hotelcalifornia

Hey everyone! I have found a happy medium for pvpers, gankers, and pve'ers. What im suggesting will not happen in one patch unless frontier puts their entire staff on it but its a good suggestion nonetheless. I'll be breaking it into parts so its easier to read. TLDR below all of the paragraphs...

First off, I love Elite, it's the only Sci Fi game out there with a solid grounding in reality. I adore that and it helps me relate to and understand the game. However, this realism puts folks off as they endlessly complain about the distances and the scale citing games with 120KM diameter...

play solo make some money. go cg on open get ganked. lose money. play solo.... c'est la vie lol I did notice the last time though that I got 365,000 credits reduction in my ship rebuy for notoriety... wouldn't it be something if somebody that notorious got so much attention from the law that...

It's altogether broken that a group can hide in Solo & Private and just grind away to support their faction, with the same level of effect as people playing in Open. A 75% reduction in influence effects would probably be adequate to compensate for the reduced risk.