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Bengal Bob
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Posted - 2011.04.01 12:06:00 -
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Ultimately eve is a sandbox, and FW is a sandbox within a larger sandbox. FW has many problems, but so does the rest of Eve.
I get annoyed with some of the issues, but actually if I look at what I want, FW delivers. PVP on demand, missions to recover my losses and general fun. Talking to others, especially the RP guys, they are looking for additional excitement, something to force them out to engage even against the odds - a tangible reward even if it is only feeling proud of what they have achieved.
Part of the problem is us. Long gone are the days when we would gleefully x up in general militia channel and happily leeroy off in our 100 man frig blobs to capture plexes and get into haphazard fights with the WT. Those days are gone. Nowadays, when a new player joins, or even a 0.0 corp filled with fleetsheep, it is like throwing a baby into a pedo pool. Everyone queues up to get in on the new free kills and after a while they are hiding in station doing nothing, or in a sb doing missions. Then we complain there is no one to kill.
Plexes fail to really address this. I would put money on myself against a new FW player that warps his cruiser in on my frigate in a medium plex, never mind all the T2 and faction stuff that is now mandatory to be competitive.
The only real solution I can see for plexes is this:
Even spread across the day for when they spawn.
Identical NPC spawn for all factions.
One size of plex - large. To close it, all NPC must be dead
Acceleration gates work on your FW ranking, so the new players get some actual room to learn without getting spanked immediately.
As for rewards for owning a system?
Borrow from existing code and penalise the opposing faction with speed/armor or some other effect - nothing significant, but a few percentage points.
Lastly, it is a sandbox and CCP is not going to wipe our bums for us. If many people feel that things are stale, then let the corps involved meet and discuss ways to influence the arena of operations. Many people are passionate about FW, so why not set up an internal FW council to attempt to influence behaviour and tactics for the major long term corps.
Thanks for reading excessively lengthy post.
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.04.05 11:52:00 -
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Edited by: Bengal Bob on 05/04/2011 11:55:03
Please dear gods, can this move forwards and not be forgotten.
Last night, I was seriously considering taking time out for WOT until ccp started fixing FW. Minnies v Amarr is very stale at the moment, people are simply missioning or fleeting up so large they know they won't get a fight.
Also, are the new "eyes included" portrait rules because more people are protesting at silly avatar nonsense wasting valuable resources for something that has no impact on game play?
Also, I am pretty sure I can get the camera angle nice and low so you may get a shot of a single eye looking up from a minmatar trunk of much girth.
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.04.07 09:58:00 -
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.04.11 11:20:00 -
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.04.12 13:45:00 -
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Bengal Bob
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Posted - 2011.05.23 08:40:00 -
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Still no answers?
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.05.27 14:07:00 -
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Would love to see answers as well as more comments
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.06.02 14:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Har Harrison
Quote:
REMEMBER NOUVELLE ROUVENOR!
You posted this on Facebook CCP - so you obviously remember that FW is still around
http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=jul02
So when are we going to here about what is going to be done to
1) Fix the issues/bugs
2) Deliver some of that excellence we have been hoping for??? (i.e. FW Iteration)
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.06.13 08:37:00 -
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Still waiting for answers now DUST publicity is out the way
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Bengal Bob
Royal Order of Security Specialists
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Posted - 2011.07.04 08:34:00 -
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2011.05.13 04:09:00
Originally by: CCP Manifest
In case ya'll missed the "ASK EVE" thread response...there's no need to bump. It'll come shortly after Soundwave returns from Russia and we can sit down together. I told you I can't quit you!
You've been patient for this long...just a week or so longer please.
How many monocles do we need to buy to get 30mins of Soundwave's time?
Is this another unfortunate communication error?
Keep bumping peoples.
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Bengal Bob
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Posted - 2011.07.09 20:07:00 -
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Ignoring this thread will just make it longer.
Maybe practise your communication skills here? |
Bengal Bob
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Posted - 2011.07.14 13:24:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Manifest
In case ya'll missed the "ASK EVE" thread response...there's no need to bump. It'll come shortly after Soundwave returns from Russia and we can sit down together. I told you I can't quit you!
You've been patient for this long...just a week or so longer please.
Patience is running out, so is new blood in FW. If CCP plans to kill FW off, can you let us know because, well really, it is only polite to be honest to your customers - even if you have never been able to keep your promises.
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Bengal Bob
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Posted - 2011.07.20 08:56:00 -
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