Grey Area
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.04.12 07:54:00 -
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I read the OP and shed a tear....beautifully written.
And to all the "nay-sayers" saying it can't be done...yes, a lot of the ideas simply depend on throwing processing power at it, and that is always going to be limited by technology.
But a lot of those ideas aren't about technology. They are about the one thing that I ALWAYS hear the PVP crowd decrying...
Randomness.
And the comment about that's how it USED to feel are spot on. I remember the "WOW" I felt when my ship first warped...not because of the warp effect (which was a bit tacky, even back in 2003)...but because of the way I watched the planet and stations around it zoom away into the distance. but it's been doing that for four years now, and put simply, I've seen it before. I can go to another system, but it's just another planet, looking pretty much the same, zooming off in the same way.
And the math comment...oh yes, everyone knows the math by now. I'm sure someone, somewhere will have written a term paper on it. And again, it's TEDIOUS, because it NEVER CHANGES. A lot of people forget that EVE is an RPG...and what do you do in an RPG? You roll a DICE. You do NOT calculate (STRENGTH*2/SQRT(INTELLIGENCE) - and even if you DO, your strength and intelligence were randomly generated to start with!
Random = fun. Change = interest.
Predictable. Unchanging. Calculated. Do those words sound like something you would put on a DVD sleeve to SELL a game?
Also, in the past four years, EVE has concentrated on doing a lot more things, instead of doing one thing, but really, fantastically well. I wonder how many development hours were spent on changing escrow into contracts (including inventing all the new skills so that you needed them to continue doing something that you used to do WITHOUT them), and I wonder what results this could have given if applied to something ELSE with a bit more of a "WOW" factor
(don't cheapen this post by making comments about a game called "WOW"...you all know what I mean)
So please CCP...give me and Stemline and others like us a little of what we want without having all of us to install top of the line graphics cards. Just change stuff. Add a bit more randomness to EVERYTHING. Add a "misfire" routine to weapons. Make it so you really CAN see "Ginnungagap" from the Konoro system (I've been there, you can't) and then put in loads more other stuff on the map where the ONLY point of going there is to say "I've seen it".
It's not about making it fun...it's about making it fun AGAIN.
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