What mode do you play and why?

[Wicked Recluse]

I play solo for only ONE reason, I don't want to PvP. I certainly don't want "non-consensual" PvP. So I play alone all the time.

[ImHelping]

I bounce between them. Amusingly I think More of my Open time was when I was running rares or plain jane type-7 trading.

Meanwhile, sometimes you want to be able to hunt bounties a few hours without worrying somebody in in an Federation Corvette (oops) will splatter you for 400 credits if an NPC cop kamikazes into me again. Or just because.

People out to turbo murder me (And they would, I'm not exactly a "good" pilot) for practical reasons I can get behind. Oh wow a pirate came after my trader? Why would that EVER happen?

But I still bounce to solo roughly half the time because sometimes you just want to relax more. Particularly when you have a habit for playing a few hours at a time off and on instead of "Elite Is What I Do". It's much more interesting in Open though now that NPC's don't seem as prone to killing themselves trying to dock anymore.

Though the majority of my deaths have been "Well, that seemed pointless" varieties.

"Well I'm an entirely empty hauler, Allied with the station *explodes because I didn't stop claim allegieance to Emperor's Grace*"
"Well I'm just an Eagle trying to get some bounties, I'll make sure NOT to killsteal from these bigger players ang go chase these NPC Asps *explodes without even a bounty on me*"
"Maybe if I join a confilct zone?" *Own side blows you up, because there was no penalty to murder in Conflict zones so LOL*"

On that note, did they ever add penalties for killing players that picked your side in Conflict zones? Everyone loves to scream about "OMG Pirates ruining newbies" or "OMG Casuals ruining the BGS in solo".

But my own experience has been more on the side of "Worry about your own side" more than any pirates or people "hunting newbies"

[Wicked Recluse]

I've got to see this Federation Cutter!

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Recluse:

I've got to see this Federation Cutter!

Look man, it's hard to keep track of the names of fancy ships you can't afford some days.

[Wicked Recluse]

Originally posted by I'm Helping!:

Originally posted by Recluse:

I've got to see this Federation Cutter!

Look man, it's hard to keep track of the names of fancy ships you can't afford some days.

haha, I gotcha, just yankin' your chains.

[Agony_Aunt]

Play group then OP, not solo. You get PvE only in groups like Mobius/Mobius PvE (two groups for the moment due to technical limitations with group size - Moibus has hit 20k members and FD never expected groups to get so big).

Great thing is, you get to fly alongside other people without PvP.

I did play Open for a few months, got fed up with random kills while flying ships that didn't stand a chance of fighting back. Choice was to remain in Open and only fly combat ships or switch to group and do what I enjoy. Since i'm playing the game to enjoy it, I chose the latter.

[DownSouth05]

Personally I prefer not to PVP but if the fight comes my way I am more than willing to murder someone or defend myself. Although I feel that the whole nonsense of private groups and solo play should be removed and the only place to play is in an open instance like Eve Online.

[Wicked Recluse]

Originally posted by Skinny_Legs:

Personally I prefer not to PVP but if the fight comes my way I am more than willing to murder someone or defend myself. Although I feel that the whole nonsense of private groups and solo play should be removed and the only place to play is in an open instance like Eve Online.

Only if they made PvP optional, something sort of like WoW with their "PvP flag toggle". I would most certainly play open if my progress wouldn't be hindered or interrupted by other players, if I wasn't at risk from other players by just starting the game.

[joshthomas134]

Originally posted by Skinny_Legs:

Personally I prefer not to PVP but if the fight comes my way I am more than willing to murder someone or defend myself. Although I feel that the whole nonsense of private groups and solo play should be removed and the only place to play is in an open instance like Eve Online.

i agree if they really kinda made this game more like an mmo space sandbox like it proply should be i think she would really shine but their targing panzys these days with games and carebears.

[Wicked Recluse]

Originally posted by joshthomas134:

Originally posted by Skinny_Legs:

Personally I prefer not to PVP but if the fight comes my way I am more than willing to murder someone or defend myself. Although I feel that the whole nonsense of private groups and solo play should be removed and the only place to play is in an open instance like Eve Online.

i agree if they really kinda made this game more like an mmo space sandbox like it proply should be i think she would really shine but their targing panzys these days with games and carebears.

What is this carebear? Hmm? Someone who wanted to come home and have an enjoyable experience for an hour? Someone who doesn't want to play broken unbalanced PvP? Someone who wants a casual gameplay and not hardcore? For the record, E:D is a single player game, and rightfully deserves the title, it just has Online/Multiplayer mechanics thrown in. They nailed the Single Player, they failed at the multiplayer. This game should NOT be an MMO, but a single player game with ONLY the option to play with friends, not a open world PvP game that is called Open.

[Steve]

These days I only play in private group mode, Mobius pve group. as I dislike pvp and I've met some "idiots" in open. So I stick to mobius now.

[nzguzzi]

Solo or Private Mobius PvE
Because I hate little bagOdics that ram/attack/grieve & PvP sucks, i dont like paying 120Mil for insurance.

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

I play private because OPEN kinda lags and I don't want to downgrade graphics since it runs flawlessly outside of open.

[nzguzzi]

Originally posted by joshthomas134:

Originally posted by Skinny_Legs:

Personally I prefer not to PVP but if the fight comes my way I am more than willing to murder someone or defend myself. Although I feel that the whole nonsense of private groups and solo play should be removed and the only place to play is in an open instance like Eve Online.

i agree if they really kinda made this game more like an mmo space sandbox like it proply should be i think she would really shine but their targing panzys these days with games and carebears.

They need to change Open play PvP to set systems, and bye bye all the pew pew ego dwerps.
Rest of us can play in peace and actually enjoy seeing other commanders fly past etc.
An MMO cant be realistic with PvP because of balance issues/grievers etc.
For this very reason most if not all MMO's turn off collisions/player killing out side of the set PvP areas.
Then everyone just gets along, its quite brilliant but sadly with FD current shallow think tank, they havent quite figured that out yet and thus loses profits from peeps who want an open game experience but without the BagOdix

[joshthomas134]

wtf i have played in open for over a year and all u derps seem too have problems with pvp clearly its u guys that have the issue not the game not once have i been blown up by a player.

[Wicked Recluse]

Originally posted by nzguzzi:

Originally posted by joshthomas134:

i agree if they really kinda made this game more like an mmo space sandbox like it proply should be i think she would really shine but their targing panzys these days with games and carebears.

They need to change Open play PvP to set systems, and bye bye all the pew pew ego dwerps.
Rest of us can play in peace and actually enjoy seeing other commanders fly past etc.
An MMO cant be realistic with PvP because of balance issues/grievers etc.
For this very reason most if not all MMO's turn off collisions/player killing out side of the set PvP areas.
Then everyone just gets along, its quite brilliant but sadly with FD current shallow think tank, they havent quite figured that out yet and thus loses profits from peeps who want an open game experience but without the BagOdix

I agree, and another issue is the reward vs risk for playing in Open. There is absolutely ZERO reward for playing open, but you risk everything you own in game.