Hiya, I go by Cmdr Syrez in-game but usually I just tell people to call me by my real name: Lee. Feel free to chuck your best Bruce Lee joke/reference my way, I've heard every possible variation so I mostly smile and acknowledge each time it happens. If someone comes up with a unique one, I might even laugh
As for my stories of being victimized in Open Play in Elite: Dangerous, I'm a fairly boring individual in that I don't actually have even a single story to tell. I'm grateful for that, however, as the stories you constantly read about on the Interwebs kind of make people like myself a rarity, I suppose.
With 605 hours currently logged for my played time in Elite: Dangerous on Steam, and potentially a few hundred hours in addition to that prior to adding my Steam login to my Frontier account, I consider myself lucky for not having anything to contribute to the cosmic campfire tales.
My worst encounter in Open Play was simply a normal gameplay experience, and the term 'worst' probably isn't the right word to use. Scariest, perhaps? At least it was for me, personally.
I was flying my Type-7, trading rare goods along a route I found on Reddit. I decided to do this in Open Play purely for the extra fun factor of possibly being targeted by a player pirate, and it gives player pirates a chance at pillaging some decent-ish loot. Anyway, I took precautions and altered the route I found on Reddit to a more personal path which would have helped me avoid every man and his dog who would happen upon the same Reddit thread.
Despite my careful planning, a player pirate found me in a lawless system and proceeded to hold my cargo hold hostage. As any typical novice trader does, I attempted to flee in my Type-7 with an Asp Scout hot on my intakes firing projectile weapons and missiles at my near-defenseless transport. I had mines at my disposal, but with no experience with using mines and only preliminary research on their usage beforehand, my attempts at defending my few tonnes of Latvian Brandy proved to be quite fruitless.
I lost roughly a third of my cargo and my hull had been damaged to ~20% integrity, so the return I got from that route didn't even cover my total expenses for repairs and investments in the equipment upgrades I bought for my ship before setting off that day.
I'm Cmdr Syrez, and this has been my Open Play story. It may not be a plausible reason to dislike playing in game modes where PvP is a risk, but the fact that I prefer cooperative gameplay and safe(r) player environments might.
Ok, so on a more serious note regarding my intentions and expectations for joining the ElitePvE Mobius Eurasia group, I enjoy random encounters with fellow commanders, and I relish the idea and possibility that 99.99% of such encounters will not begin and/or end in a firefight with them.
Whether I'm trading goods from thriving high-tech systems to struggling agricultural regions, or defending a popular mining area from NPC outlaws, I want to be able to see a hollow rectangle on my radar without switching all my focus to it.