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Woops, messed up the links, post edited and thanks for the heads up.
'Shame the in-game comms/chat isn't up to the job
I think you put the finger on the issue, right there. If coms/chat was better, there'd be more Open play.
sry me bad i write offline but i mind solo
why pvp players not get a bonus? you think they are invicible? you think they not doing combat logging to cheat deah?
third i not forcing anybody go online :] i not woting for disabling solo or private mood. i only want reward pls for taking the risk for online play. - better rewards for bigger risks
One more to be merged into the open vs solo threadnaut. OP, go and read all three editions of that and realize that your opinion that open mode "needs" some kind of incentivising is neither shared by a majority of players nor by FD. There are at least as many players against such a change as there are for it, so FD "needs" to change nothing at all in this regard. You, on the other hand, need to decide if it's a deal-breaker for you or not. If it isn't then shut up and play. If it is, we'll be sorry to see you go.
On your reckoning then players should get a bonus for flying a sidewinder, now that is a risky thing to do. Open play outside the starter system is not really as bad as made out to be. As I have said, in Open, I have got board, waiting for real players to turn up.
Why don't you start a poll to see what people think of your idea rather than listening people telling you to shut up to serve their own interests? You have every right to an opinion and to use the facilities of the forum. I agree with you. The OP is talking about incentives, not forcing people to play his way, unlike what you others seem to be doing.
No. Elite needs a PVE-Mode. 2 reasons:
- make sure not to meet Pirate-/Griefer-/-PewPewPew-Kids, -clans or -traitors
- make sure not to have any disadvantages by cheaters
These are the only reasons people are not playing Open. At least the around 200 people I know.
Robert Maynard
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Nah, just do away with friendly fire in Open mode when CQC arrives. Consolidates the game into the real vision of the devs and shuts down this thread. Creating an 'Open PvE mode' would accomplish the same thing...as the numbers would be very small for those that would cross over from PvE into PvP.
PP, CG's, etc. are moving people into the PvE part of the game anyway...I had a wing of 3 that went looking for PvP in Open in some places that should be hot spots...all we found was 3 or 4 players...and they just high jumped out before our hard points could be deployed!
PvP is nonexistent and meaningless in this game. Put it out of our misery and let the game be what it's supposed to be.
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Well that was a little slower than normal....I take it the tea was brewing?
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Robert Maynard
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Well that was a little slower than normal....I take it the tea was brewing?
The dog does need to be walked, you know?
The dog does need to be walked, you know?
Knew it was a rl issue! Normally these get moved within a minute!
The dog does need to be walked, you know?
So between 4 and 5pm we can type what we like! Yippee, or is it just on Sundays?
.........every time I UN-subscribe from this thread, someone keeps putting another one here. Classic.
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To avoid misunderstanding so I rewrote my original post
i thing ED need bonus for "open play" players . we need more players to go play "open play" to meet them,find new friends and make the game looks live.
to prevent exploints I would suggest this - incrase all income from trading,bounty,minning etc from 5 - 100 percent. every week if the players not go solo,private or not logg off in combat he got 5% bonus to all income. if the player broke this rulles the bonus must be cleared and counting starts over.
players playng "open play" really deserves a bonus for the risk he is taking from pirates
I think that this bonus would finally cause people to start to play "open play"
ps sorry for me poor english..
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
I randomise the times each day so as to minimise predictable lapses in cover by me.
.... and there are plenty of other Moderators too...
I played in Mobius after an unpleasant incident in Open with a wing of players - interdicted while AFK for a moment (silly of me to help my wife with our then 4 week old baby), and then pew pew pew dead. No explanation or rationale given, nor could I contact the players afterwards as I didn't think to catch cmdr names). In the last few days I've mellowed out some and have been playing in Open again though.
Honestly, I'd prefer it if you didn't have to be ready for PvP the instant you see another player on your sensors, and I've made a point of being overly-civil on Local or in a PM before the chance for an interdiction happens - at least then I can guess what to expect.
I guess that's the problem with playing in Open. My expectations about how pilots would behave in space in the year 3301 are often wildly at odds with other players' expectations about how I should play a space trading and combat game in 2015.
Honestly, I'd prefer it if you didn't have to be ready for PvP the instant you see another player on your sensors, and I've made a point of being overly-civil on Local or in a PM before the chance for an interdiction happens - at least then I can guess what to expect.
I guess that's the problem with playing in Open. My expectations about how pilots would behave in space in the year 3301 are often wildly at odds with other players' expectations about how I should play a space trading and combat game in 2015.
And that's how your thread wound up in the Pit of Despair. Welcome...and to make your stay more enjoyable:
You need to realize that E: D is a game based on indirect PvP, groups fighting each other using PvE trophy collecting to decide success or failure.
Anything that would motivate players to move to one mode or the other breaks the design of the game...and the devs know this...and continue to state that this type of motivation will never be implemented.
So, if you are going to discuss this in this thread....I can tell you, that you do not have enough shields or ammo to affect the change you desire.
Good luck, enjoy the merry go round...and I will leave the rest of the discussion to Jockey and Mouse.
That's already implemented. It's called: Group mode.
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