Face'off
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Posted - 2011.03.28 09:36:00 -
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Edited by: Face''off on 28/03/2011 09:45:20
i've read all the posts so i'll be short and sweet. as i am not prone to trolling or posting, i expect little and care less.
i've been playing for nearly 2 years. i've gone with the flow of things and, while slow at times i've enjoyed the social, over all things. i know the game will have significant changes in it and tweaks that will be very-much wanted. seeing a focused-group get in like the Goonies have ups and downs but also demonstrates some breaks in the representative system.
i applaud them for focused-voting. whatever internal campaigning/alt-vote spamming they did: props. no conspiracy theories, just that. i hope you guys can accomplish what others have 'failed' as i've seen repeatedly quoted in this thread.
i would caution against one idea i've seen suggested and that is the moving of lvl4 missions to LS. it's like McD's changing the size of their fries. --i saw a 2-flip comic strip of a fat kid ordering One Large Fry.. after the change Sixteen Small Fries.-- by moving L4's to LS, you will only seen Mish Runners spamming their L3 agents. in the time i take to run a L4 solo (no straight objective, duking it room-to-room) i could run three L3 missions, solo. with the introduction of the Noctis and the closer-quarters of L3's, zerging is no problem with a dedicated Salv'r or evening a Duo. firing fewer rounds with focused fire from a 2man T3 fleet, the bounties would stack up equally with a L4 mish. yea, the drops might not be so great but that's why we have Reprocessing :)
you want to get people into 0.0?? well i would suggest making a High-Sec ring around Null-Sec. the miners in the 1849 Gold rush only braved the journey because they knew there was a safe-haven on the other side. place some patchy HS pockets along the routes. dont BREAK NS up, just allow some slightly secure channels. this would allow the NS guys a chance to form side-corps that could offer protection to travelers. biggest problem?
TRUST
the same mechanic that broke the voting also backstabs/turncoats the average player. you simply cannot trust who it is you're talking to, if they're 'Ventrilo'ing your ambushed-demise. there's simply no incentive for most people to move into an already populated area with meta-corps and alliances. even if HS as a whole decided to ZERG NS, the focus simply isn't there; if so, it's temporary for a L5 mish.
i've never been to NS and rarely think of doing so. it takes some time to build the trust between corp-members. skills must be trained. timezones conflict heavily. an expansion of NS with either a HS ring or pushing the NS members away from the LS zone to allow new corps a chance are the only incentives i can perceive.
while i may be ranting and the Goonies may bum-rush me with poke-and-prod rebuttals, i care not. i see a game that can be greater that it lay right now. not wishing to join a metacaorp-alliance, i do not foresee myself/corp as a NS presence anytime soon.
yes, it's safer to run missions with LP/bounty/salv. yes, it's safer in HS away from the blob-mechanics of NS. want me in NS? give me an incentive. right now all i see is a huge wall of NO FLY ZONE and bored grievers.
im sure i had a point when i wanted this post to be short and sweet, but as im posting on my portrait-swapped alt i expect this post to carry no credit at all. so be it. i consider myself protecting my corp and alliance by hiding my identity. paranoia? look at the CSM. im only guilty in the company of those who define Guilt.
as for those who didnt vote, i cant say i dont blame you. the half-assed way the Candidates were listed, along with the MPD this game suffers from, i cannot be sure my vote even mattered. it's the same reason Independent Candidates never win in the US: Focused Party Politics and a Broken Representative System.
so do as you will and i bear no Ill-Will. i do expect great things of the CSM; who they shall benefit is for CCP to decide. if you dont have faith in CCP.. then why are you funding their stock?? ??
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