The Open/Solo/PG argument has no ending. No one can win it. I believe that if you want to play Elite in Solo/PG, by all means. Play everything. But if you want to
change things in Elite, like Power Play and BGS manipulation, it should be a restricted to Open activity. Play the game, have fun, play it your way without having to play nice with others. But to actually effect the background and other people's experiences, it should be done in Open and only there. Open does not effect Solo/PG players, yet Solo/PG effects Open players. It's a never ending argument. A solo player can come in and ruin everything I've spent the last 9 months building. But that's cool, that's not a griefer. Just the pew-pew guys are griefers.
Heck, this argument is so played out I can just argue with myself and come up with all the same answers covered since release. At least there has been talk of incentivising Open through Power Play bonuses. I know that ticks off some Solo/PG pilots, but seriously? You're game is unchanged. Open is effected. Just like every other decision that a Solo/PG player makes. Effects all of us, but they still believe they are playing by themselves...
Climbing down off my soap box now...now that I contributed to derailing this thread further...