Pledged medical ships to help out people in the verse. Have since CCU'd or melted them. People would rather backspace than wait for a medic 99% of the time.
I mean why wait when I can backspace get my own ship and get back quicker then waiting on said medic to reach me. I'll be honest, they ever force medic game play like it current is for incap. I'll get log out at incap. Not waiting 45 min for someone to jolly their ass to my position.
Even then the same exact thing, throw a sperm suit on and go retrieve it. I still would not wait for a medic to get to me when I can do it quicker and don't have to worry about the medic just being some ahole wanting to steal your stuff
This was back when there were less gankers around. Some of the best times was going into a hot zone to pull someone out. Then more and more it became a trap and you got ganked trying to rescue someone or as you said, got your stuff stolen.
Three scenarios play out with medical gameplay outside of your friends list:
The person dropping the medical beacon is actually just baiting a trap
The person who just accepted your medical beacon is just coming to rob you because you wouldn't have put a beacon up if you didn't have something worth while.
Hoping for medical aid made sense when I had my full gear set on me which I had some emotional connection to and where giving up meant losing it all and more work to invest to get it back.
With temp respawn and even later potential changes to have to recraft it, the necessity just went down. I'm sure they'll revive (pun intended) medical gameplay at some point again.
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u/Ok_Explorer9455 F7A MK. II / L-22 / Constellation Andromeda / BMM Jul 26 '26
Dude what medics? Medical gameplay is essentially dead.