Difficult? How difficult would it be to recreate Mobius and make it a button next to "Solo", "Private Group", and "Open" modes? Come on, is that really so difficult?
And I really doubt they're going to move forward with mode-exclusive content, that's a bad idea no matter which way you slice it.
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Personally it's a very sad state of affairs when the best way to enjoy the game is to avoid as much of it as you can on a deep-space exploration voyage.
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Err, where in this thread has *anybody* demanded that anyone be forced to play in any particular mode?
Having the option does not hurt anyone. Period.
Nobody said anything about having an MMORPG-style regional chat window (which most of those games let you easily hide/mute, by the way).
Also, cut all this "we we we" stuff out. You are speaking for yourself and yourself alone, not for me, and not for other responders to this thread. Just you.
There's no such thing as 'performance drops' occuring in Elite as a result of the presence of other players. There are some bugs still, yes, but performance drops? No more than loading a normal NPC ship into your game.
And your last comment about "Open" seems to completely miss the intent and purpose of this thread entirely.
Do you get now why you aren't being taken entirely seriously thus far?
Oh, no. You've hurt my feelings. Internet snowflakes don't take me seriously. Oh, dear. What will I do?
Oh, I know! I'll rebut you with "but, sir, I don't take
you seriously!" Excellent!
No, I don't take seriously at all the notion that
further dividing the game when there's little to no justifiable reason for doing so - literally, pretty much
zero reason - when there are other matters to address. Specifically, the fact that the only real interaction players can have with other humans is to shoot texts at them, or shoot lasers.
"No performance drops."
Well, good for you, pal. But I remember crippling performance issues when
I played in Open years ago, and I'm still seeing people complaining about it now. Mass lag, rubberbanding, hitching/slowdowns in Supercruise -
and I see it when I watch Youtube videos of the game. Especially in areas with high population density.
"PvE doesn't hurt anyone."
Wrong.
- It marginalizes PvP. When you play online, you're playing with other people. Other people can shoot at you if it tickles their fancy to do so. You want to stop/minimize that, make being a jerk have consequences. No, I don't mean, "you're breaking the rules" kind of consequences. I mean in-game, in-universe, plausible ones. And I don't mean randomly spawning overpowered deathmobiles that make no sense at all. In your system, even
less people will have to worry about other players, because everyone will just join up in happy happy "you can't shoot me" fantasy land instead.
- Happy-happy fantasy land is bullcrap. You want PvE, play solo or in group. If you're playing out in the wild, it's ridiculous to have magic force fields preventing aggression. It's nonsense. There are
already options for people who don't want PvP. I use them myself. I
advocate for being able to play without PvP. I don't even
like PvP in Elite, because it's fundamentally, stupidly broken in its current state. Weird, then, that I've got to advocate on its behalf now. The suggestion of PvE-only online mode is terribly artificial, and will further reduce inter-player conflict or risk of being out among other people.
- It's, as I said before, a band-aid for a gunshot wound. You need to give players reason to play together. You've got to give players/the world the ability to combat jerkhats - not by ban-hammers or magic force fields or overpowered NPC deathsleds. You need to add to the universe and give more options. There are NO meaningful player interactions beyond gabbing and blasting. That's your problem. There are NO meaningful ways to discourage murdering players beyond credit penalties and inconvenience. That's another part of your problem. Ducking out of it by giving players a PvE shield will discourage actually fixing this with a better system. We might as well have no online (which is kind of what I've been saying all along).
- You're not courting the people who never cared to play Open to begin with. They've already got Solo or Private. Unless you're for taking those away from them and forcing them to pal around in your bubble (who would want to do
that I wonder), there's no reason why they should want to drop what they've got now and play in a silly, fakey, hacky mode where they're not allowed to shoot other players if they feel the need/want to do so.
) and try to catch up with the stuff going on lately, so sorry if I miss something obvious.
