Interesting point, but then I have to admit I'm a bit biased here as it's what I'm doing the last couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm surprised I didn't came up with this idea myself. According to the current tenor where effort and risk should be rewarded I'm really curious how the supporter of this idea would also include special rewards for ironman play (easy to check, just take the insurance entry in the game stats). Maybe with even higher rewards for those doing it in Open. Should be way easier to track than any other proposals floating around. Or FA Off only, both ideally with hard coded switches, means non switchable once set and as long as such a commander would exist. Not that I realistically expect such modes would be coming, but certainly not less realistic than any rewards for just playing in Open.
Some people here should at least appreciate that not every PvE player is necessarily a coward or generally avoiding risk. The risk is a lot higher for someone losing a 2 month old ironman ship than someone losing his ship in a PvP event but otherwise normal game conditions. Also FA Off only is for most players a disadvantage as it's common sense that a mix of both flight assist modes being considered the most successful method.
Some final note addressed to those fighting hard for a general game change. You should realize that for any realistically chance for such a change you would need to make both PvPer and PvEer to act in concert. Unless such a miracle would happen (would require tremendous skills in diplomacy) Frontier would be more than daft to cave in for the PvPer alone. I think this should be crystal clear and understood by everyone, doesn't it?
