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Yes, there should be a crossover (shared background sim). Frontier realised there should be a long time ago. That's why there is a crossover - it's by design
Robert Maynard
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If you hang around for a while, you'll see the same people in and out though. Some of those asps and cobras (and an imperial clipper I saw last night) are often coming in and out, I.E. trading. I trade in a type 6 in that system in open, I know I saw at least one other player running the same route I was in a type 6 and another in a type 7 was running around. Sorry, saying no one trades in open is just entirely inaccurate.
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Your choice does not get priority over the choice of others. It's that simple.
Aw shucks. Thread went all the way to page 3 and now it's back
Page 3? I didn't see any barely dressed females? You must be mistaken? (British Joke, if you don't get it don't worry.)
From the Kickstarter;
*And the best part - you can do all this online with your friends, or other "Elite" pilots like yourself, or even alone. The choice is yours...*
*you will be able to control who else you might encounter in your game – perhaps limit it to just your friends? Cooperate on adventures or chase your friends down to get that booty. The game will work in a seamless, lobby-less way, with the ability to rendezvous with friends
*Play it your way*
Your reputation is affected by your personal choices. Play the game your way: dangerous pirate, famous explorer or notorious assassin - the choice is yours to make. Take on missions and affect the world around you, alone or with your friends.*
*You simply play the game, and depending on your configuration (your choice) *
*We have the concept of “groups”. They can be private groups just of your friends or open groups (that form part of the game) based on the play styles people prefer, and the rules in each can be different. Players will begin in the group “All” but can change groups at will,*
From the forum archives;
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6300
All Players Group– Players in this group will be matched with each other as much as possible to ensure as many human players can meet and play together
Private Group – Players in this group will only be matched with other players in the same private group
Solo Group – Players in this group won’t be matched with anyone else ever (effectively a private group with no one else invited)
(All by a Lead Designer)
Also DB on Multiplayer and Grouping and Single (01:00 - 02:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5JY...kuz6s&index=18
DB on "Griefing" and "Griefers"
(Listen out for the part where FD can move them in to a private group of just each other)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb5hqjxmf4M
Rededit Topic on "unusual event for players to come against players" (With Twitch Video)
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangero...ayers_to_come/
Direct Twitch Link; (Note DB use "Occasonial" and "unusual" regarding players interacting)
http://www.twitch.tv/egx/b/571962295?t=69m00s
Also, MMO does not mean "social" (It means lots of people connected)
A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMO and MMOG) is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet. MMOs usually have at least one persistent world, however some games differ.
For a while, it looked like Page 3 was going to disappear, but it looks like it's back now.
No, your point is simply not valid. You have the same modes available to you. You CHOOSE not to be a trader. You CHOOSE to only do PvP. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from grinding at trading for a while to get a better ship and then going back to playing PvP. There's also no real difference in difficulty between solo and open when it comes to trading.
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Bingo, exactly. Even if we were locked into separate character saves for the different modes, we'd still be impacting "their" game, because we're all interacting with just a single background Galaxy simulation, no matter what mode we're in.
The only way to completely satisfy that contingent wouldn't just be locking players into separate character saves for each mode, but having separate background Galaxy simulations running in parallel. Actually a whole bunch of background sims in parallel, if we include the Private Groups like Mobius.
That isn't going to happen, for what should be obvious reasons, given the core game design and network architecture. The "modes" we're all talking about here are just a filter for how many other players you want to see, at any given time. What we see and interact with outside that filter is just a single Galaxy. We're all in this together, whether some folks like it or not.
The guys in open do realise that they are affecting my game when I choose to play in solo, don't they?
"Say what you will about the Imperial Patronage system of governance on the fringes of the Empire, Dude, at least it's an ethos....."
When they are doing it to you its allright, if Solo/Group Players are doing it to them its unfair.The guys in open do realise that they are affecting my game when I choose to play in solo, don't they?
Thats the rule, DON'T QUESTION IT!
I think it's safe to say that if you have a trade route it's being used by hundreds of others. If rares are involved, then thousands. The station would most likely shoot you on sight for even making the suggestion, as you couldn't pay the station enough to make up for the loss of trade. The station naturally wants other traders. This "this is mine" mentality is really rather amusing on many levels.
Err you're effectively asking for the same thing?
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
I think that CMDR Luigi forgot the sarcasm tags....
Oh come on. You have sarcasm in the UK, I've seen your TV shows.
No, not really, I just pointet out how stupid I think the Idea is that equality can be unfair. I am a big fan of the shared galaxy concept where everybody has the same amout of influence, its one of the major reasons I love the Game.
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