Jai Gar
Agents of the Veiled Dragon
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Posted - 2006.12.01 13:41:00 -
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After scanning this thread (way too many to read them all since they all say the same thing) I notice only two (2) posts by anyone at CCP...
One about changing colors on looted cans, and one about the coolness of a battlefield strewn with debris.
For the first post, thanks. ANYTHING will help. The system is so seriously flawed... rant rant rant... sorry...
One of the deeper problems is not so much the color of a wreck you've alread checked, but the fact that only about 5% of the wrecks contain any "loot". Before, nearly 80% of destroyed ships left a can with loot. Why the monsterous nerf in standard loot. Do you realize what this nerf will do to the markets?! OMG! Prices on the new stuff from the patch are already out of control. Now that there will be large-scale shortages of standard loot on the market, ALL prices are going to begin to skyrocket! Pair that with the fact that the missions don't pay more to compensate in the loot sale losses, and you are going to have to take an amazingly longer time to earn the money to get the things you need to make the game enjoyable...
As for battlefield clutter... Are you insane? The visual would be cool, yes, but I do recall a real need to combat lag on the servers... Warp to 0 is supposed to ease the lag cause by thousands of people with hundreds of insta warp bookmarks. This wreck system is going to cause way more lag than some stupid bookmarks...
Anyway... My rant is getting long, and I'm sure most of this has already been talked about and ignored by CCP in other threads (dozens, I'm sure).
I did read one post here (sorry, don't recall the person) that asked for Salvage Drones! Awsome idea and one I would gladly pay/train for! People have asked for loot drones before. Technically speaking, in a "real" EVE universe, technology would have come up with this. If a species can develop faster than light speed travel, a garbage drone should be a no brainer... Salvage Drone(s) could be deployed after a battle to collect loot and salvage ship material. They could be deployed while the battle is raging to work while you fight. They would have to return to you many times to drop the loot/salvage into your hold since they wouldn't have much cargo space. They would also be in danger of being destroyed if working during a fight since they might be targetted by the enemy...
It's such a cool idea. I don't expect to see it until stage 2 of whatever comes after Kali... Sorry, that is uncalled for... I've been a Dev and coded for 8-16 hours a day before. It's hard work. The sheer volume of work you've done already should be applauded. I can only give one bit of advice (take it as you may)... You need NON-Coders working with you to see past the code and consider the results of what you produce... You need a Devil's Advocate on staff to look at the negative side of what you are creating, not a bunch of Yesmen/Yeswomen bowing to upper managements every whim... People say they brought all this up in testing way before you deployed. Did you think the testers didn't know what they were saying and once 25K people got on, they would like it more than the 500 testers?
Woops! Sorry... Went back to ranting...
I will close with a request to see more active responses in these forums by the CCP team. Doesn't have to be high-level Devs. You should have some PR people working the forums so we don't think you are ignoring our whinings...
Cheers...
P.S. Can you stick one noob Web Dev on the problem of our RMR/Bloodlines faces. I'm really tired of being an Exclamation point... ... ...
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