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I'm just trying - perhaps not very well - to illustrate that "harder" is entirely relative to the situation.
If I'm in open as I was at the weekend (as I am 99.9% of the time) in Lugh with a wing stomping AI it's entirely trivial - you don't always get the kill credited but you survive because you "have friends".
Then I tried solo and mowed down AI quicker but got jumped by several AI at once and nearly got fried losing all my effort.
Clearly comparing those two experiences you could come to the conclusion that solo event was much harder than the open one.
The average PVPer may have little trouble with AI.
But the average solo player unaccustomed to combat quite possibly does - so who does FD balance the game around - to make it fair for everyone?
There is more to E: D than player on player pew pew, or cargo stealing. The franchise has a long history of Player versus the computer and tests of will to travel and explore.
I for one, want to circumnavigate the galaxy - and am slowly building up my confidence and fall back cash if something goes wrong. Others enjoy finding trade routes and exploring every inch of a small area.
There are even people who enjoy mining (why is beyond me, but fair play to them, each their own).
I think people who want to constantly pew pew are mindless morons who belong in COD not E: D ~ but hey, as long as they keep it away from me, then they can go fourth and pew pew as the game allows for it and hands out equal rewards to all who take part. How people take part, is up to them.
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Hey, some people like being tied to a chair, ball gagged and paddled for hours by a leather clad "friend" wearing a mask with a zip over the mouth.....
Not my personal taste... but some enjoy it.
Did you miss 50 shades?
Finding pleasure in the act of being victimised is clinically diagnosed as masochism.
I always play in open, but calling people "delusional" because they have the common sense to dislike being attacked (and, in this case, lose an investment of possibly hundreds of hours of play and careful financial planning) is hardly constructive.
The fact it was caused by a living, thinking human being. The same difference you would likely experience between being told your uncle died in an accident or that he was brutally murdered.
PvP is lots of fun, and I play it extensively, but only when it's fully consensual. And preferably balanced; I can't understand how anyone can find a fight against a weaker opponent any fun, a PvP fight that I already know I can't lose before starting is a fight I don't even start because it will never be fun.
Unwanted PvP, though? I would rather watch paint dry. And I say this as someone that spent the best part of a decade trying MMOs with non-consensual PvP elements to see if I could like it. Spoiler alert, never worked out.
Ha ha! wake up and smell the coffee; you haven't figured out we're all self-interested?
DarkWalker just had an opinion; and I think a good one too! I gave him rep.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Sadly, there is no way to tell at the start of an encounter whether the interdictor is a "real" pirate or a player who will take delight in destroying their target anyway. The latter would seem to have ruined the reputation of the former - to such an extent that I never hang about waiting for the pirate to do their thing - boost/evade, boost/evade, FSD (sometimes boom).
How in the world can you lose a hundred hours of play from a single pirate attack?
It takes 3/4 hours at the most to make back your rebuy plus cargo.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
If all one's cash is tied up in the cargo in the hold of the ship, it's the only ship owned and there's not enough to pay the insurance excess (even with the loan).... Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's back to a Sidey we go....
I would not think it was fun if my T9 gets blown up by some psychopathic gamer, one thing it would not be a fair fight and the cost would be 10,000,000 credits with insurance and lost cargo!
I would accept it as part of the game as I play in open, but fun.......NO!
But instead of addressing the issue at hand, a refusal to compromise based on a different feature.
Should any weight be given to Darkwater's opinion if he is only wanting to horse-trade to fulfil his own interests, rather than find some middle ground.
There are aspects of the ED universe that are shared, whatever mode you play. Finding amicable solutions, that benefit both sides, is not usually assisted when either side refuse "to budge an inch"?
Thats why I made sure to write REAL pirate, a pirate interdicts you and asks for cargo, most likely letting you live in case you comply. A real pirate is never going to kill you without some demands. Everyone responding to my post seems to have missed this.
But all the hours you spend trading, that don't include being blown up, could be enriched by more fear and danger.
masochists apart, people will not enjoy being destroyed. Most people will feel a sense of elation from successfully navigating troubled waters and delivering the goods.
I seem to recall a Mod pointing out how non "real" pirates gave "real" pirates a bad name.....
But yea, everyone missed it
that would suggest it is unwise to put all your eggs in one basket.
A gambler who puts all on black at a casino, can make better profits. But they are playing with fire...
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Not at all - however the piracy oriented population of open is not (by any means) solely comprised of "real" pirates.
You and I agree on many things; disturbing the status of Solo mode is one of them and especially regards the disappearance of Offline Mode.
I must say though, if I wasn't able to play the player initiated community events; it would be no problem. I have no interest in this player creation.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
.... or it's a bad decision after losing a number of previous ships and trying to get back the insurance buffer by trading again. I did not say it was a good position to be in, merely that it is one possible way of losing it all and being busted back to a Sidewinder.
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