Reilly Duvolle wrote:baltec1 wrote:
These narrow goals being fixing blasters, supercarrier imbalances, new ships, fixes for old bugs, new technology to fight lag to name but a few.
Sorry but you give the Goon too much credit here. Leading the CSM and taking the lead on all these different areas are not the same. Goons have primarily been advocating for:
- The supercap nerf, as a direct counter to the DRF and elite PVP enemies
- A resource rebalance within different areas of space to the benefit of the Goon
- Time dilation, which will ensure that even larger blobs are feasible
I regret to inform you that you have bought into the goon propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Despite what we've told you, we aren't the boogeyman, we want to play a good game, just like you.
1. CFC has one of the largest supercap fleets in the game, and plenty of secure space to build more. Supercaps are a bad mechanic, and they are bad for EVE. The problem is that CCP didn't plan for the day when there would be 10 or 20 or 30 titans in a single fleet. The idea of blobs of supercaps didn't occur to them until it was too late. The more powerful supercaps are, the more they entrench the intrests of large alliances already in nullsec. If the only counter to supercarriers is MORE supercarriers, and you can't build supercarriers until you own space, who benefits? Sov holding alliances like Goonswarm. In the future we want it to be possible for a subcap gang to win against a supercap, not easy, just possible.
2. This is dumb. We have been advocating hard for a tech nerf, because it is stupid at a regional R32 is more valuable than the R64s. We didn't like it when we lived in Delve (no tech) and we don't like it now that we live in Deklein (plenty of tech). It is a bad mechanic. We would like a resource spread that doesn't render large swathes of nullsec worthless, despite the fact that we live in one of the really valuable parts right now.
3. Time Dilation makes lag fair. Having hundreds of players get stuck looking at a black screen for 6 hours is a bad mechanic. It is bad when it has happened to us, and it isn't much more fun when it happens to our enemies. Would you want to play a game where you are blind, paralyzed, and unable to even log off for hours at a time? No, of course not. Most goons lament the loss of the good old days of small gang warfare, but until sov battles are fought using Alliance Tournament rules, you are going to bring everything you have because the other guy is bringing all he has. That has been a fact of Eve since before goons started playing in 2006.
Those are all objectively good things, things that nearly everyone wants. Our "playstyle" works just as well in a bad game as a good game, but like you
we'd rather play a good game. We don't want to win eve, we just want to have fun.