Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
Solid Foundation
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Posted - 2012.06.13 19:41:00 -
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Hans Jagerblitzen wrote:Once again though, your argument assumes that this was a knee-jerk response to Goonswarm's plight, an idea which has zero basis in reality whatsoever. Goonswarm never came up once in any of the CCP / CSM talks about the war dec issue, despite all the loonies trying to suggest as much.
So these are changes that needed to be made, and the game will be better for it. Up until now the new wardeck mechanics were a little silly. With everyone being able to dogpile into a war there was very little incentive to shop around and actually hire mercenaries. And being able to declare a war mutual and lock someone into a war against multiple alliances probably wasn't the best game mechanic.
But this whole fiasco comes down to a problem of perception. From the outside it looks like these desperately needed changes were not brought into the game because they were desperately needed changes, but rather because the goons whined about it.
In a very short amount of time people saw the goons wardeck some people in highsec. The people highsec asked for help. They got help (a lot of help). And then a nerf was announced to prevent them from getting the same kind of help again. No matter what CCP's intentions were with their patch, that's what people saw.
The same thing happened with the tracking titan nerf. tracking titans needed to be fixed. But they only got fixed because the goons were shouting about it.
If you want to prove once and for all that this game is being changed for the better, and not just for the betterment of one large alliance then you should work on one desperately needed change that the goons wouldn't be in favor of.
I would suggest making a Technetium Fix just as high a priority as the wardeck fix. Don't schedule it for "maybe summer". Don't put it on the back burner while you work on sleeve tattoos. Just like the wardeck fix, and tracking titans, let's see some results. Go into full on "OH ****" mode because it is an issue that is probably just as important (if not more so) an issue as fixing the amount of allies that can join a wardeck. |