Is this game fun to play in Single Player mode?

[RoughBeardBlaine]

or is it not worth playing if you don't play online?

[TiberiuS]

I'd say the game is 95% single player... unless you join a wing maybe.

[Stelar Seven]

All play is online. Single player just means you won't see other people.

Having said that, if you like flying a space ship and doing space things. The game is a blast. If you want to run around on foot, not currently possible.

You can land on some planets if you get the expansion.

I think group activities are more fun but a lot of what I do is just me and the NPC and that is fun too.

I'd say watch some let's play videos and see if that looks like fun to you.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

You wouldn't have problems with playing this game in a Solo mode, without any other players around. You only need other players if you want to interact with them.

You can also switch modes any time you want - your progress carries on.

[Striker]

As the people say... you can play almost 100% in Solo. You wan't to play with friends? Join a private server, only with them. You want to... play in the "public" online server... with the only benefit (for what I know) to be raided by pirate or a player who want to just kill with... a very low profitable experience for him.

And since all your things are binded to your avatar/character, you can switch without any problem between the mods/servers.

If you have friends to play or just find a online group to flay together you can try the wings, but they are not something crucial. So... yes, you can enjoy ALMOST 100% of the game playing 100% solo.

[Sir Laffsalot]

Originally posted by Striker ß:

As the people say... you can play almost 100% in Solo. You wan't to play with friends? Join a private server, only with them. You want to... play in the "public" online server... with the only benefit (for what I know) to be raided by pirate or a player who want to just kill with... a very low profitable experience for him.

And since all your things are binded to your avatar/character, you can switch without any problem between the mods/servers.

If you have friends to play or just find a online group to flay together you can try the wings, but they are not something crucial. So... yes, you can enjoy ALMOST 100% of the game playing 100% solo.

Oh wow... So you can switch between solo and public and your stats and equipment stay with you? Awesome!!! I didn't know that. All other games I play, requires you to have to start over on each server you play on, and I HATE that!!! You just made my day. Thank you!!!

[Stelar Seven]

Originally posted by Sir Laffsalot:

Originally posted by Striker ß:

As the people say... you can play almost 100% in Solo. You wan't to play with friends? Join a private server, only with them. You want to... play in the "public" online server... with the only benefit (for what I know) to be raided by pirate or a player who want to just kill with... a very low profitable experience for him.

And since all your things are binded to your avatar/character, you can switch without any problem between the mods/servers.

If you have friends to play or just find a online group to flay together you can try the wings, but they are not something crucial. So... yes, you can enjoy ALMOST 100% of the game playing 100% solo.

Oh wow... So you can switch between solo and public and your stats and equipment stay with you? Awesome!!! I didn't know that. All other games I play, requires you to have to start over on each server you play on, and I HATE that!!! You just made my day. Thank you!!!

Not just that, if you play in open and meet someone you don't like, you can block them and never see them again.

[TiberiuS]

Originally posted by Stelar Seven:

Originally posted by Sir Laffsalot:

Oh wow... So you can switch between solo and public and your stats and equipment stay with you? Awesome!!! I didn't know that. All other games I play, requires you to have to start over on each server you play on, and I HATE that!!! You just made my day. Thank you!!!

Not just that, if you play in open and meet someone you don't like, you can block them and never see them again.

Not exactely true, but the odds to be instanced with a blocked player are decreased greatly.
On the other hand you can't block all gankers out there plus their whole friends-list.

@Sir Laffsalot:
Yup. It's true. It's one consistent safegame / commander over all game modes. I for my part play mostly in a private group (a large one with loads of palyers), as do many people who particularly do not want to run into PvP peeps who want to blast you into oblivion for their Lulz. Sadly there are quite a few.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Solo and Open are indistinguishable from one another outside a handful of systems.

[Crimson Echo]

The game is virtually all single player except for a few popular systems. Playing in solo you lose practically nothing.

The game does not have a campaign or much in the way of story. It is essentially a sandbox with a multiplayer hat taped on to justify cosmetic microtransactions.

Solo mode does still need a relatively stable internet connection, and is not really entirely 'offline'. (you just will not see other players in solo).

[martydaparty4u]

Its always online as there's no offline mode!

[Uriel]

Originally posted by martydaparty4u:

Its always online as there's no offline mode!

To clarify that further for OP, even playing solo, your actions and other players' action will impact the game. Play solo and sell a ton of valuables in a station, and the price will drop for everyone as the commodity has become more readily available. If players help a faction take over a system, then it will switch faction even for you, in your solo mode.

The difference is only between the ability to meet other players, or not. Everything else is connected anyway.