Linna Excel
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.23 16:20:00 -
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Issler Dainze wrote:I'm a CSM and I am a CSM because I love the sandbox that is Eve.
Problem is no one can agree what the "sandbox" means...
...So we all want a sandbox, but we still have to have some rules to agree what it means to be in that sandbox.
So for me I guess I call for CCP to define what they think this sandbox means because I can understand how many of us have no idea what "sandbox" means.
I'm going to ask for a dev blog to share what CCP thinks sandbox means.
Yeah, I think this is part of the problem. Recently CCP expanded arnon and the SOE arc systems into the "rookie systems" even though a lot of people have finished the tuts and should be at least a little aware of how dangerous the game is. Likewise some people are confused about hi and how it isn't a non-pvp area, if it were meant to be such, you wouldn't be able to attack another player there.
Clarification here would be good.
Quote:As to the recent market shenanigans of the goons, they admitted they were doing something they knew was taking advantage of reverse engineering the game mechanic CCP had created to create a stable market and healthy economy to break the market and economy. The knowing intent to take advantage of a "hole" in how Eve works is very goon, also not consistent with the intention of the EULA. So clearly the goons were intending to break the sandbox. Very clever and very wrong.
Emphasis mine. For the point of having a debate, market manipulation and scamming others is very much a part of eve culture. In many other cases, when players scam one another CCP has looked the other way. You could make an argument that CCP was aware that something like this would happen and wanted it to be as such. If that is the case, the goons broke the sandbox in their favor not by doing this, but by creating such a commotion that this feature (market manipulation of LP) was removed so one of their enemies couldn't do it and get a ton of faction ships to fight the goons with for little to nothing.
The purpose of hi sec isn't to eliminate PvP but to weed out the dumb pvpers. |