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Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
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Posted - 2012.10.25 15:21:00 -
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New players don't know in advance what the various races are good at. Picking your race is, for newbies, literally the first decision they have to make. It's a low-information decision, and if the race choice hamstrung your ability to train your preferred playstyle, then CCP would see a lot of characters (and potentially accounts) being abandoned.
That's actually one of the charms of EVE - anyone can, given enough time, do anything they like*. No barred skills, no locking into roles.
*Well, anything except hitting extortionist miner-bumpers with a Concordokken, but that's just silly. |
Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
33
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Posted - 2012.10.25 15:45:00 -
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You do get a bit of a leg up in some racial skills at the outset, but CCP just decided they didn't want to go the barred-skill route. And there's also a bit of that in skill prerequisites; for me, for example, going Amarr would mean heavy training in a bunch of fundamental skills just to qualify for the advanced skills I'd need to fly an Amarr battleship properly.
If you want to flag this issue for CCP's attention, though, there's the Features and Ideas Discussion board down low on the main forums page. Just ... don't be surprised if the discussion gets a little less than civilized. |
Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
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Posted - 2012.10.26 12:04:00 -
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You get that, though - you get free levels in your own racial ships and weapons from the get-go. And anyway, in-game, you're a cybernetic post-human demigod, whatever your race.
You can always take your thought to Features and Ideas Discussion and see what sort of response it gets. I've done that, with ideas I thought were nifty, and in between the flames, I learned why my ideas were broken. |
Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
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Posted - 2012.10.26 15:12:00 -
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Khaz Taron wrote:It's all about our idea's. You got yours I got mine.
Ill stick to my plan of building myself as a true minmatar character. You guys cross train. Yea I might gimp myself buy there's something to be said for staying true and play the "sandbox" how I want lol. Each to there own.
Exactly. Play the game the way you want. But -- don't demand that the fundamentals of the game be changed so that everyone must play the way you want. |
Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
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Posted - 2012.10.31 17:06:00 -
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Khaz Taron wrote:The guy above me.
I would quit... if I had made the wrong choice.... What you quit in life at anything that doesnt go your way or isnt easy?
anyway what if I said you can train three characters up at the same time on yoru account?
I'd say your credibility just nosedived, because you can't. Only one character per account can be training; if you want to train up a character in one of the other slots, you've got to pause training on whichever one is actively training. (Or was that a hypothetical to go along with the hypothetical kneecapping of characters through racial penalties?)
And there's one fundamental to bear in mind: EVE is a game. It's supposed to be fun.
You want to play the game by locking yourself into one race? That's perfectly acceptable. Lots of people concentrate on one race, and find themselves in a hole when changing corporate doctrines mean they've got to grind other races. Happened to me; I started off pure armor-tanking Gallente, and ended up needing to cross-train because I was in situations demanding shield doctrines, and it was a pain in the neck for quite a few months while I built up a new set of skills from scratch.
But changing the entire nature of the game to cater to your personal whims?
That's ... rather like pouring concrete into the sandbox. |
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