Open Only Everything is such a stupid demand for ED it's painful. Half the time i think its a deliberate attempt to stifle OpenOnly
Something requests. Solo/PG has an effectiveness advantage by opting out of opposition. Many players want to play in Open
and affect the galaxy without that fundamental & often chronic strategic disadvantage.
The most sensible home for this is Open-only Powerplay, or a tweaked powerplay where actions are split appropriately across modes (so each mode does not undercut the others)
This would not serve to disenfranchise players or force anyone into anything without consent, it would however create a place for a significant cohort of players, that is missing at present.
The odds are a crapshoot in open, you may find someone, you may not. However Open is totally optional. This means that everyone has equal access to Powerplay and BGS in solo pg and open and if people are willing to take on additional risk, or want to provide it, they can opt in to open.
Each playergroup for every Power take the strategy element of Powerplay seriously. Max effect = minimum interuption. It feeds back into ship design & every approach that's taken to doing anything.
In solo/pg, powerplay is as pure a grind as you'll find in ED. Its pure slog at very simple mechanics. In Open its more dynamic, evolving and variable than any other aspect of the game. But that effect is born from having inefficiencies created by others, and overcoming them. They adapt, you adapt, and so it goes. It makes Powerplay the player-driven team game it was always supposed to be.
The ability to opt-out with a change of modes makes creating those inefficiencies pointless when people take advantage. The end result is grind versus grind, either from the outset, or when one side is backs-to-the-wall.
There arent many folks so determined to prioritise gameplay-for-all over effectiveness, when every other consideration & choice they make is to maximise effectiveness.
Everyone is equal now, you want to have less controll and possibly to freeze out players from the process because they have different play preferences than you.
See above. Everyone isnt equal in Powerplay. Those who opt to avoid the inefficiencies of Open undercut the whole reason Powerplay can be worthwhile. Without it, it's inferior to the BGS at almost every level.
Everyone is not equal now. Rhetorical purity doesnt remake reality and isnt a substitute for practical experience.
Without both, you're blind.
