Boson Dubstep
Dixon Cox Butte Preservation Society
Psychotic Tendencies.
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Posted - 2015.10.28 18:01:19 -
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There are a couple of major issues with the citadels feature as I see it.
1) One of the most eagerly anticipated functions of citadels is the ability to dock supercaps in them. By limiting the ability to dock supers in anything but an XL CCP is limiting access to this awesome feature to a extremely select group of individuals, the namely the CFC.
By limiting the ability to dock to only the largest, and most inaccessable features, the majority of supers are still going to be coffins for their pilots. CCP should allow the docking of supers in large citadels, as well as extra larges, perhaps limiting the total number titans and supers docked, or some other mechanic.
2) By getting rid of the reinforcement timer, CCP is (unintentionally) encouraging people to not login. Let me explain...
I decide I just can't live without the QQY-JR Dyspro. My alliance is USTZ. The defending alliance is an AUTZ alliance. They set all of their vulns to prime AUTZ. I now must commit to at least two AUTZ ops to win the event. None of their players even bother logging in outside of AUTZ, as they know that nobody can **** with their **** outsize of a set block of hours.
Current system: They have their POS stronted for 36 hours, so that if I reinforce their **** in USTZ, I will have an AUTZ timer. Although I need to fight the defenders on their own terms to win the timer, I can reinforce it Thursday night in ustz, and use the weekend surge of people to make the autz timer. Everyone knows when the fight is gunna happen, and can plan their social life accordingly around it, which leads me to...
3)Many people are concerned how the introduction of citadels on tranquility will impact their ability to move their supers, especially once CCP starts to phase out POS. How this will impact someone who was on vacation or away from the game for a supermove op, and now has to make his way through the galaxy alone?
With the Poebe changes, what previously was a minor hassle is now one of the most challenging tasks you could possibly take on in eve. When people from the largest and most experienced supercap-capable alliances would rather unsub an account for 6 months and petition CCP for a move, then move 5 mids across eve, it makes me wonder if CCP dev's actually spend much time in supers on the live server, (and in the event that they do, if they have had the pleasure moving their super across new eden, which all but one group have now done multiple times.)
This issue will be only exacerbated by the new structure changes, making an incredibly tedious activity (solo moving supers) even less rewarding. |