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Joe Astor
Gallente Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.07.12 10:23:00 -
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Hi all.
Ever since CCP set up Singularity last year and gave all players at the time level V in every skill, I've been thinking it would be nice if it was a regular thing.
The whole idea of the weekend back then was for players to help CCP test out SuperCapitals. Not sure about what the rest of you did if you went on there, but I bought Viators, Cranes, a Sin, and just generally had a bit of a play around with some T2 ships I was nowhere near being able to fly at the time on Tranquility, and pretty much goofed around. Looking back on it, I should have used some of the carriers, dreads, and titans CCP gave everyone, and got a feel for the ships and their various roles.
I thought that perhaps CCP could organise more All-skills-at-level-V weekends on Singularity for newer players to do the same sort of thing.
Say a new player joins EVE, and hears all about tech 2/tech 3 Ships, Dreadnoughts, Carriers, Titans amd think to themselves, "Damn, I'd love to be able to fly one of those one day...but which one?"
The 6 months plus it takes to be able to fly a ship, let alone fly it well, and have support skills to be able to use it effectively, is a major put-off for some, and it IS a LOT of time to devote to whatever it is they decide to train for.
An All-skills-at-level-V weekend would let the player get into these ships, see what they are capable of, what the limitations etc are, and let them decide if it's something they really want to go for in the end. Spending all that time training for a T2 ship or carrier or the like, the player would want to be sure it's something worth spending all the time training for.
Having other pilots tell them, "Yeah man, that carrier/assault cruiser/interdictor/interceptor/titan is awesome" sometimes just might not be good enough. What's awesome and cool for another player, might not be for another.
Letting a player go onto the test server once in a while (say, once every 6 months perhaps?) would give the player the chance to get into that nice flashy oh-so-long-to-train-for ship class, and see for themselves which race suits THEM.
Just a thought.
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David Carel
Random Selection. Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2010.07.12 11:52:00 -
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TheBlueMonkey
Gallente Priory Of The Lemon Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.12 13:16:00 -
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sisi has been running for years and no people shouldn't be given all level 5's
why? Do you know how to fly a capital ship? What makes the average "jo 3 month old" the right person to test capitals?
It's like getting a 10 year old to test a harrier jump jet, it's stupid, pointless and dangerous.
What they need to do is have mail shot groups that go out to specific pilots for when they want to test specific things.
example black ops testing all black op pilots (players with the relivant skill) get a message asking if they'd like to help with testing in exchange for free stuff.
same goes for any other item that needs testing.
That way you get pilots that at least know how to fit\fly a capital ship on the most part. --
Nothing is worthless, you may have gotten it for free but it still has an inherent value
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Antihrist Pripravnik
4S Corporation Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.07.12 13:43:00 -
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http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1352102
Originally by: CCP Lemur The goal was to encourage many players to test the capital ship changes done in Dominion. Instead most people tested how to break the rules and get banned on Sisi.
Originally by: Jurona And how likely would you judge it to happen again?
p(all lvl5 on Sisi) = 0 aka never
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Batolemaeus
Caldari Vauryndar Dalharil
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Posted - 2010.07.12 14:55:00 -
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Edited by: Batolemaeus on 12/07/2010 14:55:29 This forum needs a thumbs down option. I'd like to use sisi for testing. Having any chance of reproducing something ruined by a bunch of adhd kids with all lvl5 skills would be detrimental to sisi as a test server.
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Jin Nib
Resplendent Knives
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Posted - 2010.07.12 15:01:00 -
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Originally by: Batolemaeus Edited by: Batolemaeus on 12/07/2010 14:55:29 This forum needs a thumbs down option. I'd like to use sisi for testing. Having any chance of reproducing something ruined by a bunch of adhd kids with all lvl5 skills would be detrimental to sisi as a test server.
Agreed. Not to mention I like to test with skill approximating what I actually have, not some pointless fantasy.
It's all moot in any case. It's a test server, not a fluffy bunny happy heaven server. CCP is always going to set it up so that it suits their needs, not the wants some delusional player. -Jin Nib Trading on behalf of Opera Noir since: 2009.03.02 03:53:00
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