SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
1613
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Posted - 2013.04.25 01:16:00 -
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The issue is that outside of well supported fleet combat Titans and SC's are largely useless. Mass supercap ops are a relative rarity and have always been a bit of a rarity, so individual pilots find themselves paying for this account that never logs in, with a character that is sitting in a coffin.
That character can't make isk for them, it can't effectively be used for personal objectives (See the Carrier, arguably the most useful ship in the game). So many pilots when they see they haven't logged in to do anything but shoot pos for 3-4 months just say "**** it" and quit the game on that character.
Subcaps are fun, they are dynamic, if you lose one you can be in another in a very short period of time, even if it's a lesser model. You can dock up and change subcaps, if you are bored you can undock in your subcap and roam around solo. To a lesser degree you can do this with capitals as well (Not so much running around solo, need the cyno after all). Supercaps are a ******* space coffin. They should have never been introduced to the game. |
SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
1615
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Posted - 2013.04.25 01:47:00 -
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dark heartt wrote:Do you think that allowing them to dock in a safe manner to switch ships would stop them from unsubbing? Or are they just bored in general?
Yes, but this would create a supercap proliferation problem. Right now I have a character that could very easily sit in a near perfect Nyx. The main holding point has been that I'd no longer be able to flit around in my Thanatos (Using it as my personal logistics boat).
Some would argue that the main sticking point of supercaps is cost, I'd disagree. We've run polls in the past and the main reason no one wants to fly a Titan is they don't want an account almost entirely tied up with Titan bullshit. Isk generation... while extremely tedious and unfun to the point of being an active antagonist in this game, isn't actually HARD. I could easily get the cost of a SC while watching netflix over the course of a couple of months.
I'd just hate myself for doing it because it's a boring way to play a game. |