You keep asking apparently rhetorical questions followed by incorrect answers.
If I'm doing BGS work, and I don't have to worry about any NPC ever interfering with my CMDR, I can take more missions, move more cargo, and do so more rapidly, or with greater levels of automation than would otherwise be possible. Anyone not playing without NPCs would be at a tangible disadvantage.
Depends on the scenario and the players involved.
System control and states, determined by BGS mechanisms, are a major gameplay activity for many players, and produce effects readily apparent to many more.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
That my general statement lack specificity should not be taken as an inability to provide specificity when given a specific scenario to consider.
If you can't notice who controls what systems, what services are available at what stations, what's legal or illegal, how much modules or commodities cost, etc and so forth, that's on you.
I see these things, they affect my play, and your play has an impact on them.
Many players have more invested in the state of the BGS than you do in the effects of NPC interactions with your CMDR.
Bottom line is that any game with a shared setting cannot allow it's players to dictate their own unique set of rules, because the most effective set of rules possible is going to give greatest agency to those that use it, making all other options disadvantageous.
It's amazing, what can I say, congratulations on your hattrick. My answers may be 'incorrect' in the context of your concept of what a game is. Sadly, that seems to be rather narrow. And because I don't agree with you, I don't know "what I am talking about", as you rebut me with your 'tangible' answers. I just find your three recent replies absurd and the premise of your arguments myopic and petty. I guess we all have bad days, eh.
All of a sudden you're resorting to straw man over npc's not being involved now at all when I never said that. Someone is in a traffic jam and says "I wish cars weren't in my way", what would you stretch that to, destroying all machines? Probably. The way you took a small point and used that as the whole start of your argument - well, hats off to you for creativity.
The effect on the BGS from being caught in NPC traffic is virtually nothing, you know it is, I know it is. Pretend otherwise. So what's this 'many' players you are talking about? Yes, there is an amount - once again, you can't quantify it. Perhaps - a tiny minority? So, we should cater to their whims above everyone else? No. People will play the game they want to play. Respect the BGS to the point of paralysis is not one of them. Besides, what with all the hacks and cheats at BGS people's fingers, how can they be taken credibly? You want fair? Play on PS4. Like me.
If you can't notice who controls what systems, what services are available at what stations, what's legal or illegal, how much modules or commodities cost, etc and so forth, that's on you.
No, you got that wrong. Substitute "notice" for "care". I don't play for those reasons, and don't have to. If you can't notice a butterfly flapping its wings in Mongolia, that's on you. Only thing is, that's real, your BGS is fake, doesn't exist and was not designed to be taken seriously. It supports the fun, the game. It is a tool to the game, not a master. The game does not bow before it. Thank God. So, off to Mongolia with a trilby and magnifying glass for you.
I love Test Match Cricket. I'm not going to lecture you on bringing mid-off wider because the ball is holding up in the wicket, nor be disappointed if you said you didn't know/care. It's a game. This is a game. You know that, right? Designed to entertain the masses. Not a career.
I will play whatever way I want to, within the rules not , and I defend everyone's right to do so. Even yours. If you don't agree, the problem is yours.
"That my general statement lack specificity should not be taken as an inability to provide specificity when given a specific scenario to consider."
Do you even know what that means? What sort of a meaningless statement is that?
Honestly, you can carry on with this sort of Big Bang Theory shenanigans all you like. Here's no rhetorical questions for you. You are wrong, the experience since the game launched proves you are wrong, FD are not enforcing what you are saying so you are wrong, people will mostly* (well, you can quantify on no data, so I can too) not care about the BGS and play their own way. You're wrong. You lose. You're playing the wrong game. But that's okay, because Elite is so diverse and so jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, we'll let you stay.
I'm sure you're a nice bloke and all that, I've taken up too much of your time when you could be out
ganking influencing the background o7
