Corraidhin Farsaidh
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Posted - 2014.07.02 17:27:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:Kukihara Akachi wrote:CCP Greyscale wrote:Secondly, industry should be interesting and skillful. You should feel that *you* are "good at industry", rather than just that your character is. You're good at industry because you make good decisions, you outsmart your competitors, you've invested in the right places and you're ahead of the market. You invest in the long term, and those investments pay off, and you stay involved because there's always something new to do, some new market to conquer, some new tricks to learn, some new process to master. Lol, a good one. You just made it so that "you outsmart your competitors = join a nullsec bloc or become a renter". "Outsmarting" means "join CFC and rent a station" now. You just killed "good decisions", because there's only one decision that keeps you in competition. You've killed initiative, innovativeness, independence. I guess that next you'll move all the few remaining high/low sec things to CFC / NC. too. CCP Greyscale wrote:The UI is on SiSi right now, and we're actively soliciting feedback. Go test it, and tell us how you find it :) I think that he just gave you feedback: It's a horrible clickfest that makes you want to commit a sudoku. You can still stop this failpansion from happening! Only way CCP recognizes they have a disaster on their hands is when high sec subs start dropping hard when the full impact of Crius and the upcoming invention changes come crashing down on the casual high sec industrialist who does not read the forums. Sometime, starting 2 or 3 months after Crius, when unsubbed accounts actually start lapsing, will CCP realize the folly of their ways. That is when they say to the null sec cartels "wait, you promised us an overall increase in subs when we agreed to hand you industry, what is going on?".
This is my concern with the changes coming up. Not with the changes themselves but with the shift of everything to Null.
From the fanfest blurb I understand that the current retention rate is ~50% with 40 staying in hisec and 10% moving on to other areas. These changes are intended to push industry and therefore those who do industry in hisec into null to improve that 10 % (or simply to hand the main nullsec groups more isk and kill hisec industry - your choice ;) )
This is actually taking away the profitability of one of the major careers for hisec and this impacts far more players than it benefits. this doesn't make sense. I would prefer a balance of places where different careers are better, so say hisec for industry, losec for FW, WH for exploration and null for Sov and PvP. It would be better to aim to improve mobility of players through the different areas rather than make it that only one area (currently already controlled by a few large groups and with no way to break in) has any chance of being profitable in any area they choose.
I'll wait and see how it pans out and look forward to learning the new S&I system but feel very uneasy about the outcome of these changes. |