Abigail Sagan
Active Fusion
Cold Fusion.
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Posted - 2012.08.21 14:16:00 -
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I mostly like the changes _this patch_ has brought us. The only change that has affected me negatively so far has been how the modules show what it is if I hover mouse over them, and as many people have wished before, I too wish we will be given option to remove it totally (adding option to delay it is a bonus, but removing it should be priority). Maybe this is already in - I haven't played much recently.
One of the most positive changes was that I actually did some mining after a long while of doing Other Stuff. Those mining sessions brought in this development idea: Composition scanners should show the amount of cubic meters of ore left the scanned roids have left. This should be shown in addition to the current 'units left'. This is because everyone is not familiar with units to m3 conversions. (Maybe some day the whole 'units' can be replaced with just cubic meters, yes, maybe?)
Another idea: We should have ore mining rigs too, because currently the mining ships can only specialize in Ice or Tank. Also, gas mining could use some love too.
The thing that hasn't affected my character personally is this "not-skill-removal-but-reuse-in-different-matter" (Ethnic Relations to Whatever New Name & Purpose the skill was given) but it has affected me in person. By not giving back the skill points CCP proved they are lazy. By explaining that they didn't really remove the skill but 'changed' it CCP proved how low they are ready to go to protect the problems caused by their laziness. Laziness I can understand and even relate to, the explanation by Grayscale and follow up by Explorer especially I do not accept and in fact despise - the despised part is below:
CCP Explorer wrote:Zamrikus wrote:CCP Greyscale says this....really now?
I'm just trying to explain why the patchnotes say what they do. We understand that some players will be unhappy with this as they feel that some skills they've trained are less useful to them. This is however something that happens pretty much every time we make any serious balance changes, and it's been long-standing policy that we don't reimburse skill points due to this kind of change. We appreciate that this is not to everyone's liking but we currently feel it's the best way to deal with these situations overall.
I would have never trained the skill ethnic relations was changed to. You trained the skill for the old effect, we re-balanced the game so that a skill isn't needed anymore and changed the effect of the skill to a new effect. You can still accomplish what you trained the skill for and now you can accomplish something new as well. You are better off after than before.
No, even though I am quitting once my account runs out (because EVE has again become boring for me, not the above minor fiasco), you cannot have my stuff. With a very small probability I might be back one day after all. Until that day: Fly safe, have fun and give some time to RL too! :) |