Ezoran DuBlaidd
Rivers Enterprises
Power Corrupts Industry's
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Posted - 2007.10.01 18:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Maharlika
Originally by: Sorja
Originally by: Nez Perces
As for the future of EVE... forget the old pre-pos days... they are gone for ever, CCP is not going to take evolutionary steps backwards just to satisfy a percentage of vets who are jaded.
I'd like to comment on that.
Maybe you have a point, but I still have to read a post from someone who loves POS wars.
On the other hand, the boards are flooded with disgruntled pilots who simply hate the 'job' POS wars imply and the never-to-be-solved lag that comes with it.
The first to say 'screw it' were 5.
They simply gave up their space to RA and went on rampage mode.
It didn't turn out too well for them, no clue about how BoB could handle the same situation, since it's now more likely than ever that they'll have to.
Sorry to repeat myself, but as an old (20+ years) pen & paper gamemaster, I've seen it countless times: once a gamemaster, in this case CCP, starts giving the players bigger and bigger weapons and magical objects, the faster his campaign goes to sh8.
Battleships should have stayed top of the line weapons, it is, IMHO, a severe mistake to introduce more of the same, only bigger.
The worst failure being DD weapons.
What CCP should do, again IMHO, is introduce new ways of fighting, refraining from giving into the escalation path.
They succeeded to some extent (interceptors, command ships, stealth bombers) but went overboard with firepower, stucking themselves in a never to be solved balance problem.
If BoB crumbles and is forced back to Empire, it will be the final demonstration that shooty-shooty PvP is dead in EVE.
Maybe you're right Nez, and EVE is not the place to be for vets anymore.
Adapt or leave I guess.
Each and every member of each and every game design team should commit this passage irrevocably to memory. Quite possibly the most lucid and thought provoking thing I've read all day, and sadly it reminds me of my own thoughts on the demise of WOW as an enjoyable game; having just taken up the hobby of Eve I can only hope that a similar fate does not await this game.
Of course Eve hasn't sunk to point of offering each new step forwards in the arms race as a number (Tier 5,6,7, etc).
Somehow game designers forget in their search for the next biggerbetterfastermorezomgpewpew item that the name of the MMO game is and always will be, SUSTAINABILITY, no matter what the seeker of more powerful items will tell you. At least in Eve your zomgpewpew crap can get blown up and your nearly invincible person can be podded into space vapor. That alone gives me hope.
two words -- space dragons
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