If there's no intention that anyone forced to play in Open to affect a game feature would be able to be engaged in PvP by another player then presumably a PvP-flagging system would be perfectly acceptable to Open only proponents?
There are no seals in powerplay, only enemies.
Not every seal clubber participates in power play but uses open to seek its seals. Of which starting players could be power play participants.
... Just 1 mode for player who want to mess with others. Just 1!
Pledging to a superpower provides some benefits, then there's the price (open play) to pay.
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There is no pledging to Superpowers in the game (unless what was actually meant was pledging to a Power) - and there's no game feature that requires any player to play in Open - unless and until Frontier decide there will be, which is as yet unknown.Pledging to a superpower provides some benefits, then there's the price (open play) to pay.
It's rather a choice than access to specific "game content" (I mean as far as ther modules are transferred to tech brokers).
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Indirectly - and with an apparent earnings rate much lower than other aspects of the game.
Modules should stay in Powerplay. But it should be possible to buy all powerplay modules if your rank at one faction is high enough. Then you have to master powerplay to get it.Pledging to a superpower provides some benefits, then there's the price (open play) to pay.
It's rather a choice than access to specific "game content" (I mean as far as ther modules are transferred to tech brokers).
[if I've got your point
You got that: Open.
Quite wrong - the players who wish for consensual PvP are at liberty to create their own PG too - you do realise that the limit is 20,000 players in a group, so creating one and getting it 'filled' with like-minded players would not be difficult at all!
Nonetheless, the principle remains. Honestly, I don't see the issue with pvp-related activities providing reasonable rewards - so long as those rewards are not in excess of the rewards for other types of gameplay.
The principle being that players can spend credits earned doing any game activity on Powerplay merits. Whether PvP related activities should be particularly rewarded is a different issue - and one that would very probably be vulnerable to players colluding to gain rewards in uncontested encounters much faster than actually contesting the encounter. Noting that a couple of PvP collusion methods have already been removed from the game.
The problem, for some of those who prefer PvP, with creating a PvP-PG that players need to choose to play in is that it would be full of players who are, at the very least, tolerant of PvP - which means that their preferred targets won't be available.
There doesn't look to be anything to stop players using altCMDRs to join the power they want to 5C, increase ELO rank against a third power only to collude to give it to players of their preferred Power.
Elos would need to be independent, of course. Your elo against one power couldn't transfer to your elo against another power. This is similar to other games like Age of Empires 2, where your Death Match elo doesn't have any effect on your 1v1 elo or your Empire Wars elo.
