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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.17 19:59:06 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Josef Djugashvilis wrote:Mishra San wrote:I just used skill injectors on a nice hew pair of PI whores, but I failed to realize beforehand that by doing so I'd win the game.
Now that I've won the game, I have nothing else left to do..these injectors should come with a warning label.. Lordy...once again, no is claiming that cash for skills means that one can win at Eve as there is no win. BUT, cash for skills is a way for those with more disposable real life money to gain an advantage over those who cannot afford or have no desire to avail themselves of cash for skills. Those who heard of the game and spent their or others money on a sub had the same advantage prior. Regardless, someone is going to have an advantage and either way the SP all comes from training. What's really ironic is that the first max character didn't even use cash. He use in game assets and can't have his skills exceeded, meaning there is actually no way possible cash can give a skill advantage over him. Hang fire here ty, he liquidated some of his alt's which have to be trained the natural way so have been paid for also either by plex or subs - are they not with cash ??? Depends, since by the poster who claims the cash advantage only exists with injectors by way of buying PLEX RL and selling them in game to fund progress, by his logic no.
For me and my position that all SP is made from cash, yes, though that makes injector SP and trained SP indistinguishable, meaning one can't have a paid for advantage over the other since their both paid. |
Berrice Silf
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
137
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Posted - 2016.02.17 20:00:25 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Berrice Silf wrote:Like i said all irrelevant as it was prior to the statement or before i even started to play, what does concern me is in that statement he said time over money and rise also said that skill decisions should still have priority over rapid respec's and now they've advertising it as a reskill / respec tool and not even including that it carries penalties It's entirely relevant because it forms the basis for the rules that guide future decisions. We have an example here of exactly that. Also time still works WITH money over just money. It's those who invest time that control what money is worth, after all. As far as the ads, we all know what the tools are and how they work. We know their not lossless and the ads don't change that. We asked for a way to respec and were told it's inefficient to and now its not mentioning helping the new player its a ****** expensive respecing mechanic - Explain ??
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.17 20:02:40 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Berrice Silf wrote:Like i said all irrelevant as it was prior to the statement or before i even started to play, what does concern me is in that statement he said time over money and rise also said that skill decisions should still have priority over rapid respec's and now they've advertising it as a reskill / respec tool and not even including that it carries penalties It's entirely relevant because it forms the basis for the rules that guide future decisions. We have an example here of exactly that. Also time still works WITH money over just money. It's those who invest time that control what money is worth, after all. As far as the ads, we all know what the tools are and how they work. We know their not lossless and the ads don't change that. We asked for a way to respec and were told it's inefficient to and now its not mentioning helping the new player its a ****** expensive respecing mechanic - Explain ?? Wait, what the ad says overrides the way it works?
Explain?? |
Berrice Silf
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
137
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Posted - 2016.02.17 20:06:59 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Berrice Silf wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Berrice Silf wrote:Like i said all irrelevant as it was prior to the statement or before i even started to play, what does concern me is in that statement he said time over money and rise also said that skill decisions should still have priority over rapid respec's and now they've advertising it as a reskill / respec tool and not even including that it carries penalties It's entirely relevant because it forms the basis for the rules that guide future decisions. We have an example here of exactly that. Also time still works WITH money over just money. It's those who invest time that control what money is worth, after all. As far as the ads, we all know what the tools are and how they work. We know their not lossless and the ads don't change that. We asked for a way to respec and were told it's inefficient to and now its not mentioning helping the new player its a ****** expensive respecing mechanic - Explain ?? Wait, what the ad says overrides the way it works? Explain?? Im trying to find the part about it helping the new player, must be in the small print:
Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is great whenever you want to respec your skills, customize your skill tree or make some ISK.
Really really small print. |
Jenshae Chiroptera
2580
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Posted - 2016.02.17 20:42:53 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:So a promise broken before it was made is somehow a promise you still believe? . From here.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
I will be voting for Xenuria because...
Now that everything can be bought for $, EVE has no goals - empty shell.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.17 21:19:08 -
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Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:So a promise broken before it was made is somehow a promise you still believe? . From here. Question still stands. The timeline is as such, Bazaar and time codes - 2003, PLEX - 2009? I think?, The promise not to give advantages for cash - 2011, MCTCs - 2014.
So we had cash capable advantages via GTC/PLEX since the beginning, but a line from a blog overrides that somehow?
Berrice Silf wrote:Im trying to find the part about it helping the new player, must be in the small print: Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is great whenever you want to respec your skills, customize your skill tree or make some ISK. Really really small print. EDIT: Ok from a marketing stand point and all the horse crap we were fed over this in the original blog don't you think the advert should of atleast led with : Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is a great way to introduce your friends or corp mates to a speedier introduction into the vast eve universe. you could alternatively customize your skills or make some isk. but no they went straight for the wallet shot Are the only valid uses are the ones explicitly stated in that particular ad?
More importantly how is extracting SP to give to new players somehow less of a "wallet shot" than redistributing your SP. The cost is the same for the SP you want to part with either way, so what makes appealing to one stated goal morally reprehensible compared to another? |
Suede
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
88
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Posted - 2016.02.17 21:29:30 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:So a promise broken before it was made is somehow a promise you still believe? . From here. Question still stands. The timeline is as such, Bazaar and time codes - 2003, PLEX - 2009? I think?, The promise not to give advantages for cash - 2011, MCTCs - 2013. So we had cash capable advantages via GTC/PLEX since the beginning, but a line from a blog overrides that somehow? Berrice Silf wrote:Im trying to find the part about it helping the new player, must be in the small print: Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is great whenever you want to respec your skills, customize your skill tree or make some ISK. Really really small print. EDIT: Ok from a marketing stand point and all the horse crap we were fed over this in the original blog don't you think the advert should of atleast led with : Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is a great way to introduce your friends or corp mates to a speedier introduction into the vast eve universe. you could alternatively customize your skills or make some isk. but no they went straight for the wallet shot Are the only valid uses are the ones explicitly stated in that particular ad? More importantly how is extracting SP to give to new players somehow less of a "wallet shot" than redistributing your SP. The cost is the same for the SP you want to part with either way, so what makes appealing to one stated goal morally reprehensible compared to another?
CCP have Trashed this game
http://eveboard.com/pilot/IronBank http://eveboard.com/pilot/Stromgren
Ironbank who ever he is 2016 toon over 475M SP. total joke on CCP what a waste of 10 years of paying CCP sub to get to 220mill SP |
Berrice Silf
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
138
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Posted - 2016.02.17 21:30:48 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:So a promise broken before it was made is somehow a promise you still believe? . From here. Question still stands. The timeline is as such, Bazaar and time codes - 2003, PLEX - 2009? I think?, The promise not to give advantages for cash - 2011, MCTCs - 2013. So we had cash capable advantages via GTC/PLEX since the beginning, but a line from a blog overrides that somehow? Berrice Silf wrote:Im trying to find the part about it helping the new player, must be in the small print: Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is great whenever you want to respec your skills, customize your skill tree or make some ISK. Really really small print. EDIT: Ok from a marketing stand point and all the horse crap we were fed over this in the original blog don't you think the advert should of atleast led with : Skill Extractors allow you to extract skillpoints from your character, which is a great way to introduce your friends or corp mates to a speedier introduction into the vast eve universe. you could alternatively customize your skills or make some isk. but no they went straight for the wallet shot Are the only valid uses are the ones explicitly stated in that particular ad? More importantly how is extracting SP to give to new players somehow less of a "wallet shot" than redistributing your SP. The cost is the same for the SP you want to part with either way, so what makes appealing to one stated goal morally reprehensible compared to another? what's with your playing dumb approach ?? Rise stated that rapid respeccing of skills was not the stated goal now the first line of the ad is respecing of skills, when helmar released his grovel letter about the money and time it drew a line under all that has previously passed, from 2012 clean slate no under handed tactics, MCTC are not under handed no different than having multiple accounts until now where you can use the slots as farming characters to increase the main or sell.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.17 21:37:57 -
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Nothing is the least bit trashed unless your time only amounted to 220mill SP and nothing more. If that's the case the fault lies squarely on you, not CCP. I'm happy with my best char @ 7 years, 150m SP as I was back at the beginning of October before even the initial announcement. None of what I trained was taken from me, and I have no desire to deny it to anyone else just because the way I got it was mandated at the time.
Berrice Silf wrote:what's with your playing dumb approach ?? Rise stated that rapid respeccing of skills was not the stated goal now the first line of the ad is respecing of skills, when helmar released his grovel letter about the money and time it drew a line under all that has previously passed, from 2012 clean slate no under handed tactics, MCTC are not under handed no different than having multiple accounts until now where you can use the slots as farming characters to increase the main or sell. This isn't underhanded. There is no deception involved. Everything is so incredibly straightforward and clear to everyone, so much so that no one denies a profit motive played a hand in this, that the claim of being underhanded doesn't even make any remote sense.
Beyond that note how the statement you point out doesn't say the loss mechanic was placed to prevent respecing, just rapidly doing so by introducing loss. It acknowledges that this is a thing people are expected to do with it and as a result their limiting efficiency, which they later raised to make it more usable for that purpose. |
Berrice Silf
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
138
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Posted - 2016.02.17 21:51:53 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Nothing is the least bit trashed unless your time only amounted to 220mill SP and nothing more. If that's the case the fault lies squarely on you, not CCP. I'm happy with my best char @ 7 years, 150m SP as I was back at the beginning of October before even the initial announcement. None of what I trained was taken from me, and I have no desire to deny it to anyone else just because the way I got it was mandated at the time. You really don't understand why people feel so disgusted with what CCP have done do you, the time they've taken to create and shape there characters and the money they've spent on it's journey. If the time investiture means nothing then theyre banging there heads trying to explain anything else to someone who has just an analytical approach to the problem.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.17 22:05:50 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:You really don't understand why people feel so disgusted with what CCP have done do you, the time they've taken to create and shape there characters and the money they've spent on it's journey. If the time investiture means nothing then theyre banging there heads trying to explain anything else to someone who has just an analytical approach to the problem. You're the one making the erroneous assumption that time investment means nothing to me. The real difference here is that for me that past time still has and future time continues to have value, which is why I'm actually having an odd time making sense of the whole "now I can just unsub and inject up later" approach.
With this mechanic in place I still have an objective best rate of return on investment that only requires patience. It also maintains my decisions, which is important to me. Even the ones I didn't really make persay (no, 2% reduction on manufacturing time was not worth ~10 days, but when skills change I don't get to determine how).
And the best part is my actual journey isn't and can't be touched by this. It doesn't work retroactively. Everything I did, said, and had done to me in the game is intact and in no way invalidated. It's not something Stromgren or Ironbank can take. But apparently I'm banging my head trying to explain anything to someone determined to be outraged by this rather than think about it. |
Jenshae Chiroptera
2582
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Posted - 2016.02.18 03:04:02 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:... Everything I did, said, and had done to me in the game is intact and in no way invalidated. .... Goals are hollow when a credit card can be waved at all of them.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
I will be voting for Xenuria because...
Now that everything can be bought for $, EVE has no goals - empty shell.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.18 04:05:27 -
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Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:... Everything I did, said, and had done to me in the game is intact and in no way invalidated. .... Goals are hollow when a credit card can be waved at all of them. The things which Eve was supposedly most about don't have credit card options, or so I thought.
Turns out it was just a skill ticker.
Edit: And even the ones that do have the option of a CC you have the option of adding meaning to by not swiping yours. |
Berrice Silf
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
140
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Posted - 2016.02.18 08:08:48 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:... Everything I did, said, and had done to me in the game is intact and in no way invalidated. .... Goals are hollow when a credit card can be waved at all of them. The things which Eve was supposedly most about don't have credit card options, or so I thought. Turns out it was just a skill ticker. Edit: And even the ones that do have the option of a CC you have the option of adding meaning to by not swiping yours. Everything you have done in the game now means very little, there is no prestige attached to a game where the wave of a credit card gives you anything you desire. Just because you say your not going to use it doesn't alter the perception of the gaming community. The cohesive bonds that create comradery don't happen when you can advance through an injection of real world currency infact it deters people before they even start.
Just another sell out that's chasing the money. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1933
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Posted - 2016.02.18 08:27:57 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:Everything you have done in the game now means very little... Going to have to cut that thought right there and point out first and foremost that for me as a player that was never something for you to determine.
So far as the wider reaching absolutes you're now trying to deal in: The social structure of the game isn't built on SP. If there's any mechanical building block it's the fact that regardless of SP individual players have limits to what they can do at any point in time and other players help bypass those limits in ways SP can't.
And as far as perception, we've been "spreadsheets in space" and more relevantly "the game you don't play for the first year" for the very aspect you're now defending. Perception is an argument of convenience which frankly doesn't even amount to an absolute. The few places I've seen that have even cared are actually more positive than this and pretty even split overall.
Edit: It's funny because looking around eve has it's fair share and more of haters at a conceptual level considering the actual size/population of the game (that's in news unrelated to this mind you). |
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
6944
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Posted - 2016.02.18 09:00:53 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Berrice Silf wrote:Everything you have done in the game now means very little... Going to have to cut that thought right there and point out first and foremost that for me as a player that was never something for you to determine. Oh snap, you mean people have values other than the magnitude of their SP counter? No way...
Tyberius Franklin wrote:So far as the wider reaching absolutes you're now trying to deal in: The social structure of the game isn't built on SP. If there's any mechanical building block it's the fact that regardless of SP individual players have limits to what they can do at any point in time and other players help bypass those limits in ways SP can't. So, blobbers.
Also ecm and offgrid boosts.
Tyberius Franklin wrote: Unless you're meaning to suggest that gaining SP via injectors itself in a game that has seen desirability of it's members increase with their SP count in certain social circles will now shun greater availability of such increases. That's certainly possible. But at that point one has to question the value of such a connection when so many less "elite" groups are available.
ncdot still needs 30mil sp minimum to join? But perhaps my "kill:death ratio" or "isk effiiency" aren't good enough
it quickly became clear that many of you were able to see the potential benefits and that youGÇÖre also ready for some big changes in EVE, especially when they might help bring in newer players
http://eveboard.com/ranks
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Bones Outten
Council of Economic Advisors Bitter Vets n Noobs
19
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Posted - 2016.02.18 14:18:47 -
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Some people are making statements about this not changing goals. Kinda like:
I did the London to Brighton Cycle run.
I did it on the Train, I guess that's the same yes? |
Ayumi Shekki
Thee Almitee Ones Paragons Of Virtue
14
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Posted - 2016.02.18 16:31:32 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Nothing is the least bit trashed unless your time only amounted to 220mill SP and nothing more. If that's the case the fault lies squarely on you, not CCP. I'm happy with my best char @ 7 years, 150m SP as I was back at the beginning of October before even the initial announcement. None of what I trained was taken from me, and I have no desire to deny it to anyone else just because the way I got it was mandated at the time. You really don't understand why people feel so disgusted with what CCP have done do you, the time they've taken to create and shape there characters and the money they've spent on it's journey. If the time investiture means nothing then theyre banging there heads trying to explain anything else to someone who has just an analytical approach to the problem.
Just hard to want to stay and play eve anymore it just feel like CCP have just backstabbed all it loyal alpha/beta players who have pay sub for over 10 years to train skill from each hr to each passing day to get to where we are today. Just sad to see a game turn in to a Pay To Win.
CCP might as well just make this game to Free To Play
pay-to-win
Games that let you buy better gear or allow you to make better items then everyone else at a faster rate and then makes the game largely unbalanced even for people who have skill in the game without paying.
Dude, you've spent like 400 bucks on this game so you can beat everyone who hasn't spent any money. Pay-to-win noob! |
jason hill
Government The Blood Covenant
854
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Posted - 2016.02.18 20:19:07 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:jason hill wrote:yeah but wasn't training that "useless skill" your choice to train ...until you realised that it was actually useless ?
its part and parcel of what eve is ...imo Not sure this argument even holds fully true with the number of skills that have changed function or prerequisites that have shifted.
To an extent and in a way your 100% correct .Hence removing the learning skills ... I was bloody furious when they were removed yes ok we got the a refund ...but we weren't refunded for the time it took to train them AFAIK .
Like I said in one of my previous posts this new crop of Devs don't have the same vision that the original devs had hence their "im stamping my foot on the game mechanics" |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1934
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Posted - 2016.02.19 04:39:05 -
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Bones Outten wrote:Some people are making statements about this not changing goals. Kinda like:
I did the London to Brighton Cycle run.
I did it on the Train, I guess that's the same yes? Obviously no.
But there being a train doesn't stop people from doing the cycle run and enjoying it. And being on the train obviously means you aren't doing the cycle run, but doesn't stop anyone else from doing it.
Well, maybe it does for some people here I suppose as evidenced by the fact this logic was even be used.
jason hill wrote:To an extent and in a way your 100% correct .Hence removing the learning skills ... I was bloody furious when they were removed yes ok we got the a refund ...but we weren't refunded for the time it took to train them AFAIK . Not sure how both the idea that we got refunded the SP AND the idea that we didn't get refunded the time can both be true.
Since SP is a function of time x training speed and they can't literally give you the time they gave you the SP representing that time to apply to other skills as if you used that same time to train them instead.
Can't say I'm really mad about their removal, are you mad because of the idea that the time wasn't refunded or something else? |
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Darkblad
Hilfe is like Free Entertainment
207
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Posted - 2016.02.19 08:17:23 -
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Suede wrote:CCP have Trashed this game
eveboard.com/pilot/IronBank eveboard.com/pilot/Stromgren
Ironbank who ever he is 2016 toon over 475M SP. total joke on CCP what a waste of 10 years of paying CCP sub to get to 220mill SP It's 4,630 days from Stromgren's birth on 17.6.2006 until today. Assuming a constant training of the skills (with the maximum of 2.700SP/h) Stromgren would be at 300 Million SP. Stromgren currently is at 411 Million SP. The spike on SP/time happened after the introduction of stkill trading. That's when he started injecting SP beyond the 238 Million he had.
I'm not sure if the 10+ years are wasted, as I'm pretty sure that Strommgren played eve all the time. It's hard for me to believe that anybody would stick with a game for that time if it's not fun, at least not for such a long time. You may ask him.
Any player in eve should discover and stick to their own defintion of fun with the game. Don't let your fun be ruled by what was, you'll end up wishing "vanilla wow" back. And don't let your fun be ruled by other players' definitions of fun with eve.
However, I see that skill trading already did and most likely will have impact on this definition of fun by some players. And new players, will most definitely discover the game in an environment where instant carrier is at least an option/something to strive for. New players don't have to experience the change of paradigm that some existing players have do. And they way CCP handled the disuccion of this matter before it got introduced. But that is just another example of CCPs dedication to open communication with the community (read:duck and cover).
It's the perception and conclusions of what eve is, that worry me. At least the trailer which attempts to show "this is eve", though, would still be possiible no matter if skill trading existed back then.
Neuspielererfahrung - ISD - pwned by linguistic
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Darkblad
Hilfe is like Free Entertainment
207
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Posted - 2016.02.19 08:36:46 -
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Bones Outten wrote:Some people are making statements about this not changing goals. Kinda like:
I did the London to Brighton Cycle run.
I did it on the Train, I guess that's the same yes? To keep it with real world examples:
I have a disability (MS) which has a negative impact on the sports I love (cycling). My previous employer sponsored a cycling race event that happens each year (on a road race track in southern denmark) and invited all employees to participate.
I was the only employee that participated (and got removed by the broom wagon after the second lap) It was great fun!
Neuspielererfahrung - ISD - pwned by linguistic
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sero Hita
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
124
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Posted - 2016.02.19 08:43:08 -
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Berrice Silf wrote:You really don't understand why people feel so disgusted with what CCP have done do you, the time they've taken to create and shape there characters and the money they've spent on it's journey. If the time investiture means nothing then theyre banging there heads trying to explain anything else to someone who has just an analytical approach to the problem.
What I don't understand is how them introducing the SP trading, changes the value of your time retroactively? That just makes no sense at all. You have have enjoyed your time playing EVE for X number of years. You made the journey, which according to some philosophies, is more worth than the end point. That they introduce something now, that you don't like, would at most ruin your enjoyment of the game now. It does not negate the X years you enjoyed, as you already have had your fun. That is not being taken away. If you feel like it is, then it is a mentality thing on your part. Just be happy about the time you enjoyed, and if you don't enjoy it now, then stop playing. Being bitter will severely affect your general life quality, and it is not worth that.
In the past I have played other MMOs that I have stopped enjoying due to tedium or changes they made. I just quit, leaving all my stuff behind and found something I enjoy ot play instead. I did not, bring a lot of drama to the forums, claiming the time I had enjoyed was wasted. I will probably never understand that mentality. The world is dynamic, and so are your gaming choices, don't get too attached to the pixels, it is just a waste of life.
"I'm all for pvp, don't get me wrong. I've ganked in Empire, blobed in low sec. Got T-shirts from every which-where.. But to be forced into a pvp confrontation that I didn't want is wrong ccp." RealFlisker
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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Farsaidh's Freeborn
2072
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Posted - 2016.02.19 09:44:17 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Bones Outten wrote:Some people are making statements about this not changing goals. Kinda like:
I did the London to Brighton Cycle run.
I did it on the Train, I guess that's the same yes? Obviously no. But there being a train doesn't stop you from doing the cycle run and enjoying it. And being on the train obviously means you aren't doing the cycle run, but doesn't stop anyone else from doing it. Well, maybe it does for some people here I suppose as evidenced by the fact this logic was even be used. ...
The problem here is in the fact that some people can't afford this hypothetical train to Brighton. And as far as they can tell Brighton must be where all the fun is as you can buy your way there faster. By this thinking you must be missing out on the fun if you can't afford the train ticket and have to slog your way there in the meantime.
Without SP the fun was in the journey, it had to be as there was no other choice. SP trading has turned this journey into an inconvenience for those who can't afford the train tickets but want to get to Brighton at the same time as those who can.
SP trading will change new players (and older players) perception of what EvE is. In my opinion (based on how I play the game) EvE lost something of itself with SP trading and now the genie is out of the bottle it can't get that back. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1934
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Posted - 2016.02.19 10:36:18 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Bones Outten wrote:Some people are making statements about this not changing goals. Kinda like:
I did the London to Brighton Cycle run.
I did it on the Train, I guess that's the same yes? Obviously no. But there being a train doesn't stop you from doing the cycle run and enjoying it. And being on the train obviously means you aren't doing the cycle run, but doesn't stop anyone else from doing it. Well, maybe it does for some people here I suppose as evidenced by the fact this logic was even be used. ... The problem here is in the fact that some people can't afford this hypothetical train to Brighton. And as far as they can tell Brighton must be where all the fun is as you can buy your way there faster. By this thinking you must be missing out on the fun if you can't afford the train ticket and have to slog your way there in the meantime. Without SP the fun was in the journey, it had to be as there was no other choice. SP trading has turned this journey into an inconvenience for those who can't afford the train tickets but want to get to Brighton at the same time as those who can. SP trading will change new players (and older players) perception of what EvE is. In my opinion (based on how I play the game) EvE lost something of itself with SP trading and now the genie is out of the bottle it can't get that back. So what we have then is a question purely of perception vs reality.
Since we're running this analogy for all it's worth: We all know not being in Brighton doesn't mean not having fun, or so I would have though since those of us still accruing SP for whatever reason never got all the way there. At the same time I'm assuming we're still here because we enjoyed the game for more than simply counting the steps to it.
Yet this conversation has done everything to paint that as not the case.
Another factor here is that the perception of "it's more fun in Brighton" didn't start with skill injectors/extractors. I'm certain that the sentiment has been exasperated because of the strong opposition. 2003 players speaking of their achievements and how it's all ruined by younger players using injectors certainly doesn't tell those newer players that low SP is something you can have fun with. It says that SP was something to be envious and covetous of, but would take over a decade to achieve themselves.
We have a decade thick brick wall of perception already. And it was actually a great deal sturdier before the first blog.
I won't argue there are no inevitable mechanical changes, though quantifying them as inherently harmful still seems a stretch. Most of the harm seems to rather come from the perception that being poor in game didn't hold you back somehow before and real life wealth was never employed to resolve that. And further we're reinforcing the notion that, per the vets insistence that this is P2W, it is necessary to have fun. Problem is that even if that argument killed the idea itself it also reinforces the notion that even isn't worth playing the first few years. And to many that means just plain not worth playing.
I get the argument of appearances, but since no one cares how bad the skill system looks overall so long as they can tarnish injectors we're not gaining progress either way. |
Josef Djugashvilis
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The only sensible solution to this is to give everybody all the skills to level V, immediately.
Then, no one will have to wait to do anything due to lack of skills and players will have to rely on superior mental ability to use said skills.
The very idea that any one should have to wait to fly ships etc due to lack of money or the fact that they did not start playing Eve on day one is just old fashioned and unfair to the 'I want it all and I want it now ' folk.
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marly cortez
Mercurialis Inc. RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2016.02.19 13:00:43 -
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Interesting how this threads ethos has turned in the past few days as players begin to realise the depth of this apparently simple change to the game. Seems you cannot take the skill out the player but you can now at a swipe of a credit card suck it out of the heads of your toons.
Apart from the obvious disgust at this change some now belatedly exhibit the real issue here is in that simple statement, were is the skill actually based, Give a ten years player a noob toon and they can work wonders in game with it, but give a ten year old toon to a noob player and is the reverse true, Very doubtful, more than probably all they will do is get themselves continually blown up, become utterly disillusioned with Eve and leave the game in short order. CCP will be happy they got the short term dollar injection but will soon find this dries up, Players on the other hand, Well not so much will they find that same dollar bought them the satisfaction they initially believed it would.
As with the so called 'New Player Experience'. That freebie grapple that CCP injected into the game to get players over the initial vertical learning curve and into Eve properly and quickly in there view, Has this been a success, again very doubtful it has as the reality of it by the nature of humans in general means that the vast majority not having to undergo that initial baptism of fire will soon find that not only have they been deceived by CCP, but that they have arrived in Eve proper utterly ill equipped to cope with day to day life in game. Soon loose interest as it bites them daily and find there ability to progress gimped simply because they never had the chance to learn even the basics.
Skill Extractors, Well you either take em or leave em, either way Players should never ignore what brought them into the game, Once fully understanding the implication of them there is only one way to combat this creeping disease currently making it's way into the game, and that is not to participate in it, a far more powerful voice than the CSM ever gave you.
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Stromgren
Forcas armadas DARKNESS.
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Posted - 2016.02.20 00:58:22 -
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Darkblad wrote:It's 4,630 days from Stromgren's birth on 17.6.2006 until today. Assuming a constant training of the skills (with the maximum of 2.700SP/h) Stromgren would be at 300 Million SP. Stromgren currently is at 411 Million SP. The spike on SP/time happened after the introduction of stkill trading. That's when he started injecting SP beyond the 238 Million he had.
I'm not sure if the 10+ years are wasted, as I'm pretty sure that Strommgren played eve all the time. It's hard for me to believe that anybody would stick with a game for that time if it's not fun, at least not for such a long time. You may ask him.
Darkblad,
You are right, my account was active and i was playing all these years, unfortunately my choice to live in nullsec space and my option to practice PVP prevented me to be able to train at max speed...
After so many years i still enjoying the game, I have 5 accounts and 15 pilots, and in the last 13 years I've done pretty much everything there is to do in this game.
- I played in Highsec, Lowsec, nullsec and WH space - Did PVP in small, medium and large scale - I built supercapitals - I deployed outposts - I led an alliance in Syndicate for nearly three years. - Etc, Etc...
And this list can probably go for a while...
But there is something that i always belived that i was never going to achieve in this game: the hability to recover the skill points that I missed in all this years due my playstyle, and with the advent of skills injectors it became possible.
Ok i agree that probably the ISK that i used in the process can be more useful if I choose to invest it in something else, but to tell the truth, I'm quite happy with the use that I gave to it :)
There is nothing that I`m able to do now that i wasn't able to do 10 days ago when i had 238 million SPs, my choose to boost my skill points do not harm any other player, and the major part of skill points that disappeared from the game in the process came from my Alts.
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Ken Bekle
Jednota Inc
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Posted - 2016.02.20 03:03:44 -
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Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:... Everything I did, said, and had done to me in the game is intact and in no way invalidated. .... Goals are hollow when a credit card can be waved at all of them.
On the contrary, life can be rendered "futile" when present events cause one to re-cast the joys of one's past into sorrow in the present. So many people like to say "I live for the present." or "I live in the moment."
Tiberius actually understands those words and lives them. Though I don't know him/her, I bet there is a very joyful person behind that avatar.
"Credit cards" are "waved" every day at every conceivable type of human endeavor. Sports. Science. Medicine. Games. Philanthropy. You name it. We celebrate all of them. Often the people that celebrate new achievements most loudly are the people who's prior achievements (goals) were surpassed.
Good on you, mate, Tyberius.
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Ken Bekle
Jednota Inc
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Posted - 2016.02.20 03:41:52 -
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sero Hita wrote:What I don't understand is how them introducing the SP trading, changes the value of your time retroactively? That just makes no sense at all. You have have enjoyed your time playing EVE for X number of years. You made the journey, which according to some philosophies, is more worth than the end point. That they introduce something now, that you don't like, would at most ruin your enjoyment of the game now. It does not negate the X years you enjoyed, as you already have had your fun. That is not being taken away. If you feel like it is, then it is a mentality thing on your part. Just be happy about the time you enjoyed, and if you don't enjoy it now, then stop playing. Being bitter will severely affect your general life quality, and it is not worth that.
For those for whom an event in the present can alter their enjoyment of their past, no explanation will be sufficient.
I've spent all of my adult life married to a woman who had a choice to let the death of her husband at 25 recast all of the goals they'd achieved as a young couple into dross OR celebrate the many goals they'd achieved, then go on to build new ones.
That's true mastery at life.
L5 achieved.
The same mindset is possible vis-a-vis Eve and CPP.
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