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Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2011.10.30 00:52:00 -
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Because hitting the dscan button every 30 seconds is tedious in the extreme. Forcing constant manual scanning would game enjoyment.
Not to mention completely unrealistic as-is because even now, x-thousand years before EvE, you don't have people sitting on warships pushing a button to make the radar go around once every while. |
Sentient Blade
Walk It Off
Coalition of the Unfortunate
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Posted - 2011.10.30 00:56:00 -
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Mirima Thurander wrote:So you like having an easy mode intel tool then?
Yes - it saves me from getting repetitive strain injury. |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2011.10.30 01:10:00 -
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There is a distinct difference between
a) Making things present more of a challenging that can be overcome through tactics and training.
and
b) Making things require a constant stream of mouse clicks for the hell of it. Because dull repetitive actions make good game play. |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2011.10.30 12:51:00 -
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I guess it kinda reminds me of how prisoners used to be made to turn cranks that did nothing but move paddles through sand all day long.
With scanning as it is at the moment I cannot see the removal of local as anything but making each player quite literally grind a button all day long. I think it may be viable for short periods, I do it myself while roaming, but for the majority of people I have to surmise that such a level of "intensity" would be detrimental to their enjoyment.
D-Scan itself needs an overhaul such as being able to identify friendlies - IFF for example exists today yet in EvE, ships, even in fleet, have no way of broadcasting their coordinates to each other short of warping to, something which is always fun when you're flying in a bomber fleet, heh.
Personally though, I don't think local is broken and should be left as-is.
Hell, maybe throw in deployable limited-lifetime proximity detector probes and the likes for good measure. |
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