The reason I feel like a second-class citizen as an E:D PvEer is, simply put, that's how the development company treats the PvE concept. Did you know this community is buried on the very last page of the official website?
There's a reason for that, and it's clear in the promotional material: Frontier wants a game that has features conflict, strife and unease. This is most evident from quotes on their front page:
Experience unpredictable encounters with players from around the world in Elite Dangerous’ vast massively multiplayer space. Fly alone or with friends in a connected galaxy where every pilot you face could become a trusted ally or your deadliest enemy.
Upgrade your ship and customize every component as you hunt, explore, fight, mine, smuggle, trade and survive in the cutthroat galaxy of the year 3301. Do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to stand among the ranks of the Elite.
Now, someone above brought up the topic of realism in the PvP section of the game and how they felt the actions of those players didn't seem to be all that realistic. I agree. It's patently absurd to think we're going to advance past our Solar System - or even Mars - in 1300 years if we keep at each other's throats. Hell, I have problems imagining any authority anywhere ever would allow lethal weaponry on personal spacecraft. If I tried to outfit my Impala with multi-cannons? My ass is going to JAIL. XD
I just don't think Frontier wants a PvE option. If they did, they'd offer more support to the PvE group (read: at least not burying us on the very last page of the Community section - if Frontier truly wishes for us to "play our way" they wouldn't be forcing us to do all the work and ignoring rules violations) and they wouldn't feature players attacking players as much as they do.
There's more to life than fighting other humans. A LOT more. And that's why we're here. We want to see the galaxy. We want to explore planets. We want to team up and do things against non-human opponents. We want to play the environment.
But that doesn't seem to fit into Frontier's galactic view of a future filled with strife, Machiavellianism, and murder. -bp
