Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24721972-20140512132647/@comment-16047389-20140630221655

Cosmicsilver wrote: It completely segregates the community between "Oh I have SM connection disabled." and "Oh I have SM connection enabled." And with your system that means "Guess we can't connect." Does that sound like it would be fun to you? You want to connect by SM to others, another person doesn't, so you can't connect at all? That is absolutely terrible. There should only be one form of connection, not two forms in order to split the community in half. That's not how it would work. Let's say you have three people. Person A has 50k Soul memory and is opt'd in the SM range. Person B has 50k SM and is opt'd out. Person C has 150k SM and is opt'd out as well. Person A and Person B would still be able to connect, because even though Person A is opt'd in and Person B is opt'd out, they both share the necessary SM requirements that Person A requires. Person A and Person C would not be able to connect because Person A is opt'd in the SM range, and their SM is too far apart. However, because Person B and Person C are BOTH opt'd out of the SM range, they can connect.

Person A wouldn't notice any difference at all. The only change would be that Person B and Person C have an expanded range in additon to the normal range.

It's not so much that you turn SM on or off. It's that you say if you want to only pair up with those that are within your SM range OR those that are within your SM range plus anyone else who is opt'd out. It's the difference between only the normal 50 people that are within your SM range, or those 50 plus another 250 players who aren't, but are opt'd out as well. It's not segregation in the community between two parties. It's the ability to allow players to bypass the normal requirement, in exchange for the risk that they may be going up against someone far more powerful. This system could still use the original SL range requirements.