Modes Open mode balancing proposal

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

[video=youtube_share;8sEF6HZG0Fs]https://youtu.be/8sEF6HZG0Fs[/video]

Pretty much all about situation with difficulty in ED

 

[Stigbob]

Please stop making this argument, it's utterly moot when we just had 3.0 drastically change how the engineers work, not to mention radically altering C&P. FDev never agreed to keep the game exactly as it was when you purchased it, your argument is utterly invalid (also my hair is a bird).

No I won't stop making the entirely rational valid argument based on what I was told by the dev's at point of sale and past experience of how they introduce new features.

If you failed to do any reading about ED prior to buying and are now disappointed or expect the foundations of the game to change drastically four years after release you are deluding yourself.

People are making this a debate of opinion and playstyles, to which there's an obvious argument - players are just as entitled to request changes that impact their game as you are you object to them. This debate keeps cropping up because a decent amount of the playerbase is unhappy with the current dynamic. Attempting to take the high road and act like these kinds of requests are "just to suit you" is hypocritical, of course they're designed to suit the player's style/expectations, the same way your objection(s) completely and utterly suit your desires. The argument is again, moot.

I don't like 3rd person perspective games, I deal with this world shattering issue by finding out if a game is locked into 3rd person and opting out of buying it if it is.

This debate has turned into who has the higher horse, sorry OP, but like I said earlier, the problem is the community.

No, the problem is entirely unrealistic expectations and a lack of pre purchase research. If you buy A expecting B, or think four years post release huge changes will ever be made to modes the BGS or any of the games foundations you are just wasting your own time and money.

Optional DLC is possible, but that's it the game is what it is and this argument was lost over four years ago.

 

[ALGOMATIC]

Yeah. Modes Of Elite...
So it is like fighting Communism in USSR after all. Well, at least I was only exiled, not just banned...

Dunno which statics they even use in order to determine how much PvP people is out there. It took me 800 hrs to start PvPing.

And now they will never add something hardcore again, beacuse almost everyone ignores goids. Which again, are simply inefficient as money maker.

Prob because noone cares about arbitrary credits that can be farmed and shooting at bots skinned as aliens has no appeal for me. Its as exciting as interacting with a fridge.

 

[Arry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...lay_rather_than_solo/?st=jguahve4&sh=e0feb640
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange..._for_playing_in_open/?st=jguahxma&sh=a22314fc
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/90583-The-Solo-vs-Open-vs-Groups-Thread-See-new-thread
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/316305-Incentive-for-Open-Play
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/331204-Provide-perks-for-playing-in-open
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/84801-Increasing-open-play-incentives
https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/352788917761963274/?ctp=2

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Nothing NEW here. the newest thread is over 7 months old and most are well over 2 years old.

Of course there will be players that want a bonus or extras for playing in open. It is called greed, a natural human condition. These forums, just give then somewhere to demand such extras.

 

[Arry]

Prob because noone cares about arbitrary credits that can be farmed and shooting at bots skinned as aliens has no appeal for me. Its as exciting as interacting with a fridge.

The main issue for me, is the language barrier.

 

[Ian Phillips]

Prob because noone cares about arbitrary credits that can be farmed and shooting at bots skinned as aliens has no appeal for me. Its as exciting as interacting with a fridge.

I keep my beer in a fridge. I like interacting with my fridge

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Ian, I just recognized your sig. What a funny weird game that was.

Can't remember what it was called though.

Edit: Trapdoor!

 

[Ian Phillips]

Never played the game - I loved the show though

 

[Havvk]

Pretty much all about situation with difficulty in ED

Darth Kreia is a poor example. She was a Sith, and a manipulative one at that, let alone powerful in many ways. She doesn't count, as that was more of a philosophical topic than what this thread's topic can ever be.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Played it on c64. Had to prepare dinner for "him upstairs". Figures it was based on a show.

The other thing I remember was it had nothing to do with bonus for open.

 

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

Darth Kreia is a poor example. She was a Sith, and a manipulative one at that, let alone powerful in many ways. She doesn't count, as that was more of a philosophical topic than what this thread's topic can ever be.

No, she was neither. Ofc it's about fracking SW, yet there is some base under it.

[video=youtube;-Z0S0Z8lUTg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0S0Z8lUTg[/video]

But enough of SW... [haha]

 

[Mouse]

"You can grief players while they cannot even see you". 10/10 must buy.

No griefing at all.. you can play the game and work the BGS like everyone else can in any mode... the only people who see that as "griefing" usually are the ones who love to grief others PVPly and are cranky because they can't.

 

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

No griefing at all.. you can play the game and work the BGS like everyone else can in any mode... the only people who see that as "griefing" usually are the ones who love to grief others PVPly and are cranky because they can't.

Yeah. Totaly agree.
It is griefing but with the usage of built-in godmode functionality.

Murdering cops is an intelligent task.

 

[Riverside]

Murdering cops is an intelligent task.

UA bombing might be a more evocative example. Although the idea of being able to manifest scan every player is optimistic at best.

 

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

UA bombing might be a more evocative example. Although the idea of being able to manifest scan every player is optimistic at best.

Well, if someone expects it, then it would not be too hard. But with mode switching, no one have to care about anything.



BTW can't wait till carriers will appear. If they will apply same policy they are applying so far, it would be fun to shower them with biowaste cans from a T9. In the Open, of course. Not entierly on topic but still...

 

[Jockey79]

.... it would be fun to shower them with biowaste cans from a T9. In the Open, of course. Not entierly on topic but still...

No point doing that - any instance is only allowed 20 cans now, any more than that explode.

You can thank "griefers" for that getting changed a couple of years back.

 

[Mouse]

Yeah. Totaly agree.
It is griefing but with the usage of built-in godmode functionality.

Murdering cops is an intelligent task.

There is no "godmode functionality" and working the BGS is not griefing that is all in your head. Anything done to the BGS in SOLO, you can do the SAME in Open.... if it was griefing... you would not be able to answer back. Yet you can, no more harder then they had.

 

[jasonbarron]

There is no "godmode functionality" and working the BGS is not griefing that is all in your head. Anything done to the BGS in SOLO, you can do the SAME in Open.... if it was griefing... you would not be able to answer back. Yet you can, no more harder then they had.

Effecting the BGS or powerplay in solo is an exploit that makes Volyboom/Quince/ etc etc look like child's play.

 

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

There is no "godmode functionality" and working the BGS is not griefing that is all in your head. Anything done to the BGS in SOLO, you can do the SAME in Open.... if it was griefing... you would not be able to answer back. Yet you can, no more harder then they had.

Good thing if you know who you should retaliate to...
But yes, you can just rebuy and farm rebuy money back continuously repair BGS damage taken.

 

[ALGOMATIC]

There is no "godmode functionality" and working the BGS is not griefing that is all in your head. Anything done to the BGS in SOLO, you can do the SAME in Open.... if it was griefing... you would not be able to answer back. Yet you can, no more harder then they had.

Thats what indirect griefers say.

Good thing if you know who you should retaliate to...
But yes, you can just rebuy and farm rebuy money back continuously repair BGS damage taken.

Exactly. Go and farm cops from solo, troll a PF cause you can, they will never know who is putting them in lockdown every other day. Genius.