Modes The Solo vs Open vs Groups Thread - Part the Second [Now With Added Platforms].
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Some participants are content with the core game features as they are and some participants seek to change them to suit their own particular play-styles. Frontier haven't changed anything even though this debate has been going on for over two and a half years now. However, threads on the topic continue to be created and they are merged here to continue the discussion.
I suspect that they are programmed to give the average player a run for their money, and not have them destroy every PC in sight all the time. You would have to ask Sarah Jane Avory, she knows, but probably wouldn't tell.
They are however being continually 'improved', and in time you can expect to see higher ranked NPCs that are a threat to most players, at least, that is what I take from the various threads where I've seen it discussed. They may still not be a threat to you, because you are obviously a very good pilot. I guess the downside to that is that you may eventually run out of challenges in this game.
So now even if a player is in open, they should be penalized for finding a backwater trading or RES-farming where there are no other players?
Ahh roger that, it just seemed oddly futile for it to keep going on, and on, and on..Thanks for the clarity...
If someone feels like they are disadvantaged in open they are free to choose to play solo instead. And can switch over as often as they please. So there is no advantage. You just play the way you want to play and don't try and force others to play your way.
The difficulty of solo vs open isn't cut and dry. A lone player in open can be attacked by a group of players and have no chance whatsoever. And in a wing you can potentially get more money by taking out bigger opponents in the more difficult locations that lone combatants have no chance in. The wing can watch each others back and make short work of even the most dangerous ship in a group enabling them to earn more with far less risk.
The biggest benefit of open is being able to team up in a wing and remove most of the danger. Solo players don't get to have backup but do have easier more predictable enemies due to NPC AI.
The vast majority of players that pick solo play that mode to not have to put up with other people. They don't want a MP experience and would rather do their own thing uninterrupted. Sure a might want to grind for some perceived advantage. I don't see the point since there's always going to be someone better than you who has played more than you regardless of how much you grind. Some people only bought the game while others have been playing over a year and have a huge experience advantage if they have spent some decent time in the game. And that's regardless of what ship they are flying.
Ahh roger that, it just seemed oddly futile for it to keep going on, and on, and on..Thanks for the clarity...
dont mention it anywhere but i think all the mods that has read this thread is useing professional help to withstand the trauma that we do to them
dont mention it anywhere but i think all the mods that has read this thread is useing professional help to withstand the trauma that we do to them
Lolz, now that I can understand
Yes, in WoW you can choose either PvP or PvE, either way you are playing with others though. And you can't just switch your character from a PvP server to a PvE one on a whim. Yes, you can transfer your character between the two, but it costs like $10, takes processing time, and there are limitations on how many times you can transfer. In ED, you can go from Open to Solo on a whim and without cost or consequence.
If ED would make a PvP server, where you can be attacked at anytime, and a PvE server, where you can only be attacked if flagged, and make each of them separate servers, that would be totally fine. If you want, you could transfer your stuff from one to another, but for a cost and a cooldown associated with it. So instead of Open and Solo mode, we have PvP and PvE mode. I would be fine with that.
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Not a hope, and I would not start a new CMDR for open either, so open would lose me.
I played open for a long time, not so much at the moment but I still pop in from time to time, I may do more so in the future, unless OFC DBOBE has changed his mind in the last day or two.
That idea was submitted already and PvPers shot it down. They're too afraid people would swarm to the PvE mode and the PvP mode would be a wasteland. Was Ultima Online the game that proved it ?
When did I start playing WOW ???
I thought this was Elite: Dangerous, a game sold as Flexi-player set in space.
Oh and does not have a monthly sub either.
You aren't being penalized, you just aren't given a bonus like the players who are playing in a more populated, and thus more risky, area.
There was a recent comment from one of the Devs along the lines of they could make the NPCs tougher than any player could handle, but they choose not to for reasons of balance as you suggest. I don't even remember where it was though.
they put a choice to be a gold farmer to earn ur game time ;p
If the thread were closed and all such posts on the subject were deleted, then things would get even more shouty, it's easiest all round just to keep dumping them in here. Players have the right to express an opinion, even if it's that the world is flat.
Well if this game wants to classify itself as an MMO, it should take some pointers from other successful MMOs. Fine, some veteran Elite players still see this as a single player game, but I want it to be more than that. I want it to overcome WoW as the most popular MMO ever (even though that will never happen).
And also as a single-player game.
isnt like the others mainstream mmo's though
hehehehe. You think you're a Real Man with Enormous Brass Cojones because you 'risk' your pixel-person in a pretend universe while playing games. That's so cute. I just wanna ruffle your hair and pinch your wittle cheeky-weeky.
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