EVE Search - Recurring opportunities will be deployed on May 24th

Teckos Pech wrote:

Terranid Meester wrote:

Lucas Kell wrote:

]Not everyone hates it though, so you're suggesting the opinion of the people against it is somehow more important than the opinion of the people for it.

I give it two thumbs up!

People that don't hate it should and/or have been led to believe that this kind of gameplay is anything but detrimental to the fundamental aspect of eve as was intended. The sandbox and the premise of not having goals thrust upon the person.

CCP's holier than thou attitude of game design because they have had a monopoly on sandbox entertainment for some time is leading them down the path of conformity.

A list of why Recurring Opportunities are bad

1. This breaks the sandbox. Instead of setting your own goals this is about a time based CCP set goal. It wowifies eve using EA level mechanics which have already been proved to be detrimental to other games.

2. It proves that CCP are dishonest when in the skill injector blog they say 'while we make sure there is one single mechanism that brings new skillpoints in to the system GÇô training.' It proves that CCP are no longer the same developers that sang HTFU.

3. Eve is supposed to be hard. The original idea of eve being hard is undercut when you add easy dailies.

4. Driving new players into mind-numbing pve options in a pvp game will not convince them to stay.

5. SP are in my opinion supposed to be a unique commodity like gold, you can make money but new gold is impossible.
Skill extractors take from an already existing pool, they evaporate some SP and the rest is in the injector. This is good.
The new way is SP faucets in the form of dailies, yay!

6. It damages other peoples playstyles if they for example choose to be pacifist. Instead of playing their way, they are being driven towards the rocky shore of daily tasks.

7. It actively discriminates against time limited players. If you only have 2 hours a week people who have more can not only always have more SP than you but also a part of your precious 2 hours are spent doing something mind numbing instead of something exciting, something YOU would like to do instead of playing catch up.

8. It hurts mission running in certain areas regarding standings, if for example you are doing Serpentis missions, if you kill a Serpentis npc to get your SP you lower your faction standing with Serpentis which can hurt what missions you can do. If you are stuck in a region with only Serpentis npcs, what can you do in order not to hurt your standings?

Wow talk about throwing stuff at a wall and hoping something sticks.

1. Isn't time always a factor in game? Time is what determined the rate at which you acquire SP which in turn determined a considerable amount of what you could do (fly a BS, use a T2 module, etc.). If anything, this changes it that a little bit.

2. This is a good point and I'd like to see this point addressed by CCP.

3. Okay, but gaining SP has always been stupidly easy. You just set up your training queue and log in now and then to update it.

4. Much of what new players can do is mind numblingly boring. Mining and missions, IMO, suck donkey balls. Trading is boring. Ratting sucks too. PvP is about the only thing that is not horribly boring. I have to do some of these boring things so I can afford the ships for PvP, but generally speaking they are boring.

5. Brand spanking new SP are created every day in vast quantities.

6. Not getting a benefit is not imposing a cost nor damaging. If I win the lottery and get millions are you somehow made poorer?

7. No, if anything it provides an additional benefit for time limited players. Now you can log in blap a single rat and get a nice reward. Shouldn't take too terribly long.

8. So, go shoot another type of rat in another region.

So out of your 8 I see 1 where you really had a good point. Should have ran with that one.

Personally, I imagine this will be something newer players take more advantage of. I won't be using it much. Depending on how it works, is shooting a rat with a bunch of other people sufficient? If so I'll get some extra SP on occasion when an FC has us shoot the gate rats. Other than that, I doubt I'll get this benefit very often and I certainly will not be logging in every day just to get it. I have 135 million SP already. Getting 10,000 each day is not much...at least not enough for me to feel like I need to log in every single day and go shoot a rat. It is called opportunity cost.