Bernard Ireland
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.07.31 07:28:00 -
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Have been playing this great game for some years now and have never felt the need to make any comments until now... Some (Hopefully!) constructive criticism coming up... 
Changes to Khanid: I, like many others respect the felt need for new options when it come to choosing ships and setups and also the evidently with spread opinion that Amarr are underpowered BUT why not "just" put new ships or versions of older vessels into the game? Even an mk2 of an existing ship with different setup with a different focus seem better to me then letting millions of ep go to waste for Amarr gun lovers. If this kind of thing happened to Caldari, turning my beloved Raven into a gunboat I can only start to imagine the kind of language that would be used! Adapt yes, of course, but still... Also, just think of all the fun balancing another ship will result in (!) 
NOS changes (Well, this kind of changes in general): My personal opinion is that it¦s better to either slightly change the effect of equipment (But normally avoid changing the cpu and grid needed) OR even better produce some sort of countermeasures then to drastically change how things work both as this to me seem highly unrealistic (Don¦t think that a game must be realistic but it¦s always nice if it appears to be... Don¦t like the idea of Khanid using their magic wands to make drastic changes to existing ship classes and ships!) AND more importantly ruins players ability to plan ahead as equipment that at one point seem useful doesn¦t only get less useful, it gets totally changed!
I have the deepest respect for your work and I¦m confident that the important work to improve the game will continue and bring changes that are needed, good or less good, popular among everyone or not BUT my opinion is that it¦s better to make several small changes then a few drastic ones, that all changes should have a seemingly logic reason and that it¦s important not to limit the players ability to plan and evolve with some degree of trust in the relative stability of the game world and its mechanisms... Keep up the good work! 
Well, that¦s just my opinion... |