Steven Hackett
Lead Farmers
Kill It With Fire
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Posted - 2013.01.17 12:39:00 -
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Some thoughts on the minutes take the POS changes.
Quote:It would, however, only affect the group of people who manage POSes. Focusing that amount of time and effort on some small singular aspect of the game and delivering only that GÇ£is what will kill the businessGÇ¥.
The other day i read a devblog from CCP Seagul talking about the role of Senior Producer. In this devblog she talks about "Design for 'Enablers' and 'Instigators'".
here is a quote for your pleasure:
Quote:There are some people who make things work - they pre-fit ships for a fleet op, they run mega-spreadsheets for the industry production lines needed to equip the war effort, build tools to manage a corporation or command large fleets. Their activities enable others to have fun in EVE.
I do believe the Enablers is a rather small portion of the player base and I am pretty sure that CCP's definition of an Enabler, also covers the people managing a POS.
The devblog also reads:
Quote:We will start working to give the GÇ¥EnablersGÇ¥ better tools, and to make sure GÇ£InstigatorsGÇ¥ have cool and worthwhile ways to make an impact on the EVE universe when they inspire others to join them.
Now please tell me.. How can giving Enablers better tools, to make sure the rest of the players can enjoy this game to its full potential be worse, than giving enablers better tools, to make sure the 1%(Instigators) have fun?
Does CCP really believe that the playerbase using POS's is a smaller portion than the 1% of the players, Seagul wants to go out her way to please?
Focusing that amount of time and effort on some small singular aspect of the game is exactly what CCP has done the last long time. Crimewatch, bounties, hell.. even Dust, is focused on a small singular aspect of the game. Some would say it is not, but it is a question of perspective.
The POS revamp for example, is not a singular aspect of the game.
The way CCP talked about removing pos shields, you are talking about a game altering effect that will change the gameplay forever.
With fixes to security and ship storing, you are opening a door named "w-space" for a lot of EVE Players who would never be trusted because of fear of thefts.
If CCP see the pos revamp as a small singular aspect of the game, then I am afraid that CCP have lost the very things that made EVE possible. The ability to look outside the box. The ability to be inventive and the ability to HTFU.
I hope Unifex made a mistake in the minuts and said something he didn't mean - If not, Seagul and Unifex needs a talk about pow rewamps, CREST and all other change that only affect a "small portion of the community"..
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