Daniel Plain
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
1513
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Posted - 2013.10.24 15:09:00 -
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Texty wrote:Clatita wrote:I admit that it is not "idiot"-proof but I actually liked eve when it wasn't ... CCP is now only working on making everything more ... well ... "idiot"-proof. Reorganising skills, changing a lot of names on things (siege launchers => torpedo launcher ... because omg it's soooo hard to remember that torpedoes will be launched from siege launchers), "rebalancing" ships (many of the ships were actually pretty useful the way they were even if they were not the last tier) and so on ...
Basically this game is getting more and more "******"-friendly (to change the term a bit.) CCP Ytterbium wrote:Don't you think changing skill names is "dumbing the game down"?
- EVE gameplay and sense of loss should be harsh, dark and unforgiving, in that there is no doubt and we agree completely. However, fighting the UI at every turn should not be the main complexity point here - it just means players have become used to an old and outdated interface for too long. Simply put, the hard and unforgiving nature of EVE should not be to retrieve information on a basic level, it should be on how players act based on that information and interact with the gameplay that revolves around it.
( https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3301378#post3301378)
the names of items are not part of the UI; they are part of the game world. same goes for the names of skills (and arguably skill categories), recalling scanner probes (which should not happen automatically and instantly), agent types (which should never have been streamlined into security, mining and distribution) and so on.
i agree with the statement that players should not fight against the UI, but the UI is only the set of tools that helps you interact with the game world, not part of it. if i wanted to play in a boring, straightforward game universe, i'be still sitting in WoW, punching pandas and pushing my itemlevel.
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