Modes The Solo vs Open vs Groups Thread - Part the Second [Now With Added Platforms].
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Repped for Buckaroo Banzai!
1 is the better way to go...and MoM (Mistress of Minions) is making this occur.
Mainly because the developers do not want to have an 'easy mode' in the game. If Private modes are easy mode, then people do not play in Open because they want to play with others, they play in private because the grind to win is easier and faster. This breaks the game ideals.
I will disagree with this only from an analytical standpoint. If your looking for a sample population for representation you want that population to be as accurate as possible. For ED where you have to have an account, and if I remember correctly also have bought the game to be on the forums, you have a verified sample population. With Reddit you have unverified outliers. You have no real verification that they have bought the game unless you get each ones CMDR Name and can verify that they are in the game and that the person on reddit claiming to be them is them. There is to much unverified data in the reddit polls to be considered an accurate representation of the ED community in Solo/Private/Open type polls.
Not so, I'm afraid - not the general forum, anyway.
Just because someone is an introvert does not make them anti-social.. Anti-social to me are the ones who take pleasure if screwing things up for everyone else. They are not there for PVP or really the game, their enjoyment comes in ruining the game for others.
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No.. hell no, no way... you are going to force people into open until they are competent in a discipline? Why?
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Solo players have the same risks as open players, what they don't have is the human element. that isn't a "RISK" that is a "CHOICE"
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We all know the answer to that question, amirite ?
Yes we are.. If that question was reveres I wonder how they would feel.. can't play in open until you show a certain combat competence. I'd never get into open
Viajero
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You dont need to have the game to be on these forums and vote in polls here. No need to have an analytical standpoint either.
None of the polls around can be used in any serious degree to justify arguments in this thread, especially when you have them suggesting opposite scenarios. Only FDEV´s actual data can bring some light.
Until then let´s stop the gratuitous and totally speculative poll based arguments please. Let´s just agree to be speculative irrespective of the poll simply because it s fun.
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Robert Maynard
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True - there is no link between forum account and owning the game.
FDev's data is most definitely the definitive source - to which we have no access.
I would go further - in the absence of any firm data, we should stop all speculation as to the population of any of the modes....
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There are some really good comments being made in this thread recently.
Robert Maynard
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With respect to which part of the discussion? Your statement is a little to vague for me this afternoon....
When I mentioned analytical standpoint it was only on which poll would be more viable. One of my jobs in the Air Force was Maintenance Analyst so when people start talking about polls and statistics it kinda kicks in.P
When having a discussion people will use all they can to bolster their own stance or to counter someone else's. You are right, the polls are not completely accurate and unless FD gives us data they never will be fully accurate, but when polling you never get the full number of things, you get sample sizes. Both reddit and the ED forums are sample sizes that be legitimately used for the polls. Now I will agree with you that the polls are speculative, but that is mainly because in the ED poll I believe the sample size is too small to give an indication of the true breakout of Solo/Private/Open. But if polls were to be used Ed in my opinion would be more accurate because even though I was wrong and you don't have to have the game, you do have to have an account. I don't see it very likely that people would create an account to vote in a pole. In reddit there is no checks for verification so the results are extremely skewed.
All we know for a fact is that people play in all thee modes. Those claiming to have the "most" in their preferred mode of play have not given any hard proof
Before they dropped a mode, I would suggest drop PvP...no friendly fire. Or a new switch to opt out of same. Turn the whole game into a PvE only game.
Robert Maynard
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It's amusing to see everyone dancing around the poll issue...
In fairness, the polls (in both of the cases recently) are self selecting with no direct link to players of the game. On balance, it would seem to be best to ignore them with respect to this discussion. That said, we therefore have no firm data on player preference - therefore any speculation as to mode populations / mode preference / etc. should probably cease at this point.
Erm... Which of these actually represents your view?
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