So you wont be pushing for people to be in open then? as you used another mode.
Modes Open and private MOD
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So you wont be pushing for people to be in open then? as you used another mode.
Seriously? are you scared or need the buff of engineers to complement your skills?
I advocate Open as to be the main mode, yes.
As in say, Elite's Elite mode my friend. No harm done to Open. Not as much as to come here to demand Open being unplayable a horde of griefers and abuse everywhere, I think.
There is be more harm done to Elite, cos of "evidence" about what grievance Open is, as ever so few lunatics online can harvest dew to their stupidity.
Threads like: "Five minutes in Open, I am dead" = proof! While Commanders logging well over 2373 hours in Open, proof the opposite. But whom am I? Logic applied to life 's not for everyone.
Cheers
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You put any new commander against the new C&P and they are all dead anyway, even in solo.. It only proves that new players need some distance from experienced players the first hours of game time, not just the first jump.
And yet to hide from the benefit of open mode
So you want us in open, but you won't stay in open for the same reason we don't want open.
If you want us in open, you should make an example and stay there, show us how to play in busy areas with lots of commanders.
Engineers 3.0 stopped the grind wars. You have no excuses, all stats are known in advance.
CQC is trash, can we move on?
Open mode is trash, can we move on?
So here are my 2 Credits (again)...
I also play in Open most of the time, even when i want to visit the one or the other engineer. I love the thrill, that gets me, when I'm about to jump into the system. I also NEVER EVER fly without a descent ship-setup AND, most of all, several rebuys. Always expect the worst, so you can only be surprised positively.
I still don't get the absolutl requirment to fully G5 my vessel, because...okay here's the BAD wording..."gettin gud" is the way to stay alive in ED. And "gettin gud" is not to engineer your ship apart nor stand and fight. It is about knowing your skill (and improving it), your vessel, your enemy, and your chances and odds.
I'm no PvP'er extraordinaire. I almost everytime will get the hell out of trouble, but when I'm in trouble, I hope for the best that my "plan b" ist water (bullet)-proof.
a short story, just a couple of days old:
I wanted to visit Broo. As usual, i went trough my checklist:
Wing Management tab set? checked
Navigation-Panel Filters set? checked
Escape-Route planned? checked
Defensive-Systems online and set? checked
Okay, here we go: Engage Jump!
I entered the system. As predicted some hollow squares welcomed me on the radar. My heart was almost ready to ragequit. What the frag? A Corvette, A Cutter, the one or the other python. Checked the subsystems of the assumed enemies. Oh okay. The pythons don't carry any FSI. Nice. But the Corvette and the Cutter. Okay Eli, kiss your butt goodbye.
But hey! All the sweating for what? For a very nice "o7" in the comms panel. We met up at the base and got a little chitchat about outfitting and paintjobs.
For ^THAT^ I play in Open. You feel alive. Solo or private is, for me, not to feel alive, but for feeling "godlike". I don't really ever considered beeing a god. To much trouble and responsibility for everything.
99% of my playtime in open is a fun way wasting my time. Okay, i got shot 2 to 3 times, but I will always stick to that one saying:
Shoot me once, shame on you!
Shoot me twice, shame on me!
We, as human beeings have a BIG advantage above other species: The ability to adapt to certain situations.
So therefore, for me, solo is simply boring as hell.
So, fly safe out there fellow commanders. Hope to see you in the black. o7
I also play in Open most of the time, even when i want to visit the one or the other engineer. I love the thrill, that gets me, when I'm about to jump into the system. I also NEVER EVER fly without a descent ship-setup AND, most of all, several rebuys. Always expect the worst, so you can only be surprised positively.
I still don't get the absolutl requirment to fully G5 my vessel, because...okay here's the BAD wording..."gettin gud" is the way to stay alive in ED. And "gettin gud" is not to engineer your ship apart nor stand and fight. It is about knowing your skill (and improving it), your vessel, your enemy, and your chances and odds.
I'm no PvP'er extraordinaire. I almost everytime will get the hell out of trouble, but when I'm in trouble, I hope for the best that my "plan b" ist water (bullet)-proof.
a short story, just a couple of days old:
I wanted to visit Broo. As usual, i went trough my checklist:
Wing Management tab set? checked
Navigation-Panel Filters set? checked
Escape-Route planned? checked
Defensive-Systems online and set? checked
Okay, here we go: Engage Jump!
I entered the system. As predicted some hollow squares welcomed me on the radar. My heart was almost ready to ragequit. What the frag? A Corvette, A Cutter, the one or the other python. Checked the subsystems of the assumed enemies. Oh okay. The pythons don't carry any FSI. Nice. But the Corvette and the Cutter. Okay Eli, kiss your butt goodbye.
But hey! All the sweating for what? For a very nice "o7" in the comms panel. We met up at the base and got a little chitchat about outfitting and paintjobs.
For ^THAT^ I play in Open. You feel alive. Solo or private is, for me, not to feel alive, but for feeling "godlike". I don't really ever considered beeing a god. To much trouble and responsibility for everything.
99% of my playtime in open is a fun way wasting my time. Okay, i got shot 2 to 3 times, but I will always stick to that one saying:
Shoot me once, shame on you!
Shoot me twice, shame on me!
We, as human beeings have a BIG advantage above other species: The ability to adapt to certain situations.
So therefore, for me, solo is simply boring as hell.
So, fly safe out there fellow commanders. Hope to see you in the black. o7
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
PvP is not a universally preferred play-style, nor one that all players find to be "fun", can we move on?
The busiest mode in the game, while noone plays CQC, I dont understand what are you even arguing about.
Cool story from someone who hides in SOLO.
I am waiting for a duel from anyone here in open in a ship of their choice against my FAS. Unless all you can do is forum pvp.
This is a confirmation bias. The people you know are the people you choose to know, they are people who think like you. They are hardly representative of the player base or gamers in general.
I've been gaming for over 30 years. What I have learned is that games are not designed to accommodate everyone. If they were there would be far fewer games on the market. Elite is not designed for competitive high-stakes game play. It's just not. It wasn't marketed that way, it wasn't designed that way, its pedigree wasn't focused on that either. This game continues a development arc of games that eschewed competitive high-stakes play for a more open, cooperative, completely optional experience.
Play a game that you like, a game that rewards you for nothing more than playing it. Do not force a game to accommodate your play style and preferences. For example, I love Overwatch. For PvP I play the ever loving **** out of Overwatch. It's accessible, well designed (for the most part), with a forgiving learning curve, but Overwatch has a problem: withering competition, competition I'm not at all interested in. Why would I bother playing it, you ask? Because, it's fun, and when it ceases being fun I go play something else: Fractured Space, Fallout 4, PlanetSide 2, Star Trek Online, Diablo III, StarCraft II, ad infinitum, all day if I could get away with it, until I get bored and do something else.
Stop demanding something the game designers and forum mods have repeatedly said is not going to be the focus of this game. Stop demanding a game change to fit your play style. Find a game that rewards you. Play something else, that is the adult thing to do.
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Except you still have to play a lot to get to those maxed out ships, and not all of us fly the big boys anyway. I now have a lovely collection of Cobras, Mk3 and Mk4. My last dedicated combat ship that isn't a cobra will be sold just as soon as I can bring myself to do it, as i don't want to lose the use of my copilot.
So, its not like I have anything comparable to a bigger ship in terms of combat ability... so, no level playing field for me.
However, CQC can provide that level playing field still.
Didn't we already have a duel? You beat me. Still didn't prove anything except that a PvP ship flown by a half compentent pilot can beat a PvE ship flown by an incompentent pilot. It doesn't resolve any arguments on the forums.
How about a game of tic tac toe?
I dont think I ever saw you in the game. Doubt it was me.
You're on the list. After I layed some smackdown on Jason, play a cheerleader for Vin, I will happily let you destroy me a couple of times in Open.
Would only be fair wouldn't it? Seeing how often I have destroyed you in forum PvP.