Powerplay is under consideration to be open only
Was.
Modes Mega ships open only content?
- Thread starter Wyldwiisel
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Was.
Loooot of assumptions there...
No...as the game is run off a monolithic database for all platforms and desired interaction levels.
Sandro has jumped ship? As far as I know there have not been any management changes to the game...it has always advertised as a 'everyone plays in the same galaxy' game.
Absolutely. It's easy to request anything you want.
Now, I'm not implying that your request won't be ignored. Just that you can request anything.
no idea. he just doesn't get into the spot light lately, could be a lot of reasons for that ...
Getting singled out for all that dev bashing might just deter him from talking to us.
Is your faction large enough that you can have someone patrolling 24/7? do your pilots have a pager, so when a faction from the other side of the world decides to attack, you can all be pulled out of bed at 3am and defend your assets?
But if you're playing in solo (or PG) on the same platform as them they can't shoot you (or anyone else who shuns Open), surely you understand that? Wasn't there a big grumble in the recent past about folk playing in solo/pg UA bombing something or other?
I play solo/pg as I really don't want to be bothered by other players who 'live' their PP or other fantasies - if PvP could be nominated in open (I assume it is the PvP fans advocating Open only?) by doing something simple like switching off the 'Report Crimes Against Me' button (being invisible to PvP or PP players if on) we could all exist happpily in Open, but as it is unlikely to happen let's keep the Status Quo
You can play in solo but you shouldn't be able to kill my faction Megaships that's all I'm saying without me been able to kill you for trying
Sandro hasn't jumped ship; he is still the Lead Designer of Elite Dangerous.
Seems a reasonable question to me (and I have never - nor have any intention to ever - play Open).
Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible!) there's no way of countering an attack on a megaship in your space. The attacker can attack in any mode/platform, but the defender MUST be in the same instance to defend. If the attacker uses Solo or a PG, there's no counter. Unlike many other cases, there's no real PvE alternative either.
Of course there are other questions as well that I don't understand yet - if a megaship is disabled in one instance, is it disabled in all instances simultaneously? Or could one defend it successfully in one Open instance and have it disabled in another?
Never mind the impracticalities of defence in online games - attack can be any time, defence must be constant. (Which is why I previously suggested scheduled jumps by carriers would be a good idea: they'd allow for scheduled battles and thus organised defences).
I need to rewatch the stream to see if there's info I've missed. I'm very confused.
Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible!) there's no way of countering an attack on a megaship in your space. The attacker can attack in any mode/platform, but the defender MUST be in the same instance to defend. If the attacker uses Solo or a PG, there's no counter. Unlike many other cases, there's no real PvE alternative either.
Of course there are other questions as well that I don't understand yet - if a megaship is disabled in one instance, is it disabled in all instances simultaneously? Or could one defend it successfully in one Open instance and have it disabled in another?
Never mind the impracticalities of defence in online games - attack can be any time, defence must be constant. (Which is why I previously suggested scheduled jumps by carriers would be a good idea: they'd allow for scheduled battles and thus organised defences).
I need to rewatch the stream to see if there's info I've missed. I'm very confused.
Seems a reasonable question to me (and I have never - nor have any intention to ever - play Open).
Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible!) there's no way of countering an attack on a megaship in your space. The attacker can attack in any mode/platform, but the defender MUST be in the same instance to defend. If the attacker uses Solo or a PG, there's no counter. Unlike many other cases, there's no real PvE alternative either.
Of course there are other questions as well that I don't understand yet - if a megaship is disabled in one instance, is it disabled in all instances simultaneously? Or could one defend it successfully in one Open instance and have it disabled in another?
Never mind the impracticalities of defence in online games - attack can be any time, defence must be constant. (Which is why I previously suggested scheduled jumps by carriers would be a good idea: they'd allow for scheduled battles and thus organised defences).
I need to rewatch the stream to see if there's info I've missed. I'm very confused.
Basically what he said
Squadrons stream is next week, carriers have been postponed.I need to rewatch the stream to see if there's info I've missed. I'm very confused.
Megaships are NOT player megaships, the megaships will get the aligned to the controlling faction when they enter a system. There is no disabling megaships (totally) unless it is dockable (which might not be the broad case) and even then it wont happen until the next weekly reboot and by then the ship will be moved to another system.
They will just a new POI in the system. It is a galaxy-wide asset, best case scenario, attacking/defending it could (potentially) be just like a new CZ (this is just a guess), but it wont be much different than someone attacking an outpost right now (if attacking an outpost was a thing).
No, because that isn't how instancing works.
There isn't ONE megaship that either survives or doesn't. It isn't an actual thing. Its just a scenario. You win an encounter, your faction gets points. They win an encounter, they get points. Simples.
With the instancing, it's surely about the balance of the factions over a period. One instance wont make much difference compared to the potentially significant number of total instances over the period, and will feed into the totality of all the factors and scenarios and trade/etc etc that will affect the state of each faction.Seems a reasonable question to me (and I have never - nor have any intention to ever - play Open).
Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible!) there's no way of countering an attack on a megaship in your space. The attacker can attack in any mode/platform, but the defender MUST be in the same instance to defend. If the attacker uses Solo or a PG, there's no counter. Unlike many other cases, there's no real PvE alternative either.
Of course there are other questions as well that I don't understand yet - if a megaship is disabled in one instance, is it disabled in all instances simultaneously? Or could one defend it successfully in one Open instance and have it disabled in another?
Never mind the impracticalities of defence in online games - attack can be any time, defence must be constant. (Which is why I previously suggested scheduled jumps by carriers would be a good idea: they'd allow for scheduled battles and thus organised defences).
I need to rewatch the stream to see if there's info I've missed. I'm very confused.
It's not going to EVER be about direct face to face interactions between the players for a faction - it will be totality of the players in all modes, almost all of whom will never kill a CMDR from an opposing faction. edit - or meet at a single megaship in the same instance.
Who mentioned probes??