NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNLESS THE COMMUNITY DECIDES TO TRY, At least I posted an Idea that would balance the Risk of OPEN play with the Safety of SOLO and Group, while rewarding people for playing with other players. Regardless of what the Devs have already said, they are wrong, and a large majority of the community believes they are wrong otherwise this thread would not have 3 different postings because of the activity.
Indeed - however, it is clear that only a subset of the community seeks to change the game in this particular case.
Your idea does not balance anything - there is only additional risk in Open *if* a player is in an instance with another player (not guaranteed by any means - the galaxy is BIG) *and* the other player opposes the first player. Then there might be additional risk. Taking this into account, the vast majority of Open at the same risk level as Solo.
With respect to reward, to place a blanket reward over the whole of Open just because a vanishingly small portion of Open is more risky does not seem to target that reward at all. There is also the point of view that the reward for playing in Open is to be affected directly by other players and, in turn, have the ability to affect them.
Regarding the "large majority of the community" that, in your opinion, believes that Frontier is "wrong" - can you support this contention with any solid data? This thread (and its two predecessors.... and many, many others before that) exists because some players don't like the freedoms that these core game features offer each and every player and the simple fact that Frontier do not seem to be about to change them to suit the play-style of a subset of players. The debate will probably continue throughout the life of the game - this (continuing) thread is the place where that debate takes place on the forum.
