Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5105419-20131203154204/@comment-6697950-20131203155523

Well, technically, a "solo player" would just mean anyone who doesn't play in a party. However, in Sword Art Online, this is an official term used to refer to players who do not form long lasting parties in the death game and are thus risking their lives. In ALO, I haven't seen such a term being used anywhere, but there definitely are players who do not party a lot. However, a solo player in ALfheim Online is different from one in Sword Art Online, as, for starters, they're not risking to have their brains fried by fighting solo.

A mercenary is not a term, but it refers to those players who offer their services to the highest bidder. That's definitely not a synonym for "solo player", as not all solo players play to offer their services for others.

A "Renegade" is an official term, but it refers to players who have abandoned their race's territory or were banished from them, but not necessarily solo players.

Either way, neither of the two can be used as synonyms for solo players, so we can't use either on the Solo Player article.

Edit:I've got to stop writing walls of text or somebody will beat me to answering it...