Alduin666 Shikkoken
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Posted - 2013.08.28 17:08:00 -
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Since I'm on a game balancing role . . . let me talk about this from a balancing standpoint.
Eve is a game that emphasizes character specialization and dedication/patients. A jack-of-all trades in Eve is rather mediocre when it comes down to it compared to someone who is specialized in what they do. Getting those core skills to the level you prefer helps out as you can pick and choose what skills are important to you. If you wanted to get the max CPU/PG/Capacitor while training skills that decreased module PG and CPU might help you get more fitting but another player might have preferred to train their support gunnery skills or refining skills up, thus making the specialization between you and said player even greater.
When it all comes down to it the 50(ish)days you take to train your Standard Core Cert is a time sink. Other MMO's make their time sinks in the form of mindless grinding for XP and end game loot drops that aren't available on the end game 'npc 133T gear' market. CCP chose to make their time sink time based so that the player can free up time to take part in the oh so famous dynamic content, be it player made, CCP roleplay made, or just your high sec missioning/mining.
On a tangent, but still related to the topic: Whether intentional or unintentional, CCP has made a fantastic decision making all the skills in the game take as long as they do. Because of this, with each expansion CCP can focus on making new content and fixing old problems WITHOUT MAKING THE LAST EXPANTION OBSOLITE, and not succumbing to power creep (i.e. having to make upgraded gear and better loot drops so that the players keep having stuff to do and not get bored) because we are still continuing to specialize and passively train never-going-to-be-obsolete skills.
I seem to be rambling so I'll get to my point . . . if we get rid of the core skills it would be the first step of the edge of removing more and more skills until we would have to result to, in the words of Ben "Yahtzee "Crowshaw, "more grinds and spiders" to keep this game going.
Rambling over,
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