Abdiel Kavash
Caldari
Paladin Order
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2011.01.18 10:12:00 -
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I am personally against the JB removal in the current state of EVE. I am not an expert on balance or large-scale impact or whatever, but I am an EVE player. And I play EVE to have fun. And I can definitely say that having to move 20+ systems in order to meet up with friends is not fun. A large part of EVE depends on moving either yourself or your goods from A to B. While I understand that people might like the whole hauler style of gameplay, I do not think it should be enforced on everyone.
Perhaps the issue is somewhere else. What good is owning an entire region, if only a couple of systems have anything worthwile in them? Jump Bridges are means of reducing the boring time spent moving around between the points of interests. Perhaps if it was feasible to stay in one place for a longer time, they would not be as needed.
I have been very excited about Dominion and the premise of alliances being able to upgrade their space and generally build cool things in it. I am sad that in a year now, this has not been iterated on at all - and it's not even mentioned in the meeting minutes. And now even one of the coolest things to build in your space - player-made stargates - is threatened with removal. I would much rather like to see more structures or upgrades to add to the systems, to make all parts of space interesting and fun to be in.
If the issue is logistics being too easy, perhaps add a mass limit to the bridges. People moving around and catching up with gangs can use them to get together faster, but if you want to move in a freighter full of stuff, you have to go the long way. Or even make several types of bridges for different ship sizes. Logistics shouldn't be made more difficult by making it more mundane and time-consuming. It should be made more challenging and requiring thought and planning instead. Create more targets and more things for pilots dedicated to hauling to do, other than refuel POSes every month.
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 Originally by: Sporked
EVE IS DYING RUN TO THE HILLS! WE MIGHT HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS MMO! THEY MIGHT SHOOT AT US WHILE WE ARE BUSY HOLDING HANDS AND FROLICKING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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