What, if anything is lost though? Credits, faction rep, failed missions? It still remains a truth that if you are genuinely angry or upset at having progress temporarily halted, when you could have chosen to avoid the encounter altogether, that you are doing something wrong.
Eeeeeeeew.
Man the smugness is just radiating from these comments.ahem 'Differently motivated'
Indeed - and Frontier set the difficulty level for the game as a whole whereas players in the multi-player modes may affect local difficulty level for those they encounter.
The difficulty of other commanders potentially clashing, vs brain dead NPCs. The way you handle both of these is the same, the margin of error is not.
But we keep getting told that there's no real difference in difficulty level either. You hardly ever meet other players in Open, and even if someone attacks you it's easy to escape.
The empathy part is rather interesting, but killing another player doesn't necessarily imply a lack of empathy. While there are players out there, across every game, who take pleasure in trolling and causing grief to others, they are actually a minority. Most players engage in PvP because they enjoy engaging in PvP. While you could argue that they could always go for consensual PvP, you do get a certain rush from a 'hunt' and a fight which isn't staged.
I quite like this part of your post. I find NPCs to be way more annoying and 'bloodthirsty' than players are. I get interdicted and attacked by NPCs WAAAAAAY more often than I do by players (I really can't stress this enough). However, NPCs are for the most part harmless and they don't bother anyone because they can't actually take you down; they're a mild nuisance at most. So why does no one complain about getting attacked constantly by NPCs? Is the actually being attacked part that is annoying, or is the fact that you actually risk losing something for a change?
Then you missed my point. We were talking about players in open. If they're already in solo, no problems. If they have a problem being targeted by other players, why let it happen if it bothers them that much?
Talking about players meeting in open remember?
There’s no difference in the the methods you have to use. So no difficulty increase there. But the margin of error in these few situations Instanced is much lower. If you decide to engage the difficulty level is insanely higher. If you decide to run you’re just looking at a “don’t mess up” scenario. stakes are still much higher because of what an error can mean in those rare situations.
