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Posted - 2009.04.08 06:26:00 -
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Originally by: Neo Omni
Originally by: Jennifer Celeste anyone else find it ironic that the OP is still PAYING to play?
It's not ironic. It's just that the OP see all the lost potential in this game. What other game out there comes close to EVE? None.
Yet, EVE is so pew-pew centered, that alot of the "soft" elements of the game are subpar.
CCP focuses on the future with ambulation and expansion, but could someone please focus on the small trivial things about the game that we are forced to overlook because "EVE is such a great game?"
EVE is NOT noob friendly. It's survival of the fittest (as my fifth alt has learned after a few months of play).
There really has to be a very detailed introduction to all elements of game play. CCP sanctioned scams (ie undeliverable courier contracts) also need to be documented so new players know what is going on.
I'm with the OP on this one. EVE can be so much more...thus the frustration, and the hope while I continue to pay my sub every month.
Not really.
One thing that drives me crazy is that the game creates a situation where to do almost anything requires trust, and on the other hand, there are almost no tools for security verification and limiting risk and theft and espionage are rampant as a result. Tools do not exist for setting up decent team structures that control risk. This combination of poor security and the need to trust people acts as an arbitrary limit on how many people you can have involved in a project. You have to know them and trust them with everything you have or you can't have them involved at all, and there is no middle ground. And even if you get security right, the security restricts the wrong things and there isn't any interoperability of assets across an alliance.
I would add that the entire point of gameplay is shifting as a result, and is moving from being a game of internet spaceships to being a game about stealing and griefing because security is so weak and game play requires trusted activity. Its clear the way to beat people isn't to shoot them, its to steal from them, grief them from within and sabotage their organization. Thats how you fight in EvE now. The UI is the battleground, not space.
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