David Caldera
Gallente
Strix Armaments and Defence
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Posted - 2009.06.08 14:28:00 -
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Edited by: David Caldera on 08/06/2009 14:29:40
 Originally by: Sun Clausewitz
Since the frogs won't do anything but docking games and gate camps, make occupancy mean something. Put Sentry Guns at gates/stations that are Occupying Force friendly. And will fire on enemy militia reagrdless of their faction standing.
Tada, you squish lame docking games and gate camps in emnemy systems and you make there a point to occupancy
And what would this accomplish? You're going to make it even harder for the Gallente to recapture their systems now they have none left? You're only going to turn away people who PvP and you will make the Gallente even less inclined to plex. Excellent design my man, you win the prize.
As it stands now, any change to the plexing mechanic requires CCP to reset the whole thing. You can whine all you want, but if something ever changes CCP can't just leave things as they are. Which leads me to two possible future scenarios:
1. CCP changes the mechanics and resets the whole thing. The unholy Apocalypse of whining will begin when the Caldari plexers are forced to see the achievements they won through a flawed mechanic negated. Even worse is the chance that people *still* won't care and the whole cycle starts again.
2. CCP leaves things the way they are now. Nothing changes, nobody cares.
Either way the Caldari shot themselves in the foot. Heck, if we are to believe this Devblog the Caldari ensured that they *cannot* be rewarded for capturing everything. I'll quote the important part:
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...If the attackers succeed in their assault, the system changes hands at the next downtime, which is reflected in one of the new map modes.
For now, this produces no effects outside of the warfare mechanics, but once the system settles down and we get a good handle on the way things play out in the real world, we have the opportunity to give it more significant impact without risking seriously unbalancing other areas of the game.
One side having everything is as unbalanced as it gets.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to ridicule what the Caldari accomplished. As an RPer and as a gamer I have respect for the fact that they managed to accomplish their goals. But they will also have to accept that if things are going to be changed their entire achievement will be undone. |