Uncle Fester
R E D E M P T I O N
Black Star Alliance
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Posted - 2010.04.14 20:14:00 -
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I remember when i was first told of deep safes and the way they were made, way back in the day. There used to be an option, when you right clicked a star on the star map to add bookmark. When you used this bm it would use up all your cap in one go and warp you in a random dirrection, we used pods for their cap efficiency to make those 500au+ spots,players went on a bming frenzy and pretty much every major system/regions were bmd up within weeks.
A patch came soon after that removed the option from the star map, but the galaxy had already been bm pretty much completely.
Scan probes appeared and with enough training you could get good enough signals on all kinds of things upto 1000au, which was pretty much the limit of one deepsafe(ds) warp in a pod. All the ships shuttle, noobie ships, even fleets of ships that had been abandoned at these dsspots were found by a new set of players, and old, that were able to mark these hidden locations.
Then the scan probes changed, a new mini game appeared, which on the whole works nicely but for one thing. The max range of the probes with the new system was 1/4 that of the old system, instantly dsspots once again became virtually invunerably . The main problem i found with the max range probes is just one thing and one thing only, the map cant be scrolled out far enough for you to move the probes to places outside the system bodies orbits, this means even having a bm 100au out cant be found as you just cant manipulate the probes so they can find anyone at the bm.
So dsspots are once again invunerable, unlike last time when probes were developed to counter them, which was a great work around and a system that was perfect you what it was intended to do. This time, instead of thinking of a work around for the problem the system has now in combating ds' they just descide to remove the ds'.
CCP you have given us and lets face it yourselves a wonderous, virtually infinate 3D environment to act out all our/your universal domination fantasies or what ever they maybe. Not only do we have this infinate arena to play in, you also gave us/you the tools to explore and use it. You yourselves have told us your subscribers that we the players have taken this game in dirrections you could'nt possibly have predicted.
We/you have used these bm's since the day someone told us about it, you made features for the game that were designed as a result of what we did. Please for the love of whatever you hold dear, reconsider this change, instead of removing the problem get back to old school thinking and gives us a feature to work with them like last time, or just give us a bigger map, whatever it takes as i know the players will hate it and all of you at ccp play.
Fester
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