No charge. Either they allow anyone access or not. The commodities system does not support this, so no. No discounts on anything. When I (Archon Delaine) fly to another power's home system, I get shot on site by NPCs and commanders. Exactly, we fight over stations for other reasons. Maybe the system has HIRES sites. A pristine metallic belt. A high tech system. Who knows, but a lot of people would enjoy that.
The New Guilds and Player Owned Stations Discussion Thread.
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No charge. Either they allow anyone access or not. The commodities system does not support this, so no. No discounts on anything. When I (Archon Delaine) fly to another power's home system, I get shot on site by NPCs and commanders. Exactly, we fight over stations for other reasons. Maybe the system has HIRES sites. A pristine metallic belt. A high tech system. Who knows, but a lot of people would enjoy that.
A lot of people play solo to avoid chatting or interacting with other people entirely, not just to avoid being targeted. Some people are simply introverted, shy, or don't want to read "r u a n00b?" when trying to immerse themselves in a game.
Speaking of which, having ships flying around which you arbitrarily can't target, yet can see, because of a game selection is extremely immersion breaking.
Not in favour of any of this.
Had a look , could not help but find it funny. just drama and more drama... if elite was in danger FD would do something and its not 90% who dont like powerplay just ignore it. here the thing most who say ''many are leaving" are saying so after leaving so have no idea how many are in or out of game
If solo commanders did not want to play in the "open world" like that they could chose not to see other commanders. It's just an option for pvp-averse but extroverted solo players! haha
I vote no for guilds and no for player owned stations......sorry the game was made on the premise that you are a small fry and just a small cog in a very large wheel.....to put it plainly as a commander you just simply aren't that important.
Edit Pasted from closed thread on this subject: ......to reiterate a pilot in E: D is a nobody and just not important enough to own a station and for goodness sakes I hope this is something they never implement or ever see's the light of day. The game is not designed for guilds or players owning stations and I hope it stays that way......the only compromise should be a power chat channel for those who want to coordinate for power play in open and that is the extent of what should be done imho.
Edit Pasted from closed thread on this subject: ......to reiterate a pilot in E: D is a nobody and just not important enough to own a station and for goodness sakes I hope this is something they never implement or ever see's the light of day. The game is not designed for guilds or players owning stations and I hope it stays that way......the only compromise should be a power chat channel for those who want to coordinate for power play in open and that is the extent of what should be done imho.
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If Mr Solo doesn't want to see other people - he clicks on Solo Play. You forcing Mr Solo into Open Play as a pet is just going to make everyone unhappy. It's not just an option for pvp-averse but extroverted solo players to be part of your scenery - I can think offhand of maybe 8 or 10 ways it could be used to grief. Nobody wants that. You really don't want Solo players who are determined to be on their own forced into Open instances. IP nuking and DOS would be utterly rampant.
Nobody would be forced to play that way. It's just an option.
An option that you have forced on Solo players by making them visible to your Open crew for, urm, scenery.
There are undoubtedly some Solo players who would absolutely love this to happen - a spoon-fed list of IP's of Open pew-pews that they can play with with no danger of ever actually interacting with them. It's almost nearly the perfect grief tool.
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If solo people wanted to keep playing totally alone, they would still be able to do that. And what's with the pet thing. Some of us like seeing and talking to real people in the game.
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I too havent changed my vote
I enjoy Open play with groups and wings but not the Guild Mechancis wanted
I feel no need to register on reddit just to express that when I have a forum account here.
You see and talk with other player who made the same choice in playing Open. You wanting a Solo player forced into your actions is like owning a pet slug. You can observe it, and watch what it does, but you can never communicate with it.
Not that Solo players are slugs of course, just that your level of interaction with them would be the same - as they don't know you even exist.
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As a fox I take offense of being compared to a slug
On a serious note concerning this thread, I'm torn on this really. Guilds and the sort would be nice and (somewhat) make me a bit more comfortable with jumping onto Open knowing I have comrades and perhaps even a base of operations hell even the inclusion of activities or tasks.
However if you want to be a bit cynical on that, isn't powerplay, the very thing a lot of people hate just a glorified giant guild system. You have 10 "guilds" (the powers) some of which are in an alliance and work together (hudson + winter) you're alligned already (not necessary since we also have pirates) together by joining said "guild" and all these tasks for merits are grindy guild activities.
Taking a turn for the worse, I've read here on the forums of people attacking others due to RP-ing "blockades" based on what power they represent, it would not surprise me if these player-controlled stations/systems or guilds could just as happily "blockade" other players and killing anyone nearby.
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As a fox I take offense of being compared to a slug
On a serious note concerning this thread, I'm torn on this really. Guilds and the sort would be nice and (somewhat) make me a bit more comfortable with jumping onto Open knowing I have comrades and perhaps even a base of operations hell even the inclusion of activities or tasks.
However if you want to be a bit cynical on that, isn't powerplay, the very thing a lot of people hate just a glorified giant guild system. You have 10 "guilds" (the powers) some of which are in an alliance and work together (hudson + winter) you're alligned already (not necessary since we also have pirates) together by joining said "guild" and all these tasks for merits are grindy guild activities.
Taking a turn for the worse, I've read here on the forums of people attacking others due to RP-ing "blockades" based on what power they represent, it would not surprise me if these player-controlled stations/systems or guilds could just as happily "blockade" other players and killing anyone nearby.
I saw a youtube video of one person breaking through the blockade. She was in an anaconda and got interdicted by a python pirate. A long battle ensued, at many times it looked like the pirate was going to win. At the very last moment, the anaconda won! Both the trader and pirate had fun.
But if they can do this already, nothing really changes with player-owned stations.
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This thread is now a poll! Let's do some voting.
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But how can you have player-owned stations without guilds? You could vote for both and just don't be in a guild.
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If FD were to implement a separate Guild Mode beside Solo, Group, and Open - I would be fully supportive of that.
But - who is to decide that a rich player cannot own a station without being in a guild? Makes no sense to me. You'd have to be really rich though, and I honestly don't believe that many player groups are rich enough to even think about the costs and expenses of operating a station.
But - who is to decide that a rich player cannot own a station without being in a guild? Makes no sense to me. You'd have to be really rich though, and I honestly don't believe that many player groups are rich enough to even think about the costs and expenses of operating a station.
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I don't see anything in your thread. It's blank for me.
I agree that we can find a way to do it that will be good for most people.
A separate mode just for people who want to play in a guild environment......I could get behind this if it didn't change or erase open and was completely separate from it.......something tells me that the people who want guilds wouldn't go for this though as there would be no lone wolfs to pick on.
Ha. Yeah.
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