Daniel Blak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.07.19 13:17:26 -
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I think the game lacks on mystery now. Everything is well documented.
Every change is deeply discoursed and explained ahead.
When I started playing in 2008 (or close) there was too many thing no one know for exactly.
Aspects of the game that you have to talk to people to understand, or try by yourself. And a lot of thing was just suppositions.
I remember that no one knew that hitting the scanner close to planets would reveal site to be explored.
You had to go close to planet and scan, but most of time simply there was noting as a result.
Who must keep trying... without any certain about what was you exactly doing.
In this case, success feels much more rewarding. Most of new features now comes down to follow a documentation, just to check it's working as expected... I feel like a QA professional checking features ahead of publishing. No fun. No mystery, no need to talk to others, just go and do what is documented.
For sure skill matter (real life skill i mean). But most of player are not going spend a lot of time to just master a predictable task. It's fun for few.
There is no secret, you are not going to find anything unexpected.
I just wonder how would be magic if WH was introduced without any sort of communication.
Just imagine someone scanning and finding this "thing" without having a clue about... Would be a WTF moment for a lot of people.
I'm not saying that CCP should not communicate changes at all.
There are huge changes that affects huge operations and it's nice to have glimpse of what's going on.
Like sovereignty changes, POS changes, ships change, and things like that.
But CCP should always put a little amount of secret stuff, a little amount of unknown.
Just imagine someone working in a site and discovering a new ship blueprint !!! I ship than no one knows existed.
Doesn't matter what kind of ship. Could be a speeder shuttle... It's just for WOW moment.
People are smart, soon or late someone will find out about secret things (it will be amazing cool for those). And after a while
another one will write a tutorial in Internet and more people will find out. After a while a lot of people will know about that. And it becomes business as usual. But gave player a feel they can nor archive "following tutorials"
Well, just my two cents.
I really missing the mystery the game used to offer
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