Vrizuh
Eve Defence Force
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.11.26 07:39:00 -
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To respond to a few comments in this thread:
1. The idea that you should only be able to train skill whilst logged in is ridiculous. If that system came in you know what I'd do? Leave my account in a station, logged in, whenever Im not around. So Im using a character slot and server resources that an actual playing player would want to use. Worse, you'd create a market for trained up players. Guess how many of those isk sellers would then have alts training?
2. "Other games make you earn your xp". True. You want to discuss other MMOs? Really? Cos, WoW is another MMO. No clones, no need. No equipment loss.. there's a reason why WoW is sitting on the top whilst Lineage2 has been spending a lot of time mimicking it. You make it harder for people to participate in regular gameplay and they either don't play or they turn to account powerlevellers and sellers. You might not care now, but how about if EvE was lame in anything other than 1 specific timezone due to a lack of player interest?
3. "Players shouldnt get rewarded for not playing". Well actually they're paying for their account. Arguebly, they deserve something. Why exactly should the player using the MOST bandwidth (expense), super computer time (expense) etc get more than the player who uses jack all bandwidth and server resources for the same price? Skills training is not a huge reward you know. The players who are playing get:
Money
Connections
Knowledge.
All of which are hugely important in EvE. If you arent playing, you dont know the market. You have to break into a market dominated by savvy players. If you dont have connections, you're probably not in a super great corp or alliance. If you don't have knowledge, you get ganked everytime you go near lowsec.
4. Players play EvE for specific reasons. I think it would be wise to take a poll and find out those reasons before trying to make Eve like all the MMOs they're *not* playing. You think its a simple thing to argue that queues shouldnt be allowed in. Afterall, other games dont do that. But it doesnt stop there. Because then the 'skill' players who up. Who demand they be rewarded for their genius skill. They want details like which way a ship was facing to play in. They want players who can aim/have low ping, to dominate against players who can't/have high ping.
Finally let me say this. It takes months to build up a several million SP character. You'd need to pay account fee for each month. At the end you would just have a broke character with sp (btw, you'd need to earn money for skills). That money for account could instead be spent on GTCs. You'd have enough ISK to buy a high SP character and equipment. So who cares about queues? Anyone levelling a character for sale is already the kind of person who is there to set the training. (If you're a real tightarse, you could buy an account, sell a tonne of GTCs, invest, then cancel account. Come back a year later and you have a stack of dividend cash just sitting there..no effort)
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Since entering 0.0 I've noticed my wallet slowly crawl towards 0.00. Coincidence? I think not
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