SimonTemplar

Interesting. I find the Breton a bit slower than the Arabian, and an awful lot less nimble. I use a Kladruber for collecting and hunting, often, as it's sturdy and doesn't trip, but I have never found the Arabian to be not tough enough and the pace and handling advantage it gives me offsets any skittishness, for me. Great that we have so many choices, though. (Mine is a male Black Arabian - he has to be as I have to call him 'Festive Jim'. I know.)

No problem - I'm a rules guy at heart!

These posts might get deleted as we aren't supposed to piggy back on others' recruitment threads, however - that's a good shout, and I'll be getting into moonshining for sure, as soon as it's out... but doesn't it cost $200 every time I reform the posse? Could cost me a fortune! Appreciate the volunteering, though. I feel like the Beatles' 'Drive My Car', they get a driver before they have the car!!

I have avoided the Mausers as I try to be a bit more traditionalist... but maybe I should pick up a couple of Mausers to deal with the odd griefer. I use gunslingers choice and do like laying down the heat when pushed to it.

Lol yes I confess I carry a Litchfield as I like the look of it. I realise that it betrays a certain disregard for my own safety. Have never tried the Evans and I do like a repeater (love Jimmy Stewart movies) so maybe should try that. I tend to use two LeMats up close and a rifle further out. I carry a repeating shotgun but it doesn't seem to have much kick to it, so is really just a slow way of working towards a buckle!

With you there. My in-game character is basically a clone of Doc Holliday. Dirty business doesn't mean that a chap shouldn't make an effort! I'm often to be seen brushing my horse in Valentine when I drop in for supplies and realise that he isn't looking his best. I'll risk a gunfight to maintain the look! Thank you, interesting - I tend to use a Lichfield repeater when I need a higher rate of fire. Would rather only carry one rifle - better for realism - anyway, so will try consigning the Springfield to the weapons locker and try the bolt action as my go to for everything for a while. Thanks for the response.

Thank you for the comprehensive explanation. I'll see if I can persuade the iPhone to play ball.

Interesting, can I ask why you favour the bolt action for combat? I have always been the other way around, I hunt with the bolt action and prefer the stopping power of the Springfield for combat. This thread has me thinking that I have been doing it wrong!

Just read the press release on FB. Looks amazing.

Sorry to be dim, but is discord a voice app or is it text? Have never used it but am looking for a posse on Xbox. I'm level 120 and have all the kit I could want but would love a crew to hang with. I'm in the UK.

Got the Black Arabian, have had him for a little while now so as to get him fully bonded and sample him across a range of activities. Have to be honest - I completely love it and haven't ridden the Kladruber or Thoroughbred in a fortnight. I haven't been bucked once, have done legendary bounties and hunted big game, the speed is unreal and the size suits my nattily-dressed cowboy look very well. Hadn't expected NPCs to keep saying 'that's one nice horse, mister', which provides bonus entertainment. But anyway - for me it was well worth the 42 Gold and is my new go to horse. (Although my daily challenge streak is around 50, now, so between that and various missions gold is pretty much piling up around me.) But the headline is - great horse, thank you, @MrPicard, for pushing me over the edge into a purchase. I'll never need another horse!

None of that makes you the good guy. You do have time to check, you just choose not to bother because it is easier to shoot someone. If you're running several deliveries a night then you're rich, so there simply isn't that level of urgency. You are simply choosing to play in that slightly unpleasant way. Which is fine, that's your choice, but call it what it is. You accuse me of holding an 'unreasonable' position, yet all I am doing is fishing, not on crossing points, minding my own business. You're the one choosing to shoot me on the way through. Your compass has been recalibrated as only an online gaming compass can be. Thinking that 'sorry pal, nothing personal' cuts it when you are the aggressor, while dressing it up as defence, necessary, and all you can do within the (self-imposed, arbitrary) time constraints is just hot air aimed at masking the simplicity of it: you can't be bothered caring about others' enjoyment, you just want to take the most direct route to your own pleasure that is available, and will shoot anyone who has the temerity not get out of your way. Which, again, is a valid (if unpleasant) viewpoint, but let's call it what it is. You don't hold some moral high ground, some defensible imperative which make this shooting of random fishers your only, regrettable option. You are the woes of early 21st Century society in one distant goods run. And a walking reminder of why I tend to leave discussion fora for anything other than work, eventually, as the insights are depressing. I think I will leave this thread here.

This is at risk of becoming circular, but in my view obviously I'd think it entirely unreasonable if I'm actively fishing and some random passing player shoots me in case I decide to mess with him. If the player fishing is there first, they are either relaxing or working on a challenge and having to come out of the moment constantly to look around, pack up and move just because someone is also choosing to drive their wagon past (in the wagon hunting/defending thread there is mention made of taking cross country routes to avoid choke points and other players) that spot seems pretty unreasonable to me. If I am fishing and am on the receiving end of that I will make it my mission to shoot those responsible and prevent their delivery. Preemptive strikes a la the Tripoli bombings in the 1980s have their place in the game - sadly - but for me that is too far. It's the wagon coming close to the fisherman, not the other way around, so you're close to them. Random attacks don't have to happen (they really don't in Elite Dangerous), and if there's a line then someone clearly engaged in a pre-existing activity is the other side of it, imho. Anyway, we don't agree but I was surprised to hear your line on that one. Aim a gun, don't shoot, relax once you're past. A pointed gun is used to exercise control in Westerns (and in life), it can be a game thing too! Nicer than random executions which exacerbate the problem, or even create one where there was none.

Oddly, opening a collector map will close an open treasure map, even if you haven't yet found the treasure, but it doesn't work the other way around. I have also had a handful of collector maps recently only give me two items, rather than the usual three. That Nazar is guilty of sharp practice.

That's a good point, hadn't thought of that. Makes sense.

If they're holding a fishing rod and the wet end is in the water, I'm going to give them a pass. If they're standing there lurking for no obvious reason, then they might be dying of lead poisoning.

Would have been a beautiful moment. I love helping random other players with whatever they're up to, reviving their horse or seeing off bandits or loading their hunting wagon. I just spread the joy around the West.

I agree with a lot of this, but if a guy fishing find himself being executed by a passing wagon train (as happened earlier on this page) I do personally think they should take a look (at more than a stationary blip on a radar) and think 'he just happens to be here, and is obviously engaged in an activity, let's leave him be'.

I know. It's the shocking truth at the centre of this game. You have been warned! I thought that, too. Almost a very expensive lesson - it does mean that local deliveries aren't as radically safer than distant deliveries as I had thought. Indeed, I'd almost rather lose to the distant opponents; at least they stand to gain and are engaged in actual gameplay. This dude just wanted to ruin my day. Given I had no horse with me so limited weaponry (repeater and two LeMats), he nearly managed it! Agreed. By the time I had seen off the bandits and got my horse back the coward had skipped town. Guess he realised that now that I had access to rifles, too, he would be up against someone who could shoot back and didn't fancy his chances. It's like the Wild West out there! Guy must have been fuming. He'll get over it once he realises that the roles give guaranteed riches even with the odd moment like that.

Sad but true! But I will keep fighting the good fight. With one hand on my gun...

I was making a Trader local delivery last night, from Heartlands down to the one low down on the shoreline, down the grassy slope. I had just got to the point where I could hear gunfire (bandits were attacking the dropoff), when another player appeared and lasso'd me off my wagon (despite being local apparently people can still do that). He hogtied me, then shot me. No 'press charges' or 'parlay' buttons. I respawned, raced back to the wagon, could see him standing by it, he shot my hat off (thank you, Never Without One), I returned fire and shot him dead (he was lowish level, 27 IIRC, I had a Lichfield Repeater with high velocity ammo equipped), ordinarily I'd leave the wagon there to deal with the bandits but as this dude is out there I leap on and race it to the dropoff, but have to clear the bandits/protect the recipients to get my money. So I equip twin LeMats and get stuck in, then suddenly I'm dead again - dude is sniping me from a ridge with a Rolling Block. I respawn, but have to continue the fight from behind cover to protect against the griefer (I don't think he can get my goods on a local run so I'm just sport at this point). Fortunately I win, get my $500 (phew) and it's all okay. But to be clear - I never got either press charges or parlay. I'd have used both. The system doesn't work, so protection is an illusion. We're on our own, either solo or posse. It's like the Wild West out there.

Yes, my experience is that you basically have to be a murder victim to get the option to press charges. Given it doesn't achieve anything anyway, I just shoot the bar stewards deader than dead and don't bother with the legal stuff.

Maybe from level 100 you could get one of each. Could even load them aboard with your wench winch.

I think that I must have been poisoned last week (no idea how, snake bite I guess, was in Cholla Springs) - I was running along and then got a prompt 'poison has worn off'. I can't have had a bad does (as I say, didn't notice any effects, I just carried on hunting) but that suggests that poison can simply wear off (even if the prompt was a glitch, it wouldn't exist as a prompt if wearing off weren't possible!).

I fell into a river, had to swim for an age to get to the shore (I was being washed downstream, every now and then clambered onto a rock but then had to swim some more, and my stamina boosted while I was swimming after quite a while. I find myself running a lot in game (I hunt with a carcass on my horse and one on my back, hate the hunting wagon) and again that has boosted my stats. It's the long game but it does work. I'm level 98 and have the stats almost maxed. Also I think your weight affects damage resistance and fitness. Apologies if that is not what you are talking about.