So lost single player and the fate of ironman mode is up in the air.
Now lets remove solo play.
But aren't you forgetting about parties, lets remove them too!
And as Memnoch rightly points out we can't have an ignore function as it gives an unfair advantage.
If the galaxy and AI is hard enough; then it shouldn't matter whether you play solo or open - this was stated by Sandro as being one of his goals to achieve.
I originally wanted to enforce online only with no care bear options. But I wanted it so that there was nothing obviously distinguishable between player and AI ships. In other words I wanted solid radar contacts no matter what - if you wanted to tell who was a humie you had to do a bit of checking via the scanners.
I didn't get what I wanted, boo hoo poor me and all of that!
To be fair I'm not bothered; after playing for a while (in both open and solo) I don't think it will make much difference either way...
That isn't good enough reason to cut out all possible ways to play except the one you want though!
And by you I mean every single person who wants everyone else to play their way and only their way.
I'm going to try something new and just go with what the developers come up with - if it turns out horrendous then I'll mention it. If it's workable then I'll just go with the flow. Because you can't please everyone and I don't think I'm special enough to have it all my way!
Of course we're all different so maybe some people on here are special enough to get exactly what they want