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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 03:18:44 -
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Shailagh wrote:Ccp cant you see this logic is flawed?? Some csm dudes even tried to say so. Wtf is the poijt of them is you dont listen?? This vhange and gonna increase RETENTION 1% IF ANYTJING GONNA MAKE OLDVETS QUIT MORE.
If the number of new players retained is greater than the number of old vets quitting because they can't shoot in-corp noobs on safaris in hisec, we win.
If people are going to quit because of a change which doesn't alter their own game play one iota, well they shouldn't let the door hit their arse on the way out.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 03:21:15 -
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PS: I think CCP is grossly misreading the statistics when they interpret the statistics to mean that encouraging new players to join corporations is the way to increase retention.
They've seen the correlation between "players staying in the game" and "players join player run corporations" and assumed that joining a player corp is the cause, rather than both retention and PC-membership being triggered by something else (such as, for example, "making contact with other players who you like hanging around with".
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 08:56:01 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:Mara Rinn wrote:If the number of new players retained is greater than the number of old vets quitting because they can't shoot in-corp noobs on safaris in hisec, we win.
If people are going to quit because of a change which doesn't alter their own game play one iota, well they shouldn't let the door hit their arse on the way out. If you really believe in that line of reasoning, then you might as well call for the total removal of any and all pvp from the game. The ratio of people who don't want pvp, as opposed to those who do, is three to one. Removing pvp, and not just some underhanded methods of doing pvp, but all of it, would make a whole lot of players, including new players, happy.
How long can you take the risk of PVP away from a PVP game before people become completely bored with it? There's no PVE to fill their boring, hollow little lives with.
Destiny Corrupted wrote:Right. We should wait until CCP does that, and then cry about it. This would be a good strategy for making sure that only good changes get implemented, and making sure that the game keeps the integrity and core promises that have allowed it to exist for over a decade. 
I prefer complaining about the things that matter, not the things that my tin foil hat tells me are going to destroy the world.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:20:16 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:Aiyshimin wrote:Dave Stark wrote:Ah, the day subscription fees mattering more than quality content is finally upon us.
fair play to ccp, took them longer to succumb to allure than most other companies. still, a sad day. What part of a hisec awoxing was quality content? Of course sub numbers mean more than a nich+¬ group having a free pass to ganking, what did you seriously expect? CCP is trying to fix the game before its too late, and this is just one of them. The part in which you befriend some rich clown, and then pop his shiny CNR, or freighter full of his belongings after convincing him to move a few systems over. Or the good old mining op bust. You know, the stuff that actually makes up the majority of awoxing activities, as opposed to the ridiculous bullcrap about little day-old babbys losing their basic-fitted Ventures to sociopath griefers blah blah (I've seriously yet to see a kill like that).
I'm not sure that what EVE really needs is more people convincing fools to blow hundreds of dollars on PLEX just so someone can pad their billboards.
It's also worth noting that what is proposed is an option. With any luck CCP will make the option something that costs ISK to turn on, for example a 5% corp tax from CONCORD, or a monthly fee similar to a wardec. Then you'll find out that many corps just don't turn the option on because they think they know what they're doing.
How do you feel about the "automatic boot from corp at downtime" feature? I supposed you feel that it's severely curtailing your safari exploits and is an evil feature that should never have been implemented?
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:31:20 -
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Concord Guy's Cousin wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:(1) Corp standings will go down in a week of only-ceo-alt in there. You still pay for office renting but now you have to pay 2x if you make second corp. Only if the CEO-Alt has any standings at all, if all the alts standings are zero then the corp standings remain static; this is extremely well documented.
I thought that corp standings only "adjusted" when a corp member's standings change?
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:37:34 -
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J'Poll wrote:GǪ as nobody will be able to go on a safari as you can't shoot people in corp anymore. 
LOL. Chicken little thought the sky was falling too!
How many industrial corps will be happy to pay 50M ISK a month just to prevent safaris, when they know they can limit their exposure to safaris through various means such as:
- Recruitment corp separate to the mission-running corp, separate to the POS-running corp
- Use the boot-on-downtime feature
- Don't recruit people with a history of corp-kills
A CONCORD enforcement fee of 50M a month will mean people have to weigh up the risk of losing a 200M ISK mining ship every other month versus the known loss of 100M ISK in that same period.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:42:28 -
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Solecist Project wrote:This actualky makes me wonder if CCP considers reverse safaris and if members can look up the state of friendly fire...
I'd expect the "friendly fire flag" to be visible on Corp Info to everyone, not just corp members. The whole point is to allow rookies a sense of safety in leaving NPC corps after all. If rookies can't tell that the "friendly fire flag" is turned off before joining the corp, what's the point of having it?
On a similar vein, what's the point of having the "friendly fire flag" if rookies can't tell that it's been turned off? Similar to wardecs having start and invalidation notices, I'd expect a CONCORD notice declaring explicitly when the friendly fire flag changes.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:45:22 -
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Dave Stark wrote:then again, as some one who's demonstrated repeatedly that they're clueless on any issue raised in this thread i'm not surprised that i'm having to explain this to you.
also, as far as i'm aware, repping an awoxer is the only situation where the logi don't inherit flags. i could be mistaken, but i'm not sure that i am.
That's right: corp-shooters only gain a PVP flag, not a suspect or criminal flag.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:54:04 -
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Concord Guy's Cousin wrote:Official source; unofficial source anybody that used to create and sell corps with highsec POS standings, myself included, who recommended a neutral standings CEO be put in place if the POS wasn't being erected within 7 days.
Ah, I see. I remember that there was a rejoinder to new corp members to not run missions for NPC corp X, Y and Z but I had long since forgotten the reason :)
Thank you.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:45:57 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:(2) Doesn't need to be done for the same reason as (1). In the 24 hours before the war goes live, it's entirely viable to take down some expensive structures, and add a bunch of hardeners and ECM batteries to the POS. No one is going to touch it then. A high-sec ****-star POS siege is like the least fun thing possible.
That used to be true, until marauders gained ECM immunity. Now your ECM-rich POS is simply a loot pi+¦ata.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:48:02 -
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J'Poll wrote:IMO, the moment you are wardecced, any "space" assets should be locked in place. Defend it or let it be killed...your choice.
As long as the aggressing party is not allowed to dock or jump for the duration of the wardec, I'm all for it!
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:55:16 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Mara Rinn wrote:J'Poll wrote:IMO, the moment you are wardecced, any "space" assets should be locked in place. Defend it or let it be killed...your choice. As long as the aggressing party is not allowed to dock or jump for the duration of the wardec, I'm all for it! What does that blatant piece of hyperbole have to do with anything?
Just pointing out how ridiculous the idea of having in-space assets locked in space the moment a wardec is announced actually sounds to people who manage POSes.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:56:06 -
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J'Poll wrote:Mara Rinn wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:(2) Doesn't need to be done for the same reason as (1). In the 24 hours before the war goes live, it's entirely viable to take down some expensive structures, and add a bunch of hardeners and ECM batteries to the POS. No one is going to touch it then. A high-sec ****-star POS siege is like the least fun thing possible. That used to be true, until marauders gained ECM immunity. Now your ECM-rich POS is simply a loot pi+¦ata. Till you form a response fleet to kill the bastion enabled marauders...
Which you are unlikely to have since the reason the wardeccers chose your corp is that you're smaller than they are.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:11:04 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:If a CONCORD tax was proposed as a counterbalance to the increased safety afforded by this feature, we would be having a different discussion right now. Granted, we'd still be arguing against the proposal, but it would be different. However, we all know that no such thing is on the table, and that this is a flat removal.
[Citation Needed]
All I heard was a statement that a future feature was going to be the ability to turn off friendly fire. There was no more detail about it than that, especially no statement that there would not be any charges involved with turning this feature on.
If the feature is introduced without a tax or a monthly charge, I will be upset about that. I certainly won't be upset about the reduced opportunities to infiltrate a corp for the sake of griefing people out of the game.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:14:42 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:This is probably why you can't understand what I'm posting. The 'motive' for awoxxing (or scamming or ganking etc) is irrelevant, what matters is what a player choses for himself, Space-Indiana Jones or whiney video game victim. And yes it's the exact same in real life, you can whine about every little perceived injustice or you can get on with life.
Or you can lobby to have the rules changed. Or you can run for office and change the rules. Or you can be a fabulously wealthy person who donates to the major political parties so the rules get waived for you and you walk away from a drink driving manslaughter charge with a few days community service.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:34:57 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:You can color me surprised if CCP does implement a tradeoff, but I have over 7 years of empirical evidence (this entire anti-pvp trend began when the Privateer nerf happened) to the contrary. There hasn't been give-and-take so far, so why would there be any now?
Destroyers got buffed.
Oracle, Tornado, Naga, Talos.
Tags for Sec.
Wardec fees proportional to size of target, so small corps can't hope to wardec larger ones.
Yup, absolutely no "give" at all.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:37:38 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Mara Rinn wrote:Jenn aSide wrote:This is probably why you can't understand what I'm posting. The 'motive' for awoxxing (or scamming or ganking etc) is irrelevant, what matters is what a player choses for himself, Space-Indiana Jones or whiney video game victim. And yes it's the exact same in real life, you can whine about every little perceived injustice or you can get on with life. Or you can lobby to have the rules changed. Or you can run for office and change the rules. Or you can be a fabulously wealthy person who donates to the major political parties so the rules get waived for you and you walk away from a drink driving manslaughter charge with a few days community service. And then there are the people who are sick and tired of freaking activists, tired of the agitating, and just want to play the freaking game by the rules we all agreed to.
And then there are people who are introduced to one set of rules (no in-corp aggression) and get sick of the rules changing all the time (welcome to our player corp which is better than an NPC corp because we can shoot you).
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:39:29 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:Seriously, don't go for this sort of angle. The "wait and see" approach amounts to stalling for time, and you know this.
Whining on the forums has exactly the same effect as "wait and see".
How about talking to CSM and asking for them to lobby CCP to clarify whether there will in fact be taxes or rates for use of the "FFA" toggle?
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:43:33 -
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Destiny Corrupted wrote:Destroyers got buffed because they were useless as a ship class. Tier 3 battlecruisers were released as a new ship class with no expressly-stated intent to be ships used solely for pvp. Neither of those changes were created for the sole benefit of pvpers in mind; it just so happened that pvpers took advantage of these features.
So combat ships GǪ aren't for PVPers?
You're not even trying!
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 04:44:28 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Mara Rinn wrote: Wardec fees proportional to size of target, so small corps can't hope to wardec larger ones.
That's not a buff. Oh, and when wardecs aren't completely optional, then it might make some difference.
Are you planning to force people to log in and play the game?
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 10:20:57 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:You know, after it came out that CCP is giving a 24 hour cooldown to this toggleGǪ
Source?
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2015.01.18 10:28:26 -
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Yeah, just caught up to that page on Reddit myself.
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