Do you get to do much fighting/pvp in general?

[Decado]

The fighting with its full on damage looks exciting as hell, but i wonder, as a solo player, can you participate in this? Or find it without too much difficulty?

[Xor fo xob]

its an always online game so yes.

[AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

The question is what percentage of the player base goes off to be infinity void hermits, never to be heard of again

[GridLost]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

The question is what percentage of the player base goes off to be infinity void hermits, never to be heard of again

Me!
Go away, I no like people.

[Xuhybrid]

Better question, how easy is it to scan/find ship transponders for attacking?

[GridLost]

Originally posted by Xuhybrid:

Better question, how easy is it to scan/find ship transponders for attacking?

and what if i do not use one?

I bet you most wont.

[jey123456]

gonna live in a corner of deep space, yes space has no corner and is infinite, its how far my corner will be !

[GridLost]

Originally posted by jey123456:

gonna live in a corner of deep space, yes space has no corner and is infinite, its how far my corner will be !

Dark Matter is infinite. Space is expanding. subtle difference. the main difference; when Space's expansion hits the limit of its elasticity, it will snap back to center, Form a big bang and back to square one again, Expanding space. Space operates in a cyclical pattern. Dark matter is the canvas in which the fabric of space time paints itself onto. Dark matter is why our space is black.

Are there other colors of space? Yes in theory.

Now if you want to get into whats beyond Dark matter, then we can talk about subspace and tacheon particles. Which can operate on multiple plains of existence and ignore Our perceived sense of time.

If you find this topic interesting, please leave a dime in the box :)

[Decado]

So where does pvp occur? Outside the safe areas of course - what's there? Neutral stations or only player owned? From what i could tell of the roadmap player stations arent in yet? So where's the pvp out of curiosity?

[jey123456]

i didnt play in alpha so im limited to what i read / understand. but the pvp would be at the very least, hunting down miners / cargo bringing in resources.

I also assume that safe zone space will be limited (as in huge base might not fit) so large monstruosity might end up being built in the much larger non safe zone.

[Kap]

Originally posted by Deepjay:

The fighting with its full on damage looks exciting as hell, but i wonder, as a solo player, can you participate in this? Or find it without too much difficulty?

To give you the complete picture from someone with 2k+ hrs in Closed Alpha.

Space is big. Like, very big.

It's very hard to find other people unless they have a transponder and are silly enough to leave it on. That's a 100km beacon right there.

The render distance is 5km for stuff like Asteroids & Ships.

Distance to edge of the belt from where you spawn, straight line, is 1000+ km.

You can make your own conclusions from that information.

Personally, I wouldn't go in and expect to be doing non-stop organic pvp.
We're supposed to get some type of devices to help scanning people down at some point, radiation tech. But last CA patch didn't have this, and it's extremely unlikely that it's in the first EA patch as a 'surprise!'

If, however, you do find out where people have a little mining outpost station, and you want to pirate them or blow them up, yeah, totally possible. But it's not easy to go out and find random players.

[Xor fo xob]

to be fair.
i might buy this game and look for mechs on the workshop to mess around with.

[Kap]

Originally posted by Deepjay:

So where does pvp occur? Outside the safe areas of course - what's there? Neutral stations or only player owned? From what i could tell of the roadmap player stations arent in yet? So where's the pvp out of curiosity?

The area you will spawn in has 30 something Origin stations, and a big safezone around them, where you're safe to mine basic materials. Player stations are in the game right now. You can set them up in both the natural safe zone, and outside.

The player stations have their own (way smaller) safezones.

In time, 2 months from now, we will receive Station Siege, where you can attack other people/factions stations outside the natural safezone, if you have a big enough military capital to attack it and bring down the station safezone.

[Decado]

Originally posted by Kap:

Originally posted by Deepjay:

Personally, I wouldn't go in and expect to be doing non-stop organic pvp.
We're supposed to get some type of devices to help scanning people down at some point, radiation tech. But last CA patch didn't have this, and it's extremely unlikely that it's in the first EA patch as a 'surprise!'

Thanks for that info, thats what i was looking for.

For the record, Im not expecting it to be a full on pvp game, it just looks super fun in the videos - the damage models etc, would like to try it out sometime.

2k hours is pretty impressive, that speaks a lot about the game - what have you been doing in all that time? What keeps you playing etc?

[b0nehead]

Originally posted by Kap:

Originally posted by Deepjay:

So where does pvp occur? Outside the safe areas of course - what's there? Neutral stations or only player owned? From what i could tell of the roadmap player stations arent in yet? So where's the pvp out of curiosity?

The area you will spawn in has 30 something Origin stations, and a big safezone around them, where you're safe to mine basic materials. Player stations are in the game right now. You can set them up in both the natural safe zone, and outside.

The player stations have their own (way smaller) safezones.

In time, 2 months from now, we will receive Station Siege, where you can attack other people/factions stations outside the natural safezone, if you have a big enough military capital to attack it and bring down the station safezone.

Thanks for the in depth info m8

[Kap]

Originally posted by doberman8u:

Originally posted by Kap:

To give you the complete picture from someone with 2k+ hrs in Closed Alpha.

Thanks for the info Kap. With that much time in the game already, does space exploration currrently offer up the desire to keep going and see what you can find (i.e. rare items) or is it just exploration for the sake of obtaining more of the common items to build new ships, etc?

I am on the fence with buying this morning and am looking for a game that reels me in to keep playing, specifically the desire to keep seeing what is out in space that maybe I haven't found previously.

So what materials you can obtain depends (last CA build) more or less on how far away from the spawn you go (How deep into the belt you go) - Rare ore hides in there, and are not found in the safezone. So there's some exploration in that.

It's possible to find a very big asteroid, which is called a Class 10. If that contains Xhalium (rare ore) - then boom you've got money.

Plus, there's hotspots of ore, supposedly.

So there's exploration in that sense. As well as finding wrecks of battles past, abandoned ships, player stations etc. But other than player activity, you're not going to find anything except for asteroids.

Edit: Oh, and you can visit all the moons if you want. But there's not much there yet.