Trep Algaert
Cult Of Scotch
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Posted - 2013.01.24 00:36:00 -
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Proposal:
We love ship rebalancing, so keep giving us that. Develop a real idea of what modular poses should look like and how they should function, for those who live in them AND those who shoot them. Work ship rebalancing into this: i.e. think about how fleets currently form, what fleets are used in one way or another with Poses, and think about how poses can support ships and roles best. Currently we're just supposed to shoot them with dreads, but lets think about how a battle can be waged over a pos with more shooting of other people instead of just shooting the pos itself. What ship roles do we need to make this happen? How can we fit all players into one or another ship role that is relevant to fights over poses? Since ship rebalancing doesn't seem to take nearly as much coding work as lots of other features, but adds a lot in terms of gameplay, devote the codemonkeys to revamping the codebase for poses, at least partially. I'm not saying we all need poses now now now or anything, just that they really need work, and now is a very good time to lay the foundation for the rest of the work to be done on them.
http://themittani.com/features/poses-apocrypha-and-themes has very good ideas, especially with regards to making a true home in 0.0, or anywhere else poses are used, for that matter. Stations are boring, and they're all the same. Systems are mostly the same, other than some are better for ratting, or mining or whatever. Give us something we can put work into that makes our space more valuable than someone else's. Then make it so that others can take it, because a good bit of eve gameplay is about owning things that you've worked for, and taking things others have worked for. This is a good bit of what brought me to eve, the idea of owning your own little bit of space in the game. Sov is already a high level thing, alliances take it so it doesn't feel like any one individual can claim it, except perhaps the leaders of those alliances and coalitions. Let the little guys have poses, so we can own our little part of space and be internet-spaceship-tyrants over our own hordes of exotic dancers that we store in our space.
Enough with the ridiculous rambling, I think the thing to take away is that now is a great time to lay the foundation and work on design for a pos revamp, while working on ship rebalancing and other features with a revamp in mind. |