Roel Yento wrote:The only reason to actually remove dsp's is for pve reasons to make it a more level playing field for new accounts. They are pushing exploration and if new players get into exploration that means more people out roaming and having fun, thus more accounts. That is the reason why i am fine with their pve use being removed. Still no valid reason to remove their pvp use though, hence why they haven't responded to comments about the dsp's combat use.
Umm..... New accounts, more level playing field, come on get a grip, people play EvE because its EvE, its a sandbox, its hard to break into, that is one of its unique selling points (which CCP tends to forget in its quest for ISK) .
However if we follow that line of reasoning," the level playing field", ywe are left with a platform game like PacMan when all the shiny is stripped away, a sandbox needs graduation and what yCCP have become confused over is the learning curve, which at one time in the early days was a cliff, Trinity flattened it out and now rookies are literally hand held compared to the early days (and there are many 10 year old vets out there who will tell you this). An extension to this line of reasoning comes to the oblivious why not allow new accoexunts access to lvl 4 missions and L weapons and BS-¦s?. All this getting out roaming and having fun is also bollocks to the highest degree, noobs are mostly high sec dwellers, they live in set areas that are already overpopulated with explorers, not finding stuff on entering a system , then the same the next 10 will actually drive people away and make them think they were sold a bill of goods and nothing substantial, also known as smoke and mirrors.
No CCP did away with them because they did not think about all the unintended uses and what ones the did they thought combats would be good enough, for the PvP aspect, the overlay scanner placing great spamming hits splattered across the screen to them was so much eye candy they had to have it regardless of it breaking exploration in the truer sense, if it need a probe to find it, use a probe, but that is too much work for some. Yeah i agree DSP-¦s are useful, they do give more than the overlay in PvE due to a hard list of base strengths because CCP has hard coded sig base strengths and they cant figure out the 5 lines of code to make it dynamic with in a set range, thats why they are going and sod all of us who have elite navigation certificates who do see it as a profession with more merit than mission running lvl 4-¦s on pimped out "i win button boats" .