No, it’s people trying to force others to play a game the way they want it. The majority of comments in threads like these, that are calling for open only, prove that.
General Remove private Lobby and single Player
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okay so how would you both feel about dedicated user-hosted (IE: clan hosted) servers that could (even if only in theory) support modding of some kind with client-side anticheat? That honestly sounds like the best solution to the whole ordeal IMO.
If solo and private are removed what would happen to player events?
Let’s take distant worlds as an example. At the start of the last trip, ships, that were kitted out for long term exploration, were destroyed for a laugh at the first jump point in open. That’s the end of events like this for the majority of players that enjoy them.
What happens with CG’s? Gankers will sit outside the stations, or in the entrance, and destroy anyone who comes nearby. Sure some players will try to defend others, but most will just stop doing them.
Just imagine trying to get to deciat or Shinrata, or other popular systems. Again, this will just deter cmdr’s from these systems and stop them enjoying the game.
I can just imagine what popular Ming spots, material farming spots, thargoid and guardian sites would be like. It’s going to be fun watching someone destroy your ship while you sit there stranded in your srv having just collected the blueprints you need.
Let’s take distant worlds as an example. At the start of the last trip, ships, that were kitted out for long term exploration, were destroyed for a laugh at the first jump point in open. That’s the end of events like this for the majority of players that enjoy them.
What happens with CG’s? Gankers will sit outside the stations, or in the entrance, and destroy anyone who comes nearby. Sure some players will try to defend others, but most will just stop doing them.
Just imagine trying to get to deciat or Shinrata, or other popular systems. Again, this will just deter cmdr’s from these systems and stop them enjoying the game.
I can just imagine what popular Ming spots, material farming spots, thargoid and guardian sites would be like. It’s going to be fun watching someone destroy your ship while you sit there stranded in your srv having just collected the blueprints you need.
Which sounds like a private group to me?
I'm talking gameplay mods though, not simple retextures, but actual gameplay mods that make fundimental changes and alterations that might otherwise trigger whatever anticheat measures are currently implemented..
To what purpose?
experimentation and various preferences.
simply to allow what fdev themselves will do themselves.
I mean why do people mod Skyrim?
Ooh... How long has Skyrim been a multiplayer game... you know, with servers and player accounts and the like?
idk, idc either though,
the multiplayer in this game is literally pointless, that's what the thread is about.
the carebears hate being ganked, you need a carrier to do any real effective trading, all combat is instanced so there's no real large scale actions possible (and large scale actions would annoy the carebears let's not kid ourselves, could you imagine if a squadron tried to enforce a blockade? hah), there's no real economy, just temporary price fluctuations that necessitate hopping to different systems looking for the right price to sell..
I mean this isn't even Wow or LOTR online, those things had far deeper mechanics or lore that made a PVE in multiplayer somewhat more interesting, though those were also smaller and more densely packed worlds.
as far as multiplayer, there's space engineers, Minecraft, Red Orchestra, etc. bunch of games that have multiplayer with mods, heck UT2k4 and HL2 both spawned a massive number of multiplayer games that were originally mods.
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Other than the "playing with others" bit I assume.
Off the top of my head, at a guess, one very interested party is probably FDev.
So plenty of other options for people to investigate, and absolutely no need for FDev to compromise their vision (whatever that is) of what their game should be.
"playing with others" did I not say private servers would be a thing? you could still play with others, just I wouldn't be forced to abide any changes you made to you and your others world, nor would you be forced to abide by my changes,
The objections were to people "playing with others" in ways they don't like, (primarily because PVPers are playing a different game from the PVE'ers..)
and frontier wouldn't be compromising their Vision, mods are unofficial and therefore do not compromise the "Vanilla", or the "Official" version of the game rather complement it.
The objections, are to the possibility of having no other option but to play the game, that they have been playing for years now, in a way that they do not want to.
Mmmmmhhh I see you mention “carebears” twice to try and illustrate your point. I guess you mean people who want to play the game the way they have always played it.
so are people who like ganking not playing the game as they've always liked playing it?
I just dislike people trying to force other people to play the game they want by asking for solo and private to be removed.
Just let people play the game how they want to.
By definition gankers are players who try and force other players into their way of playing by destroying them over and over until they either go to Solo/PG or leave the game, thus forcing their gameplay on others. The so called "carebears" are players who simply want to play the game the way they do, and here's the important distinction, without forcing others to also play that way! You can see the clear distinction right? One is a description of behaviour, one is an insult to players to try and enforce a point of view.
you don't get to say "I'm not it" if part of being in the playground includes you potentially being it (or being grabbed by everyone else and pushed down the slide as they shout "sacrifice! sacrifice! sacrifice!")
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Which playground?
You mean the playground you are trying to force everybody to play in when that's not the playground they want to be in. Sort of like forcing all the sandcastle makers into the dodgeball court then saying, "well if you don't want to play dodgeball you shouldn't be in the dodgeball court!