Where was it stated that it would?
To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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Where was it stated that it would?
Robert Maynard
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Before launch it was stated that the block feature reduced the likelihood of being placed in an instance with a blocked CMDR.
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I think you're still looking at the issue from a combat point of view.
I guess that, like me, he doesn't want to win the fight by destroying the interdictor. He also doesn't want to "win" by escaping. He just doesn't want any interruption to gameplay.
If someone wants to attack me because I have a bounty, or tasty cargo, or because of a BGS dispute (or a PP thing, but I've never done PP myself), that's fine. It's all part of the game and can't be seen as interrupting my gameplay; it's an addition to it. But if they just attack for LOLz because I show up as a hollow square, they stop existing in my galaxy. Having to fight them or high-wake isn't gameplay, it's just a salami slice out of my precious leisure time.
I don't care for danger or unpredictability. If I did I could easily think of more ways to get those things. How about if I make myself a rule that any time I get "mauve adder" I either self-destruct or jump to a random system after relogging. Would that make the game more exciting? No, I think we'd all agree it would be stupid. That's how I regard LOLz-attackers too. They're... not a game enhancement.
The inevitable next question: who decides whether it's an in-game or OOC attack? The only possible answer is that I do. Comms might help.
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In essence; ME...
As an open trader I spend my time wandering the Bubble ferrying cargo from starport to starport as the whim takes me.
Occasionally I bump into other cmdrs usually doing much the same thing, sometimes miners, sometimes explorers, sometimes AX fighters, sometimes refugee ships.
I value these encounters and with an open PVE mode these are likely to migrate to that mode, and so would I.
I think that is what the ones trying to get more cmdrs into open because they're concerned about the decline in cmdrs they actually encounter, are afraid of.
By the way, with the current rampant hacking around, I certainly won't hand in lots of explo data in open even if I am reasonably sure that I won't be ganked "regurlarily".
Which is something I predict for open PvE too. Hacked mailslot blocking and blowing up of participants by throwaway accounts with client hacks, for example.
Which is something I predict for open PvE too. Hacked mailslot blocking and blowing up of participants by throwaway accounts with client hacks, for example.
It would still be easy to escape from NPCs, just as it is easy to escape from humans. You just have to think about it a tiny bit, unlike now when a shieldless T9 with no engineering still has nothing to fear from NPC interdictions.
YAY fun chain interdiction from NPC enemy....that would really make ones day...
We all play the same game, and a game with no external challenges that i don't choose is boring as hell, in my opinion. Do you really just wanna space truck endlessly with no interruptions ever?
How do you feel about NPCs that interdict you over and over again, wasting your time? (totally not dangerous, but a time waste) That happens now.
That happens now, often.
Its just that you dont need to make any concessions in ship building to esacpe, all you need to do is submit, boost once and supercruise. (or just beat the interdiction, but its faster to submit)
Might be possible but that on other hand is clear violation of TOS...
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Indeed we do - and in a game with no difficulty setting, the non-optional challenge posed by the game is likely to be carefully set to accommodate as many players as possible.
Most NPCs give up after failing to interdict the first time.
I'm not sure how you got those ideas from my post. I explicitly contradicted the first one.
Well why should everybody else make concessions on their builds, apart from combat players?
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Has it stopped blocking particular CMDRs from instancing with the player who blocked them?
Sure it is.
And I don't argue this is a reason to not implement a PvE mode.
Just something we will see, knowing parts of the community, if a PvE mode will happen.
It probably has been enhanced to the way it is now because of the harassment clause.
Because people were so harassed by the distant ganks list they put all the users on block
Depends. If its a random, yeah. If its one sent as part of a mission, no, not at all. I frequently get them following me from system to system, with multiple interdictions per system.
I had to alter my Odyssey small ship build, so its got a couple of gimballed frags instead of all dumbfires, just so i could blow up the annoying sods and stop them chain interdicting me.
Well they chose to make themselves known.Because people were so harassed by the distant ganks list they put all the users on block