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Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.19 19:00:00 -
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Yes, I want to PvP sometimes. Instead I'm risk-averse because this implant I bought for 50m is now 1.3b, and I can't just jump into a ship and join the gang without risking it (and frankly, I don't want to risk it). I have to clone jump out of my implants to PvP and then wait 24 hours to get back into my previous role (mining director). It's not very...... spontaneous and I'm a very spontaneous kind of guy girl.
If either implants were a lot cheaper, OR I could switch clones whenever I wanted instead of having to wait 24 hours...
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Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.19 19:04:00 -
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Thanks Dear. |
Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.19 19:14:00 -
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Yea.
I saw some discussion about a skill for reducing the timer, in 2010. Was it ever implemented?
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Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.19 19:22:00 -
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De'Veldrin wrote:Victoria Sin wrote:Yea.
I saw some discussion about a skill for reducing the timer, in 2010. Was it ever implemented?
No, and it likely never will be. Reducing the timer on clone jumping would increase the power projection of large alliances, which is definitely the opposite of what is needed in the game.
Really? The mechanic for reducing power project of large alliances is to time-sink their gameplay with a 24 hour timer? |
Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.19 19:31:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:You could always just not use said implants or just not worry about them.
That's one option, yes. 
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Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.19 20:48:00 -
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Shizuken wrote:Avon wrote:"I'm risk-averse"
Well PvP won't be for you anyway and I doubt changing the game would change your attitude.
Train an alt.
Or get a real job and PLEX the new implants if you get podded.
You're all thinking up alternatives, like PLEX. I've got a real job. I've never bought a PLEX. PLEX is for girls. Real men women earn their isk in game. 
Also, I think some of you might have Asperger's Syndrome. |
Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.20 08:22:00 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
Don't like the ideas? Fine. Then don't act like your KB is worthy of bragging about it in RL. Admit you like easy mode.
Easy mode? It's not a sliding scale from easy to hard. It's a binary choice. It's a binary choice because of game mechanics. Game mechanics were designed years ago and make little sense, expect insofar as they're just telling you to get an alt to PvP with.
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Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.20 16:33:00 -
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To those who say that it's hard to lose your pod in low and high sec, I say yes, it is. But I'm not talking about low and high sec, I'm talking about null, where bubbles mysteriously appear and disappear in alarmingly random places, or a fast locker and a bit of lag can make you bend over if you're unlucky.
To those who say lose the implants, I agree, but then I wouldn't be a very good mining director when I'm in that role, which is why I don't want to lose them. And of course the reason I like being a mining director is so I can give max boosts to my comrades in local. They don't pay me for the Heavy Water, btw (and by comrades, I don't mean alts!).
To those who say the idea is to sink ISK through the destruction of things like implants, I say to you, how much ISK is being lost to my stuff being destroyed at the moment, when I'm risk averse and not losing anything at all? I think that over time, my losses/kills in PvP would be far greater than zero.
Now, would it have mattered when the original implant was a poxy 50m? No, not really. OK, I get podded and lose a set of +4 and a Mining Foreman, so that's 150m. Not too bad. And I can live with +3s, because I'm not going to win the SP race. But now it's inflated to 1.3b + the +4's, so that's 1.5b. It takes quite a few hours of gameplay to earn that given that I'm not running 23/7 plexing at 10/10s in a Mom. So I'm not going to risk it. The grind to pay back the loss is not worth the fun of the fight.
Seems the only thing to do is train up an alt for PvP. And that seems to be what most of you do too. I'm just wishing the game didnt make me choose which role I want to play for 24 hours straight. 4 hours would be OK I think. |
Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
293
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Posted - 2013.06.20 18:20:00 -
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Verunae Caseti wrote:Victoria Sin wrote:
Seems the only thing to do is train up an alt for PvP.
OR you could stop using really expensive implants that you can't afford to lose, as was explained to you like four times in this thread Sherlock. They're cutting a couple hours off your training time, and making it so you can't enjoy the game the way you want to and your big brain can't figure out a reasonable solution to this dilemma? Seriously?
Clearly you didn't read my post and you don't know what you're talking about. Kind-of amused you called me "Sherlock" in an ironic way, considering.
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