Sarah Flynt
Flynt Enterprises
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Posted - 2017.03.24 19:12:36 -
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I'd remove the "Gank" in the thread title because what you're describing is not exclusive to ganking but applies to all forms of multiboxing where most or all chars do the same activity. The actual problem is that many activities require very little interactivity which makes multiboxing them possible in the first place or even bearable/interresting for many people (think mining e.g.).
So, fixing them would require them to be more interactive which in turn would cost CCP a lot of subs. It would at least be risky for CCP to do that and tbh, I think it's way too late for that.
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Sarah Flynt
Flynt Enterprises
Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2017.03.25 06:17:54 -
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Ronnie Rose wrote:So far, no one has really come up with reasons on why ganking with an excessive number of mutlboxed should be left unaddressed when I can give several on why it should be addressed.
Actually you haven't provided a single reason, other than your hunch, that they may not have intended this.
I don't think you realize to what extend CCP intended multiboxing. There are mining fleets with 100 chars out there, all controlled by a single guy, full incursion fleets, also controlled by a single guy. The few ganking multiboxers with their 10-15 chars are actually small fry. CCP regularly sells their "power of 2" packages to encourage multiboxing. You are even allowed to use buddy links to sub additional accounts and reap the benefits. There are even game mechanics that require you to multibox if you want to get anything done or want adhere to one of the core principles of this game: trust noone. So it's a bit far-fetched to claim that they didn't intend this.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend multiboxing wrt. ganking or otherwise. I'm just telling you how it is. On the contrary, I think that multiboxing makes meaningful balancing of many aspects of this game impossible, as any imposed consequences for an action can be made irrelevant by adding more alts to the mix. That's why we'll never see any meaningful consequences or balance in ganking (or wardeccing e.g.) and any discussion about it is actually a collossal waste of time, as alts/multiboxing blow any consequences out of the water.
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