I definitely agree that Powerplay actions should be restricted to Open only, but I think these restrictions should be taken further. For starters, UA bombing should only be allowed in Open, in that if at any point while carrying UAs the player enters Solo/PG, the UA can no longer affect stations, and the same for Meta-Alloys. BGS should still be able to be influenced by Solo/PG, but possibly in a reduced state (25-50% of normal influence changes). Just my opinion.
That didn't take long! [rolleyes]
Yeah...Lets just kill the entire game for the majority of players and be done with it!
Good luck with next year when more than 50% have left the game in disgust.
I am not a fan of UA bombing... But this move to change PowerPlay is only going to open the flood gates for the "Open Only" rabble who won't rest until the entire game is Open Only.
It will be a dead game/community "when" that happens, but the handful of loud mouths pushing for this idiocy will have finally gotten their way.
Yeah...Lets just kill the entire game for the majority of players and be done with it!
Good luck with next year when more than 50% have left the game in disgust.
I am not a fan of UA bombing... But this move to change PowerPlay is only going to open the flood gates for the "Open Only" rabble who won't rest until the entire game is Open Only.
It will be a dead game/community "when" that happens, but the handful of loud mouths pushing for this idiocy will have finally gotten their way.
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I personally don't have an issue with this.
As long as the game then has an offline mode / private server, open to the modding community thereafter.
No.
You get restricted to open, and you get restricted to open, and you get restricted to open!
Everyone gets restricted to open!
Everyone gets restricted to open!
Agree, open should be the only mode to affect any BGS or other metric, if its fair for pp it's fair for all aspects of the sim, markets missions etc. Make open only & subscriptions to enable better pvp interactions.
Basically disenfranchising an entire segment of the community based on their lack of access to the top tier broadband speeds required to make Open Mode playable and viable. (under FDEV's current lackluster/broken P2P system) Either through geographic location or financial restrictions or both.
Why anyone would think this is a good idea is beyond me. It doesn't get more blatantly discriminatory than that!
This is the kind of stuff Class Action Lawsuits are founded on.
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No I'm not gonna trust them to keep that promise after just breaking the 'all modes are equal' pledge? No, logically every action should be just open only.
Off line mode. Job done.
Better - Let's split Elite into two separate games - one that entirely Open Only that the Open Only players can play, and one without Open that everyone else can play.
Elite: Open Only will only connect to Elite: Open Only, and Elite: Everyone Else will only connect to Everyone Else. Each can have its own BGS and neither is more "Official" than the other. Accounts do not transfer between the two, so once you pick one, that's where you stay.
Elite: Open Only will only connect to Elite: Open Only, and Elite: Everyone Else will only connect to Everyone Else. Each can have its own BGS and neither is more "Official" than the other. Accounts do not transfer between the two, so once you pick one, that's where you stay.
The BGS is non confrontational PvP. It does not need to be in open only. Powerplay was designed around PvP, hence the reason why nobody is playing it as it is pointless. You can't fight against the people in solo or private groups.
I don't even use powerplay, but I do see the reasons for having powerplay open only.
Everything else it fine as is though.
Personally I don't think they should have added a PvP only component in to the game in the first place. It was always going to be a recipe for disaster.
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Considering PvP is about the one thing that does NOT affect the BGS in any meaningful way, there is absolutely zero point in making it Open only.
Except that "Everyone" will be doing this on Wednesdays, just before the update cycle, which will then put an even heavier burden on a system that already can't handle much.
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