The whole "gear vs content" shouldn't work the way it does.
In the opinion of some.
Gear facilitates access to content - the gear itself is not skill gated.
How does that affect me? Do I care?
Not talking about OPEN only, just incentivizing CMDRs to play in OPEN. More risk = more reward.
Giving any participation bonus for playing in Open would very likely lead to some very long block lists - and some players effectively playing in a Private Group in Open.
To be fair, it was that same sort of real world equivalence I was responding to and pointing out the sort of absurdities that make such comparisons a really bad idea.There would still be those that told those people they needed to git gud.
Although its generally not a good idea to bring real world analogies into discussions like this. It is after all just a game.
Basically you are rewarding people to spend their time in certain mode. While one has tools to make that certain mode about as risk free as any other mode.
And big block list makes Open just as risk free as any other modes....
Lol, no.
Not forgetting that the vast majority of systems are identical in all three game modes, i.e. devoid of other players.
What's your opinion though?
I feel like this fits right into bad counterplay. Where your options are reset the activity to escape or block to prevent instancing.
Frontier got it right when they placed gear behind gameplay, e.g. unlocking Engineers through actually playing the game; visiting Guardian sites, rather than arbitrarily limiting access to skilled players.
I agree with the idea but think there could have been more flexibility in the implementation to allow more personal preference if trade was going to be a hard no.
You mean you don't like a challenge where winning is worse than not taking the challenge?
By "gameplay" you mean completely unrelated low skill time sinks?
