Today I encountered a first and a rather clever trick from Federation side. On the ground PvP map there was a character named Security Escort. I admire the ingenuity here, since you can't visually tell by name whether it is a player or an NPC shooting you. With escorts spawned you couldn't tell which one was the spawn and which one was a player.I made a mistake of ignoring the Security Escort for a while without even realizing this was a player. Props on this novel idea.
Although it wouldn't impact me.... I have my settings configured so that I basically never target anyone. I have no idea what anyone's name is and attack on sight alone. I also make a point of killing security escorts since they're relatively easy to kill and they ARE actually fairly dangerous -- they seem to always have expose weapons and they will, in fact, expose you if you let them keep shooting you.
Today I encountered a first and a rather clever trick from Federation side. On the ground PvP map there was a character named Security Escort. I admire the ingenuity here, since you can't visually tell by name whether it is a player or an NPC shooting you. With escorts spawned you couldn't tell which one was the spawn and which one was a player.I made a mistake of ignoring the Security Escort for a while without even realizing this was a player. Props on this novel idea.
Playing low level (LC5) I saw a guy doing the same thing. Weirdest thing ever..I actually read his bio so I could make sure he was really player..and not somebody exploiting a bug. LOL
I had someone decline a team invite because my character's name was "Unknown"...he evetually /tell me back saying he wa smistaken, he did want to team.
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Although it wouldn't impact me.... I have my settings configured so that I basically never target anyone. I have no idea what anyone's name is and attack on sight alone. I also make a point of killing security escorts since they're relatively easy to kill and they ARE actually fairly dangerous -- they seem to always have expose weapons and they will, in fact, expose you if you let them keep shooting you.
Playing low level (LC5) I saw a guy doing the same thing. Weirdest thing ever..I actually read his bio so I could make sure he was really player..and not somebody exploiting a bug. LOL
Didn't fall for it, but very clever.