Powerplay Whatever happened to the Powerplay Open only Proposal (POOP) ?

[Rubbernuke]

I guess I prefer my point of failure to be at the destination. In any case, it is a roll of the dice, half the time you will get through unopposed. Kind of like Shinrarta Dezhra in the evenings.

It still promotes camping rather than hunting. Camping is boring. Camping with annoying other people is boring and annoying.

Again, until it happens we can only theorycraft. It will be a game of slowing down opponents, as the minute you become bogged down you are pinned to a system. The new changes mean fortifying and UM have no end, so if a battle kicks off pledges have to respond in kind. Mega UM will lead to players try to stop the underminers while fortifiers try and outpace them- a dynamic hotspot of activity.

There are no expansions.
Ok, you got me there, this would be where open-only could slightly improve things.

Having seen videos of massive wing fights it would improve things a whole lot.

Yeah. This inbound noise will cancel the hunt In any case, someone will have to fort at one point.

That they will. Smaller powers like I've been with multitask, so indeed at some point the fortifying will be done. But, since you would in an Open context have to deal with actual situations its not 100% guaranteed, in either time or material. Even if you saw no-one you'd have to at least contemplate altering your ship just in case. Attackers would monitor fortification times, defenders would rotate to avoid exploitable patterns.

 

[Interstellar Overdrive]

defenders would rotate to avoid exploitable patterns

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to alter sleep and work patterns Most people play weekends & evenings.

I simply am not convinced the potential advantages of open-only Powerplay are meaningful enough to warrant removing content from solo and PG.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to alter sleep and work patterns Most people play weekends & evenings.

I simply am not convinced the potential advantages of open-only Powerplay are meaningful enough to warrant removing content from solo and PG.

You misunderstand me- I mean swapping what systems you fortify. If Power A fortifies systems B C D and E each time, you know what they want, when they do it and where else you can strike.