Powerplay in Solo
- Thread starter Aquaface
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People are just mad other people get to play their own way. There's always gonna be wannabe control-freaks I guess.
But until NPCs are equal to players you can't consider them an equal opposition- since Open is whatever NPC RNG is + pledges + anyone else thats a lot more to consider. Its does not matter if players find it 'unfun', it has to pose enough threat regardless to alter how you play otherwise its ineffectual. Until PP NPCs offer consistent challenges players who face other players are doing more directly and indirectly.
FD can achieve that via a redesign, or weighting. Ironically Solo would be the hardest mode if the NPCs were actually potent.
Which is the majority of pledges really, going by the amount of Discord channels devoted to it.
Powerplay is objective driven. It makes sense that rewards are derived from objectives being won.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Engineering adds nothing to the rebuy - so a fully engineered ship risks no more than an unengineered ship.
Engineering probably reduces the risk of destruction - very significantly in some cases.
But engineering = a time investment, or does that not count?
If you have the threat of facing equally potent designs the difference is negated, unlike in solo with PP NPCs 100% of the time having no engineering at all.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
In a game where other players are optional I'd suggest that NPCs won't be set to a level that is equal to players - in a game that does not offer a difficulty level setting.
Threat to whom? Not all players will face the same challenge differential simply because not all players have the same skill.
.... and the probability of NPCs being set to that level of challenge this long after release is, I would suspect, miniscule.
Which is not representative of all pledges - as Powerplay can be engaged in after about an hour's gameplay, i.e. one can pledge immediately after leaving the starter systems.
In which case it's nothing to do with risk - just achieving the objective.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
The time investment of engineering is not lost on rebuy as all engineered modules are replaced.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
The player in the ship that has less risk-mitigation engineered in faces the greater risk, if player skill is equal.
I strongly suspect that some players have no engineering at all.
gosh is it that time already? 
lol got any sources for that or you in charge of the good ship hyperbole?
Equalizing difficulty is fundamentally impossible, anyway. Difficulty is largely dependent on player skill , so what's easy to one player may be impossible to another.
If you truly wanted equalized difficulty, you would need to implement an ELO system, and highly skilled players would be unable to instance with low skill players. Other games have been experimenting with competitive gameplay like this since the 90s, and it's one of the few ways they've effectively been able to solve the problem.
If you truly wanted equalized difficulty, you would need to implement an ELO system, and highly skilled players would be unable to instance with low skill players. Other games have been experimenting with competitive gameplay like this since the 90s, and it's one of the few ways they've effectively been able to solve the problem.
you wish. at page #1 already the thread has gone places ignoring op completely.
you know, he has a point and everybody(*) knows that. but he is also playing the wrong game and everybody except him seems to know that. many like him have been where he is now, he just needs to adjust. meanwhile, other forumites are just having a hearty chat because these threads just lift everybody's spirits! it's the circle of life! cheers!
(*) stylistic hyperbole.
Actually, if you were around when the idea was floated by a member of FDev staff (and by your forum date you were), paying attention to those threads did show a majority of posters in favour of many of the proposed changes, but a lot of posts from less posters opposing any changes. So...
Actually, if you were around when the idea was floated by a member of FDev staff (and by your forum date you were), paying attention to those threads did show a majority of posters in favour of many of the proposed changes, but a lot of posts from less posters opposing any changes. So...
That's assuming the forum community is representative of the wider player base.
In my experience, it is not.
Outside these forums players seem to be more accepting of PvP, or at least multiplayer actually meaning multiplayer.
That's just me though, others may well say different.
Think that's just you.