Forum rules prevent the response I'd prefer to give, but I applaud you for such twisted logic...
To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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What's twisted? You argued "forced," I presented a paradigm where there are many choices as well as the fact that it makes what's unique to open strategically and tactically relevant.Forum rules prevent the response I'd prefer to give, but I applaud you for such twisted logic...
Robert Maynard
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While those who want to defend a Faction using PvP might like to be able to dictate terms of engagement, they can't:
.... and, from the Inara stats, there does not seem to be a compelling case to change the way the BGS works, potentially alienating a subset of the majority of the player-base, i.e. those who don't engage in PvP, to satisfy the desires of a rather small minority, i.e. those who do engage in PvP - in my opinion at least.
Indeed, a paradigm that does not, and likely will not exist in this game. But I did give you a like for it, and have promised myself to ignore further posts here for a while... Well, until I need a good chuckle again, which should be a few more days yet.
Exactly. Can you give some serious source to back to your claim? Some source that I can check and evaluate? I am not stubborn and could be convinced if you can present me valide numbers.
As I remember, FD once stated that "a majority of players play in Open". This was immediately followed by a vigorous debate here about whether majority meant "more than 50%", which FD refused to clarify.
However, that was all before:
- The end of board-flipping to refresh missions, which tended to randomise people's mode choices.
- The introduction of squadrons, many of which made their own PGs.
- Porting to consoles, which discourages Open by charging a fee for it.
- (and general splitting among console platforms and Horizons/Odyssey on PC).
- The introduction of carriers, which make mode choice less important.
IMO it's also not very important as long as everyone has a good time in the mode(s) they choose to play in.
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Before we have a misunderstanding here... I was talking about the number of players that left or avoid open mode because of gankers. That could be compared to the % of players divided by the mods of course.
...then there's a thin salty line between avoiding gankers and avoiding enemies.
Robert Maynard
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.... or the simple avoidance of PvP in a game where direct PvP is optional.
Could be. But I had in mind mostly new players that don't yet have in-game "enemys". Players that don't go open from start because they heard something about how unfriendly it is, or new players that get ganked early in their game progress and leave open because of this. I think that players who change to solo / PG for BGS, PP or other reasons to influence something are in general not noobs.
You said, I agree.
Honestly there's not alot of reason to not be in open. I play in open and have yet to be ganked by a player. Hell could be interesting if it happened. Probably will at some point. Would it suck if it's when I have a cargo full of minerals? Yeah but hey one time out of how many times?
I think fdev should only have open mode this is a big game and you don't meet players that often. Though I guess there are some high risk areas. For me that adds to the game though.
I think fdev should only have open mode this is a big game and you don't meet players that often. Though I guess there are some high risk areas. For me that adds to the game though.
You're right, but there's also not a lot of reason to prefer Open. So it's basically a choice that doesn't matter much. As I keep saying, the best approach is to just play in the mode that gives the game experience you want at each game session. A corollary to this is to stop worrying (if you ever did) about other people's choices. If everyone would take this on board we could stop making these immense threads.
I would have mile long blocklist if game was open only.
YouTube has a lot of self-admissions btw
There is currently no reason whatsoever to be in Open, i can do everything you can do in Solo with Zero muppets, hence a relaxing experience where i don't have to sacrifice the way i build ships to keep an eye on unwanted PvP.
I tried to have a relaxing night in Robby in my shieldless Python in Open once, what a mistake that was, at least my Vette got to say hi to the three idiots camping the Mines before i switched back to Solo.
Folks say there is not much ganking, yeah right just remember those stats on Inara are only from a fraction of the player base.
O7
I play in open except when going to systems with high probability of gankers then I go to my PG.
YES if I could turn off PVP I would always play in open.
YES if I could turn off PVP I would always play in open.
Except that would not be open anymore
Is there something particular about Inara registered Cmdr's that make them an exception to ganks?