Modes The Solo vs Open vs Groups Thread - Part the Second [Now With Added Platforms].
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Oh, too much lol. First, you want solo/group mode forced into pvp. THEN, you want bonuses for playing in "more populated/more risky area" ? So, in other words, you want ALL THE THINGS?
A fig 'pon thee!
Is that the pub where the real men play darts and the non regulars have to hold the dart board?
Neither of these are the one I was thinking of but it demonstrates how NPC difficulty is a balancing act and deliberately dialled down from it's potential.
It feels good that people are generally enjoying the AI update.There's much more on the way... Mama's teaching her little ones new tricks...
I'll also be trying to appease everyone by making the lower ranks fun for beginners while ramping up the higher ranks for the more experienced player. Tricky perhaps, but at the end of the day the aim is to make the game fun for everyone.
something shifted recently.. had mostly harmless Anacondas that after a tough fight I usually could win though I would be hurting badly.. the last 2 "Mostly Harmless" was anything but.. and all I could do was run
500,000 copies is nothing compared to some games. If Frontier made the right decisions, that number could quadruple. Also, if you cut out Open play and only had Solo play, I'm willing to bet more than half of the playerbase would drop. If Frontier had to choose one mode, it would undoubtedly be Open.
I think you mean DarkWalker, I couldn't care less what an MMO is, I bought this game because I could play it alone or with my friends without it having to be an MMO.
Probably in my local too, and then the usual hell would break loose!
But on the plus side I've been using the place for the last 25 years (or is it 30? Long time whatever) so at least I know who to hide behind
It's almost a shame we'll never know.
Never say never.
I am eagerly awaiting for Mr Braben himself to get involved in my request to name a station after David Hasselhoff.
The ease or difficulty of Open/Solo is itself debatable anyway now the AI has been improved to the level it has (not every human you meet is hostile after all). But even if that is the case that isn't the reason Solo play is popular. I'm going to direct you to this article on The Escapist which really is essential reading for anyone who wants to discuss this issue.
Hmm, so you are saying at least half the players are in Open. How come Open advocates keep coming here and complaining there is no one there to play with and insisting everybody needs to move to Open?
I would rather a smaller game that everyone can enjoy their way vs a 1 million copies game that is recycled hash. No offense but you keep referencing WoW.. if we wanted to play something like wow, we'd be playing wow right now. We don't, we are playing ED and while we love making the game better, that does not mean utterly altering the game towards one style of play.
And have you not been reading the thread.. open would lose.
So, serious question... to all the guys here that like and use the ability to duck into solo when they want a "no risk" evening of play... what is it exactly that you are doing in-game at that time? Are you exploring? Trading? RESing? And also... where are you at IN the game? In other words, are you rocking a stacked Anaconda? Or are you newer to the game?
Second question, If you ARE newer (not new.. but not end-game ships either). What do you plan on doing in the game after you have accrued millions with all the ships? Maybe after you have already explored, and have already have massed a fortune trading.... What will you be doing in the game?
Second question, If you ARE newer (not new.. but not end-game ships either). What do you plan on doing in the game after you have accrued millions with all the ships? Maybe after you have already explored, and have already have massed a fortune trading.... What will you be doing in the game?
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It would be a bit definitive for my liking - a low probability of success would be more appropriate.
That's the one. And where my wife used to be able to beat all comers at fives and threes. Good times.
My math sense is tingling
And I didn't have to get into artificially constrained population sets, and variable Y axis graphs with false origin.
Elite doesn't have Elves, guilds, auction houses, magic and 40 character raids, it's not an MMO.
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Well found! It was the second one I was thinking of. I'm probably one whisky over the search terms limit.
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