To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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It's easy to check. Fly open to Deciat, Shinrarta, or the nearest Community Goals.
Why play in Open UNLESS you want to PVP?
Literally everything productive you do in the game, as programmed and designed by the dev team, can be accomplished in Solo or Group Play modes: Cargo, Passengers, Bounty / Pirate Hunting, Exploration & Cartography, Thargoid fighting, Station Rescues, Search & Rescue... Everything, except getting ganked.
Group Play even let's you play with other people, but not gankers, so it's the best of both worlds - co-op play without encountering self-aggrandizing ole PK'ers who have to "compensate" for shortcomings / deficiencies by ruining other peoples' fun. Also, if anyone joins who is that type of player, you can kick them and ban then permanently from your private group and friend's list.
The only people who try to convince anyone Open is such an awesome mode are gankers wanting new targets. There is literally no valid positive gameplay reason to be in Open, unless you want to fight people / get killed constantly and have to rebuy your ships and fail missions. None.
Literally everything productive you do in the game, as programmed and designed by the dev team, can be accomplished in Solo or Group Play modes: Cargo, Passengers, Bounty / Pirate Hunting, Exploration & Cartography, Thargoid fighting, Station Rescues, Search & Rescue... Everything, except getting ganked.
Group Play even let's you play with other people, but not gankers, so it's the best of both worlds - co-op play without encountering self-aggrandizing ole PK'ers who have to "compensate" for shortcomings / deficiencies by ruining other peoples' fun. Also, if anyone joins who is that type of player, you can kick them and ban then permanently from your private group and friend's list.
The only people who try to convince anyone Open is such an awesome mode are gankers wanting new targets. There is literally no valid positive gameplay reason to be in Open, unless you want to fight people / get killed constantly and have to rebuy your ships and fail missions. None.
Or check Inara for the threat reports, and you'll see them at their highest in those areas, especially any CG's...
I don't like non-game tools used within the game and I try to minimize them.
How do I hire a crew not in open mode?
To meet people.
I would add. Meet random people and play co-op with them.
Because the PvP part of playing in open is 1/10 of the MP interactions.
Open = PvP is a wrong equation, so you are almost totally (or 9/10) wrong.
Well other contacts with randoms in Open = o7 at comms, and thats about that. Otherwise it is somebody trying to gank, somebody trying to troll and so on.
I am curious about this. Generally, I only play in open when out in the black or in special circumstances. What kinds of non-PVP interactions do you have in Open?
I normally run in Mobius unless I am farming materials or running a busy CG. (Macdonald Settlement had worse traffic jams than LA)
Very situational, but most of times is some help for missions (not necessarily wing ones), geosites scan for materials (i.e. "I check Geo-19 you check Geo-21" etc), combat in HazRES or CNBs, or xeno related stuff, undermining (that happens when "visiting" enemy's systems) but also "hardpoints checks" and other ship build advice. Making new "friends" in game and chick chatting is also part of all of that...
That can easily be accomplished by hanging around the ED Discord server for 2 seconds, where you are almost always going to meet real people, if you wish. You might even have random people stop by if you're in your own "Wing" channel in the Discord, instead of the main chat. You can also talk to other people while doing your own thing, or invite them to your Group and play MP. It's how I met not only my squad mates, but also how I ended up with multiple pages of friends I can play with...
I reiterate: There is NOTHING that you can do in the game that cannot be experienced in Solo or Group - except getting ganked. Nothing.
"Open" = "Getting Ganked"
catch-22.
New people would prefer doing this with in-game tools instead of using Google et al. to find them but sadly Frontier didn't provide these.
The thing is that: because Frontier will do nothing about PK'ers / gankers, it is SAFER for the newbs to play Group Play and find someone in the ED Discord who is safe and willing to show them the ropes, versus playing in Open where they are getting continuously ganked / suckered into being a mining slave (remember that a while back?), getting frustrated and turned off from their effort being for naught, and then (rightfully) telling others who are wondering about the game how much it sucks...
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Gosh, open sounds terrifying.
I have made many suggestions to fight gankers or strengthen the defense of ships. And I can understand why it is not introduced. As it can affect the role-players playing the role of villains.
But why do not introduce a means of separating pirates and gankers I do not quite understand.
How would you do that practically?
They use very similar tools and methods so I'm not sure it could actually be done.
I still think shifting the interdiction back in favour of the interdictee would have the most effect.