ghosttr
Amarr
ARK-CORP
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.18 02:17:00 -
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Well it i strange that the proposition to remove local was only brought up once people started to discuss the problems with cloaking.
First Sijira started trying to use straw man arguments to attempt to legitimize the current power of cloaking devices. 'A cloak should net be detectable, just due to the fact that indeed it is a cloak', this didnt work and you can see many examples of this in the thread he linked in a earlier post. After that failed he started to push his nerf-local campaign, which when argued against he sets up keeping the cloak as it is as a false compromise, if someone doesnt argue against him (I have gotten tired of his ramblings and unfortunately dont take the bait and reply to his posts) he uses proof by assertion, where he will keep restating his claims. In these threads he will often posts with alts creating a bandwagon fallacy, which leads people to believe he is correct because it looks like alot of other people also support him.
The argument against cloaks has always revolved around the ability of the device to provide a situation where complete safety can be obtained. This is the main issue, especially so when the device is used to provide this protection to people who may not be actively playing the game, and using the time that they are not physically at the keyboard to gain an effect on the people playing in the area where the cloaker has decided to go afk.
CCP addressed the problem and started making chages that would fix this on the test server, unfortunately several days after some changes became available on the test server the changes were removed due to the feature freeze. A fix was promised to happen after the patch sometime before rev3.
As far as local goes, Sijira has assumed & stated many times that CCP wants local removed. But there have yet to be any official announcements made by CCP that would even hint to a change in the system. Also beginning with revelations many upgrades were made to the local chat, including the ability to easily determine friend from foe without having to view each players character information sheet.
I believe that nobody should believe any assumption made by players about the intentions of CCP. And that CCP should follow their own game design ideas, and only change things when they see problems to their overall design plan.
CCP has made many fixes to game mechanics in the past to aspects of the game where unintended results were produced. The most recent example being the nanophoon, other examples include stacking of weapons upgrades, dual microwarpdrives, & alpha strike to name a few.
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Do not read this thread!!!
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