TheLostPenguin
Surreal Departure
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Posted - 2012.11.30 18:33:00 -
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I always understood that limited freighter interactions in space was to ensure there was some role for the smaller haulers left, other than simply those people that hadn't trained freighters yet or happened to be doing a smaller haul.
Yes rock hauling has evolved somewhat, with orcas taking over primarily as haulers in addition to obvious natural role as boosters, but in some ways this still allowed the 'lesser' pilots not fully skilled etc for boosting to be usefull with a orca, and indeed itty5 (or other indy, dependent on fleet size really) could still shift a respectable amount with its lower align times helping make up for lower capacity.
Now, we're left with the default situation for any mining fleet above a couple ships being orca+freighter, the lesser able orca pilot no longer has a way to be remotely as useful to fleets, unless you can boost perfectly there's no point bothering with an orca now, unless you want for it's still-usefull (thankfully) ability to taxi a bunch of smaller ships about.
Just as well nearly there on cald freighter 5 personally, gonna be nice to have option to sit there a load up a couple belts into that hold :P
Also...
Quote:...but we need to get the complexity of EVE under control and doing so is going to require functionality downgrades in certain areas. This is annoying but unavoidable.
In terms of how ass-handed your code is, sure. In terms of user features, NEVER. The only reasons for not replicating prior functionality with your new, not-re-purposed-14-times-from-what-it-was-originally-meant-to-do code boil down to either laziness, or a disregard for users leading to not allocating sufficient time to do so. As always when someone at CCP thinks "nobody really uses this, lets just scrap it", the reality is actually, lots of people DO use that feature and do get pissed that it was scrapped for no good design/balance reason, simply because cba to do it right.
Rather than add annoying spam of never-the-right-size freight cans, why not simply make them resizable? As they're already a group unto themselves its no addition of new exception webs, and would allow much easier replication of the lost hangar functionality than players screwing about with umpteen cans, or you later having to redo hangars again because you realised actually people did use and do want that feature. |