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Posted - 2012.02.24 16:18:00 -
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I feel incredibly dirty for what is about to follow.. but it has a point..
Jade Constantine wrote:Hello Torfi!
Once this has been done you can get on with developing Avatar gameplay without the player base being continually suspicious that its just a vanity cabinet/display case for MT nonsense.
I guarentee you this will significantly improve the PR and friendly reception you'll receive for future devblogs and development in this area.
Avatars really do need to be de-coupled from that store to be something players want again. However the problem with WiS is that once one place becomes popular, it becomes the only place to be. This is why club goon could never work (as much as I'd like to relieve you all of that terrible isk burden). Can you imagine 4-4 in a WiS environment? It will never work (though I'd love to see me proven wrong there) because of the limiting factors of trying to cram 1500 avatars into one small area. Even if establishments in WiS were never intended to be places of trade, thats what would end up happening anyway.
Jita (and trade itself) really has to be de-centralised before WiS could ever evolve beyond a "come back to my place and i can show you my blankety blank" scenario. From a trade point of view, I can only ever see this working if stuff was instantly delivered to the station you're in, regard less of where its being sold at. To keep haulers in the business, not all stations in a region should be linked.. but there should be a network. Corp, faction, sov based etc. Gankers.. well you're prob gonna have to move about a bit more.
I can only see the whole WiS establishment working if the 'establishment' itself was disperse. Dock at any station (or one with a link into this network..sov, faction etc), and then log into this virtual environment channel . This sounds awfully like IRC , except you'll have the avatars of others around you at the local station, rather then all 1500 in the 'channel'. Why does the avatar you're playing the gambling game at, actually have to be there with you? Give it a hologram representation (which is local to the person and way friendlier on resources) and the overall effect is the same. |