Lets make it safer then for these "core worlds/starting areas". Lets give Aurthority Vessels quicker response times and more teeth. Greater bounties for player murder. This is the #1 reason people play solo, they don't want to be bullied, period. Instead of making up these Solo v. Open arguments, lets just find ways to make Open more more emergent and appealing.
PvE players are not the problem, FD's decision to split the players apart is
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Lets make it safer then for these "core worlds/starting areas". Lets give Aurthority Vessels quicker response times and more teeth. Greater bounties for player murder. This is the #1 reason people play solo, they don't want to be bullied, period. Instead of making up these Solo v. Open arguments, lets just find ways to make Open more more emergent and appealing.
There seems to be two sides here, those that want to tell others how they must play the game, and those that want to play the game that already exists. Only one side is demanding change, only one side is attempting to impose their style of play on everybody else, and i hope FD take note of that. Personally i feel the choice that ED currently offers is a breath of fresh air.
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I just wanted a multiplayer game.
No point in having a server structure if it's invite only.
thisis so not true, just basic player interactions would be nice. and most of the so called pvp'ers dont want payer vs player they want player interaction they want everything just not blowing other up.
Youre so brave. My new hero.
No they Just split the player base limiting player interactions,
I think they should remove player PVP from open mode and stop this silly argument altogether. This is basically the flip side of what you PVP players are asking for so why should Fdev not just listen to PVE players instead and cut you folks out? This was never meant to be a hardcore PVP game it just got tagged on with the online bit so they may as well remove the redundant mechanic.
What exactly is the point of elite dangerous and the supposed online aspects of the game if all people wanna do is haul cargo all day safely? As someone else put it, solo is just open with no risk and seperating the player base. I used to see so many cmdr's during launch and now once they figured out they can just play solo with no risk they all went there, and open mode is pretty much empty.
And please don't even suggest open mode is only pvp, I have yet to meet any player that interdicted me besides in beta, and he just wanted 4 of my cargo and left. I like the Op's suggestion that there should be "safe" areas in open play instead, where security is "extremely high". Players can stlll interdict you but police will arrive within seconds. This is a much better mechanic than the lazy solo mode. Furthermore, solo mode doesn't even have any sp advantages like less lag either so there is literally no point besides player separation.
And you suggesting removing pvp goes against the game, while removing solo doesn't. The game is not meant to be space truck simulation, in its name and its philosophy it was meant to be a space exploration/trading/combat game that has dangerous situations.
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+1 There is definitely room for all the current modes, but lets improve the game so that Open is more appealing.
They did not split the playerbase. They gave everyone the option to play in a way that they find the most fun.
The playerbase split itself because they don't like you.
Why not create a group of people who love PvP and play together that way? Make some rules that you stay within a certain group of systems and you'l have enemy combatants all day, after all there must be loads of you right? Why do you and a few others here feel the need to decide for everyone else?
So let's say you find me when I get home from work, log on, and undock my type 6. I fly around looking around at trade prices and taking notes, and have no cargo currently, and no criminal record. You interdict me, how will you interact with me then?
How can you dislike someone when you never interacted with him?
Wait what? You mean shooting at people who are going to shoot back? No way man, we're way too brave for that sort of thing. We need cowardly unarmed haulers to shoot down to prove our brave manly manliness.
Are we not interacting now? We are indeed, and I have interacted with them in the past, and I dislike them.
I know who I like, the Mobius PvE group is great. Friendly people that dont need laser beams to prove their worth to interact with in a way that I enjoy.
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Noone knows who i am so thats impossible. ok ill rephrase ED let everyone seperate themselfs from exsitance more than they had to will 100k solar systems they still felt the need for solo and private group to even be a thing is beyond me
That was meant figuratively, i.e., the thousands of players you will not interact with only because you never share an instance with them due to your grouping settings.
There is a reason you are being obtuse about this and a reason my comments really struck home. All I can tell you is they are probably the same reason. You can pretend open play is nothing but armed maniacs and helpless victims, but it's not. Although I wouldn't know in Elite as there are no players. It's about a dynamic environment and dealing with unexpected problems. I don't want to kill players, I want to be attacked actually. Some people simply enjoy the unexpected.
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I have never interacted with David Cameron, but i have quite a dislike for him.
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