Open Is Fun - So Try It Open Is Fun - So Try It Open Is Fun - So Try It Open Is Fun - So Try It

Mrjupp · May 12, 2015

For all who play solo or private, come and try open too. You don't need to do so all the time but it is fun, even when you get your ship shot from under you.

Being a staunch Imperial I'm over at Quivira, doing my bit to ensure full employment for the masses via the generous program of Imperial Slavery available to all residents.

Now my Vulture has been shot away three times but hey, it's no worry. I just go and get another one. Playing just using a keyboard makes it all the more challenging and it is fun. That ladies and gents is what this game is all about. F U N !!!

So let's not have moans and gripes and such rubbish. Let's enjoy this game for what it is, a great PVE and PVP and a brilliant space sim.

To those Commanders who took me down, well done. We shall joust again.

For those on the wrong side of inevitable history, please form an orderly queue for processing for work opportunities. For those who have fled to Persephone and Summerland, the Imperial Slave market in Summerland is very popular and I am sure refugees will be warmly welcomed with offers of accommodation and three squares a day.

Morholt · May 12, 2015

Please don't ever go into marketing.

Mrjupp · May 12, 2015

Longasc said:
Please don't ever go into marketing.

ROFL, that's my day job.

Dorohedoro · May 12, 2015

A nice avatar choice for your thread....

FuzzySpider · May 12, 2015

I started in Open. It's what made me realize how great Solo and Mobius are.

fademist · May 12, 2015

Im glad u have fun at open and im also glad that i have same amounts of fun at solo/group

JeffBea · May 12, 2015

I too have been having fun in Quiver. Makes me realize that if you go up against a wing of cmnds that you are going to get whooped no matter how good you think you are. Great fun tho.

xzanfr · May 12, 2015

Mrjupp said:
Playing just using a keyboard makes it all the more challenging and it is fun.

Hello fellow keyboard only CMDR - I'd offer you a high-5 but we'd both crash

Antmax · May 12, 2015

I like Mobius best. Almost all the players are honorable and PvP only happens in combat zones. Rest of the time you meet people chat, hook up or just go your way. Much more in the spirit of the original games.

I rarely play solo unless a station is too crowded or my bandwidth is being used elsewhere and can't host a good environment for multiple players in the same instance. Like right now I'm pre downloading Witcher 3 in the background ready for launch day.

Raf von Thorn · May 12, 2015

Great job in Quivira, Lightfingers! I know how involved you are in this place, i love the way you BASK

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ISS and QRF will join as soon as Community Goal starts.

I appeal to all independend and federal commanders in their rainbow land: come to open and fight us!

And for Imperial pilots, two words: BASK HARDER!

Mrjupp · May 12, 2015

xzanfr said:
Hello fellow keyboard only CMDR - I'd offer you a high-5 but we'd both crash

Old habits die hard as I started with Elite back in '84 on a BBC B

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Raf von Thorn said:
Great job in Quivira, Lightfingers! I know how involved you are in this place, i love the way you BASK .

ISS and QRF will join as soon as Community Goal starts.

I appeal to all independend and federal commanders in their rainbow land: come to open and fight us!

And for Imperial pilots, two words: BASK HARDER!

SPQR and some ISS are there interdicting at Brendan Gateway and in the CZ.

Mercy Killing · May 12, 2015

Some of us just don't enjoy the same things you do.

I will never be someone else's content. Besides, as I age, my twitch reflexes slow down, so I'm not as good as I was fifteen years ago.

I'll stick to solo, thankewverruhmuch.

Wicz · May 12, 2015

Group and Solo are fun, why don't you try them OP?

You don't have to do so all the time, but they are fun

smsKONG · May 12, 2015

FuzzySpider said:
I started in Open. It's what made me realize how great Solo and Mobius are.

I'm with you on this.
But apparently we're having fun wrongly and only open will provide true happiness!

That's if you consider a mode where cheating, exploiting and ganging up on the weaker kids for an ego stroke is the place to be.

If FD start to clear open of cheats, fix the mechanics and exploits and add proper system security levels ; then I may return to open.

It would also be nice if FD would sort out their p2p instancing so that it isn't a poor experience due to lag.
Oh yeah and while they're fixing it, it would be nice if they did something about the script kiddies ability to hack your machine once in an instance with them..

Far too many issues with open as it stands for me to consider it fun.
A night of Russian roulette with a special needs group would probably be more enjoyable

Arjin · May 12, 2015

Would love to play in open more frequently, but It wont happen until the rampant hacking is under control. Simply not going to risk my ship and credits.

GaryII · May 12, 2015

Mercy Killing said:
I will never be someone else's content.

Nice one

I am also "old gamer" played a lot multi-player games about 10 years ago, so a know what's going down in public servers in multi-player games...maybe I will try Open after 1.3 release since than I will have spare CRs to spend for insurance...but it depends on changes what FD will implement in 1.3...

Oopsie Daisy · May 12, 2015

So far, I've only been in open and my first experience once leaving the starter station to go look at asteroids was to get blown up by a pirate. Thanks for that, whoever you were. You are really encouraging new players to stick with the game.

I am a total noob though so maybe it was an NPC who killed me. So a question: how do I tell apart players vs NPCs? Are player names always prepended with "CMDR"? That's what I think but I don't actually know. If player names begin with "CMDR", then it was a player who killed me.

Cody · May 12, 2015

HairballHacker said:
Are player names always prepended with "CMDR"?

Short answer: yes!

smsKONG · May 12, 2015

HairballHacker said:
So far, I've only been in open and my first experience once leaving the starter station to go look at asteroids was to get blown up by a pirate. Thanks for that, whoever you were. You are really encouraging new players to stick with the game.

I am a total noob though so maybe it was an NPC who killed me. So a question: how do I tell apart players vs NPCs? Are player names always prepended with "CMDR"? That's what I think but I don't actually know. If player names begin with "CMDR", then it was a player who killed me.

There's the CMDR tag plus the radar blips for players are hollow

Bomba Luigi · May 12, 2015

Sure, I too did try out open and I agree its worth trying out. But for me, I have just the same fun in Solo without the possible unfun interruption caused by other players (because I really can't find fun in PvP).

There is no mode that is more Fun then the others period, it depends a lot on what individual People think is fun.