Randy Wray
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Posted - 2013.11.03 17:49:00 -
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epicurus ataraxia wrote:I like your ideas regarding npc interaction and content,
I also like the comments where these interactions can bring players together without shooting each other.
PVP players have come to the conclusion that is eve is meant for them /us only and anyone else is mistaken, and they/we will shoot, cheat or scam them to prove their /our point.
Sorry guys pvpers may be loud, you / we may be obnoxious, (and proud of it) but you are not actually right.
Sure PVP is a massive part of eve, it has also lost as many new players as it has kept.
There are many players who actually want to do other things, they do not need protecting or cosseting, and eve deliberately makes the choice not to, that is also a big part of its appeal.
They are bored. The sandbox is short of sand, yes player interaction is great, it has done amazing things, but there is room for much much more.
More npc interaction if done well is an unreservedly good idea, it will bring new players into the game and more importantly keep them. i imagine that like most companies in this industry it costs more to recruit new players than any other part of their budget,
Get new players staying, and the extra funds pay for development time to pay for the fixes and improvements the basic game needs to continue and improve.
And hey even in the worst case there will be more opportunities to PvP
All players should support this idea fully, it seems that it would take more resource time away from the fixes we all know need to be sorted, but without new income and for that matter new blood the game will just end up bought by sony or someone similar and guess what happens to PVP then.
Eve has room for every style of play it is not a zero sum game both can win.
Even a layman game desginer can figure that rebalancing and fixing isn't much more than typing numbers into boxes and seeing how it plays out. No matter how much conceptual work and testing the rebalancing team does there's no way it takes as much rescources and time as coming up with new content. As a long time player I think that content released has kinda died off a little the last expansions, oddysey was just the navy battlecruisers and the crappy hacking minigame.
It seems like CCP is just shoving all this rebalancing our way telling us they care about this game and at the same time use all the manpower they've freed up to focus on their other games, which I'm not too happy about. This isn't likely to change either, with world of darkness, dust and valkyrie to manage at the same time I'm worried CCP wont be able to release content for the game at the same pace as in the past and since eve is their main game losing players here would put CCP in a pretty dangerous position, with 4 MMO's to manage at the same time and fundings dropping.
Enough with the off-topic stuff anyway, brilliant thread and hope CCP ytterbium will have a look at some of this since he's been going on with NPC AI revamps for a while now.
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