Enosh
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Posted - 2010.02.19 20:29:00 -
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Ok, he is pleased. But then again is he? I suppose there will little to no skill in manouvering through the gravitational field of the planet, and consequently no difference in how ships behave not only because of their size etc but also depending on gravity and atmosphere. Certainly not different ships which are capable of manouvring through airfoil lift properties as well as thrust in space.
Tyrannis. I have long suspected that aliens have landed in Iceland, have somehow managed to dna-mix with us versatile-life-form humans and are preparing us for the larger picture of the universe. Maybe they too started as we did traveling through the 'seas' but then started to take over 'islands' and *tyrannize* the hapless inhabitants. Never mind though, we are oblivious to the hand that rocks our cradle so little is lost or gained. A well managed zoo..erhm propagation of life in the universe. I like to believe the universe is a friendly place, as a premise.
Now further, i see you have touched on fleet mehanics and it just dawned on me. Your 'third-person' aspect of playing the game is starting to backfire. You see, a first person 'shooter' as you like to demeaningly call them, collegiality and teamwork notwithstanding, would have avoided you the unrealistic turnoff that (i imagine here -yes i am a lowly cowerly high sec creature) occurs when in a fleet fight we conveniently have our esteemed commander assign a prime. What a turnoff. Prime that, its gone in 15 seconds, prime the next one etc. What a boring way to fight. Do not hide under banners such as forcing pilots be economical with their ship design aka fodder, that would happen anyway. It is said that the turning point of warfare in human history was not the cannon but the machine gun . Cannons too enable a 1 to many efficacy but machine guns made this smaller and faster. The one-to-one aspect of fights the strugle of a man to down to his bear knuckles prevail over his opponant in single hand combat was lost. So much in vogue are one-on-one fights in EVE. I wonder why..
There will be no more world wars on planet Earth. Do you believe that? Well i do, the reason being we have nuclear weapons, the pinacle of one-to-many warefare 'referencing' of our technology.
It fails me why you have cowered from the verity of personalising even at this maturity of the game. There is so much more possible to experience and learn from, most of all abpout ourselves. Is it too late, perhaps? In any case I welcome planets and sceneries having a bigger part in the game. Two notes of caution. (a) you better not have a loading screen when we 'enter' a planet, (b) watch Mankind [a game long before its time, circa late 1990's]
I saw this episode of Lost the other day when this kid was playing EVE online from a swivel ****pit (three positions left engineering, center view and main concern area, and left nav and coms). Docking on spacestations was a manual affair, which could be set on auto (sacrificing some time) and so much more difficult was transiting from the weightless environment of space through the gravity and atmosphere of planents and moons and landing on them. Oh and the joy when pursued by a faster frigate when he slingshoted his cruiser around a moon escaping his adversary and then sending him a dust message as he went into warp. I belive the year was 2031...so no worries..time is and will always be, your friend.
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