If the 5A FSD is precedential, the 4A FSD will likely be available through Tech Brokers some time after the CG has completed.
If significant portions of the game were to be PvP-gated, in a very belated "bait and switch" (given that every player bought a game that does not require any player to engage in PvP to affect the BGS, Powerplay, CGs, etc. and the game was launched over seven years ago), then, for some players, it'd be the decision whether, or not, to continue to play the game.
yup ,you can call it a "Discord" or something
Why post on a multiplayer forum?
The original "Elite" is a single player PvE game, as are its first two sequels - so it can be argued that Elite is "supposed to be" a single player game. This version allows players to choose how they want to play, with or without other players and, if playing with other players, who to play with.
where does it state that? SOLO and Private Group mode have been there from the start...
Ignore bin. the decent PvP players have long given up posting in these threads anyway. It's mostly trolls and alts going for some lols.
It was a bad design decision which ruined the open world nature of the game
In the opinion of some, maybe. Not all share that opinion.
It was a design decision which greatly increased the potential player base.
Yes, though I can choose how many times I'm going to be attacked by same individual commander. I'm choosing = one time. Nobody trolls my game time second time.Oh yeah the "entirely optional" tune, where could I have possibly heard it before like 457884357 times, let me see... copypasted to roughly every other page of every single PvP-related thread by a certain moderator perhaps?
It's "entirely optional" up until a certain point. Once you've clicked "Open" and happened to get attacked it's no longer optional. Unless you clog - which you can do in CQC as well, does that not make PvP "optional" there as well?
That's not quite the same - unless engaging in Powerplay is only seen as a means to an end, i.e. getting the Power's shinies. Powerplay is a long-running feature in and of itself - it's not a week long CG.
Well, attacking the same person over and over again (outside of CZ/war etc situations) is just a richard move.
Yet it was an example of behaviour that Sandro suggested a player might use the block feature to deal with - a few days before the game launched.
That's just a bad example.
To some it might be - however a Lead Designer of the game made the suggestion - which suggests that it's another case of Frontier taking a position that some players won't agree with.
Was that the same Lead Designer who was also an Open Only Power Play supporter? The one who no longer works for fdev?
