Liquid Vision
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.07.21 10:03:00 -
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Edited by: Liquid Vision on 21/07/2007 10:09:49
I read Jade's long winded diatribe on SHC and just laughed my ass off. Yes, POS spam and knocking down POS sucks. No one is arguing that point. However, it's the only reasonable way to make this game anything other than a FPS in space. If we did like Jade wanted there would be no point to doing anything other than logging on, shooting people, and then mining/ratting to get more ships. Nobody would get together to try and create anything, because what would be the point? You'd just lose it immediately.
The new sov system seems like it's going to make people hard to uproot from 0.0 which goes a long way towards helping out the "little guy" which is what Jade seems to be about, right? You put a lot of work into building yourself a niche in 0.0 space and calling it home and this keeps the bully from pushing you out easily, which is like it should be. There's still a TON of risk in this game and comparing it to WOW or any other MMORPG is just asinine.
It seems to me like Jade is whining because it would actually take some thought and effort on his/her part to carve out a chunk of 0.0 and hold onto it. If he/she is so ****ed off about the entire system, welp, be a 1337 ganking pirate group or whatever that bases out of the NPC regions like Interdiction or something. Quit telling the majority of the other players how to play the game and what they should and shouldn't like. Attention *****s ftl.
Besides, w/o desyncs and the massive lag the fleet battles and stuff going on down South would be EPIC. If CCP fixes that then there's really nothing wrong with the system other than that it has a tiny bit of logistics and grinding built in. Which, of course, any MMORPG worth its salt will have. If you want to have everything on easy street with no effort go play Battlefield or some other first person shooter. Fairly simple.
EDIT: Also, why should outposts be destroyable AT THIS POINT IN TIME? The vast majority of 0.0 is still a wasteland. You can go 50 jumps and never hit a station. When that changes. . .when there are conquerable stations every 4-5 jumps. . .then naturally I'd see CCP changing it to where you could knock them down. Really tho, what's the point in that now? If you were space invaders for real would you knock down the only docking point for 500 ly around? Doubtful.
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