Daniel Plain
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
1955
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Posted - 2014.05.07 12:46:00 -
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i have skimmed through the thread. in this post i will try to summarize the arguments from both parties and provide my opinion/commentary on them.
- "this change is good because wormholes should be the great unknown." not buying it. we know how many wormholes there are, what celestial bodies each one of them contains, how their (npc) inhabitants behave, how and when and where the wormholes themselves tend to connect and how to manipulate them to our benefit. the only things we do not know are the arbitrary specifics at any given point. the removal of the npc api call will not change anything in the big picture, as it is part of the mundane, arbitrary specifics that have little to do with the "great unknown".
- "you should not have tools out of game that are not available in the game client." not buying it. there are plenty out of game tools that make playing eve bearable in the first place. for instance, you can quickly check the prices of items beyond the current region only with third party tools. yes, you could put an alt into every region to check prices, but then again, you could also have a scout in EVERY wormhole.
- "without using the npc kill stats to set up login traps, we cannot get proper pvp." not buying it. if having to use an out of game tool to exploit a grey area game mechanic is the only way to produce pvp situations, there is a design flaw in the game, which should be handled at the core. keeping shady workarounds alive instead of fixing the core issue is not the right way to go.
- "farmers will go rampant, nanoribbon prices will drop, THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!" again, not buying it. more farmers will lead to more hunters. if hunting farmers requires so many warm bodies that you can only do it in prime time, then maybe there should be a fix that allows hunting in smaller groups. for example, you could take a look at the mechanics and the practice of rolling statics.
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