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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.10 17:32:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Jasonitas
This mission is a part of a new batch of missions that we're testing out. Essentially, this is content that is directly related to the ongoing storyline of EVE, namely, the capture of Gallente systems by the Caldari FW militia and the ensuing blind auction to Caldari megacorps. Thus, this is content that was created as a response to how you, the players, influenced the story in-game and in-setting.
Thus, it is as designed. We have a dev blog coming out that explains a bit more about it, so stay tuned for it. These missions are only for Gallente and are highly experimental in nature. We're keeping an eye on it to see how well it is received by you guys.
Well I have just received this mission (Mining base camp) and could NOT BELIEVE THE CRASS STUPID INEPTITUDE OF THE MORONS WHO THOUGHT THAT THIS IN ANYWAY WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA. As a way to encourage PVE players to try PVP and take some risk it rates as about -1000000 on a 1 to 10 scale.
Eternal is my alt who I am GRINDING faction for by doing boring level 1 and 2 pve missions. The whole idea with this alt is to get enough faction to join FW. It has been a nightmare; I either get storyline couriers that move me 0.01 or now this heap of steaming poo poo. I am at 0.49 so only needed a little push to get to the magical 0.5 and over so me and my 1 person corp can join. The idea is that others in my pve corp can join and we can have some PVP FW fun. That was to be MY EXPERIMENT in the game that I PAY FOR then I smash into this ****whit of a game mechanic.
It is bad enough grinding faction as it is (on my PVE main and alt I now just grind corp faction it is so much easier)without these barriers being presented.
How did anybody in CCP ever think that this would be a good idea? How? Did you even think about the reaction and consequences of this? How are noob players suppose to deal with this especially if it is their first storyline? Did you all collectively **** your brains out over Xmas?
I was going to grind faction to join FW PVP but now with this garbage I am going back to my main and alts to grind level 4s and will ignore storylines for ever more. So back to 100% carebearing for me since you have just made it too difficult for me to jump on the PVP FW wagon.
I have made a petition, I hope your petition logs get snowed over with people complaining about this.
CCP why do you make this game about creating barriers to play in new and different ways rather than creating routes and road blocks?
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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.11 12:12:00 -
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I have posted a proposal in the Assembly Hall to have these experimental missions removed:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1248644
Please support.
I am hoping that we may get some comment from a CSM representative. For me these missions are so badly designed and show a complete lack of understanding of the PVE playerbase that the Atlanta Storyline Team should get a good telling off for even coming up with this idea never mind the CCP morons who then got it implemented.
In the mission and complexes forum CCP have been asking for PVE feedback. A few months back there were pages and pages of excellent ideas given on missions, their design, faction and how agents should work. The Storyline team in particular and CCP developers in general clearly ignored these threads, took nothing from the PVE community on board otherwise they would not have ever dreamed up these asinine experimental forced FW PVP missions.
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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.12 18:01:00 -
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Originally by: S'Way
How an idea as badly thought out as these missions ever got past the test server phase and into live is a mystery really.
All you've done is make it take longer for people to grind up standings for corps they want to do L4's with. Maybe you think increasing players boredom doing many more L2+3's will make them leave high sec, but if the L5's with decent rewards haven't got them into low-sec in large numbers (which seems to be what you're aiming for), these definitely won't.
S'way thanks for signing my proposal in the Assembly Hall.
BTW these missions were NEVER tested on the test server which just shows:
a) How stupid the EVE storyline board in Atlanta are.
b) How little CCP understand the need to test the customer experience and not just technical issues and bugs, and the need to constrain developer excitement to get wizzy ideas implemented quickly and without being thought through. (But then CCP did achieve the boot.ini incident and destroy many players computers)
c) How little they understand or care about their PVE playerbase (which is about 80% of accounts).
d) How little they understand player behaviour and how to encourage people to try PVP aspects of the game. They have essentially stopped me with this PVP alt grinding faction to join FW for the Gallente. A complete own goal.
I think that if this had been inflicted on the Caldari players first then this mad experimental scheme would have lasted all the way to the next downtime. But seems that us Gallente mission runners are there to be ignored since there has been no response from CCP or the CSM to any of these threads.
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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.12 23:28:00 -
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The response to my petition about the mission was underwhelming in terms of customer service, along the lines of
"blah blah part of game play blah blah nothing we can do blah blah please go away"
I have replied wanting it escalated and stating that as a paying customer I am not a lab rat for poorly thought out untested ideas by morons in Atlanta who have no understanding about PVE. If I want to do testing I will use my precious play time to jump on Singularity.
I intend to push this as far as I can through petitions. Perhaps if we fill up their boxes they might get the idea, we can but live in hope of customer service from CCP.
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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.16 17:57:00 -
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Originally by: TradeNow
I really only have one question. Is this the only type of storyline mission you will get while its being tested? I was trying to raise my faction with the Gallente federation, but I dont really feel like flying to hell and gone to complete the mission. Guess I will go try mission with a diff faction until this is done being tested.
TradeNow, some people are getting these 4 storylines in a row i.e. after running 64 ordinary missions all they have been offered are these pieces of crap. You are supposed to be getting the "ordinary achievable well thought out non-experimental tried and tested" ones that have worked for years (please read that phrase CCP developers) but it seems a bit like a game of Russian roulette.
So my advice is forget getting your Gallente faction up until these pieces of floating detritus are expunged from the EVE player experience and the EVE Storyline Board in Atlanta are made to pay penance for their sins in dreaming up these pieces of nonsense.
My advice is to get your faction up for the other factions that have not yet been inflicted with these abominations of a game mechanic as knowing CCP and the strange universe they live in they will probably introduce these experimental storylines for all factions with some marketing bull**** along the lines of:
"Thanks to the tremendous response from the Gallente players to these new exciting storylines we are introducing them to all factions so everyone can take part in the fun".
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Eternal Bellend
L33T Death's Head Carebear K1LL3R5
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Posted - 2010.01.18 18:13:00 -
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Originally by: Ki Shodan
Sometimes, I wonder, if the whole CCP staff has the same attitude like that Lead Dev from "Clichequest":
http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=270 
Yep that seems to be a good summary of the EVE Storyline Board in Atlanta.
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