Mobius Mode

[ZeroAi]

Here's an idea. Considering its size and continued growth across platforms and time zones, what if Elite: Dangerous just had a link on the launcher saying:

Looking for PvE? Check out Mobius Mode

Go fish!:O[where is it]

+Rep

A great (if not entirely new) idea!

I believe it should be called "Open PvE"

In it, real player's weapons and collisions do no damage to other real players.

Similar modes exist in other games today, and modes like this have been around for decades.

 

[eqinox]

No. One other very key difference is that Mobius is moderated as to what counts as PvE and what counts as PvP by a real person.

You are, of course, perfectly right so +rep for that. My view was far too simplistic.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

In it, real player's weapons and collisions do no damage to other real players.

Similar modes exist in other games today, and modes like this have been around for decades.

Yes, but those other games were designed from the start to have a much cleaner separation between PvE and PvP than Elite Dangerous does.

In this mode, player-player collisions do no damage, okay. So what's to stop a Cutter or two hanging around inside a station (two of them can swap out with each other to maintain continuous coverage while avoiding the docking time limit) bouncing smaller ships off the walls and preventing them leaving? (The collisions with the walls, since they're between a player and an NPC, would also still do damage...)