What is the purpose of SPO?

If you go solo into FMO it's exactly the same as if you are in SPO.
Why insist on SPO?
You arent hidden, you still have online chat access, afaik there is nothing about less or slower spawns or any other adjustment.

What about call FMO just privat mode online?
You are solo or private with your group. PMO.

Or are there plans for SPO i'm not aware of?

 

I believe the purpose is to help market the game as ground breaking since its both SPO and MMO. Plus prob helped get seed money to get the project going since it catered to both type of game players. Just my personal thought on it, with the information i currently have. Unless like you stated there are plans im not aware of.

i.e.

#1 Check out SOTA a crowdfunded MMO, hmm well i dont like MMOS i want a single player game... well we are a single player game with a multi player option! Oh in that case im in where do i pledge?

#2 Check out SOTA a crowdfunded SPO, hmm well i prefer playing with multiple people online instead of by myself... well we are an MMO with the option to play Single Player offline with a story! Oh in that case im in where do i pledge?

 

You are so mean

 

Ah. Die drei lustigen zwei sind zurück.

 

SPO you can't TP to any of your friends even if you party with them, as you can't be in the same instance with them, so it's not "exactly the same" as you say. So a group of friends party up, and want to mine elysium seperately, they do so each in SPO, not FPO (which would put them in the same instance). This way they can all have a common /party chat window, but can still play seperately for example.

 

Ok i can Party for Chat reasons only.
Well ok, thats maybe a justified feature.
Other is nobody can TP to you.
Sometimes you maybe want that.
Ok.

 

Pointless posting

Just kidding because you said that to me in another thread

 

Maybe they intend to "shard off" the story in the future so they can make the player impact the world and story in their own way? Would be harder to do in multiplayer, SO I guess a rich story and consequences could be felt stronger if it was directed to one player. Kinda a guess tho.

 

LOL WTF.
i NEVER expected somebody, be they german or whatnot, to know that.

 

Perhaps there are people who like to play the game all by themselves, but instead of playing the offline mode where there is no economy or public/player vendors to buy things from or sell things from... they prefer the online "live" version to play in all by themselves.

This way, they get the benefits of the live economy, without having to interact with anyone personally.

I know when I first started playing this game (particularly due to the SPO option) that's exactly what I did for the first month or so while I learned how to play the game. It wasn't until I started having questions and needed some help killing some creatures that I jumped onto MPO and started interacting with others. But, my original intention with this game was to play it solo in the online mode. For one thing, it sort of eliminates the worries that come with "being the best" when you are the only person in the game world.

I now play mostly in MPO since I really enjoy the company and friendship of my guild, but I can see where the lure of having your own world can be appealing.

 

Come on man, I'm omniscient you should know that by now.

 

Atm theres no difference between Friends only and SPO.

Offline, there will be a single player game with different rules than online has. If SPO is supposed to be like the offline game with a chat box, then it makes sense that it doesnt function that way yet as the Offline mode is not entirely available yet.

 

Friend Mode and dont Party
But i'm convinced with grouping, going in the same instance, but not together, but each in his own instance.
Very low reason, but ok

 

Unless they changed something recently, that actually doesn't work.
Quite often I like to party with a couple of friends just to chat but if we both wanted to be mining in the same zone then we interfered with each other.
We tried going onto SPO but it kept putting us in the same mine together, anyway.

 

Hm *ponder *

That's bad then, and again my question, if this is not possible i only see justified one Private Mode, solo or group, no matter then.

 

Single player online/offline may not be everything that you hoped and dreamed for... but I actually like the concept a lot. There are definite benefits to both the developers and the players who want a single player experience.

On the development side, they don’t have to develop every town, every vendor, and hide that one major sword everyone needs in the tree outside yew. They can let the multiplayer world evolve and impact single player online. Vendors change, decorations change with season. The world would feel lived in and alive with out you having to deal with all those crappy living people. You in single player online can actually setup a vendor become a blacksmith and sell you wares on your vendor without ever knowing who bought it. So much better than let me go grind for 500 swords sell to vendor x who pays y, then make x and sell to vendor in a continuous cycle of mind numbing boringness. This would now change with the needs of the world and what sells on week may not the next.

 

What are you, New?

 

I have a question, forgive me if it's kind of dumb, but I haven't played a ton and only in Multiplayer. You can switch between all of the online modes freely and not be penalized, right? Like for instance, you can choose to do Friends or Single Player and then go to a pvp zone, and then switch back into Multi later?

 

You can count me in this group. I was wondering if anyone would "get it"...