Calling on the community to play in Open Play
- Thread starter Maiakaat
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I think the size of the play area makes this IDEAL for a pvp game. It means you can hide, you can avoid it, you can try to figure out where to find victims etc. The problem is the implementation of it. its basically a 1-1 for interdictions. If you could hire escorts and the like, this would be a fantastic pvp environment.
No, no and no again... Will spend all of my elite career in solo unless there is a very compelling reason to do otherwise. Because i can. I choose to live quietly by myself in the country, not on an estate. To be honest, i dont have the slightest desire to share my pixels with some of the folks that post in this forum...
There are actually enough players in Open if you configure your router properly
I see at least one player ship in ever 2nd or 3rd system and that is when I jump across large distances without stopping for long. So, chances are they are hiding behind your bugged router if you don't see then Now, grouping up is a non-existent concept in ED. not sure what you are talking about
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Robert Maynard
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It would seem, from previous attempts to do this, that the PvP available in such a group would be a wee bit too consensual.
For one its a she, and two I'm rated as Harmless, but then this post is clearly trolling as the update clearly makes an attempt at discussing the risks in open play - so I'll leave it there.
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I second this, it is not as some people claim it is in my experience, all my threats and attacks have been from NPC's
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It's a terrible analogy and completely not what this thread is supposed to be about, its more akin to asking what needs to be fixed with the steak for those who are staying away from the steak for a reason.
My my, such a hullabaloo! Long time EVE player here so I know all about griefing, ganking, piracy and trading from both sides of the coin. I also clocked up countless hundreds of hours on Frontier on the Amiga back in the day so I know full well the joys of immersive solo play. To the players worried about "ganking" or "griefing" in ED I say this. Elite Dangerous in open play is probably the safest I've ever felt in any freeform open world online game that can potentially involve player versus player combat. I play in Open all the time (since Beta) unless the servers are being particularly laggy and I have yet to be killed by another player. I've seen loads of other players about and I've had a few "greetings commander" messages pop up but I've only been interdicted 3 times (by the same guy in the same system) and running away was so easy it made a complete mockery of his attempt to kill me. Yes I did incurr some repair costs, but hey, space is a dangerous place, even without other players and I've spent far more on repair bills after fuel scooping or going to FSD too soon after jumping before allowing enough time for my ship to cool down than I've ever spent on interdiction repairs. To the guys craving PvP I will say this. It's not happening in any serious measure in this game in it's current form unless it's pre-arranged, consensual "good fights" because the galaxy is just way too big and the player base way too small (by comparison). Trying to convince people who are not interested in online play to play online is a waste of your time, their time, electricity and storage space on the forum.
With regard to the optional solo play vs open, the removal of either of these options would never be a good thing for anybody involved with the game at all. If you remove solo play, the hardcore solo players will desert, if you remove open play, the hardcore online players will desert, who wins? Nobody. Removing choice is never a good thing anyway. Personally, I would be happy if I could choose between open or solo play, as it is now, or a completely offline mode with separate local saves. At least that way I wouldn't have to deal with being kicked by the transaction server every 3 smegging jumps or so for smegs smegging sake!
I think the best thing that could happen right now is for everyone to just relax, play the game your own way, love it for the thing of beauty that it undoubtedly is (when it works) and wait and see what FD come up with in future releases.
Fly safe o/
With regard to the optional solo play vs open, the removal of either of these options would never be a good thing for anybody involved with the game at all. If you remove solo play, the hardcore solo players will desert, if you remove open play, the hardcore online players will desert, who wins? Nobody. Removing choice is never a good thing anyway. Personally, I would be happy if I could choose between open or solo play, as it is now, or a completely offline mode with separate local saves. At least that way I wouldn't have to deal with being kicked by the transaction server every 3 smegging jumps or so for smegs smegging sake!
I think the best thing that could happen right now is for everyone to just relax, play the game your own way, love it for the thing of beauty that it undoubtedly is (when it works) and wait and see what FD come up with in future releases.
Fly safe o/
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Not really - some people just don't like steak - no matter how well it is presented.
Why even bother playing in open now that all the exploiters and randoms have fully upgraded Anacondas and Pythons. No point.
Snakebite
Banned
umm there is already a multiplayer group, its called 'open'.... A dedicated private group would seem pointless to me.... We just need more peeps in the open group
Sounds like you're trying to get vegans to eat the steak. Doesn't matter how you fix it, or how prime it is, some people aren't going to touch it.
Plenty of people in Open, and it is a multiplayer group, its just not suited to PvP. Its full of liars, cheats, weasels, traders, mercenaries, pirates, bounty hunters, soldiers, traitors, benefactors, guardians and heroes. And spread very thin. Not at all a satisfying environment for honorable PvP - its certainly a valid choice, just don't expect it to be 'fair' (even slightly).
No, it is a perfectly fine analogy. Why? because there are some who dont eat steak at all. The system in place now is fine. As it serves everyone. I don't play MMOs at all because I deal with people all the time. Whether it is PvP or PvE, when I am playing a game I don't want to see another human being unless I have specifically invited them. I dont care if all they are doing is mining.
Besides, everyone who is playing in Solo play mode, probably wouldn't be playing the game period if it was not available. So those player wouldn't be in the game anyways. On that note, FD would lose a lot of business if they tried forcing everyone to play open.
I've tried to summarise the thread in the OP, and as I have said repeatedly, this is not about getting people who wanted a solo game in the open play, its about addressing the issues that those who like the concept of open play but have issues with the reality, nobody said anything about forcing people into open play
What this commander said.
To the OP.
Stop telling other people how to play their game.
What makes you think you know what others want. I can tell you that you have no idea what I want.
How about using the in my opinion option instead of the should option.
The game will not change because you have said it should.
Get over it. If you don't like it the way it is you know what to do.
Stop telling other people how to play their game.
What makes you think you know what others want. I can tell you that you have no idea what I want.
How about using the in my opinion option instead of the should option.
The game will not change because you have said it should.
Get over it. If you don't like it the way it is you know what to do.