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Posted - 2012.05.09 22:05:00 -
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Machiko Agota wrote:Ok, I can understanding linking Datacores to the LP store...but why the Factional Warfare LP store!? I don't see the connection. Unless the goal it to force more players into FW  ... MA
Exactly!
Militia "grunts" gathering research data from an LP store in a contested system?
What is the story behind FW militia LP store handing out datacores?
How does a milita NPC corp come into the picutre in a contested military zone to hand out research datacores?
Aren't research done far away from fighting zones? What if the enemy captures them? I don't think any milita office wants to give the enemy their research data...
This seems VERY arbitrary, and far from beliveable.
Also if u want to have good level 4 research agents u have to grind standings, and after that u have to travel a lot to gather the Datacores since the agents are scattered across the universe. It's far from passive...
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Milton Middleson wrote:Quote:Militia "grunts" gathering research data from an LP store in a contested system? It's actually quite clever. What you are doing is gathering field data and testing new equipment, thus enabling research. More seriously, the "it makes no sense" argument makes a superficially correct point, but considering that Eve's manufacturing system is already heavily dissociated (information does not get used up in the manufacturing process; why manufacturers have to keep re-inventing the same hulls and equipment? etc...), I don't see how it really matters. I think it's better because it makes each of militia stores more unique. though I do agree restricting mechanical engineering to the TLF store is a poor choice.
Well ok, that seems reasonable (to gather intel and test out new equipment) but then again, research is done far from fighting zones. Ur intel will be trasferred to research stations and such to develop stuff based on ur data, and then send back experimental, and advanced weapons and modules to the front to use them and test them. And that goes in cycles. They don't send back research data.
Manufacturing and invention related stuff has a meaningful mechanic that serves the economy well in EVE. U can't really compare this change to that.
We have a lot of arbitraray stuff in eve, that breaks immersion, we don't need more. Especially something like this one.
This change gives the impression like: CCP was thinking about how to change datacore gathering from the old and forgotten research agent system for a long time now but couldn't think of a good way yet. Then the summer of rage and stuff after that happened and they had to focus attention on things that mattered for players. So they pulled FW, and somebody had this "great" idea, to give more incentives for players to get into FW, and slowly migrate datacores and FW together (as i think if it succeeds, datacores will be only avalible from the FW LP store "soon", as they iterate on FW in the coming expansions).
It's like they always try to do the easiest and straightest way no matter the cost, and the collateral damage...
If they aren't satisfied with the "passive" nature of the datacore acquisition, then why not develop a new mechanic for it wich requires more player interaction? Why tie it to a completly unrelated part of the game? |