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Jimer Lins
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Posted - 2009.09.08 22:29:00 -
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In a future world with technology as advanced as we supposedly have at our fingertips, I find it hard to believe that the computer system that disburses courier contracts is deliberately designed to provide you with job opportunities which are impossible for you to complete.
tl;dr- you shouldn't be able to see (or should be able to filter) contracts you cannot complete due to standings, etc.
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Jimer Lins
Gallente
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.09.09 00:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Iria Ahrens
You're right. They can even make game AIs that can play themselves without your help. Why do you even want to play the game if you want the computer to do it all for you?
Ah, bite me, why dontcha? If you don't have enough imagination to scam without using user interface shortcomings, then GTFO. And spare me your silly justifications of how it should be easy or hard; it's totally irrelevant. Find a better/more imaginative scam and stop relying on poor UI design to give you "scam on easy mode".
Or just whine some more when people point out that there really are stupid shortcomings in the UI that should be addressed, and that the lack of decent data filters for contracts really should be addressed.
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Jimer Lins
Gallente
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.09.10 02:39:00 -
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Originally by: Iria Ahrens
Quit crying scam. Quit blaming the interface. Quit blaming others for your own shortcommings.
Blow it out your sphincter; I don't care who or what you scam. Go for it, I love scammers. Just get off the "I want to scam on easy mode by exploiting stupid UI design" kick.
Me, I've never scammed, taken a courier contract, made a courier contract, or been scammed. But I'm not so dense I can't see that the system is stupid.
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My justifications have nothing to do with easy or hard. It's about possible or not possible. If I put up a contract to retrieve something under one mile of water in the middle of the ocean, don't accept the contract if you can't deliver. How hard is that to understand?
Why is it hard to understand that people should be able to filter contracts by whether or not they can dock in the target system? This isn't rocket science; the data's all there and I could write a query that would get it now, let alone with whatever technology is available twenty-some thousand years in the future.
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Jimer Lins
Gallente
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.09.10 06:14:00 -
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Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Jimer Lins
Just get off the "I want to scam on easy mode by exploiting stupid UI design" kick.
Where's the exploit? How do you know it's a scam?
I used "exploit" in the standard sense of "to use or take advantage of", not in the MMO sense of "to use a defect in the game or related systems to unintended advantage". And as to whether it's a scam, there really isn't any way to be sure, which also goes against both good UI design and EVE philosophy- the latter being that you can fleece the stupid by lying to them, but it's not cricket to simply let the system's design do the lying (even if it's only by omission) for you.
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