* SINGLEPLAYER SOLO was designed (due to have lower cost: confirmed by the FDEV(sic!)) to use the same instance of galaxy (hereby influencing MULTIPLAYER (here OPEN)
* SOLO gamers purposely use it to harm players in OPEN (more to that later)
Lets focus on the crux of where you see the issue:
Your claim that people from solo "harm" or "undermine" players is just that, a claim:
1) You can't actually tell what anybody does in SOLO as you can't see them, and so you will forever be unable to prove your claim.
2) If anyone has any interest to "harm" players in open, it would be only your fellow PvPers from OPEN removing themselves from your grasp temporarily.
If FD implemented a rule, that once you play in OPEN, you can't go back to SOLO for 2 weeks or some such, you might end up with even less people in OPEN.
And you're in no way special for being "harmed" by others impacting the background SIM. I have to deal with the best trade routes deteriorating fast, because there's a zillion people I can't see hauling away 500 tons of the same stuff every 15 minutes. So what? Game's a little more challenging. ok. Maybe the other guy did it faster and made more credits than me. Its just a game, we're not even playing for real money, like Poker or something.
3) I hold, that this claim of SOLO players harming the poor, aggressive players in OPEN is just a shill to get a crack at masses of player piloted loot-pinatas to harvest tears.
Its no different from Banks financing the feminism movement for reasons they'd never admit to: They couldn't stand it, that half the adult population paid no taxes (most of which end up in bank's hands, since Governments around the world borrow money from private banks and then pay a large part of their tax income to banks in the form of interest. Banks never cared about women, they just saw that Feminism could be used as a lever to be able to squeeze a much higher percentage of the population for taxes like lemons. The result: both parents work but aren't actually doing any better financially. They have to pay house hold help, nannies etc, so all home making has turned into taxable income. And their offspring ends up getting raised largely by others, rather than their busy parents.
The effort to get women some equality was perverted by the aggressive, greedy and power hungry people who run things. (As could be expected, given the last 2000 years of human history - we need to finally evolve or go the way of the dinosaurs)
Finally: competition. Yes, western societies work their hardest to instill the idea of
competition into every child's mind. I find it one of the most detrimental aspects of our schooling and general brainwashing of children. If there's some dark purpose behind this, I don't know, but it isn't good for anybody. In Asia, there's more focus on teaching children
cooperation. I find it works out much better for the families here, where children don't go as far away as they can as soon as they turn 18, and competitive thinking isn't completely removed either - its just less over-emphasized.
Of course, the brainwash fails on some children completely, while some are greatly affected and end up becoming hyper competitive, where they can focus on almost nothing else. Everything in life becomes just a means to prove oneself, to be "better" than someone or everyone else.
When winning in competition becomes the only way to feel 'ok', of course all
the rule sets become incredibly important, they
must be "perfect" since even
the slightest disadvantage is impossible to accept. Then threads like 'open vs solo' start and never end.
