i droped out of elite dangerous when they made it so you could transition offline. so like, if you are transporting cargo, you would go offline and only be interdicted by the hapless bots. they would save up money to buy the super ships to pirate or to bounty hunt or to guard. but what is there to pirate? the haulers are offline. what pirates are there to hunt? the haulers are off line, what convoys are their to guard? the haulers are off line.

pvp was relegated to prebuilt nascar like standardization, and prevented limpets from forcing open cargo holds. it got super boring super quick