Hatchet Annie
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.09.10 11:35:00 -
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I don't get this. How can they not understand how horribly this gimps even the most basic functioning of the PVP in their game?
What can we do, seriously?
I enter a system and see a few ships on a 360 scan, now to pinpoint them I need to click for 90 degree scan, then 60, then 30, then 5 degrees several times for different planets, belts, gates, stations, to see if there's a pos at the planet or not, etc., and heaven forbid they are in a mission and I need to pinpoint their location in empty space with numerous clicks.......add the 2 second delay to this equation and the chance of actually catching someone shrinks at an alarming speed.
And in the most torturous fashion I can even dream of. Each time there's that BEEEP and the message telling me to wait 2 seconds, I get a tiny ulcer from knowing that the target now has another 2 seconds to realise he's being hunted and gtfo. 2 seconds - a long time in a game where a fraction of a second can make all the difference.
I'll spend a lot of time most days thinking about fittings and strategies, I come home and do some basic testing on EFT, looking forward to seeing if the ideas work out...but then I log on to test the new setup for real. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. A few minutes of this, and I've had it. So I dock up and log off. No fun. And, more and more often now, I just play something else instead, rather than logging on to disappointment yet again.
And worst of all is knowing that - however significantly this change improves the lag situation - the game WAS working before. It's not like everything was lagged to hell and nobody could do a thing until the 2 second delay was introduced. Because now, even though there might be less lag somewhere (I haven't noticed it myself but I'm sure theyre not just plain lying) the game does not work at all. NOW it's broken. At least for those of us who like fast paced hunting-style PVP - the core of Eve's gameplay.
It's like playing Call of Duty 4 with a 1 DPI mouse. Try getting some headshots with that. That's how pvp is in Eve at the moment.
1500+ replies and the only response from CCP is a second hand reply through a CSM telling us to just forget it. What the hell is that?
CCP, please?
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