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Posted - 2011.12.02 22:08:00 -
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Blood Fart wrote:If they didn't expect players to inhabit w-space then why can you launch a pos in a wormhole?
Because we generally find it more interesting to give players as few restrictions as we're comfortable with, and see what happens.
In this particular situation, ensuring that w-space starbase logistics would be "balanced" after this change would first require us to have a long discussion about how difficult w-space logistics should be in the first place, which would likely end up spilling across into a lot of other areas of w-space mechanics. Given how ingenious and adaptable w-space dwellers have proved to be in the past, and how minor this adjustment seemed when compared to the difficulties of setting up shop in w-space in the first place, we figured that the majority of these players would simply roll with the changes regardless, so we postponed the big balancing discussion until we have time to look at it properly, and implemented the starbase changes as-is in the meantime.
Obviously we're not in a position to make authoritative statements about things that will occur in the future (due to a lack of time-travel technology), but our general inclination is that future w-space improvements should accommodate the (clearly very popular) "frontier settlement" playstyle that's sprung up since Apocrypha as a major component, without precluding the possibility of also providing a true wilderness experience for explorers. |
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Posted - 2011.12.05 10:26:00 -
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Mr Kidd wrote:Roime wrote:lol @ API-whiners It was a stupid meta-game tool that should have never existed, good riddance. Wormholes don't register jumps, they are not man-built stargates. Read again Quote:"it's not supposed to be easy" and again until you understand. And then once more. - Roime I advocate a complete removal of API intel from w-space. Read it again. As it stands now, API intel for w-space is a dinner bell as it shows NPC kills but not jumps. In essence, someone with a connecting wh to a system could sit on their ass doing whatever they want making periodic API calls to find out when a WH goes active and the active members are vulnerable. This is outright unacceptable.
API information in WH space is a little bit silly and we're reviewing this. |
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Posted - 2011.12.05 10:39:00 -
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Jarnis McPieksu wrote:Make WH kills information delayed by 48+ hours? You still get historical data on activity levels of the hole but no live intel.
It's exploration space, you shouldn't get any data.
Even delayed it's incredibly important information. The lack of intel means it's a dangerous place to be, but it should work both ways, it should also shield you from outsiders knowing about you. |
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Posted - 2011.12.05 10:50:00 -
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Hauling Hal wrote:Lord Zim wrote:Another thing that's used a lot to create information on WH people is the killmails which they produce. Maybe look into removing location data from that as well, or would that be one step too far? If I kill someone in a wormhole, please don't prevent me from telling anyone. I don't care if the person that died doesn't want me to.
Agreeing with this. |
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:21:00 -
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Rek Seven wrote:I was going to write some big speech about why i love wormhole space and hate known space but i'll simply say, if CCP ever force me out of W-space by nerfing them, i'll quit eve all together.
Wormhole space needs buffing if anything and i would like to see ships specifically designed with WH's in mind.
I don't really think we're nerfing WH space as a whole. This is a pretty big information loophole where players outside of wormholes will be able to map population, activity etc. That's not intended and needs to get fixed.
On the other hand, we've done a lot for wormholes in Crucibles, especially when it comes to living out of a POS and using bookmarks. As a sidenote, expect more changes like that in our next major patch. Overall, life in WH space should be getting easier as a side effect of us improving related features. |
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