
Dendel Hypermach
R-K Industries Quixotic Hegemony
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Posted - 2012.08.20 17:01:00 -
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This all strikes me as another epic "We're too lazy to make it work right" situation, similar to how Drone Interfacing was reworked to it's current form, adding drone bonuses.
I can't remember the simplifications that went into missiles & fighters, much much latter. But that, iirc, at least was not game affecting, just a "we need an easy win, let's make our server engine do less work".
It's time again, CCP says, to throw another long held feature on the altar of ****-it-make-it-fast.
WELL I SAY!
Meh, lamers.
I for one adore skirting around shields, and it's a damned shame the unwillingness to do what is quite literally the most trivial collision detection routine there is (distance from a point, pythagorean theorum) has been top down decided as "too hard" to bother solving, and is being axed. Safe quarters are important in space, and physically being on the edge of those quarters is a grand line to cut close to.
I hope new & interesting & good can arise from new POSs. But they sound like they're being turned into the appendix: no safe quarters, moon mining is being replaced, twistedly after POSs are remade, with ring mining: they'll be the step child thing no one likes when all they do is:
- act like a big cargo container with guns
- make capital ship constructionists even more nervous than they used it
To extend my Drone Interfacing rant, there's some due cause, some of the rebalancing in the wake, the additional decoupling provided by Bandwidth, was good. But that stemmed from something which was bad, which was simplifying the game because running the game was proving to be hard. Players do not directly care that we're making your power bills higher, making CPUs weep. My first experience in EVE was sitting for 12 minutes outside of Rens watching a Thorax with 10 drones circle it, just going "WOW," that was epic! And cuts were made, epic-ness paired down, because the CPUs were sobbing themselves to sleep over having 10 drones. I feel like POS Shields are being sacrificed for the same cause, that again, it's laziness and unwillingness to invest, to make possible the chaotic thick busy world, that something good is being sacrificed, and I'd rather not see it go, don't think the heart is well set on this one. |