I don't understand the fear of adding guild support. Guilds are already in the game. CODE, AA, EIC, MOA, are they not already the guilds of elite? If you're a lone player in open, you already have to aviod their territory. More group tools won't do much to make that worse. It's just making it more convenient and adding more content for the groups/guilds.
I'm also digging the complete lack of self awareness of some of the people in this thread and the pve one. in one thread they are saying their unsupported style of play should be properly supported, in another they are saying another side's unsupported style of play is wrong and shouldn't be supported.
I really don't believe anyone is fearful of guild support. The issue of concern for most players is their perception of Opening Pandora's box, or how far down the rabbit hole does taking the red pill go?
Improved comms for a private group in Open. Sure I think that is okay. I would venture that most of the committed groups use their own TeamSpeak server or something similar already. So ED would have to make an effort to improve that functionality. Using TS also removes the possibility that ED are recording all your comms chatter in case of disciplinary action.
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If ED said "Okay, as an experiment you can have a guild hangout, but it has to be 5kLY outside the bubble... there is nobody to trade with out there, no other stations. Considering the "in game cost" in materials to build the station at Yembo, or wherever it was, building a station would be years of work. Maybe an outpost would be significantly cheaper? It would still mean that unless your guild hangout was near inhabited space, or near other "emergent guilds" I don't see directly how general gameplay content other than exploration (and mining) would be available?
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At this point the question is, "Does this mean guilds would be able to have hangouts within the bubble?". If they do, what happens to a non-guild player, or a group or solo player, who approaches that hangout?
Are they allowed access, are they charged a docking fee, are they shoot on site?
-Will guilds hope for shared hangars, shared "banks", the ability to "mentor" (in whatever form that takes).
-If the over-arching answer is "If you aren't in the guild, or even in Open, none of this will apply / interact / inconvenience you" it will not exist... the curiosity there is it is all one shared galaxy and 1 shared BGS, even across Mac and XBox1.
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Personally it is this level of "What is the next request?" which causes players happy with the current status quo to react less than positively to requests for guilds and / or player owned structures.