Modes A thought.......

Kingtutuk

Kingtutuk
After reading yet another thread about another player totally un-prepared and disappointed at his short lived experience in an Explorer ship getting pulled out of supercruise by a Combat ship and getting a rebuy screen for the trouble.........


Who thinks OPEN should be called PEW PEW, instead? :p

No "git gud" comments thankyou. If you can help it.. Oh and by the way it is not me, I only play solo or pg.
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
Kingtutuk said:
After reading yet another thread about another player totally un-prepared and disappointed at his short lived experience in an Explorer ship getting pulled out of supercruise by a Combat ship and getting a rebuy screen for the trouble.........


Who thinks OPEN should be called PEW PEW, instead? :p

No "git gud" comments thankyou. If you can help it.. Oh and by the way it is not me, I only play solo or pg.
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Why not both? Call it OPEWPEWN
 

c00ky1970

c00ky1970
maybe they shoudl add a confirmation when you selct OPEN that says:

"WARNING - Open gameplay may result in you experiencing gameplay that is unexpected and may result in your ship being destroyed by other players - Do you want to continue?"
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
The answer is obvious...taking into account where the game is going in general and the complete non-survivability of the mode, Open should immediately be renamed as 'DOOOOOMED!' mode.


I'm here all week, you can't stop me.
 

Lucius-Darcia

Lucius-Darcia
Kingtutuk said:
After reading yet another thread about another player totally un-prepared and disappointed at his short lived experience in an Explorer ship getting pulled out of supercruise by a Combat ship and getting a rebuy screen for the trouble.........


Who thinks OPEN should be called PEW PEW, instead? :p

No "git gud" comments thankyou. If you can help it.. Oh and by the way it is not me, I only play solo or pg.
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Lol that's intresting. Calling them no longer modes but instead:

Environmet (previously mode)

- Hostile (previosly open)
- Friendly (previously private group)
- Solitary (previously solo)
:D:D:D
 

Dagwit

Dagwit
Best advice I ever saw on Open came from a YouTube content creator, who shall remain nameless. Play in Open, he said, as long as you stay away from a few high-traffic spots you'll probably never even see another player.

And I thought, yes, or I could play in Solo, never see another player, and go where I want.

So that's what I do.
 

sidereal6

S
Imagine these three changes:

(1) open is split into two modes - (a) "pew pew" or whatever you want to call it. (b) "role playing" mode.

(2) you can't clear a bounty incurred by attacking a player in role playing mode (and the bounty would have to be on you, not your ship, like the old C&P system). Basically, if you choose the murder hobo live in role playing mode, you commit to it.

(3) if you die with a bounty in role playing mode, you can never return to it. You can still go to solo and "pew pew" of course.

See, the real problem with any multiplayer game, is that psychopaths are never really punished. They just respawn. What rule 3 does is allow you play in any way you want, but if you play as a psycho murder hobo, then there's an actual possible consequence to it.
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
sidereal6 said:
Imagine these three changes:

(1) open is split into two modes - (a) "pew pew" or whatever you want to call it. (b) "role playing" mode.

(2) you can't clear a bounty incurred by attacking a player in role playing mode (and the bounty would have to be on you, not your ship, like the old C&P system). Basically, if you choose the murder hobo live in role playing mode, you commit to it.

(3) if you die with a bounty in role playing mode, you can never return to it. You can still go to solo and "pew pew" of course.

See, the real problem with any multiplayer game, is that psychopaths are never really punished. They just respawn. What rule 3 does is allow you play in any way you want, but if you play as a psycho murder hobo, then there's an actual possible consequence to it.
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Great idea. And because we know bugs or mishaps NEVER happen in Elite I guess all the people who shot thargoids at Gnosis or hit a clean ship in a res will be overjoyed their career is effectively over :rolleyes:

edit: misread it, you said only against players. Mishaps still could happen, less so though, I grant that. But I still don't think the idea is sound, cause exploits like suicideagles exist.
 
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Dietger

Dietger
Kingtutuk said:
After reading yet another thread about another player totally un-prepared and disappointed at his short lived experience in an Explorer ship getting pulled out of supercruise by a Combat ship and getting a rebuy screen for the trouble.........


Who thinks OPEN should be called PEW PEW, instead? :p
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Well, I do not.

What about: "Mom! Make them go away!" ?
 

Jockey79

Jockey79
c00ky1970 said:
maybe they shoudl add a confirmation when you selct OPEN that says:

"WARNING - Open gameplay may result in you experiencing gameplay that is unexpected and may result in your ship being destroyed by other players - Do you want to continue?"
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I suggested this a couple of years back.
Got rather a lot of rep out of it.

But as this is Frontier, the idea may sink in sometime around the real 3303. ;)
 

CMDR M. Lehman

CMDR M. Lehman
Yet another hyperbolic, misleading thread that portrays open as populated exclusively by gankers, hiding around every corner and gunning exclusively for ​you....
 
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