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Modes The Solo vs Open vs Groups Thread - Part the Second [Now With Added Platforms].
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Nice of you to drop by.
Interesting. I thought the purpose of this thread was to keep me out of the one about Guilds
He did seem very worked up about something...
Ok.. I understand. The handfull of guys that don't like my opinion here probably don't. You guys go back and forth for different reasons, I'm sure. But as a PVPer... the % of players that I encoutner that DO.. is staggering. I see it ALLL the time. So please don't take it personally. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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How do you know they go to Solo? Do they tell you? It's not like you can follow them.
And everyone took a lot of time to fully answer your questions and what? You ignore it and keep your stance anyway? "Well maybe not YOU, but EVERYONE ELSE..."
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Well! Sodomise me sideways with a kipper! I never knew that!
Okay, I'll get me coat....
Gentlemen (and Ladies), it's been a good evening's entertainment while I've been exploring in the Black. Thank you and good night.
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I understand that, and I 100% agree. BUT, if you want to have some PVP fighting action with another commander, and he's in a python or something... don't bring your hauler.
So while there is no real "end game ship".. there IS a progression.
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They disappear from either normal space after being interdicted... or from super cruise before I can get to them.. and I find them at the nearby station just a few minutes later. It's very common. Unless you know of another way to get from the star to the station without using SC... they ditched to solo and back to avoid CMDR interaction.
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I don't see why you're always equating a money-making game with a good game. I also don't see how extra sales might justify removing a feature promised in the game's original Kickstarter.
This appears to be a player problem, not a mode problem. It is the player who is abusing mode switching. You can't tar all solo/group players with that brush.
then quit asking leading type questions.
Why no PvP in a hauler? There are no Instakills, combat takes time, and it's extremely entertaining - which is the whole purpose of the game for me. Pythons oneshotting haulers does not appeal to me, and if you look at ship progression simply as a way of killing other players more quickly - it's up to you of course, valid gameplay, but that does not entertain me.
Nice post mate - I like your approach. I think people who rush to get to an Anaconda or such and lament there being 'nothing' to do have missed the point where Elite is concerned. It is truly more about the journey here, not the destination, so it's very different from most games. In fact, here you could almost say there is no destination as such, only the journey itself, wherever it may lead.
I have similar misgivings about updates like PP and CQC as I don't think I'll get much out of them personally. They're good updates in their own right (at least I hope CQC will be), they're just not Elite in my opinion is all. PP attempts to provide something guild-type players can get behind without having guilds as such (which I don't want to see in-game anyway so it seems a good compromise) and CQC caters to console and PvP crowds. But despite that I can still just potter around happily doing my own thing and wait for things like planetary landings and Thargoids - I wish they'd come before PP and CQC though.
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Yes you did, thanks. I'm still soaking them in. It appears you personally have distaste for PVP in general, so it's no wonder solo/open switching doesn't bother you one bit. The day what you are doing now gets old, and the desire to pick up pirating hits you... I predict your opinion will change.
Do I understand that right:
- you played solo and avoided risks until you had enough money
- you wanted to pirate and bh players after you had enough money
- you don't want other players to do what you did - "duck away" in Solo to avoid getting pirated and hunted
Really?
I guess you just forgot to mention that you started your pirating career in Open Mode only with a new CMDR, a Sidewinder and 1000 cr.
Nobody is stopping you.. knock yourself out.
Nope, you don't understand it right... I've never played solo. What I meant was, I was similar in that I didn't want the contact... but I still did it in open. I just chose systems that weren't high-traffic, and I was on my guard. I was pirated and murdered a hand full of times. They were always scary, but were ultimately viewed as positive gaming experiences.
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How do you know someone has ducked to solo rather than simply having been filtered out of your instancing by the P2P mechanics? Or simply logged out? How can one know whether someone earned their ship and equipment in solo vs somewhere that's 100ly or 1000ly away? More importantly, why some people even care is what I find to be the truly 'staggering' bit.......
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