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Necharo Rackham
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 16:46:00 -
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Querns wrote:This change promotes risk in wormhole space by removing the ability for entrenched wormhole dwellers to quickly curate the connections to their wormhole by analyzing historical data. Now, the curation of these connections must be done manually, like the greater majority of wormhole activities, in line with the design goal of the space.
Actually this will just play to the strengths of the entrenched wormhole dwellers, because most of us have our own databases of who lives where and what they like doing. |
Necharo Rackham
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 17:06:00 -
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Querns wrote:
It is the issue; we are talking about the information exposed via the API. Capital geography information is exposed via the SDE. These are two different things.
Feel free to provide another example of information exposed via the API that is not available in the client.
Well, if we are going for an appeal to mystery and (implicitly) lore, then the SDE has no place in the game either. |
Necharo Rackham
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 17:14:00 -
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Querns wrote:
However, given that I personally have copies of the SDE going back about as far as I've been playing eve, and that others have copies going back even further, I think the cat's out of the bag on that one. It's not like capital geography changes all that much. Essentially, this is another false equivalency.
Actually it merely exposes the false equivalence in the arguments being used by FoxFour and others for why this change needs to take place (manual curation, mystery and the advantage large groups have).
I'm not even overly against this change - as long there is some compensating mechanic that re-introduces an element of risk (and a deployable really isn't it, nor is the differential delay on either side of a spawning wormhole ), it doesn't even have to be directly intel related.
On a side note; It's kind of amusing that this 'unintentional' API has been leading to exactly the sort of behaviour CCP purport to want everywhere in the game - small groups fighting over resources. |
Necharo Rackham
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 17:18:00 -
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Aryth wrote:
The goalposts, they keep on movin.
Not really. It was stated as part of FoxFour's reasoning in his second or third post - people are just pointing out that applying that reasoning consistently leads to certain consequences. |
Necharo Rackham
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 17:44:00 -
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Agonising Ecstacy wrote:
Thats because it benefits the incumbents - those that live in wormholes have an advantage over those that don't
I don't think incumbents mean what you think it does. It benefits the w-space dweller over the casual day tripper - for sure - but this is true of every other part of space also. If you are a new *resident* of w-space, then both siggy and marbin's eve w-space are free to use (and you can even host the latter yourself). |
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