Toldain
Gallente
Skyforger
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2010.08.04 17:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Forge Trader
There are a handful of players who seem to get a kick out of the tedium of clicking over, and over, and over again. Good for them.
Most players of this game, or any game, do not want to click just for the sake of clicking. Thus, the plethora of "moaners" threads on all the forums.
There is sure no thread labeled, "Why I like all the clicking in PI". Or, "I really need all the finger exercise from clicking". Or, "Why I love clicking and do not have a life".
PI will be fixed. Just a matter of time.
I haven't seen too many forum posts of the nature of "I love using my T2 BPO's" or "I love afk cloaking" either. It's kind of contrary to the spirit of EVE to post a thread saying, "I love this aspect of the game and I'm making tons of ISK, and you can too!" Unless you add, "for a small fee..." that is. In fact, one could argue that forums are for moaning. Which is fine.
I have only one character. I run 5 planets, I spend about 15 minutes per day running my planets and I get a pretty decent return for that 15 minutes. That 15 minutes includes picking up goods, mind you.
You can count me as someone who doesn't think PI is particularly broken. If people find it tiresome to do 5 planets on each of 5 characters, my gut reaction is "Great!" Everyone is talking their book, including me.
Sometimes I spend more time on it, thinking about how to rearrange things to be more efficient, but that's fun stuff, yes?
One of the things I like about PI is that it doesn't give an advantage to players with 50 million skill points, or to players with multiple accounts. If you want to do more, you can put in more work. Furthermore, the returns are scaled such that someone with a highly developed character might not find the returns worth the effort. But someone with a lower income earning potential, like me, does.
So, I think it's pretty much working as intended. Clickiness is a distraction. Really, the complaint is about how long it takes to cycle extractors. That time spent is an intended feature of the design. A careful reading of the recent summit minutes shows that.
Honestly, I wonder how many of the complaints are from people trying to make fuel for their technetium moon POSes. For crying out loud, just buy it from the market and spend your time on other stuff that has more income potential. Because if you are that wealthy, those opportunities are surely available to you.
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