Modes Get off Solo/Private groups and onto Open play!
- Thread starter firedragon
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I could make a petition to remove Open and get people to vote for it as well. I could make a petition to request FD to add space bananas to the game and it would get 10x the votes that that petition got.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
The design of the game works very well, in my opinion, when one accepts that it has not been designed to be dominated by direct PvP.
Actually the design makes sure everyone gets equal access to the content without anyone other than Frontier able to take that access away.
You're the one not understanding anything here.
Your link doesn't "nullify" anything - it's a list of people who should have read up on what they were buying before spending money.
My link shows that from BEFORE the option to buy the game, the plan of the modes was public information. Also has been reinforced by FD ever since.
After the fact moaning is null and void.
Not banging on anything - too busy salt mining and laughing at the sheer stupidity of people blindly throwing their money at something they didn't understand and now crying because it doesn't work how they assumed.
Caveat emptor
Cool, i'm seeing traction for the space banana idea!
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Disappointed that it's not in the game already, noting:
[video=youtube;t2uaRHFmBT4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2uaRHFmBT4[/video]
Seems to be working as intended...if you don't like the way the game works...stop playing those parts! LOL!
Sorry, I disagree.
The brilliance of FDs design is that it allows anyone who doesn't like direct PvP to still play the game. The players who are at least tolerant of direct PvP are are already in Open, so should I decide to include them in what I'm doing, I don't (in theory) have to worry about completely ruining their gaming session.
In theory, by clearing the field of those who doesn't enjoy that kind of game, the quality of my experience with direct PvP should improve. In practice, only Powerplay, due to it being an additional opt-in layer, saw the kind of improvement I desire.
Unfortunately for me, and anyone hoping to interact with me, the quality of the PvE elements of Powerplay were so poor that I unpledged so I could enjoy the rest of the game. I still participate in PP indirectly via BGS manipulation, but I will not repledge until Powerplay missions become a thing.
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I'm up for space bananas. They might attract space monkeys.
But what to do with the space banana skins? That could be a space littering problem.
And the way this forum is. There would be war between ordinary bananas and green bananas in the Plantin sector.
A nightmare in the making.
The big question is, should space banana content be locked to open only? Is it fair people could obtain the rewards of space bananas without the risk of open? People could be manipulating the market for space bananas from the safety of solo!
As a Private Group player I want access to all Space Monkey content, and when the Space Bananas are only in Open, there won't be any Space Monkeys in Private or Solo.
But what to do with the space banana skins? That could be a space littering problem.
And the way this forum is. There would be war between ordinary bananas and green bananas in the Plantin sector.
A nightmare in the making.
Maybe that's what the Thargoids are, the janitors of the universe, here to clean up the banana skins?
They've done me no harm execpt the one time they killed me. (And it hardly hurt.)
I want a black friday skin for my space banana.
Since you have to have Space Monkeys with the Space Bananas, the Zoo mode must be implemented.
Please explain how do you participate in PP via BGS manipulation, since they have no ties to each other whatsoever.
Simple.
Government type affects undermining and fortification costs. So, depending upon on whether I'm operating in the noble Empire, or in the Evil Galactic Federation, I support either Patronage minor factions that don't have control their system, or I support brave freedom fighters resisting Federal rule. I've helped flip quite a few systems, based on what will help my chosen Power, or hurt the tyrant Hudson.
If you get yourself PP points by splatting opposing NPC's, it's pure BGS manipulation as it's the BGS that is directly effected by their splatting and also spawns the NPC's and the conditions under which you can splat them.