Mocam
EVE University Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.22 01:26:00 -
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It looks interesting but... Just thinking out loud here.
Interaction with EVE appears to be a limited thing albeit an interesting concept. It is far too limited to make things of real interest and value to the bulk of players in both games but let's focus on the EVE side of it.
First - It removes all players not in Faction Wars from involvement. If you aren't a FW EVE player, it's meaningless stuff.
Second - for FW players, they get no LP gains for assisting. It's blowing up dusties for lulz or because you have an alt/friend playing the dust side. It's a cost/time sink for them, pure and simple.
Third - only 1 ship can respond per request for support. So "group activity" is limited on the EVE side when providing support.
Forth - only small guns may be used - and these require special ammo - to support ground assaults. This is handy for newbies to help out, not so good when coupled with 1 ship assisting, etc. so it's a bit of solo style action. i.e. roll up an EVE alt, get them in a gunship destroyer and you have your support.
One other thing: Mixed guns isn't bad as support. Each weapon type (projectiles, hybrids and lasers) is good at a different thing on the ground. Strip shields, blast troops/armored units or nail buildings using the 3 different types. Talk about mixed weapons... This is a brain-dead fitting schema for ship-to-ship combat in EVE. It's not necessary to do this for support but can be of value but only when fitting to interact with the dust player's environment. Odd. Really odd.
From the dust side: It's dust vs dust - if someone has an EVE alt, that char can come provide untouchable support. Outside of this - I haven't seen any other interaction points.
Net effect: It's not something the majority of EVE players will find of interest nor engaging and, for the most part, dust players can simply ignore EVE players - except the alt of the guys on the other side providing bombardment. This reduces the game to a space-based FPS with a fairly trivial "interesting concept" attached to it.
Overall it's not well integrated into EVE right now and offers very little to most players in either arena. If it goes into Null, it may add value but only if other changes to null are implemented to make it far more important but such expansion will bring extremely little interest from the bulk of the players.
IMO - it needs a hell of a lot more work on both sides (EVE and DUST) to leverage the unique potential it could offer.
i.e. - if dust players could stage their own version of a "burn jita" - that would both enrage a hell of a lot of EVE players as well as draw a huge amount of attention to the potential but is impossible with how it's currently implemented.
Just my take on it all. |