Niob Bardieu wrote:Fon SaiHoc wrote:Only a small group chooses exploration and there is a reason for that. This patch takes all the reasons away. The miners and ratters and mission runners will become "explorers" and the real explorers will find another way to enjoy the game... or quit.
Fon SaiHoc wrote: "Yay, i just finished cleaning a site i didnt have to make any effort to get to... and it tells me automatically which sites i can go to now! I dont even need to press a button! yay! It would be awesome if auto-pilot would do the rest as well :) I would just undock and press auto-pilot... yay!" I cant contain my sarcasm...
I like your sarcasm, since along with your other posting about the new probing system you bring up a topic that might otherwise be easily overseen. I'm talking about what is one of the strengths of Eve, its ability to provide special niches for different types of players. This post will also be my feedback to the changed exploring mechanics in Odyssey.
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Anytime when a change in Eve hits there seem to be some people complaining in the forums that CCP ruined their playstyle, even if it's only a change to a specific ship. In such cases I don't really see why players aren't able to get into a different ship if that suits their playstyle better. In the case of the changes to the exploring mechanics complaining about the ruination of a playstyle seems a lot more legitimate, for the above reasons.
Thank you.
We see our friend eve player Ubat saying on this thread she is going to try exploration career now, and one could ask her, why just now? why not before?
She would reply with all that we explorers have heard so many times: Its too hard, i never get lucky, i never find anything besides wormholes.
She wont reply, i am not able to persevere, i like easy things, i like to only do things for sure, i cant develop much effort.
Nothing against our fellow eve player or anyone else, simply things are as they are.
There is nothing wrong with how she is and what she expects from the game, the same way there is nothing wrong with how we ( explorers ) are and what we expect from the game.
My friend mission runners always expressed envy regarding my findings, but as i wrote in another thread, i would link a vigilant BPC and they would ask where i got it, thinking they would go to that system and get to some spot where they press a button and it appears in their cargo.
They cant grasp the joy of scanning in an area of 15 systems minimum everyday and after 300 DED 4/10 rated complexes have collected 19 vigilant bpcs.
They can only grasp this, "go this place, do this and get this reward".
I wrote some time ago on this forum that exploration its the opposite of mission running.
Now all the mission runners are going to try what they think its exploration, but exploration is not that.
Exploration was taken from the game.
Exploration is what mission runners could never do and never will be able to, because exploration its not about skill books, its about personal profile.
Oddisey has no exploration, they took exploration away to put something else instead, something for mission runners and miners do afkish, the same way they run missions and mine afkish.
EVE becomes a game of ghosts, people who are logged in while watching a movie or some show on tv.
I dont think this happened by chance, i think its a question of numbers, we true explorers are just a few.
So whatever you do in EVE, tomorrow some other people "Interests" might go against yours, and they might have larger numbers... and now you know what happens...
So all mission runners, tomorrow EVE might be just about PVP with no agents and missions... to all PVPers, tomorrow EVE might be just about missions, like WOW, with no PVP at all... its all about numbers.
The CSMs dont come to this thread, they dont assume any responsibility on this because they are just lazy babies, trying to get the power and sucess they cant achieve in RL ( for some reason? ) except the psycopath one who thinks EVE its is the way for him to get invited to become a super strategist at CIA.
We, true explorers at heart are leaving EVE online, not because "we want them to pay" but because EVE cant give us what we need, not anymore.