Digital Messiah
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Posted - 2013.06.08 04:22:00 -
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Khira Kitamatsu wrote:OK, after seeing the prototype they proposed at Fanfest(found the video), I think the OP is right...thier ideal isn't so great. Infact it is really rather silly. I was expecting something more. This seems so un-EVE like. At least try to stick to it being somewhat sci-fi'sh and don't turn it into a silly arcade game of from the late 70's(asteroids - really?) Can't Believe Anyone Would Like this
starts at 15 minutes for those curious.
After watching this i can honestly say f*ck no. I would be more keen on making every resource in the game a planetary interaction type harvesting. Something more a long the lines of how SWG handled resource gathering. At the moment mining is easy because it is the wood cutting, mining, plant picking, low man on the totem pole, job. Which also makes it repetitive and rather boring. Would it hurt for mining to be less interactive? Yes it encourages botters. Would it be better to simply make it like PI? Not entirely, but at the same time CCP needs to come up with a better way to track RMT in general.
There are about a million different ways CCP could change mining. Honestly if they made it grav sites only I would be happy. At least it would add some competition like ice is doing. Not turn eve into a casino styled mini game arcade where someone pops in penny after penny for the chance at a rare spawning form of ore.
The biggest issue with eve atm is that it strives to make things interactive that don't really need to be. Player run economies do fine so long as resources change position in a reasonable enough time frame. As such I believe every resource in EVE should change location on a daily, weekly, and monthly, basis depending on the difficulty to set up harvesting operations. Scanning resource locations in SWG worked great and the more time spent gained you more reward. Along with the best locations to place your harvesters. Competition is healthy, risk vs reward is healthy, and most of all being able to make short term investments with manageable work loads is healthy.
If any of these god forsaken, multi box killing, arthritis forming, mind numbing, mechanics, make it into eve. I better get my skill points back from industry, because I will never touch it again.
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