Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2015.05.26 18:04:29 -
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Lijah wrote:and this is why this is too big a fundamental shift in EVE gameplay. it becomes a totally different game, which we are not familiar with, and for what I didn't sign up for. Even the threat that this might happen is going to make me change my practices, making sure I'm not exposed to a bad impact - might mean unsubbing till happens ... uncertainty around something like is very bad.
And this is why I don't envy EVE's designers:
"We need a fundamental change to sov gameplay or we're unsubbing!!!1"
"You're making a fundamental change to sov gameplay?! We're unsubbing!!1"
Can't win for trying.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2015.05.26 18:46:47 -
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Orm Magnustat wrote:You can..... but its plain foolish to change too many things at once in to fast succession.
"Fix sov!" they cried for years, without stopping to think about what a huge and far-reaching project that is.
The sov redo was supposed to drop in Winter 2011/Spring 2012. It's years late. How many more years do you want CCP to drag this out? How many years do you want people to deal with broken and unfun mechanics? How many years of uncertainty do you want?
I get that this is uncomfortable. I do. The question is whether there's any better option.
Orm Magnustat wrote:Oh, did I mention that they "en passant" came up with discontiuing core concepts like POS (with all its implications to playing styles, ingame economy, etc.) and core funtionalities like auto-defence? Ah, and invented some "just for you" box, something that never was seen before in this universe. Ehm, and didnt capitals (a main skilling target for many "new or not so new" players) totally loose their role in this process?
You're aware that POSes were a temporary kludge that CCP added until they could do structures right... more than a decade ago? They've always been scheduled for demolition. They're balled up into a huge, ugly hairball of legacy code that CCP would love to excise and forget about.
And re: structure self-defense: CCP are talking about all these design changes publicly before they even have basic designs in place, in order to get feedback, and you're complaining about that, too? They're listening. If you want automated defenses, state your case in the appropriate thread.
Well, such a hectic flurry of fundamental changes ... If anybody saw that kind of approach in my line of business you-¦d have to give some very good answers, to say the least.
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