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Caldari
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Posted - 2006.11.18 11:50:00 -
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I'm having trouble with this. I'm an OLD character (approaching 60 mil SP). I have often been in here rejecting calls for CCP to introduce methods for newer players to catch up with people like me. I suppose you'd expect that, I'm trying to defend my "advantage" if you want to see it like that, but I'm also defending the maintenance of the status quo...You can see where I am, you have exactly the same tools to get where I am, and so from the outset you know where you stand. In fact, a newer player currently would still have a SLIGHT advantage over me...I played for about 18 months where the advanced learning skills simply were not available...new players can (if they wish) train them immediately.
But now we are seeing another facet whci hI must admit I did not envisage...it's not an OLD player complaining about the change, but a relatively NEW one. He feels let down because he bought just long enough before the new system for it to affect him, but not short enough before it for him to decide to retrain.
It would be a lot simpler if things stayed as they were. Keep it the same for everyone, and tell those who whine that "OMG it will take me years to get to point X" to STFU. Yes, it WILL take you years. That is abundantly clear within your first month of playing. If you have a problem with that, GPQ*. Changes to the system just tick everybody off, and the few people they are pleasing with them are those who have invested the LEAST into CCP's coffers. I don't want to see EVE getting like mobile phone companies - constantly chasing new customers, and ignoring their loyal ones.
The ONLY "accelerated learning" program I would support would be balanced by a capped character...CCP make a measurement of the highest SP character in game (for example, currently around 70 million), and then make a simple calculation...if you want to train twice as fast, you are capped at half that amount of SP (again, for example, 35 million), with NO option to decide "OK take the cap off now please, I want to go back to normal leearning. You could even opt to learn 4 times as fast with a cap of 17.5 million...If you had your learning plan laid out, that would still be quite an effective character.
*Go Play Quake.
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