Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2015.07.29 21:24:39 -
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Chance Ravinne wrote:Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:Daya sites being generally poor does not mean that CCP needs to drop data hacking. It means they need to balance the sites properly. The sleeper caches are the best exploration change recentlyand that requires excellent hacking skills of both flavours to run effectively. Exploration should be extended along these lines, not cut down and simplified. All right, but in what meaningful way are using data and relic analyzers in these sites different? If they were just called Data Analyzer Alpha and Data Analyzer Beta would it be any worse?
The meaningful way they are different is that you have to fill a second slot if you want to be able to do both without refitting. You have to choose between tank/tackle/data/relic. You have to make choices. Choices are what make this game great.
Here's an example:
I was gassing in a wh last night. A co-worker shows up at my door. Turns out I offered him my blueberry patch so that he and his son could pick some. I forgot until the doorbell rang. So I had a choice. Get everything safe and go see to the blueberries or let the prospects stay at it. I chose to take the risk. I left 3 characters in different sitest and went out to pick some blueberries. I made a choice. For one of my alts it was a bad choice. Just as I got back to the computer SSC dropped a small force on one of my characters. I tried to get the little ship out, but it wasn't to be so. Wonked and podded. In route back to the wh. sigh.
Another example:
SSC comes into our wh and sees 3 ships gassing (well 2,the other was gassing in the next wh). They have to choose one to start the blood bath with. I'm not sure why they picked the noobiest one. First come - first server, least likely to get away - only they know. Anyways, they made a choice. Based on the timing they were going to get one. Had they picked one of the other characters they would have hit the imlant jackpot. Decent hardwires in one and my first set of high grades ever PLUS a decent set of hardwires in the other.
We both had choices and we both chose poorly. That's how the night went. All because of choices. I'm against taking choices out of the game. If the sites are too much the same, then change one or both. Don't smoosh them together into one.
-1. Your idea lacks creativity, reduces pilot choices and removes something from the game. You should not be re-elected to CSM. We need clear thinkers that add to the game. Not dull boys that take away. (now that I re read it - I'd like to add a hearty raspberry sound to the -1) |