Which is all well and good for EVE, however Frontier didn't set out to make an EVE-like game. They didn't seek funding on the Kickstarter for an EVE-like game, and the design they published at the start of the Kickstarter was clearly not for an EVE-like game.
Players can choose to play in any game mode, but players cannot force other players to play with them.
Is there a realistic expectation that players who don't enjoy PvP would be happy to be forced to play among those who enjoy PvP to engage in existing mode shared game features?
EVE is a game where PvP is less optional than it is in this game, with other players being an optional extra here.
Why not ask the EVE developers to introduce first person flight?
.... and there's no need to copy EVE in a non-EVE-like game.
This one is just a baby compared to those that have gone before:
There have been several threads on the topic of switching between solo/private groups/open. This thread is going to be the merge target for all other threads on the topic, no matter how 'unique' the thread creator may think their thread is. Creating a poll is not unique. Posting in here has...
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Elite Dangerous is an online game that allows players to play in three potential 'modes': Online ALL group (called open play) where the player is in the same universe as all other players and can see and be seen by all others in open play Online PRIVATE GROUP play where the player is online in...
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Elite Dangerous is an online game that allows players to play in three potential 'modes': Online ALL group (called open play) where the player is in the same universe as all other players and can see and be seen by all others in open play Online PRIVATE GROUP play where the player is online in...
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Elite Dangerous is an online game that allows players to play in three potential 'modes': Online ALL group (called open play) where the player is in the same universe as all other players and can see and be seen by all others in open play Online PRIVATE GROUP play where the player is online in...
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.... and this discussion started about the time that the Kickstarter ended, a little over eleven years ago, when some backers realised that others would not be forced to play with them to affect the shared galaxy state.
Here's a link to the FAQ posted during the Kickstarter phase which may go some way to explaining why the game is the way it is (for reference, the OP of the thread Ashley Barley was a Community Manager at the time):
FAQ- Elite: Dangerous Where can I pledge to Elite: Dangerous? You can pledge to Elite: Dangerous on Kickstarter here or by PayPal here Can you release “Elite” on the (iPhone/iPad/Console/Mac/Linux/Oculus Rift/Raspberry Pi) platform? Yes. It would be great. The PC version comes first though...
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