Psymn
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Posted - 2011.08.24 15:34:00 -
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Edited by: Psymn on 24/08/2011 15:36:06
 Originally by: Tippia
Edited by: Tippia on 24/08/2011 13:07:14
Originally by: Mary Astell
The only gameplay you will encourage by removing local is grossly uneven fights. This will make people blob up even more.
Local already does that, since people know instantly whether it's time to flee or not. What you're saying is that, without local, some of those fights would instead accidentally happen. Uneven or not, this is a good thing.
àand the old fights will still happen for the same reason they happen now.
That said, your scenario hinges on the idea that people will blob up because that is (supposedly) the only cure for no intel. The problem with this idea, of course, is that same intel will be available, only it won't be served on a silver platter.
Originally by: Miss Rabblt
Without local (or with seriously reduced intel tool) people will leave even more systems. Good luck with roaming 
In other words, people will remain in the systems and the roaming will be more fun since it actually becomes a chase.
i dont know if this is your forum alt but for someone who has zero pvp experience your opinion on this seems unduly confident.
In low sec at least i dont see local as a problem. We get plenty of pvp and ganks. Proper bait and other tactics as well as using that little known mod, known as a point, is all thats required to stop someone from leaving when the tide turns against them.
If anything fix gate / station aggression mechanics to make de-agressing while under fire a non-viable option. This would lead to more combat losses / less unsporting tactics than anything to do with local channels.
People in null can argue all they want. In my area of low sec all that will happen is that muppet ninjas will hot drop every single target they can sneak up on. For example last time they baited us into aggressing:
There should be easy intel to avoid this, local is working as intended - thats 10billion + isk worth of ships to kill 2 cruisers and a bc.
You might say they caught us anyway, even with local. True. But they havent caught us with this particular tactic since.
If you think that is a bad thing then you are endorsing the end of all small scale pvp in my area of low-sec and we might as well all join the main pirate power blocks. I cant remember the last time we rolled in anything bigger than frigs that a covert pirate ship wasnt -1'ing us to cyno on top of us if we aggressed anything.
I understand your perspective, its just simplistic and based in ignorance. Without specific details on what will replace local, arguing for its removal is pretty dumb.
I will wait to see what they are going to replace local with tbh.
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