Otto Jaeger
The Classy Gentlemans Corporation
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Posted - 2013.05.21 16:36:00 -
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Lokitoki81 wrote:I hear winter expansion is called "World of EVEcraft", or was it "Mists of New Eden".
PATCH NOTES.
STOP DUMBING DOWN EVE!!!
1) We dont want it to be easy
2) We dont want it to be wow-friendly
3) We dont want everything automatic
4) We dont want ALL players to be able to do ALL things
These changes to probing are horrible, there was NO NEED TO CHANGE it.
Probes magically gets back to your ship on system change? Orly?
Everything that took some sort of skill with probing is now gone.
Having to launch probes 1 by 1 and put them in formation under pressure was a big part
of pvp probing and a good prober was the diffrence between a really nice fight and failure.
Agreed.
Was it really nesessary in order to "open" exploration to masses to make it so f*cking easy? Actually probing down things can be done all in one click - why not do it that way?
right now, when I tryed scanning, i had to fiddle a bit with scanning range of the probes not moving the porbes at all to find the site. 32 AU -> 8AU -> 4AU -> 1AU. And my skills aren't that good!!! In this case i owuld rather have "Probe it all in 5s" button because this non challenging task looks pretty stupid thing to do. Whatever it is it's not that exciting Exploring CCP promised us. It's half done piece of crap.
Also why do you need to change the names of sites. Whats wrong with those fancy names like Magnetometric, Gravimtetric.. what so exciting and "cool" about radar site, ore site... ?
On EVE i like that fact that you can be good at somehting as player. In PvP, Trade, Grinding missions, Scanning,... regardless your character skills (as long as you have the minimum requirements). By simplifying the scanning so it's open to masses - you took all the challange from it. What is there now is just mechanical scaling down the probes range. And quite frankly, as launching 7 probes in predefined formation, this could be done by computer too.
So far, what i do like about new exploration: New scannign UI, Jump effects (stargate jumps, wormole wanna-be-jump-effect sucks.)
That's about it. I have this strong feeling that Odyssey is half done expansion at best. With the todays Launcher deployment fiasco I'm getting this feeling, that CCP is slowly pooping big piece of .... on player base in order to attrect new playes bored with theme park MMOs... Also that expansions are done like exams on university - in hurry and with the "lets see how it ends" approach.
I really hope that feedback from players is so important as des say and not only to have some "alibi" while ignoring most of it.
I really really hope Odyssey, when it ocmes out, will be great as CCP promised.. but so far i DO have bad feeling about it.
Prove me wrong in it. At least in exploration, the main issue of the whole expansion.
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