I have issues with those who make blanket statements about "PvPcentric players", give ultimatums, and try to paint PvE and PvP as an us vs them scenario.
There is no practical reason not to give some extra incentive for activities happening in open. If you don't want to participate, fine!
It only hurts you in your mind.
If you only play in solo, you'll never see the difference. And since you're not directly competing with anyone, why should it matter to you?
Yet you suggest a fundamental change to open just to accommodate you, and couch it in terms that suggest it's just an equal trade off.
Then you go so far as to generously offer PvPers something they used to have anyway? That's some gall right there.
We used to have the ability to affect the BGS and PP via PvP... if only in small increments.
I wonder do you read through the mega threads and all of these threads? It isn't the PVErs who are panting crap as "us" vs "Them". It is certain players .... the ones who wants Open to be rewarded and solo and PG's to be penalized or not to effect anything. For Elite Dangerous to be Eve in a bloody cockpit and be OPEN ONLY... everyone forced to play in a PVPcentric universe. Players like Algo who demand that everyone should be his content if they play the game as it is intended to be played because he doesn't like others affecting the BGS in ways he refuses to even though those are the intended ways created by FDev to affect the BGS and PP.
There is no practical reason for extra incentives to be given to Open at all. Multiple people who PLAY IN OPEN have said it countless times. Plus Fdev has said repeatedly the modes are equal and to "incentives" to Open would negate that.
If you are talking about my opening Statement in this thread... you may want to do some research, Most of what I posted was suggested by 90's and other PVPcentric players... who want to change the game to accommodate THEM. I posted that IF PVErs were to accept the changes to make Solo and PG affect the BGS much less as much as those in Open... (where is that accommodating me?) What were PVPers willing to give up in compensation? The answer I got mainly was... NOTHING. Those in Solo and PGs are expected to give things up but Open players won't... again.. where is that accommodating to me? I even suggested letting PVP affect the BGS some... yet you claim what was offered accommodates me.
As for gall... Fdev pulled any ability to affect the BGS by PVP... you think PVErs were the reason for that? Now that is gall... you may want to look at the reasons why Fdev did that.
Some nice brownies are good for bad dreams. I like not remembering my dreams. A lot.
Your hobby allows for conflict though. You were around for the more difficult NPC interdictions. It's easy to imagine that they might swing back to that difficulty level at some point. Or if the NPC's start getting even more aggressive than they are now? What will you do then?
Maybe you should just lay off the video games if they leave you so potentially prone to nightmares.
For one, even though I live in a state where those "brownies" are legal, I am a Military Retiree and still subject to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. Since the substance in the brownies is still classed as a Schedule I substance and federally illegal it is not wise for me to partake. Plus since my medical needs are mainly taken care of at the Veterans Administration. With as many times as I have to go there a month and the current Attorney General having a seemingly personal vendetta against the substance... no can do. Even though the V.A. has been trying for awhile to get it approved for medical purposes, their requests have fallen on deaf ears and their research on blind eyes.
As for NPCs though... that is not what triggers, for the most part, episodes and nightmares. The knowledge that a person is behind the controls on the other side vs a computer being in control is a key factor. As for laying off certain Video Games, I have. Heck, I was given Far Cry 5 as a gift. Cousin played through and talked to me about it and told me what happens and we decided not a good idea for me to play. I can watch some war movies, but anything dealing with modern situations, Black Hawk Down, Jarhead, etc.. I can't watch.
I never once said I wanted them to yank solo. I said they could kill solo mode, and nobody could do much about it if FDEV was determined to follow through.
I prefer PvP, it's true. But I do PvE crap all the time. Sometimes I even do it in solo!
Hell, I'm in the 50% bracket for the current bounty hunting CG, and only about 30% of my bounties have been from PvP (although I've given out a few nice bounties this week too).
I never said YOU don't do PVE... unless you are assuming when I said some PVPcentric Players meant you.
And you are wrong.. if they yanked Solo... there are things people can do about it. Has been done before, even with Elite Dangerous if I remember correctly. Was discussed before about how Fdev had to give kickstarter money back to those who were supporting offline mode. But it has been awhile since it was discussed.
