Modes The Open v Solo v Groups thread IV - Hotel California

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I backed the kickstarter, and have played the game since... minus quitting a slew of times. I was on-board with this originally, but the more I'm exposed to the implementation I can see how flawed it is. Open is basically PVP or PVP. Everyone solos for everything else. This isn't what was intended.

That's funny.. because I play almost exclusively in open and rarely have to PvP and that's not for a lack of players to engage with.

I'm a hairs trigger from quitting again, which is the only reason I'm here.. I quit back in 2015 because of this, about the time I made the account and almost posted then.

So you quit within months of the game's release, have supposedly quit multiple times and are ready to quit again?

Robert ye have the patience of a saint

Nah, Robert's a well spoken troll like the rest of us. I think he enjoys rustling jimmies. Though I've noticed he tends to ignore you if you back him into a corner that breaks his logic. :p
 
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Robert Maynard

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Nah, Robert's a well spoken troll like the rest of us. I think he enjoys rustling jimmies. Though I've noticed he tends to ignore you if you back him into a corner that breaks his logic. :p

I'll have you know that I've never had a forum infraction for my posts - and I'd reached Forum Elite prior to taking the black.... ;)
 
I'll have you know that I've never had a forum infraction for my posts - and I'd reached Forum Elite prior to taking the black.... ;)

Elite forum status? We so proud of you. To be honest, i doesn't matter at all, your replies are pointless anyway. :x
I collect infraction points but it's hard to get them lately.
 
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I'll have you know that I've never had a forum infraction for my posts - and I'd reached Forum Elite prior to taking the black.... ;)

You still went to the dark side, and a forum infraction is like an NJP in the military, you're not really a good Marine until you've had at least one to let you know where you stand. :p

You are an eloquent troll. Not really a bad thing. It makes conversations with you far more enjoyable than any others.
 

Robert Maynard

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You still went to the dark side, and a forum infraction is like an NJP in the military, you're not really a good Marine until you've had at least one to let you know where you stand. :p

Asymptotically approaching the limit allows one to test the boundaries, without going way over the top (and not recognising where the boundary was once passed).

You are an eloquent troll. Not really a bad thing. It makes conversations with you far more enjoyable than any others.

Define "troll", please - just so we both know what exactly you mean....
 
Define "troll", please - just so we both know what exactly you mean....

Troll can mean many things, it's all about the context, which with the way you debate things on this forum leads me to believe that you do it either unintentionally or are just good at being very subtle with it in your replies. You incite a certain.. anger.. in most of your debate opponents with your steadfast refusal to acknowledge their points (or ignore them altogether). Mind you, this isn't a jab at you. As I said, I enjoy debating the finer points of ED, PvP and Open/Solo with you.

I also have zero contextual reference for "Asymptotically" even after a google search. Please dumb down your replies to my level. :p
 
Can we please stop all this jolly backslapping and return to the topic at hand which is Open>Group>Solo>Open>Group>Solo>...its the internets rock/papers/scissors
 
Troll can mean many things, it's all about the context, which with the way you debate things on this forum leads me to believe that you do it either unintentionally or are just good at being very subtle with it in your replies. You incite a certain.. anger.. in most of your debate opponents with your steadfast refusal to acknowledge their points (or ignore them altogether). Mind you, this isn't a jab at you. As I said, I enjoy debating the finer points of ED, PvP and Open/Solo with you.

I also have zero contextual reference for "Asymptotically" even after a google search. Please dumb down your replies to my level. :p

I'm not sure that troll does mean many things; most occurrences of it I see are referring to the unpleasant conversational baiting of another person.
 
I also have zero contextual reference for "Asymptotically" even after a google search. Please dumb down your replies to my level. :p

Its a maths thing. Its a curve that approaches but never reaches the axis. Like when you take a number series y=1/2+1/4+1/8+...n
 
Can we please stop all this jolly backslapping and return to the topic at hand which is Open>Group>Solo>Open>Group>Solo>...its the internets rock/papers/scissors

Surely the heat has gone out of this for most people, I remember commentating on this thread (the 1st part) a long time ago and nearly everyone who was going mad about it then (on all sides) have long disappeared. I said then that the modes were staying and people should just live with it, nothing that I know of has been said by FD to contradict that.
 

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Open is the true game experience for more advanced and experienced players. Solo is the softy place for the less skilled players.

Wanted to address this statement. It's a bit overreaching.

I play in Open almost exclusively, and have had similar experiences to the one you described (hooking up with randos, having fun, etc). Sometimes I play in Solo. It depends on my mood and other factors.

Yesterday I was working the BGS, but I wanted to go grab some mods quickly, and just for fun. I did it in Solo. Why? It wasn't that I didn't want to get shot - I was flying an inexpensive ship, and was going after level 1 mods. All mats, no cargo. It's that I didn't want to waste the time in the event of getting shot. I wanted to get to the engineers, get out, and get on with my "bigger" tasks.
 
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