I usually just leave a few empty boxes of shotgun ammo next to the TV box . If it ' s a particularly nice item I ' ve been known to sprinkle bear droppings around the yard . <| sep |> Yeah I never said it was <| sep |> From my understanding , things were less scripted back then , which kind of made them just work with what they had . They had to make themselves larger then life and over embellish everything . Now it just seems everything is so scripted that really the guys now a days just can ' t go off the rails a bit without some backlash from management . <| sep |> The idea of a Pilot ' s Federation transponder that would show a player as hollow or not was discussed during development but eventually cut . I ' m not sure why . I think players would be able to tell anyway by paying attention to bandwidth and loadouts . I don ' t think solo mode needs to be eliminated , but it could be balanced such that groups interested in competing in the BGS , PP , or even CGs are encouraged to play in open . Something like a 101 ratio for how significantly opensolo actions affect the galaxy . So a blockade forcing everyone to solo is equivelent to a blockade that stops 90 % of traffic . At least it wouldn ' t be utterly pointless like it is today .