Do "purple-haired heroes" scare everyone into Solo?

Florenus

Florenus
Turd Ferguson said:
FDev did not say that most players play in open. They said Open has more players than other modes. However, there is only one open mode and an almost limitless number of other modes. If you add the non-open modes I’m not sure they contain less players than open.

Plurality is not the same as majority. Especially when there is only 1 way to opt in and a very large number of ways to opt out.

In this case open could have 5% of the players in it and still be “the most popular mode” as the other 95% of players could be spread across many other modes avoiding open.
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There are 3 modes. OPEN, SOLO and PG
A 1000 Private Groups does not count as thousand modes.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Old Duck said:
It would be an interesting experiment. Frontier could release a single "Open-only" CG and see what happens. It might be a bit tricky to code, as it would have to detect mode-switching (otherwise I could jump into Solo for SC and back to Open for normal space cargo delivery). Perhaps have perishable rare cargo that can only shows up in markets in Open and spoils if you switch modes.

BTW, I'm not suggesting that ALL CGs become Open-only, but rather that Frontier introduce Open-only CGs. One week might be an Open-only CG, the next might be all-mode CG. Considering that we haven't had ANY CGs in months, what's to lose?
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Technically they could do it as they did it once before . Not sure I think they SHOULD do it however....but technically I think they could
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
Hmm, when I flew the stock Sidewinder "Griefer Blocker" around in Shinrarta a couple of weeks ago, no-one attacked it. Maybe I should try it in the CG systems.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Brrokk said:
Hmm, when I flew the stock Sidewinder "Griefer Blocker" around in Shinrarta a couple of weeks ago, no-one attacked it. Maybe I should try it in the CG systems.
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Rename it to "Please Don't Hurt Me". I suspect one of the reasons I attracted so much attention is that I'm still a Novice (combat rating) on PC. It probably surprised my opponents when I was able to evade their interdictions and direct assaults in a very humble, shieldless Dolphin 😁
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
I mean we had this discussed again and again. I was even "open" for a changed Powerplay mechanic, since this is a competitive element in the game by design. But trying to shoehorn open into every bit of gameplay that might attract players is just a poor idea.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Navigare Necesse Est said:
I mean we had this discussed again and again. I was even "open" for a changed Powerplay mechanic, since this is a competitive element in the game by design. But trying to shoehorn open into every bit of gameplay that might attract players is just a poor idea.
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But when everyone switches from Open to Solo, then Open BECOMES Solo... So you are shoehorning me into solo play against my will :eek:
 
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