As the shared galaxy, with its pan-modal game features, forms part of the game that every player bought, no player actually plays a single player game - by design. That the game does not force players to play together to experience and affect the shared galaxy is another feature of the game - contentious for some - but a feature of the game we all bought nonetheless.
Unfortunately not. If it were done as you say for PP It would be not any different than now. Not speaking of full immersion breaking. Next thing you would ask to bounce from asteroids and fly through the stations?
'features' of a game change over time and it seems weird to argue that features can't change when in most every game they tend to change over time. The one true fact being those that stagnate and dont change die.
Unfortunately in the opinion of some.
You are overlooking the Griefer's mantra:
Some things change, some don't. Many things have changed in this game without affecting the three game modes and the fact that they all affect the shared galaxy.
Indeed - it's a way to give those who don't actually want to share the galaxy with those who don't need to play with them a galaxy of their own to affect, without changing the game for those who are prepared to share the galaxy with players in the three game modes.
Unfortunately, this impossible. The best that FDev can do on this topic is what you have. There aren't three modes, there is one game, with a choice of interaction.
That's why I suggested earlier in this thread to add trigger to enable indirect interaction between players from different modes.
| Trigger OFF | Trigger ON | |
| Open | Players see each other in SC, instance separately with creating an NPC-clone in each others instance it interact with. | Default state. Players see each other in SC, can instance together. |
| PG | Default state, see only players from current PG and interact only with them as usual. | See other players in SC. When interact with players (via interdiction, drop on wake signal/POI) from other modes there are 2 instances created with NPC-clones representing players. When interact with other players from current PG it works the same as now. |
| Solo | Default state, see no other players. | See other players in SC. When interact with other players (from other modes) the game create 2 instances (as in case of PG above). |
.... which, when facing players who have no interest in being interacted with, i.e. "Trigger OFF", changes nothing.
Still.
I think I've still got some baconnections. I'll have an anonymous sarnie sent your way. With brown AND red sauce, because bacon belongs to all sauces equally.
There are those of us who would also enjoy a truly single-player offline or private server game, especially if it allowed for a dynamic AI-driven economy, kinda like the X games but without persistent NPCs. Not that I'm opposed to persistent NPCs, but that's a tall order. An open-source private server using the existing APIs, on the other hand..
| Solo | Default state, see no other players. |
That the proposal does little to improve the situation for those who want to know who is opposing them.
Surely. But it also does not remove features which were given (or promised) to players at Kickstarter. But at least there is a chance that these opposing players may set trigger to on. If they want to see to whom they counteract with as well.
