[Starting Screen] - Make Open Opt-In instead of Opt-Out

[Chrystoph]

Current relevant debate in progress...

Frontier Should Abandon "OPEN" Mode to Save Elite

Ganking is destroying Elite. Players quit in frustration after all their exploration data is lost or they are sent back to a Sidewinder because a ganker was "just having fun". Solution is simple. Make the game modes just "SOLO" and "Private Group" because this will permanently end ganking...

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[MickyG1982]

Current relevant debate in progress...

Frontier Should Abandon "OPEN" Mode to Save Elite

Ganking is destroying Elite. Players quit in frustration after all their exploration data is lost or they are sent back to a Sidewinder because a ganker was "just having fun". Solution is simple. Make the game modes just "SOLO" and "Private Group" because this will permanently end ganking...

forums.frontier.co.uk

You spelled irrelevant wrong.

 

[FX2K]

I still don't get why exploration data is lost. Materials, Encoded data, backpack contents and most of that stuff isn't.

Anyway, why not just make it so everybody has a choice which mode to play in, with a selection of buttons for each mode... oh wait!

 

[zombieapocalypse]

As I said in that other thread, just because open is first in the list doesn't make it the "default" mode or "opt-out". You're presented with five options, each of which comes with a description. Open, PG and Solo all describe succinctly whether or not you'll be able to encounter other players. If people are choosing open by mistake or because they didn't realize there are other game modes, then they need to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

And as other folks have mentioned, this won't stop the complaints about being "ganked" in open.

 

[[PS4] Filthymick420]

Title says it all, move the Solo option to the starting default, and force people to move the selector to Open.

So, a lot of people complain that being in Open promotes seal clubbing, and other forms of bullying behavior.

It would be beneficial to ensure that you CHOOSE to play in Open instead of landing there by default.

Or people could learn how to read something before clicking it. That doesn't seem unreasonable.

 

[Chrystoph]

As I said in that other thread, just because open is first in the list doesn't make it the "default" mode or "opt-out". You're presented with five options, each of which comes with a description. Open, PG and Solo all describe succinctly whether or not you'll be able to encounter other players. If people are choosing open by mistake or because they didn't realize there are other game modes, then they need to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

And as other folks have mentioned, this won't stop the complaints about being "ganked" in open.

No, it won't, but, when the game double clicks for you and you wind up in Open, this would change that to Solo.