Ask HN: Non-compete in freelancing contract?

A potential customer offered a freelancing contract which would prevent me from working with any of their customers until 2 years after working for them.

I'm not 100% sure whether or not this is acceptable to me. I don't intend to get their clients but in reality this sometimes happens as I become part of their network.

What's your experience and opinion on this kind of arrangements?

Thanks for any advice!

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Quote of the Day

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." - Clarence Day

The fact that Anthem has no PvP is a big plus for me, not a minus

I just want to say that I really think that the PvE Focus of Anthem is a huge plus for the game, not only because I am not a big fan of PvP, but also out of a lot of other reasons:

• Balancing
• It is much easier to balance Skills and Weapons only for PvE. You will never get a situation where you have to nerf a Javelin, Ability or Weapon for PvP while it was perfectly fine in PvE or the other way around.
• You actually do not have to nerf anything, you can just buff other, weaker weapons and abilities to bring them on par, and you can always add another difficulty level on top (great that Anthem already has the expandable difficulty levels implemented).

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• Community Fragmentation
• Looking at big theme park MMOs or Destiny, you have players who only play PvP and others who only want to play PvE. First, matchmaking and waiting for other players get more and more difficult and longer as more activities are total in the game. If you have several PvE and PvP queues for matchmaking, you need enough players to participate in each activity. Especially in PvP you want to have fair matchmaking, but if not enough players take part in that activity you will be matched with players far better or worse than your own skill level, which is frustrating for everyone.
• If there is a new content update that requires you to play PvP or is purely focussed on PvP, PvE players will complain that they are forced to play PvP, if they want to take part in the new content. You always have to deliver content for PvE and PvP, or one part of the community will start complaining.
• You do not have to implement quests that require players to play the PvP modes to keep these modes alive. ;-)

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• Toxicity
• I experienced that PvE focussed online-games have a far more friendly community and players tend to help each other even more. Far fewer elitists are around and far less toxicity in chats and forums.

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All in all, I really appreciate the PvE focus of Anthem. (I also like the focus on RPG, Story, and Lore.)

I think PvP is fine for games that focus purely on PvP like Overwatch, Battlefield or Rainbow Six. In most Action-RPGs or MMOs PvP feels like a side-note or unnecessary appendage. Most of the time it feels like a waste of precious development-time on PvP, that can make the game even worse out of the reasons mentioned above.

What do you think?

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This is a suggestion. I believe we should use something like (paywall), (pw) or (pay) in article titles when they are paywalled. People do it for pdf. People do it for video. I believe it should be done for paywall too. This is an obvious way to inform readers that there's no point in clicking that link if they don't have a subscription.

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