CaosSpinner
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Posted - 2007.05.29 06:12:00 -
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Ok after reading most of the post (first 3 pages and last 3) there are a couple of things to clear up.
1. To the posters that state that having the gm/devs play helps stop cheating, scams, exploits etc....
What game are you playing? CCP wants all those things in game to the point that they encourage it. Lie, steal, cheat, kill all without repercussions, thats EVE.
2. To all the posters that said, so what this was just one incident.
You must be new, this is SOP (Standard opperating Procedure) for CCP, they (DEV/GM) have been doing this sort of thing from gold. Learn the history of the game, it will help your point next time you post.
3. To all those that say, "But they have to play to help make the game better"
Keep in mind that the head developer went on record as stating that he (and the major devs) have been in 0.0 for years and was actually shocked to hear that players (read that paying customers) not only did not go to low sec or 0.0 but had no intrest in going there. I am going to repeat this because it is important. The top DEVs are shocked that players do not want to be ganked.
Now think about that for a sec. How good a job do you think you will do developing a balanced game if you can not conceive that most players do not want to be your entertainment? It is because the DEVs/GMs are in the 0.0 aliances that the Prat welfare program was started in late 03. Look at the sec rating scheem, does it not strike you as kind odd? This is because originaly the game was ballanced, you did have 1.0 to 0.1 security instead of the 1.0-0.5 as it is now, but what changed it? The answer is the same as the Jobe fiasco (those players old enough to remember) the DEVs/GMs had started playing and giving T2 items to their corps and allies.
One last thing, do the DEVS/GMs need to play to make EVE better? NO, they need to test thing but they should not play as Devs/GMs because playing narrows the scope of their experience. Why is macros not a prob to the Devs/gms? Well if they have been in 0.0 for the last 4 years they have not seen many have they. Why move all the ore out to 0.0 and not have the 5 races go after it, that makes no sense until you understand that the Devs/Gms are all in 0.0 so they are giving them selves all the toys and ignoring logic, gameplay, balance and all else. basicly they are sitting in the sand box and pulling everything to their side then saying, the rest of you need to come here because im bord and need something to kill.
No the Devs do not need to play to do their jobs, they do need to test but testing in god mode is not actually testing.
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