I wish Frontier would give us a proper PvE shard.

[Sidenti Taalo]

Mobius is a great group and all, don't get me wrong. But I feel like a second-class citizen who's being told "since you have a problem with attacking actual people, you're not good enough to play with everyone else".

[Wolf]

Actually it's the other way around Imho .

[smartroad]

Forgive me but what is a 'shard'?

[Mouse]

Forgive me but what is a 'shard'?

A "Shard" was first used in Ultima Online to refer to a server. Since the World was in the crystal and the crystal was shattered.. each "shard" had an exact copy of the world in it aka each server was a copy of the main world but a separate "shard"

[TorTorden]

There is only one server, and we all play on it.

What the group mode is simply a white list for the instancing server that let us connect to each other.
I believe it goes something like:

"ooh, there's 3 pilots in azrael, maybe I can connect them.
Let's see, hmm, cmdr dipshit is in open, cmdr Mobius is in group mode 'mobius' so no, can't connect those two.
Cmdr Seven'o9 is in group 'mobius'.

Hey I can connect Seven'o9 and Mobius (executes happy dance)"
Mobius and Seven'o9 meets up, become friends and go on to rule the universe together.
Cmdr dipshit is left alone eating stale churro's while watching redtube on his second monitor.

[captain easy]

Why would we need our own server?

Mobius provides the perfect platform on which to play Elite. I am into immersive play. The absolute idiocy that occurs in open play is unrealistic. I pay it no attention.

Long live Mobius!

[Riboflavin]

Forgive me but what is a 'shard'?

A "Shard" was first used in Ultima Online to refer to a server. Since the World was in the crystal and the crystal was shattered.. each "shard" had an exact copy of the world in it aka each server was a copy of the main world but a separate "shard"

Ahhhh.. UO... these were the times.

[Feldspar]

The problem with an official PvE instancing is that either a) Frontier would need to police it, b) they would have to change the rules so commanders couldn't kill each other. a) is too much effort and b) doesn't make much sense in a word with consequences, you can accidentally kill Eagles that fly into your evil beams of death, but can't hurt a real player who does it on purpose?

[John Snow]

Hey I can connect Seven'o9 and Mobius (executes happy dance)"
Mobius and Seven'o9 meets up, become friends and go on to rule the universe together.
Cmdr dipshit is left alone eating stale churro's while watching redtube on his second monitor.

Written like apro gave me a good laugh
You wouldent be the TorTorden from NoHo (EVE) by the way ??

[TorTorden]

Hey I can connect Seven'o9 and Mobius (executes happy dance)"
Mobius and Seven'o9 meets up, become friends and go on to rule the universe together.
Cmdr dipshit is left alone eating stale churro's while watching redtube on his second monitor.

Written like apro gave me a good laugh
You wouldent be the TorTorden from NoHo (EVE) by the way ??

The one and only

Unless you count the voices..
So many voices, so many flammable substances. ..