Would this make you play Open more?

Han Zulu

Han Zulu
Viking84 said:
Would this entice anyone else back into Open? Edit: Assuming of course that you are interested in player to player interactions at all - if not then there is no reason to not be in Solo :)
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There are plenty of other reasons. It's not that all Solo players are in Solo because of the threat of PvP. There are other factors that are part of their decision.

For instance, I just like to play on my own and not have to think of other people that will contact me, disturb me, or interact with me at all. Has nothing to do with the PvP aspect of it, I'm just bugged when I'm not left alone. I'm an introvert, and a bit antisocial. I used to be more outgoing, liking parties, and interacting with strangers on the train, but not anymore. Nowadays, I like to stay home and enjoy my family and a simple life.

And there are other reasons as well. I've noticed that my computer/install of the game is more unstable, more crashes etc, when I playing in Open or PG, and as an explorer 50,000+ LY from Sol, it doesn't matter if I'm in Solo, Open, PvP, EvE online griefing mode, or whatever, or even single user without servers, because I'm alone as it is anyway. The closest person is probably 1000+ LY from here. I'm currently in the 15th newly discovered star system (discovered by me right now) just today.

So essentially the point is, Solo mode is for those who likes to play Solo, and making Open into some attractive mode for Solo player... well, the only way would be to make Open into Solo to do that (which wouldn't make sense now).

Making the game Open-only wouldn't make me play more in Open, it would make me play the game less, regardless of how safe you would make it. It's the reason I never got into EvE online, WoW, and other MMOs. I just don't care for socializing anymore. I barely ever post anything on Facebook either (probably a year ago last).

So, how about now make it attractive for players to play an MMO version of Solitaire? ;) Because we know that Solitaire players only play that because they're afraid of losing in poker.
 
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znôrt

znôrt
Sylveria said:
Exactly the point- they're simply milking the playerbase for all it's worth. People need to stop giving them power and control and take it back.
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go, people, go! rise up and seize your power. death to ... wait a sec ... what or who are we actually up against?
let me guess ...

Sylveria said:
This game is heading down the drain with the eventual Open-only game agenda.
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'make the anti open brigade great again'? now with new formula of 'doom&gloom', with 23,5% more doom!!

Sylveria said:
It's really quite simple, ladies and gentlemen. Reclaim YOUR game.
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dunno what's more amusing, this grotesque crusade of yours or the fact that you don't realize frontier never ever gave a crap on anything written here ...
anyhow, good luck [big grin]
 

Sylveria

Sylveria
znôrt said:
go, people, go! rise up and seize your power. death to ... wait a sec ... what or who are we actually up against?
let me guess ...

'make the anti open brigade great again'? now with new formula of 'doom&gloom', with 23,5% more doom!!

dunno what's more amusing, this grotesque crusade of yours or the fact that you don't realize frontier never ever gave a crap on anything written here ...
anyhow, good luck [big grin]
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LOL nice attempt at trying to stop people from exercising their own freedom and rights.

2/10 on the troll scale.
 

Tarman

Tarman
Sylveria said:
LOL nice attempt at trying to stop people from exercising their own freedom and rights.

2/10 on the troll scale.
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He's not trolling you, you do have a fair bit of misplaced crusader vibe going on. We don't have "freedom and rights" in terms of a video game's development, though there's certainly an amount of leeway to rant about it in various forms on the forum here. You can't complain to the UNHRC about it though.
 

Tarman

Tarman
znôrt said:
lol, i would expect such bias in your evaluation. never mind, go, fight for your rights, birdie.

you'll fight for mine too while you're at it, right? i'm real busy atm :D
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[video=youtube;eBShN8qT4lk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk[/video]
 

Watchdog

Watchdog
Sylveria said:
LOL nice attempt at trying to stop people from exercising their own freedom and rights.

2/10 on the troll scale.
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While I often seem to share your views, I feel confused now. I am afraid you lost me there Sylveria. :S

Elite: Dangerous is a videogame. I really don't understand what does playing and discussing it have to do with real world freedom and rights, apart from us being lucky to even be able to do so. Nor do I understand what was the "take the power and control back" bit supposed to be all about, when we are talking about game modes in a videogame.
 

Sylveria

Sylveria
Watchdog said:
While I often seem to share your views, I feel confused now. I am afraid you lost me there Sylveria. :S

Elite: Dangerous is a videogame. I really don't understand what does playing and discussing it have to do with real world freedom and rights, apart from us being lucky to even be able to do so. Nor do I understand what was the "take the power and control back" bit supposed to be all about, when we are talking about game modes in a videogame.
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When you see Open as your only option, you'll be less confused.
 

znôrt

znôrt
Sylveria said:
For now.
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don't get mad. i understand what you're doing. i disagree with your point of view but it's ok for me! i'm not going to stop you (not that i could if i wanted to! :)). go with my blessings! :D

honest suggestion, though, if you dialed down the drama a few notches you could even get a reasonable message across and more, how to put it, qualified support. you know, noise and torches are good for the cause but eventually you'll also want to be taken a bit seriously.
 

Sylveria

Sylveria
znôrt said:
don't get mad. i understand what you're doing. i disagree with your point of view but it's ok for me! i'm not going to stop you (not that i could if i wanted to! :)). go with my blessings! :D

honest suggestion, though, if you dialed down the drama a few notches you could even get a reasonable message across and more, how to put it, qualified support. you know, noise and torches are good for the cause but eventually you'll also want to be taken a bit seriously.
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I'm not "mad" at all. In fact, I'm ecstatic that you've provided confirmation. Thanks! :)
 

Watchdog

Watchdog
Sylveria said:
When you see Open as your only option, you'll be less confused.
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I understand what you mean from a player's point of view and I would be very sad to see that happen, however, I still cannot wrap my mind around the idea of it being linked to my real world freedom and rights in any way.
 
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Han Zulu

Han Zulu
Mercy Killing said:
Good ideas, but nothing will make me play in Open. Not even the total eradication of Solo and PG modes would make me stray into Open space. I just don't want to play that game, and it's not hte reason I purchased this game.
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Funny thing is that I'm a member of Mobius and Fleetcomm and still I tend to log into Solo most of the time anyway, even out here in deep space where no one can be found.

When I grew up, we lived close to forests. I spent a lot of time alone, walking deep into the woods (I thought the Blair Witch project movie was the dumbest movie I ever seen because I spent whole days and camping in denser, darker, more scary woods than their park). The thing is, I loved it. I dream sometimes about living completely alone on Mars, or in a space ship going to Alpha Centauri with no one else on board, and I thought "Cast away" was a movie about a paradise. So for me, Solo is just something that's part of what I am and who I am. Open would have to become a Solo mode for it to compare.

Now, with that said, I do play in Open in my alt-account from time to time, but I do it for the purpose of putting myself at higher risk. I'm not avoiding Open because of the risk. The risk is the only thing that entices me to go there if I want to increase the danger. I think the reavers (griefers) have a place in the game, in Open, but some days I'm just not in that mode of game play.

Save the reavers in Open and save the Solo mode for when you feel like it.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Sylveria said:
LOL nice attempt at trying to stop people from exercising their own freedom and rights.

2/10 on the troll scale.
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All due respect and I love ya I really do...but in here, ye have no freedom or rights cos it isnt a democracy. If ye have an account in the game, then ye already agreed to the terms and conditions...ye might wanna read them again, refresh the memory a little.

Besides...remember the beige plague crusade? I do...wanna know how long it was and how many players of some repute had to literally beg for just for frontier to even admit it was a bug at all?

The answer would depress ye...this is how frontier operate...they couldnt care less what goes on in their own forum...yer literally trying to climb a mountain made of grease and sprinkled with fanbois...tellin ye to cool yer jets is actually saving ye a lotta stress that could last upto a year...thats 11 months, 3 weeks and 7 days to be almost exact...Im doin ye a favour cos I love ya in a forumy gamey weird nerdy sorta way ^
 
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