Why not just close open play fdev?

Power play does not provide the type of content you're referring to. Rather it's one of the game styles that most intensely rewards activity being buried into solo play and was the most prominent area where botting and avoiding player encounters was found to be a substantive issue.
I am familiar with the pitfalls of Powerplay as it stands, lol, I was meaning it is a perfect venue for something Open-Only so players have a level playingfield to be getting on with. Level playingfield notwithstanding EULA violations ofc, but they are a different matter altogether.
 
I am familiar with the pitfalls of Powerplay as it stands, lol, I was meaning it is a perfect venue for something Open-Only so players have a level playingfield to be getting on with. Level playingfield notwithstanding EULA violations ofc, but they are a different matter altogether.

But, when I take all that into consideration, and believe me when I say I have - I'm still unsure of what your favourite cheese is?
 
With this new CG rewards are given out by total % of goods transported. Anyone who wants to compete well... just go play solo. Makes sense to reward the player who puts in less effort more. gg this game..
Hi. First time playing playing ED CGs?
The box says 3 modes. Open, PG, solo. So... 3 modes, all the same except who you meet when flying. Also, “effort” does not mean you have to be someone else’s entertainment. ;)
I like it.
Play your own way. Have fun!
 
With this new CG rewards are given out by total % of goods transported. Anyone who wants to compete well... just go play solo. Makes sense to reward the player who puts in less effort more. gg this game..
Pilots that want to earn credits as #1 priority don't do community goals because missions and mining can earn much more. If I want to have fun, I play in Open and bump the gankers on the way in and out of the station, or I fly as a cargo ship's wing mate.
 
I've tried to be a social pirate. In 99% of encounters I win the interdiction mini game - or surprise a LTD miner in an asteroid field, make a demand for cargo only to have them pop out of 15 seconds later without a word.
People wanting social piracy is (in my fairly limited experience) a myth.
Playing a RP pirate is thankless, unrewarding work.
I've been a willing victim many times partly just to play the game and partly to see how many would just kill me.

IF I'm stationary after interdiction and after a word or two I give up some cargo they're happy with that and it's well wishes and happy travels.. every single time.
Maybe I've been lucky.

I often end up with a free pass for the next 24 hrs. That's cool.

It's a shame expectations suggests a ganker when it could be an 'honourable' pirate.

Just my experience with a very small sample size.
 
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I think I'm beginning to understand now. You look at the game from a pure combat perspective, where you only make a comparison between PvE and PvP combat. In this case, everything you say makes sense, of course. But that's a rather limited perspective...
You asked why people would put themselves in a position where they can be engaged in PvP combat. Of course you got an answer talking about combat.
 
It's also a tired old argument, which is now six years past its prime. I have no idea why the Open folks can't just play their mode and be happy. 🤔


We are, we'd just like more people in open who then realise that for the most part open is'nt a cess pool where you'll get insta-killed , apart from the CGs and a couple of systems where the idiots look for easy kills.
But its a good challenge to say "lets get a small/med ship and jump in the bad systems and see if we can outwit/outfly the gankers"... if you dont.... you've lost 1/2 mill cr.... thats like 1 minute of mining...

Bill

<<<currently tramping around the Sol area doing odd jobs
 
Where is in game police, SPEAR? 😱
Are they not there to protect players who like to play in open in other than pvp builds?!
Is anyone out thereprotecting regular commanders who just want to participate in cg's with other cmdrs?!
Isn't there squadrons for that?!
 
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