The Powerplay discussion thread.
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I call it a multiplayer game the moment they remove P2P multiplayer solution and fix proper group naming and ability to select roles in order to streamline group invitations and such.
-I WANT to play online but there are to many broken or simply features that cripples online play as a group.
Yes its a bit of a ham fisted attempt at multiplayer thats for sure...
It has been the biggest impoteous yet for players to compete against each other (in OPEN), which is porbably the major +ve of it. Just imagine if Powerplay had missions to go to a zone and escort convoys arriving at one nav beacon, and leaving from a second... And between those two they could be attacked... You could do this in Solo, Wings or in Open of course... And then take POwerplay to its logical next step, where an enemy Power gives its CMDRs missions to attack these convoys!
There loads of potential tasks/missions that could make the gameplay more interesting/varied and offer Wing and PvP related experiences.
Powerplay should have been all about deeper more varied gameplay, while also opening up these task/missions to Wings and PvP (OPEN) gameplay.
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Right but the whole part about multiplayer, bringing players together, has actually been missed as there's no power-based chat, no in-game or even subforums for people to communicate. Still limited by the same small instances. It's supposed to be a game system created for player interaction, but there's no interaction.
The interaction can come from the ground up though.
You turn up at a convoy location to help defend it... see X other players from your Power, so instantly chat and wing up.
This happened to me a number of times at Military Strike zones, before they died out - ie: CMDRs stopped going to them.
Great fun!
Sure, and it is fun, until later you realize that there are wings of players in private groups, and others in solo, that are running those same fortification or undermining missions and you can't do anything to stop it or counter it.
Absolutely...
And that's why, for any results that matter, and makes a difference to a Power's outcome/progress:-
- They MUST be, as much as possible, based upon some aspect of skill, and not just which side grinds the most. ie: Just because Power A destroys more ships, that shouldn't immediately mean a better result for A. If it took them 5x the players/effort, then that needs to be taken into consideration. ie: Maybe Power B were more skillful/efficient etc...
- Results should be split between OPEN and SOLO (& GROUP?) such that they are ring fenced. So each accounts only for a portion of the outcome.
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Not to distract from the current discussion, there have been good points made.
I'm open to correction here, but I cant honestly remember PP being discussed at all with the community before it landed.
Was it in the DDF, can anyone recall such a discussion?
I'm open to correction here, but I cant honestly remember PP being discussed at all with the community before it landed.
Was it in the DDF, can anyone recall such a discussion?
PP has a lot in common with what were called tier 1 NPCs in the DDF. It also has a lot that was never discussed. I choose to see this as much more fleshed out tier 1 NPCs, even though I feel the fleshing out could use some more fleshing out.
Another reason why the rumored "top secret, huge, exciting new updates" kind of worry me. Other than simply making the pile of to fix bigger than it currently is.
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some good ideas there.
Me included, as it stands ED feels like an old box of lego, consisting of Duplo lego, lego technics as well as regular lego, they just dont fit together.
At this point theyould really start focusing on fixing the old, cause it's going to be an even greater problem after adding even more features, and by the looks of it, they would probably be as broken as these last ones :\
I'm personally also questioning if a subscription plan would be preferred, as it stands I fear FD is trying to rush for the new money since I can't really believe the FD store is capable of generating that kind of cashflow.
I would easily pay 20$ a month for this game, even as broken as I currently consider it.
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Not so sure this is still true. I have been able to easily avoid NPC interdictions in the past. But here lately, it seems they have better FSI's. I got pulled out (and destroyed) by one of Hudson's NPC's in Karid. I was tooling along when the interdiction sequence started. He was more than half way up on his bar when the Escape Vector started fluttering. Next thing I know I'm in normal space with him and 2 of his buddies and they aren't playing around. I've had this happen several times but I'm usually able to get away. But not from this Fed and his cronies.
I'm not complaining, this is just part of the game. I had the insurance and it only set me back a couple of million. But Solo is dangerous too. NPC's can kill you just as dead in Solo as they can in Open. I've never played Solo. I always play Open. And if someone wants to grief me, after I dock, or respawn (if he kills me), I'll just go play another game for a while, or maybe get a bite to eat. But no one will drive me into solo play. I don't like solitaire in any form.