Modes Get off Solo/Private groups and onto Open play!

firedragon

firedragon

I've played on open from day one and, yes, I've had unsolicited PVP experiences but I also have a friends list as long as my arm and have gotten alot of pleasure from:


  • Participating in a busy commuity goal
  • Feeling like the galaxy is a living/breathing place
  • Seeing other peoples' strategies, builds, playstyles, cool ship names
  • Making new friends and having interesting converstaions.
  • Unexpected congregations, fights, allies and challenges.

Can you honestly say the credits you save from the odd rebuy here and there outweighs all of that (and more)?!

Now, call me selfish if you want BUT I'm actually pretty sure that I speak for all those who chose to play in open mode when I say: Every person that segregates themselves off into a private group or solo play is diminishing their experience and everyone elses. It's such a shame.

All I ever hear from people that chose solo or PG are excuses about how they're scared of griefers or don't want to get killed by all the time. I've spent over 1400 hours in open and I've never been in a pvp situation that I couldn't just jump away from and I can count on one hand the number of times I've been attacked by someone without provocation. Of course people have been unlucky and lost out to bad PvP experiences, but the gains are so much greater than keeping a few extra credits from one or two rebuys.

TO ALL YOU PEOPLE IN SOLO AND PGs - COME OUT OF YOUR SHELLS AND INTO THE INVITING WATERS OF OPEN! DON'T LIVE IN FEAR AND PARANOIA, HELP TO BETTER YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE AND OTHERS BY CREATING A LIVING BREATHING COMMUNITY!
 
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Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
My lulzbucket exploded! :D

Urm, how about a big, juicy cheque? Then I'll consider it - on a headless account that is only there to log data :D
 

Arguendo

Volunteer Moderator
Arguendo
firedragon said:
All I ever hear from people that chose solo or PG are excuses about how they're scared of griefers or don't want to get killed by all the time.
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Then you're not really listening, or you hear what you want to hear.
A lot of the players in PGs and/or Solo actually played the original Elite games on ancient computers that had the processing power of today's calculators. For them this is, and always will be, a single player game. Also, there is a large porportion that are playing the way Braben described it during the early days of ED; Interactions with other commanders should be rare and meaningful. For them, that does not include PvP.
So, I don't hear what you claim to hear. I do however often hear the ones asking people to join Open saying that everyone else is "hiding" and are "scared." I wonder which statement is more correct; yours or mine?
 

Monk

Monk
Knot2clever said:
If there was an off line mode I'd play in that. Not for any of the reasons you outline.
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Yup...not sure if I would play off line (except in cases where I had no Internet) but people seem to forget that some gamers like to play certain titles because they are single player. ED gives you the option (sorta) and, therefore attracts people who would only ever want to play solo.
 

Vin58

Vin58
Wait a minute, this thread may be a cleverly disguised trick to draw normal players into the weird world of game mode discussions. The home of murder hobos which are running out of salt, which was mined previously in the game. Shame on me for being fooled.
 

Tadeus72

T
Listen to him! Come to Open! The more people here, the bigger the chance that one of you unlucky guys will get ganked instead of me!

But seriously, there are already a lot of non-pvp players here. I have to wait ages to dock at Farseer's and always bump into some guys in the slot in my mission hub. There really isn't a shortage of players here. So stay where you like it. Now that Fdev promised to do the C&P thing everything moves in the right direction.
 

Valethar

Valethar
firedragon said:


Now, call me selfish if you want BUT I'm actually pretty sure that I speak for all those who chose to play in open mode when I say: Every person that segregates themselves off into a private group or solo play is diminishing their experience and everyone elses.
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I'm 100% certain you're wrong. Some people just don't want anything to do with PvP or being someone else's content, and that's ok. For them, that's why PG/Solo exists. They're not diminishing anyone's gameplay at all, with the exception, possibly, of the ganker types who have fewer victims, an no one really cares whether they're having fun anyway.

I can honestly say that my experience in the game hasn't been 'diminished' a single iota by not running into the folks that choose to stay in Solo/PG. I can't be 'diminished' by those I never interact with.

Your 1,400 hours are completely irrelevant and meaningless to those who choose to avoid the possibility of PvP. They want nothing to do with it, and don't want to deal with the chance, however remote it might be, that they'll encounter it. That's why FD created those modes, after all.

BTW.. Trolling your own thread never ends well. LOL
 

Imo

Imo
Players who are not prepared for the pvp style of play have been discriminated into the ground so far. There is no reason for them to play in open. Keep also in mind all these unfriendlyness of the pvp crowd that thinks everyone has to be their cannon fodder, everyone who disappears suddenly is a combat logger and so on. They will never get players back into open this way.
 

Skyfire

Skyfire
Everyone should play how they feel comfortable. This is what will give them their own personal most comfortable 'gaming experience'.

I will say that I have played almost exclusively in Open since I started, and that was from less than 1 minute after the game was formally launched. That's what, nearly 3 years now? In all that time I think I have been ganked maybe 4 times. I did separately get hit and killed twice while allied to a power, but that was fair enough as that is part of the game!

I have had A LOT of player encounters, and nearly all have been cordial, and I have helped loads of new players along the way with various things, from hints and tips on build, to escorting them into HAZRES sites to help move their bounties along, and helped with mining and handing out several tons of mined materials.

All, or nearly all, have been good fun, very helpful to either or both of us, and felt very rewarding too! All making it seem like a living galaxy! That's my experience in open, anyway!
 
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