Alaric Faelen
Sabotage Incorporated Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2014.04.13 00:56:00 -
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Quote:For the good of New Eden I should go in and blow them up. As a reward for my efforts, I can snag BPCs for warp speed implants and mobile depots. That's chill. Then angry CONCORD dude says to back off and don't go near them? What the hell? You just said these are super dangerous! Doesn't blowing them up help you guys? Just trying to be helpful and mess with pirate stuff. --I think what CCP intended was that capsuleers are not liked by the empires. That we would steal the tech and use it against the empires just as much as the pirates- but much more dangerous because we can destroy whole fleets single handedly, as in any mission or anom. Rather like one drug dealer isn't really helping the cops by stealing another drug dealer's stash.....
Quote:From a lore point of view, it seems like a weak way to introduce new content (that I'm indifferent to) and back up the 'no turning back' Rubicon mantra. The actual product does seem a bit of a let down considering the 'outlaw' nature of ghost sites. Firstly, since a single capsuleer can crush entire pirate fleets in a few minutes time, what tech do they have that would benefit a capsuleer? A couple of our drones smash their best ships of the line!
It would have made more sense from a lore POV to make the sites Jove, or SOTC. That way not only would we be stealing tech more advanced than our own, but also putting a strain on Jove/Empire relations- which is why the guy in the trailer is cranky with capsuleers. That would fit with the 'Empires losing control' bit- capsuleers beyond empire control (null sec) are dangerously destabilizing the political situation for the empires.
At least that would set up a storyline to bring new systems into the game (Jove space has long been requested by players), new Incursions - this time technologically superior Jove or SOTC doing punitive raids in retaliation for the ghost site thefts, or even a joint FW Militia type thing similar to RvB going 'purple', where the militias could actually pool together to fend off the common threat.
Maybe CCP has a grand plan like that in the works based on the pirate factions. I don't know. But it seems that Eve lore is just an excuse for the sudden appearance of things in game, rather than part of a story arc that is going somewhere. |