Garekell
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Posted - 2010.11.29 20:54:00 -
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Ignore the rude folks that feel a need to shout 'Carebear!' whenever someone doesn't beat off over pvp. Fighting people in internet spaceships seems to make them feel superior for God knows what reason.
Anyway I know many folks in game that are interested in the incursions, but not at all happy about the negative effects the incursions bring with them. Or how it is being used to try to force participation in an activity, or cause you inconvenience if you chose not to. It's a stick not a carrot. Also the fact that only the most effective fleet gets ANY reward. The last thing I think I would enjoy is fighting for an hour, two, or three then getting nothing.
On the plus side I am guessing Eve is big enough that the chance the incursions are going to impact your particular area of space very often is pretty low.
My concern is what I like about Eve is that I can choose what I want to do when I want to do it pretty much. Eve is mainly the way I relax after a hard day's work, so if I log on too often and find I can't do what I want, and instead have to go fight some incursion or be inconvenienced by leaving a region during my limited playtime, well, there are other games out there.
I have a wait and see attitude. But yes, I know many people are giving it a jaundiced eye for now.
 Originally by: Black Dranzer
Not the character creator, or the rocket buffs, or the learning skills. I mean the actual Incursions.
When I see CCP nerfing mining/missioning/ratting in order to "encourage" participation in incursions, this does not really fill me with confidence that incursions are going to be an enjoyable gameplay mechanic. This isn't so much about the idea of my own gameplay being interrupted; It's more about the unfortunate implications it makes about CCP's design staff. If you've got a mechanic that people won't want to participate in, and you try and poke them with a stick to make them participate, you're only going to **** them off. On the other hand, you could argue that PvP or NPC corp taxes are like this, but even then you have Empire Space, and NPC corp taxes are a reasonable tradeoff for wardec immunity.
With most new features, the worst that happens is that nobody cares enough to participate. But Incursions may actually have a negative impact if they're done poorly. I have little doubt they'll be popular for the first couple of weeks, but after the honeymoon period dies off, I don't know. I guess I just can't help but feel that if CCP had really wanted to develop group PvE content, they could have executed it with a little more class. And I just can't shake the feeling that this isn't going to end well.
But maybe I'm just worrying needlessly.
Thoughts? Opinions?
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