That's not what I'd call "play in open all the time"
Thats dishonest. Open has a risk that solo/PG doesnt have: hostile other players. Dealing with that requires a small amount of skill and knowledge you dont need outside of Open. Except for some xeno-fights ED is as difficult as Wacky Wheels in kid mode, so some people like a bit more danger.
Yeah. Following the true PvP spirit of open, I shoot the git that came first to my favorite grinding spot. /sThat's not what I'd call "play in open all the time"
(But it's ok, that's what modes are for)
You say you've been in Open and you haven't been ganked to death all the time though you met other players?!? Quite the feat!Hey all,
I tried mining last night, Void Opals or something. Forgot I was in open, then remembered, I had loads of fun. I didnt get ganked or experience the dreaded Drag Munintions.I saw a couple of Cmdrs, not an 07 at all. Carried on didnt earn much, but was learning the mining things. Much fun was had, especially when trying to find the best price for the 25 opals i had eventually got. Nice explosions tho.
Fly safe in the black you crazy kids
Indeed, if you leave out the differences there are no differences. So yes, if you leave out the hollow squares, i.e. other people, there was no difference between multiplay and solo. If you sincerely don't understand the difference between being near potentially hostile humans and not being near potentially hostile humans I am not sure where to start explaining it.
Open mode has not gotten a bad rap. It has the reputation it has for a reason. Not everybody who plays a game like this is trying to push the deathmatch button but even then at least that's competitive gameplay. All the other shenanigans people do to amuse themselves is why I think a lot of people prefer to stay in private groups or solo. If you want to label that has danger knock yourself out. Doesn't make my take dishonest.
So if he did not see hollow squares would he have enjoyed the experience the same?
Yeah one thing I learned some time ago that I wasn't aware of already was that just because you encounter a large group of ships doesn't mean they care about each other. If they're winged then there's automatically going to be some script that ties them together but otherwise they never defend each other. I killed three anacondas the other day in one USS instance. I thought they were originally together so I wasn't sure I wanted to engage but once I saw they weren't winged it was pretty simple. The other three just set there and waited their turns.I was in open in a mining Phantom taking photos of a rocky ring and suddenly noticed a Clipper and Challenger in my viewfinder. They were NPCs checking out my cargo. I had none at the time.
Decided to test my weapons on the Clipper to see what would happen, expecting to have to leg it pretty fast. The strange thing is ...... the Clipper attacked but the Challenger just sat back and watched. I destroyed the Clipper after a frustrating duel, with my hull dangerously low. Then the Challenger just cleared off.
Maybe they were a spawn of independent ships and not in a wing?
Lesson learned though. My ship's defences are too weak and require a rebuild. If I had encountered an aggressive wing and had cargo, I would have had to rely on boosting away. Or hiding.
How am I not doing that?
So you dismissed the concept of deathmatch mentality but your very first line item is to make your ship gank proof. Then your next one is to have situational awareness so that you can't be jumped. And your third one is to have even more situational awareness so that you can't be griefed at engineering bases. All of that to me sounds like deathmatch proofing. If it's not then I apologize but I'm wondering why you differentiated and took issue with the concept of deathmatch mentality then listed three things that basically involved being forced into unwanted deathmatch.
Well you already agreed that he would have probably had as much fun even with without seeing any hollow squares so I don't see any reason to debate this.
