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Maktor
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:35:00 -
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...one day CCP decided that it was time to reset the servers and reset all characters back to noob characters and making eve a level playing field.
I don't really think this will ever happen but I think it could really make eve very interesting. It could well take away the control many of the big alliances have over the high end 0.0 space and allow new alliances to form, the battles over resources being fought with cruisers and frigs rather then massive dread + battle ship fleets.
Again, this is a theoretical thread and I'm interested in what people think would happen within industry, pvp, markets and everything else we know and love in the universe now...
How would things change? What would you do differently? Do you think that one day it will happen? and if it did what would be your first thoughts.
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Noix Arikani
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:42:00 -
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noob, lock noob thread, everyone hates these kinda threads |
Captain Stupid
Circus Fantastique
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:43:00 -
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Pretty sure that CCP HQ would get attacked |
Abrazzar
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:44:00 -
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What if...
...people would use available search functions and read up on topics that have already been discussed repeatedly instead of creating a new thread about?
What if?
If only... |
Maktor
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:44:00 -
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Well, I was expecting a few cry babies but not as a first reply.
Lets put it a different way then. What if a fresh server was started next to tranquility... |
Jana Clant
New Dawn Corp New Eden Research
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:47:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar What if...
...people would use available search functions and read up on topics that have already been discussed repeatedly instead of creating a new thread about?
This is madness! |
Element 22
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:47:00 -
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Cry me a river OP, so you will never catch up, big whoop, skill points aren't everything. Most of us will never catch up and you don't see us whining about it. |
Arthur Frayn
V.O.F.L IRON CORE H E L I C O N
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:48:00 -
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Edited by: Arthur Frayn on 31/01/2009 15:48:21 What if you stopped posting the same tired old questions we've seen a thousand times already?
In fact, what if you just stopped posting? Imagine what you could achieve by not being annoying as hell! |
Maktor
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:52:00 -
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Woo, obv this is going to be a bit of a fail thread. Go me!
Well its not something I have discussed before or thought about before over the years of playing eve and thought there might be a few people about that may have some interesting ideas on the subject. Perhaps I was wrong. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:52:00 -
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What if we had world peace and everybody lived a life of luxury ? I mean, if we're talking completely unfeasable hypothetical situations... |
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Kessiaan
Minmatar Army of One
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:56:00 -
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Edited by: Kessiaan on 31/01/2009 15:56:09 Even though this thread comes up every week I'll answer anyway.
Originally by: Maktor ...one day CCP decided that it was time to reset the servers and reset all characters back to noob characters and making eve a level playing field.
You're caught up on SPs when you realize they're a small part of a much larger equation.
Quote: I don't really think this will ever happen but I think it could really make eve very interesting. It could well take away the control many of the big alliances have over the high end 0.0 space and allow new alliances to form, the battles over resources being fought with cruisers and frigs rather then massive dread + battle ship fleets.
Resetting SPs might move where the big alliances are, but it wouldn't do anything to let in the 'small guys'. Big alliances are big because they're well coordinated, know where all the good systems are, and know how to run logistics. None of which has anything to do with how many SPs their pilots have.
Once entrenched, the alliances would actually be even more difficult to remove because you can train the skills needed to set up a deathstar in a few minutes, but the skills needed to fly the ships to remove them forcibly take months.
Quote: Again, this is a theoretical thread and I'm interested in what people think would happen within industry, pvp, markets and everything else we know and love in the universe now...
How would things change? What would you do differently? Do you think that one day it will happen? and if it did what would be your first thoughts.
It won't happen - skillpoint totals become less and less important the more pilots are involved any given operation. Wiping everyone's SPs would make a lot of people quit, but for those that stay the vets would be at an even bigger advantage over rookie pilots simply because they know the game and could grab all the best systems, know what BPOs to buy & research, know how to get T2 production going, etc.
Wormhole exploration seems like it might be a step toward a system where major players can't just totally shut everyone else out. And even so, the big alliances aren't invulnerable - look at the influence map, half of those guys weren't around just a couple of years ago. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:57:00 -
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Ok, on a more serious note... what would happen in case of a server wide reset, ASSUMING that most of the people would keep playing instead of everybody downright quitting.
Nothing would change, it will actually get worse.
People already know what they liked or what they hated, and will focus on doing whatever it is they're doing right now but with more effectiveness. Huge capital fleets will soon again roam 0.0 (limited only by the time you need to hurry directly to them), and current alliances and alliance pilots will reign supreme once more in a very short time, since in EVE 0.0 is a game of organisation and numbers rather than skill or anything else.
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Arthur Frayn
V.O.F.L IRON CORE H E L I C O N
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Posted - 2009.01.31 15:59:00 -
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Originally by: Maktor Woo, obv this is going to be a bit of a fail thread. Go me!
Well its not something I have discussed before or thought about before over the years of playing eve and thought there might be a few people about that may have some interesting ideas on the subject. Perhaps I was wrong.
I'll give you a serious response to your question. Eve would lose most of its playerbase; y'know, the people who've been playing longer than a month who have invested substantial amounts of time and planning into their characters and have made achievements that they are proud of. They'd be completely justified in packing their bags and leaving.
Eve, just as in life, is a place where you have to climb the ladder like everyone else. You have to fight and kick and scratch to earn your place in the upper echelons.
"Welcome to the layer cake." - Michael Gambon |
Murtank
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Posted - 2009.01.31 16:08:00 -
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It's so funny to watch the CharBears (not to be confused with CareBear) crap all over hypothetical threads because of the mere chance it might actually happen if they allow it to be discussed longer than a single page
Anyway if and WHEN this does happen, 0.0 would be utterly worthless for weeks. Whoever can set up the greatest veldspar mining industry would rule High sec within days and Low sec/0.0 after.
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Arthur Frayn
V.O.F.L IRON CORE H E L I C O N
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Posted - 2009.01.31 16:17:00 -
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Originally by: Murtank Anyway if and WHEN this does happen
Aren't we being a little presumptuous? |
Milla Jovo
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Posted - 2009.01.31 18:50:00 -
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Didn't CCP actually do this a long time ago?
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Naibasak
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Posted - 2009.01.31 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: Milla Jovo Didn't CCP actually do this a long time ago?
wasnĘt that just the launch of singularity? (EvE-China?)
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Milla Jovo
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Posted - 2009.01.31 19:12:00 -
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no... i think it was in the first 6 months of game play
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Qordel
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:03:00 -
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This thread is incredibly original. |
Malcanis
R.E.C.O.N.
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:04:00 -
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Originally by: Qordel This thread is incredibly original.
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:07:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar What if...
...people would use available search functions and read up on topics that have already been discussed repeatedly instead of creating a new thread about?
What if?
If only...
I will never understand why its so annoying with new threads... |
Southern Suzy
Minmatar THE INTERNET.
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:14:00 -
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what if.....
ppl would stop making stupid topics ..... |
ToxicFire
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:30:00 -
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Edited by: ToxicFire on 31/01/2009 20:34:52 Is it time for one of these threads again... didn't we have one a couple of weeks ago?
Theres two answers to this
1) Absolutely nothing at all ppl would accept it and simply start over again, probably learning lessons from eve mkI and eve mkII would probably end up turning into a mass powerblock of everyone producing t2
2) EVE would simply collapse as the number of people leaving would make the game unsustainable without reducing CCP to a shell.
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Tskara Jylan
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:31:00 -
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It wouldn't be a level playing field. People with prior game knowledge would make a huge gap in wealth and power from the lesser players.
Plus alot of people would be ****ed, rioting outside CCP office and refusing to resub. |
rValdez5987
Amarr 32nd Amarrian Imperial Navy Regiment.
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Posted - 2009.01.31 20:34:00 -
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Originally by: Maktor ...one day CCP decided that it was time to reset the servers and reset all characters back to noob characters and making eve a level playing field.
I don't really think this will ever happen but I think it could really make eve very interesting. It could well take away the control many of the big alliances have over the high end 0.0 space and allow new alliances to form, the battles over resources being fought with cruisers and frigs rather then massive dread + battle ship fleets.
Again, this is a theoretical thread and I'm interested in what people think would happen within industry, pvp, markets and everything else we know and love in the universe now...
How would things change? What would you do differently? Do you think that one day it will happen? and if it did what would be your first thoughts.
This is the only thing that would make me quit playing. |
svetlana
Constellation Guard
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Posted - 2009.01.31 22:09:00 -
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Originally by: Milla Jovo no... i think it was in the first 6 months of game play
tranq server from release has never been reset. the main big controversy in the first 6 months of gameplay was the insurance exploit in the game, which was fairly quickly patched.
things like faction standing have been reset before however years ago.
OP- and yes this topic has been discussed an maligned about 1000 times before in this forum.
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Typhado3
Minmatar Ashen Lion Mining and Production Consortium Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2009.01.31 22:32:00 -
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everyone would get ****ed off cause of loosing lots of sp isk. most of the big alliances would have all their members rejoin and go out and take their old space a few would crumble due to lack of ppl resubscribing and their would be some fierce fighting with up coming alliances but in most cases space is held cause of fc's allies and pilots skill not sp and isk. goons might make a big expansion with this though as their pure number force and ability to swarm would give the a dangerous advantage.
tbh it would be stupid and pointless. it would be a very poor attempt at trying to achieve that brand new game feel.
now going back in time and starting playing eve from back in beta would be interesting but until u invent a time machine that's just not gonna be possible.... |
Armoured C
Gallente Federation of Freedom Fighters Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.01.31 22:44:00 -
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what if i took that avatar out of my pants
it still a itty 5 |
Mikalya
Amarr Viziam
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Posted - 2009.01.31 22:51:00 -
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Time in game doesn't determine whether someone will "get ahead", your determination and how you proceed will. No one, ever, has an equal footing and someone always has to start the game after someone else. I mean are you also advocating resetting the servers in two years when YOU have made it but some poor noob thinks he can't "catch up"?
Your solution wouldn't stop those that already have made it from exceeding your abilities next time around either All it would do is tick off people that have worked hard for a long time to get where they are.
Question: What you do think this would solve? Or are you just upset because you weren't born before Thomas Edison and as such aren't in the history books? |
Hirana Yoshida
Behavioral Affront
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Posted - 2009.01.31 22:57:00 -
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A much better 'What If' scenario is that CCP realises that their 0.0 sovereignty mechanic is whacked, and removes all towers, sets up temporary stations dotted around while pondering a replacement.
Or one i would like to see, a reinstatement of the T2 lottery system but only for ammo.
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