Frontier Should Abandon "OPEN" Mode to Save Elite

When did you last get Ganked, I have been playing all morning and have seen exactly two Cmdrs neither attacked me.
The game is called Elite Dangerous, it could do with being a bit more dangerous to be honest.
Solution is simple and I am surprised you haven't spotted it, it's there in the main menu in big letters SOLO
It's called Elite Dangerous because elite 4 was blerr and dangerous was at the time the most common rank .
 
When did you last get Ganked, I have been playing all morning and have seen exactly two Cmdrs neither attacked me.
The game is called Elite Dangerous, it could do with being a bit more dangerous to be honest.
Solution is simple and I am surprised you haven't spotted it, it's there in the main menu in big letters SOLO

Yeah, from the mouth of Braben, the 'dangerous' has nothing to do with the game being dangerous. It's about how Elite pilots were too rare so they opened the floor to lower-ranked pilots - IE, Dangerous ranked ones.
 
Yeah, from the mouth of Braben, the 'dangerous' has nothing to do with the game being dangerous. It's about how Elite pilots were too rare so they opened the floor to lower-ranked pilots - IE, Dangerous ranked ones.
it's advertised the opposite way your statement suggests by the company headed by the man you say suggested it.

so you can see how there would be confusion.
 
Can we abandon these threads to save the forums?
these threads have existed longer than the game has.

this is the forums. The desire to rid them of your experience is the same desire to remove players who want the game to be something you dont from the playerbase so fdev can focus on what you like and not what they want. The forum is the game. It's hostile - reactive nature exists because the foundation of which both the game and thus the forum are founded upon is unnatural and nature abhors it. It wants to be in a stable state and combining player types like ED tries to do is not stable.
 
these threads have existed longer than the game has.

this is the forums. The desire to rid them of your experience is the same desire to remove players who want the game to be something you dont from the playerbase so fdev can focus on what you like and not what they want. The forum is the game. It's hostile - reactive nature exists because the foundation of which both the game and thus the forum are founded upon is unnatural and nature abhors it. It wants to be in a stable state and combining player types like ED tries to do is not stable.
Oh I like hostility. The drama llama must be fed. It's repetitive tedium I'm not so much of a fan of. And yes, I do realise I've set your next joke up nicely there.
 
Oh I like hostility. The drama llama must be fed. It's repetitive tedium I'm not so much of a fan of. And yes, I do realise I've set your next joke up nicely there.

it's certainly in the mods powers to create a open vs solo sticky they can both shunt new open vs solo threads to and players can see before creating a suggestion thread for something that's already been thought up.

that might go a long way toward making this inevitable topic easier to work around.
 
it's certainly in the mods powers to create a open vs solo sticky they can both shunt new open vs solo threads to and players can see before creating a suggestion thread for something that's already been thought up.

that might go a long way toward making this inevitable topic easier to work around.
I'd like it if they did what they used to do - just merge them all into a single thread like the old Hotel California thread. It served two purposes; firstly it kept all the people who want to endlessly bump their gums over it segregated into a kind of derp ghetto and secondly, it taught a few of them that their unique and valuable insights were neither unique, nor valuable, when they realised we'd been reading the exact same posts for years.
 
Seems to me the solution is pvp enabled/disabled flags. Have them on a 5 min timer so Cdmrs cant flip the switch as they please. If you carry powerplay/contraband in your hold it should automatically flag you for pvp. Illegal cargo and passengers can vary by system so autoflagged for pvp would make travel between the safe zones more risky. Wanted status could also flag you.
 
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I love it when the cycle completes - someone appears to say open only, then another appears to say remove open.

My advice is to stop trying to push your playstyle onto others. The game equally supports all 3 game modes.

Ganking is a problem of C&P, the Pilots Federation seems to not give a damn about someone going rogue and mindlessly killing other CMDRs. But there are workarounds - the block function makes it so you'll only get ganked by a person once. You can also just try a PG like Mobius.
 
Ganking is destroying Elite. Players quit in frustration after all their exploration data is lost or they are sent back to a Sidewinder because a ganker was "just having fun".
Solution is simple.
Make the game modes just "SOLO" and "Private Group" because this will permanently end ganking. Players can still play with friends for PvP but the toxic ganking culture will be wiped out. If players try ganking inside a Private Group they can be expelled immediately.
No more blocking required
Chat is restricted to inside the Private Group only so no more external harassment from the toxic gankers.
This is easy to do.
Gankers? Are you serious? As somebody who was once a member of BRNN, but got the out as soon as possible, let me tell you about how truly evil and depraved gankers are. During gankerTraining, we were forced to this chant before blowing up newbies: "If they're harmless, make them pennyless!" At deciat, we fired at both harmless targets and mostly harmless targets. Half the targets were unarmed, and half the targets we were supposed to shoot at were innocent AD players holding merits. We were supposed to shoot at any target, regardless of whether it was armed or unarmed, whether it was an elite or harmless. The only time in ganker Training we were allowed to watch OA was when the news showed reports of jnnocent traders being "accidentally killed" in mail slots. We were forced to scream "yes!" every time the news mentioned an innocent commander being killed. As soon as I saw how truly evil and depraved gankers were, I GOT THE F OUT. I went straight to the leaders and told them I didn't want to be part of their federal terrorist organization. I told them that I REFUSED to kill innocent commanders, and take part in unjustified wars of aggression. The leaders responded by pinning me on deciat and shooting me with mining lasers for ten minutes straight. They told me that I wasn't leaving and that if I ever tried to speak up against their hate and bigotry again, they would murder me. I took matters into my own hands, and jumped to colonia at night while the gankers were asleep. I ran the away from the system I was at, and have not returned to this day. Every Time any commanders expresses admiration for the gankers, I VOMIT. I was in for long enough to see that the federation is a ganker supremacist terrorist organization, just as bad as the 5'cers.
 
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