Modes 30 minute cooldown on switching modes

[ALGOMATIC]

Much better approach: when starting the game first time you will select what mode your cmdr will be playing FOREVER.
You want to switch modes? Clear your save. This way we wont have intentional undermining in SOLO and griefers wont be able to hide in solo when they murder in open.

Problem solved. Fdev lets go!

 

[Roybe]

Much better approach: when starting the game first time you will select what mode your cmdr will be playing FOREVER.
You want to switch modes? Clear your save. This way we wont have intentional undermining in SOLO and griefers wont be able to hide in solo when they murder in open.

Problem solved. Fdev lets go!

never going to happen. (we really need a sarcasm font!)

 

[Zeeman]

there.

Mode switching resolved.


You're welcome FD!

What is actually being resolved?

Z...

 

[GreyAreaUK]

you guys really make up the most nonsense excuses to keep the game exploitable

It's a bad idea.

Come up with a better one.

 

[lokvette]

Just let it go, please let it go, the horse is dead.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

A 5 min delay would work almost as well and be a lot less restrictive.

 

[Troy_McClure]

It's not about a need to decide how other people play the game. The devs claim they are trying to fix the exploit, OP's idea wouldn't work, but it's still an idea. There is likely an elegant solution out there somewhere, we aren't getting paid to find a solution, let the devs deal with it.

You mean just like they dealt with C&P, powerplay, multi-crew, Engineers etc etc etc?!

What could possibly go wrong following that logic? [blah]

 

[Ka_Tor]

redundancy at it's best.

 

[Ian Skippy]

A 5 min delay would work almost as well and be a lot less restrictive.

It also means a handful of pad blockers can perma-destroy CGs in open.

 

[fuub]

Credits are so 2015. The year is now 2018 — credits are all but meaningless, and hopefully they stay that way. Unless you’d rather have everyone grind credits -and- rep -and- engis -and- crafting mats... because apparently that isn’t enough. We should grind credits, too.

you know not everyone exploited the hell out of the game and is currently sitting on billions of credits

 

[fuub]

Just because it doesn't apply to you does not automatically make it "nonsense." And you still haven't provided any source for your claim that Elite is "the most exploited game ever."

ED is the most exploited multiplayer game I ever played, and played thousands. For example in MMO's usually exploits are dealt with quickly and rollbacks occur. With ED exploits are only fixed YEARS later and FD is incapable of fixing them all.

This fix for mode switching should be made YEARS ago when they first discovered the exploit. Most of ppl made their money through exploiting the game.

And its not only about exploiting credits, most pvp encounters finish in the combat log exploit. Hilarious.



Tell me another multiplayer game so much exploited as ED.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

ED is the most exploited multiplayer game I ever played, and played thousands. For example in MMO's usually exploits are dealt with quickly and rollbacks occur. With ED exploits are only fixed YEARS later and FD is incapable of fixing them all.

This fix for mode switching should be made YEARS ago when they first discovered the exploit. Most of ppl made their money through exploiting the game.

And its not only about exploiting credits, most pvp encounters finish in the combat log exploit. Hilarious.

And your 'solution' wouldn't solve either.

 

[Iron Duke]

Perhaps, exercise some self-discipline and not mode switch?

 

[Oldric]

Most of ppl made their money through exploiting the game.

Boils my bladder.

 

[Jockey79]

Much better approach: when starting the game first time you will select what mode your cmdr will be playing FOREVER.
You want to switch modes? Clear your save. This way we wont have intentional undermining in SOLO and griefers wont be able to hide in solo when they murder in open.

Problem solved. Fdev lets go!

This was suggested before, I had no issue with it.

Seems your ancestors around here however soon seen that this idea could bite them in the posterior and very quickly rallied against it.

I mean if people had to pick a mode to use forever, PG is the most logical one to pick.
I can make a PG of 1, so I get Solo mode.
A friends can make an invite only PG, so we get a friends only game.
A friend can make and advertise an open PG for all to join, like Open is now.

1 menu mode option, same 3 choices of game play.
No one needs Solo or Open - ever.

So bring it on, make everyone choose a mode to keep their character connected to, because I bet you it benefits me more than you

 

[ALGOMATIC]

This was suggested before, I had no issue with it.

Seems your ancestors around here however soon seen that this idea could bite them in the posterior and very quickly rallied against it.

I mean if people had to pick a mode to use forever, PG is the most logical one to pick.
I can make a PG of 1, so I get Solo mode.
A friends can make an invite only PG, so we get a friends only game.
A friend can make and advertise an open PG for all to join, like Open is now.

1 menu mode option, same 3 choices of game play.
No one needs Solo or Open - ever.

So bring it on, make everyone choose a mode to keep their character connected to, because I bet you it benefits me more than you

No, we have the same choices as we have today. 3 modes, pick when starting the game and stick with it.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

No, we have the same choices as we have today. 3 modes, pick when starting the game and stick with it.

Still a ridiculous idea, and let’s stop pretending otherwise eh?

 

[WordSmith]

A three minute delay would probably cut down o 90% of the abuse on this problem.

 

[CmdrJacks]

Separate saves for the separate modes has always seemed the best idea to me.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Separate saves for the separate modes has always seemed the best idea to me.

Which essentially boils down to “3 copies of the game for the price of 1”.

Can’t see Frontier going for that.