Vyl Vit
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Posted - 2014.09.27 05:24:00 -
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People for whom cloaking is a significant factor to their game play will try to slam the OP (as you saw), by either claiming there is no problem here (move along) or by attacking the posters - both very thin attempts at choking off discussion in case someone listens and takes the discussion seriously. Poof. Then they'll have to think of something else to do, (and it was hard enough to come up with the method of play they're using!) So-called "pirates" and advocates of "PvP outside the FPS environment" do this as a rule. It's a thing they've picked up from each other over time, and now employ automatically. Very often game management (like CCP here) falls for it, and believes this handful of slow-wits are actually representing a substantial group. Since game management doesn't get around, and doesn't see them doing this in every game that exists, it's easy for them to be duped, like they are here at EVE. Oh yes, and the "PvP-ers" who can't make it in an FPS 'cause everyone there can fight back on an equal footing...these are called "GANKERS" (CCP...have you caught up yet?)
Anyway, that being said, the mechanics of messing with the time/space continuum, and other other aspects of reality governed by the immutable laws of physics are tantalizingly ever present in EVE. However, the ability to maintain a certain plausibility is a pitfall even the great Sci Fi writers took seriously (Heinlein, Asimov. etc.) The case of the warp scram/engine web being chief among these here, but cloaking is a close second. Of course, these items are what even a child would think of being faced with a difficult problem to solve - make it disappear, and as much as we "love" the CCP dev team, they do have this tendency to think like two-year-olds when it comes to certain things such as these.
You could discuss how nothing could possibly just disappear, that if it were still in existence there would be some sort of trace in some fashion, since otherwise creates a conflict with some major truths - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, for instance. If there's a boat on the lake, there are corresponding wave motions and water displacement. To be able to hide the whole of reality on one little point in the universe - well, only someone who's oblivious of physics (such as a two-year-old) could ever imagine such a thing.
What you must realize is, you're not dealing with the facts of reality here. You're dealing with the behavior of a few people - a very few in the context of the whole. It's not whether cloaking is accurate within the backdrop of known reality, or scramming, or webbing. It's that the egos that came up with this would never humble themselves and admit they may have gone a bit too far. That (in turn) is the GANKER's life blood. They use these "things" to play in their "style." And, like the two-year-old you're trying to take the pointy scissors from, when you try, expect a lot of butthurt screaming...like in this thread.
Imagine letting 25% of your customers dictate terms to the other 75%. Who in their right minds...?
TYVM have a nice day. Anyone with any sense has already left town. |