Nice evasion, but please answer the question.
Why should someone who plays in open, but sticks to less populated areas and rarely...IF AT ALL...ever sees another human commander get the same rewards as someone who flies in high risk systems? Just because it's open?
Piffle. Oh, and in case you didn't know....you're only ever going to be able to interact with 31 other players because the way instancing works it limits instance size to 32. That's like many multiplayer combat games out there. There are several of those type games that offer a "training mode" where the rewards are exactly the same for killing the AI as it is for killing another player. Precedence set.
The REWARD for playing in open isn't increased money....it's the PLAYER INTERACTION. Otherwise, why play open?
Oh...and if you're going to complain about "there's nobody to interact with"....well...the only cause for that is in the mirror. Cause and effect, my good man/woman. Consequences for the actions. It happens in every game with PvP servers. Eventually there is nobody left but the gankers and then they too go home, leaving just the digital tumbleweeds.
In case that last part is unclear....IT'S YOUR VERY ACTIONS THAT ARE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS YOU PERCEIVE. Change your actions and watch what happens.
*DISCLAIMER*
In the above post, any term that could be construed to single out any one person is not meant to do so. I am using singular pronouns to refer to a broad range of people that share a particular style of interaction within the game.
This is an asinine argument. You're right, a high risk player will have more reward than a low risk player in open play, however a high risk player will affect players in open play even though they are not truly playing high risk.
Everyone is saying "Oh, I am not afraid of PvP, but it sure sounds scary and unpleasant!" Yeah ok...
It really is just a bunch of babies who don't want to suffer the consequences of PvP but still want to glean all the benefit from it. Play in your own sandbox you children, or stop being babies, but you don't get it both ways. (Except here where frontier apparently caters to you literal cowards).
it, frontier should just do away with open play entirely, since there is literally no benefit to it since I can play solo play in a safe bubble of coddled space and still get everything I want without worrying about the spooky boogie men.
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