to this because it can be really fun when done correctly, even against players way stronger than you).
I am waiting for my request to be accepted, in the hope of finding a "Good Luck Have Fun" atmosphere which for me is essential for everyone to have a good gaming experience (to the point where I took a plege and I recommend you to do it too. You'll even get a Twitch badge from this)
o7 and GLHF!
