I was just visiting the official FD forums, and a thought suddenly struck me. More on that later.
I haven't played ED in months, and barely played it for the last year or more. I'm just waiting for it to become more interesting again - and for it to be dark on the dark side of planets in VR, which may have happened! So I'm thinking of getting back into the game now, or maybe wait for the big upgrade they are promising later this year, which I know nothing about. But I keep thinking I'd like to try open again. Since I don't really care about making/losing credits anymore - it's so damn easy these days - then I shouldn't really care too much about rarely losing a ship to griefers. I mean, I'll probably lose a ship to NPCs as well, now that they are engineered.
But then it struck me - all the assholes are in open. I mean, we have our share of asshats in Mobius, but other than the occasional twat PVPer who joins to screw people over until they get booted, Mobius is 'full' of nice people. I'm sure open has a lot of nice people too, but why bother with open if you have to deal with assholes?
No, I think I'll stick to Mobius when I restart, even though I still think it's a damn shame that we need to be broken up, and curse FD for it.