GeeBee
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2015.03.11 10:27:37 -
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Here's what it looks like is going on(and is going on) the number of long term players that aren't playing right now is silly, subscriptions may be up now due to an unusual influx of new players, but how long they will be with the game is dubious.
Phase 1, remove the ability for people to play the game
Phase 2, remove their will to play the game
Phase 3, maybe attempt to give them some kind of a cookie with some other thing?
I've disagreed with the direction of these changes since it started. You're doing a lot of things to de-sandbox the sandbox in a very bad way. First you make it so its really hard to get anywhere and do anything with capitals, then you propose basically making them useless until you've repurposed them in some way that you aren't sure about yet. It appears you're trying to get the playerbase to break into smaller groups in an attempt to bring back small gang pvp on a more regular scale, this is futile because there will not be any de-blobbing or disbanding of any player organization as long is there's other large organizations.
Problems that need to be addressed
sov nullsec being stagnant, with vast amounts of unused space. The entosis link is a nice thought and all to change how the space is fought over, the initial proposal is riddled with holes and lack of details. The worst thing to come out is the primetime mechanic, this is a really bad thing that will further decay timezones outside of the prime area, where-ever it lands, there's nothing worse than logging in and missing a fight because it wasn't in your timezone, what you're proposing is potentially making that a permanent thing.
SOV PVE Content being boring, repetitive, and can support a very finite number of players, im not saying allow us agents, preferably there would be something better, but if it comes down to it ill take it, Sov nullsec is the only space that cannot support an infinite number of PVE content, npc nullsec can, lowsec can, and highsec can through agents. Sov nullsec pvp shouldn't be based around having a staging system that everyone sits around in and does nothing while their alts farm isk. The player experience should be a more complete for a single account with pvp and pve content available locally for all.
AFK CLOAKY CAMPING.
This has been largely weakened by the force projection changes, the ability to bait with warp core stabs after being dropped is hilarious, space herpies. It still is a very tired boring mechanic with no real counter. I went through a wormhole with an alt to somewhere in drone space that was really out in the middle of nowhere, it was an xxdeathxx renter system, anyway my entertainment for the day was giggled while chatting with these renters in local that hid in their pos from my scout cheetah, for 8 hours they did nothing while i did nothing, they hid from an invisible threat that wasn't even there, they cried in local about why i was there and to please leave them alone, i was briefly tempted to offer them a price to leave, and a higher price to leave and collapse the wormhole, but i figured they probably wouldn't pay me anyway and didnt want to lower myself to that level, instead i just commented on whatever they were doing / flying and it was hilarious when one of them was flying around the pos in an interceptor attempting to decloak me. Anyway moral of the story, its a troll mechanic that serves nothing but tears and sadness so you can bully someone whether you have the intention of doing something or not while not putting yourself at any risk.
Botting is still very much a thing in many places, the proposed local delay could have some effect there, but realistically if there is a delay put on local of even 30 seconds sov nullsec will need some kind of a cookie to balance it out, either the removal of the intercepters interdiction nullification or some kind of PVE bonus as previously stated. Right now nullsec is basically just a farming ground for people farming isk through the most boring methods possible, or people attmepting to kill the people farming isk through the most boring methods possible.
SOV PVP being all about very important timers that get blobbed, in some ways i really wish we could go back to the tower spamming, that really made war hell back in the day. 24/7 content with a reason, it was hell, it burned people out, people hated it, but it was constant content. and provided every form of warfare. The arbitrary timer system that was implemented in Dominion was one of the worst possible things and is the reason we have constantly blobbed up to 1000, 2000 then 4000 people in single fights, the force projection change that aimed to remove our ability to transverse is one of the biggest mistakes ever done, changing the reason everyone is going to fight over one system is the real key to fixing it.
Renters being renters, Not sure which is worse, the fact that there's people with the ability to hold large amounts of space to rent, or that there are people that actually agree to pay the rent. Its a disease on the game and should be snuffed out by whatever means needed. And again back to botting renter empires allow people to do botting and RMT via third parties with some degree of safety.
Anyway I'm going back to playing minecraft and watching TV, hopefully by June there's something to do in this terrible game. |