Is it PvP, PvE or PwPE? & some PvP idea’s

[William H. Bonney]

Is it PvP, PvE or PwPE? & some PvP idea’s

Firstly, I've read some posts here about PvP & PvE and how they seem to be apparently ruining each other, both sides seem to raise some good and flawed points. I’d like some clarification as to what people define them as. Mostly I've noticed some people associate PvP with Open play and PvE with Solo which seems somewhat bizarre to me (in my opinion).
This maybe a lack of knowledge on my part but heres my understandings:

PvP = Player versus Player in a combat or strategy scenario.
PvE = (solo and grouped) Player versus Environmental, single player who isn't affected by conditions by 3rd parties I.E. can’t be destroyed or helped by fellow players (this would include grouped as the group cannot be affected, etc).

The way I see it and this may come back to the lack of knowledge thing, but I would see ED’s open play as…
PwPE = (Player with Player in Environmental) Mixed players who can affect the conditions of other players I.E. helping or destroying another cmdr.

 

[coca_fr]

PwPE = (Player with Player in Environmental) Mixed players who can affect the conditions of other players I.E. helping or destroying another cmdr.
If you can destroy or do anything to an other player, it's PvP

PvE means that you play in an environnement and Non Player Character (NPC). There can be other players, but they cannot affect you.
PvP means that you play in an environnement in interaction with or against other players. You can kill them as well play in cooperation with them. But you also play against NPC.

Solo mode is a PvE mode : You won't meet any other players.
Open mode is mostly a PvE with some PvP content. For now PvP is not at all developped and with this vast galaxy you hardly meet anyone, so for now even in Open, it's still a PvE game.

Both solo and open affect the same environnement and players. It's a problem in the case of PowerPlay as people can silently play against his own factions and others factions without any letal consequences : It's called the 5th column.

Frontier should clearly add an option to accept or not PvP content and invest time to develop PvP content.
They won't put Open as only PvP as they maximilize the possibility for players to see other players online even though they don't interact with them.