You're right. It's really not difficult to learn how to survive a player interdiction. However, I find the experience not at all pleasant and don't wish to deal with it anymore. The final straw for me was a CG many years back where the station got flipped to anarchy or something, and there were a bunch of people hanging around ramming traders as they came in. I just don't like dealing with people who want to annoy me to entertain themselves, so I don't go to Open anymore.More like "get mildly competent" post and not in disguise and certainly not get off my lawn. More like, pick your own lawn. The game offers several. Learning to set an emergency warp out point you can high wake to (can't be mass locked) to avoid gankers is Elite Dangerous 101. I learned it years ago and have seen it brought up in SEVERAL posts not only here, but on Reddit too. It saved my bacon a few times just in the last few CG's that I flew in open during. I like the extra sense of danger from knowing there might be gankers out there. I don't always fly in open, i'll use PG's when flying with PTN or AXI or Operation IDA, etc. I'll use solo when I'm engineering and just can't be bothered with all that. Anyway, the game gives us options that can suit anyone's play style. As the kids say, you do you.
It's self-selecting. I think the vast majority of players prefer not dealing with that stuff, so they leave, and then people are like, "Why is there never anyone in Open?"
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