Jenn aSide
Shinigami Miners
ChaosTheory.
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Posted - 2017.06.07 18:42:04 -
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Teckos Pech wrote:
Your beef is with CCP, they have made various changes to the game that have made this style of play much more prevalent than in the past.
I'm going to take this opportunity to grind an axe (what? who me? no one would ever expect that!  ). This goes out to all those "CHANGE IT' people.
CCP made those changes, changes that many people asked for and agreed with when told about them, in an attempt to make the situation "better". People complained to high heavens about war decs, and CCP obliged them by making changes that forum posters were sure would curb the bad things about war decs while amplifying the good. The"Change it now" folks not only rejoiced, they looked at war deccers and basically said "haw, take that, your pitiful war dec status quo is about to CHANGE ha ha".
Turns out that those changes made things worse. Not for the War Deccers mind you, they just adapted to the new war dec rules. No, the changes made it worse for everyone else, no instead of war deccers analysing trade and system traffic and finding vulnerable corps to war dec, they just random war dec EVERYONE and how something shakes out. And it does, the past changes to war decs not only made things worse for the people who were supposed to be helped, they probably made life easier and more lucrative for the war deccers....
I always like to recall how this happened with Goons and Dominion sov and how the 'small group' anti Goon types were sooo sure that DOMINION SOV was going to kick Goons right in the pants when in fact it turned out to be such a serious boon to Goons that their empire lasted years longer than it would have under the old pre-Dominion system. Those "goons are gonna get it now" folks who were celebrating the idea of dominion helping 'the little guy) actually turned into freaking GOON SLAVES (renters).
Which leads me to the whole point of the ranting above. You simply cannot make the naive, utopian, overly optimistic "CHANGE IT" types understand that sometimes "change" is more likely to screw you than help you., and that you cannot 'change' human nature.
Every time someone tries to explain to the change crowd that it won't work the way they think it will ( that the most probable outcome is that everyone BUT the targeted people will get screwed if the crack pot idea they)hold onto ever comes to fruition), you get the exact same responses.
"You are just afraid of change"
"You just want to maintain the status quo because you benefit from it"
"you hate the new players who will flood the game when the big change to 'X" (X being the bad/evil thing,. war decs, ganking, cloaky camping, scams, awoxxing, etc etc) happens"
At this point I've learned to just let it happen for the most part, because while I don't like a lot of what CCP is doing with EVE, I've learned that it is at least enjoyable to watch the "change it!" crowd get screwed over when CCP gives them the exact thing they were asking for...  |