Cerze
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Posted - 2006.03.28 03:33:00 -
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2. A skill system that allows people to eventually catch up with existing players. Use the server age vs character age model, where until you hit the server age you age and gain skills at +50% (or 33% or whatever). This means that eventually (and I do mean in a long eventually) it is theoretically possible to compete on an even footing with older chars. Even if someone isn't actually like to spend the 6 years it takes to do so (and CCP thanks you for trying), the simple fact that it would now be possible would make this gap no longer a deterrant. Instead, all existing advantage can be overcome.. with time and effort. And that's exactly what we should want.
After reading this entire thread, the above just happened to catch me as the truest, most constructive statement I have seen yet.
I'm a reasonably new player in Eve (about a month), and I have to say while I like the game to be challenging, the single fact that there is no way to compete in PvP without a handicap due to nothing more than TIME is the biggest turn off I have to what I consider otherwise to be a game with a lot of potential. There should probably be something along the lines of "growing senile" so that after you've trained a billion SP, your brain starts to become packed with too much information.. maybe you forget something, maybe you simply don't learn as fast as you used to when you were younger. Just something.. I don't think this issue really was a problem when the game came out and everyone was on equal footing, or even after a year or two because the gap wasn't as large, but I have to say that as a 2006 player, running into a 2003 player that can just kill me on a whim not by superior tactics, not by outwitting me, but just by sheer TIME that their account has been active SUCKS. I hate it, and it's very likely that if I don't see anything introduced to help bridge the gap that I'll simply give up and quit this game, because a lot of new other exciting games are around the corner that may potentially not have this problem.
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