Power Play PVP: chasing a ghost

[CMDR Derrida]

This is something that has been bugging me for a while but I couldn't put my finger on it until now. I am part of a group of players within my faction who form a wing or two and go out undermining in 'open'. We do this rather than delivering media and other tasks because we enjoy potentially meeting enemy commanders, however, this seldom happens and when it does it is generally very one sided ('combat ready' wings kill weaker ships delivering media). This is, I imagine, because the opposite numbers in other factions are most likely doing the same as us: while we are undermining, they are undermining, and never the twain shall meet.
In a nutshell, I think it's a shame that Power Play cannot be engineered so that combat wings end up facing each other more, as when it does happen it is a lot of fun. Perhaps by making the defending of home systems more profitable in terms of merits?
Does anyone agree that there is a catch 22 about PP PVP?

 

[GluttonyFang]

Oh no no no, the people you want to meet are in a dimension called "Solo Mode."

And their valid line of defense is: "What gives you the right to harass us? I don't want to play Powerplay with other players, I want to play against NPC where I will always easily win. If FD forces us to play PowerPlay in Open, I will quit or combat log every time someone pulls me over, deal with it."

Inb4 raging, flaming, and screaming.

*Chuckles in the background*

 

[Tarman]

Wow, this one's already hot for a berth on the threadnaught.

 

[Ghostickles]

I know: lets try to confuse the Mods. Guilds would make PvP more viable for power play.
That ought to do it.

 

[GluttonyFang]

Wow, this one's already hot for a berth on the threadnaught.

The thread itself is calling for the issue to be addressed, thus most likely going into the "Thread of Doom" as a Moderator once said (displaying FD's apathetic attitude toward the issue).

 

[Tarman]

The thread itself is calling for the issue to be addressed, thus most likely going into the "Thread of Doom" as a Moderator once said (displaying FD's apathetic attitude toward the issue).

FD is not the forums. If I ran a forum where people put up the exact same issues leading to circular arguments every week ad nauseum I'd bin them too.

 

[Robert Maynard]

The Solo vs Open vs Groups thread is where discussions on the the merits (or not) of the three game modes, single shared galaxy state and the game mode switching feature should take place.

The Guilds in Elite Dangerous thread is where discussions on that topic should take place.

Closing as merging two topics into the thread for one would be inappropriate.