Preemptive solutions (at least my preferred ones):
1- Cooldown mode switch of 1 day. Once you start the game in a given mode (i.e. either Open or Solo/Private), you cant switch to the other until 24 hours have passed.
Short answer: No.
Long answer;
I've been known to switch two to three times a night, depending on what group of friends is online. I have friends from all over the world I play with and depending when they come online and what their plans are, I need to jump to whatever mode or group they are in.
By placing any form of lockout (which goes against the KS information in post 3) you'd be making sure I cannot play with different friends as they come and go throughout the night.
This does not include when I jump in to Solo to move my ship or quickly run and change ships ready for whatever I'm doing with the next group who comes online. I get messages in Steam, on Teamspeak (I even get text messages on my mobile from some gamers I play with) asking or arranging what the plan is for when folks get online.
I have friends who only play in their own private groups (lucky me, those two play at different times), I have friends who only play in Open and I have friends who jump from group to group like myself (including making use of the Mobius Group).
I make full use of "Play your way" with a hint of "there is no right way" (both FD quotes listed in post three of this thread)
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Heh this discussion goes in circles.
Powerplay is a multiplayer addition to the game, hence the suggestion (similar to one I made earlier) that maybe you need to be in Open to properly affect what is purely a multiplayer aspect of the game.
???
Where does it say PP is a "multiplayer addon".
Please, link me where you've seen FD say PP is for multiplayer......
Edit:
Here you go, from post three in this thread. A quote from DBOBE and the AMA thread;
"We are supporting multiplayer and the solo experience. Community Goals are carrying on too."