Sieges and encounters forced Muliplayer??

With Private mode turned on, I just went into a bandit encounter and then a skeleton encounter and both were private, so I don't know what this change actually did for encounters.

 

Well then we need for noobs to be able to bypass sieges! Oh, wait...

Open mode for sieges makes a lot of sense, but I'm still not really sure how open mode in encounters is supposed to work, as in how other people enter. I remember before encounters had overworld NPCs, they were open mode, that was kind of interesting. But I also remember that they re-spawned resources until the devs realized how silly it was after the change to party-only mode. Once just for the heck of it I farmed resources in an encounter for almost an hour before I got tired of it. (What's next... bringing back open mode for Owl's Nest Mine?)

 

Much like what it does when in a party: it could leave a marker behind that an encounter is in progress and you can join if you want, perhaps?

 

Or anyone under player level 80 or so who thinks it'll have engineers in it and get nuked by a cabalist instead.