Rhavas
Future Corps
Sleeper Social Club
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Posted - 2014.04.07 05:13:00 -
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Last year on my blog I wrote:
Rhavas wrote:I would like to see Steve branch out this year to other areas of space, and expanded types of play. IGÇÖd like to see him put together a third-party app that had a level of renown among part of the playerbase, to give himself something specific to point to (be the next developer of an Aura-like, EVE Central-like, etc. tool and trumpet it) GÇô he has loads of industry tools publicly posted on his site that I suspect could be rolled together into an impressive toolset and promoted by him. I think he could be a contender in future years, but I donGÇÖt see it this year.
While it doesn't look like you've made a big spatial shift, you have clearly driven a much higher profile and created a ton of useful tools. Your site is well known and people depend on it, knowing you as a solid 3rd Party developer. You took over evebloggers.com when it needed it most and would bring a badly-needed highsec industrial voice to the CSM. You've been highly visible in the community. I want to endorse you this year, and am writing the post now.
Here's the only thing holding me back.
Steve Ronuken wrote:Cloaks. AFK cloaking is bad gameplay. I'd like to see the ability to shut down your ship, and fall off scan, but if you just cloak, you can be, with effort, traced and decloaked at range. If you're there, you can move to avoid it. If you're not, you're at risk. Don't want to be found? Turn your ship 'off', to become a whole in space, with no chance of being scanned down. Do it with a cloak, in a place you expect people to turn up, and you can set up a hot drop.
Can you provide clarification for this? As I scan the rest of the thread, it looks more like you're concerned about hotdrops than about cloaking. Would you restate this position in your OP to be about power projection rather than cloaks? If cloaking really is your issue, would you add time frames and methods (I realize you aren't a game developer, but I need to understand the level of mechanic you think of when you say this - time frames, tools, do you support the fuel approach, a time approach, or something else). My position on cloaking and Local can be found here for reference if you want something to compare and contrast to in your response. Thanks.
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