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Solstice Project
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Posted - 2012.01.26 12:58:00 -
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Making stuff sound less interesting sure in hell
will attract people... *rollseyes*
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Posted - 2012.01.26 13:06:00 -
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CCP Greyscale wrote:The less time you have to spend fighting the game, the more time you have left over to play it. Any simplification which increases the amount of time players can be interacting with each other, while keeping the interaction sufficiently interesting, is a good simplification.
I may be ripping this out of context, but that block of text reflects a mindset
which is a pure one way track down to zero. Making things sound less interesting aka ...
... boring, common, usual, dull, etc ... will not help the cause.
You're removing feeling from the game. As stupid as it may sound for people who uber-believe in logic,
(and thus have no clue what i'm talking about anyway)
an awesomely named mod (like the Y-T and the Y-S) promotes feelings towards the ship,
which is what you want. It bonds and binds. The value of a mod doesn't do that at all,
but having stuff that sounds awesome does.
Any noob that can use modules that sound "cool" will go "wow that sounds cool!".
Which is a simplification of the processes that happen everywhere in the world,
all day long, just because things have names that appeal.
Now think about what you did.
You are removing emotions from the game.
Noobs!
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Posted - 2012.01.26 13:10:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Solstice Project wrote:Making stuff sound less interesting sure in hell
will attract people... *rollseyes* It certainly won't drive them away.
Why do you believe that to be true ?
And how does your response actually relate to my comment,
except that it didn't, because i was talking about new people ?
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Posted - 2012.01.26 13:13:00 -
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CCP Greyscale wrote:That's a fair point, and it's something that our writers are wrestling with. There was a lot of discussion about this change, trust me 
Well, i'll keep an eye on it. :)
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Posted - 2012.01.26 13:31:00 -
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Soma Khan wrote:DeLaBu wrote:Yes, CCP please bring back the random complex names. In fact, use a random character generator to rename everything to make it even more complex. Oh, and make it so that our market order values must be prime numbers. THAT should weed out those non-math-wiz WOW mouthbreathers. Removing complexity that adds very little or nothing to gameplay is NOT dumbing down the game  why do the posts from the simplification proponents reek of inferiority complex?
The guy you quoted has no idea of how important cool names are.
Check out this car ...
... and now remove it's name and give it a more generic one.
It's not "simplification" as well as it's not "dumbing down".
The proper words to describe the process are "removing emotion" or "making generic".
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Posted - 2012.01.26 13:47:00 -
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I'thari wrote:[quote=CCP Greyscale]Usability isn't for stupid people, it's for everyone. Again, we want to be reducing the effort players need to make to understand the information we're presenting, so that they have more time to think about the decisions they're making based on that information. Making good decisions should be hard. Reading the UI, or understanding what the hell a given module does, should be easy. There's no good excuse for a multiplayer game being obtuse.
"... multiplayer game being obtuse."
So i had to look up the meaning of "obtuse", as i'm not a native english speaker
and as i read what it means i thought ...
"but that's EXACTLY what you're doing!!"
obtuse ... abgestumpft, also translates to blunt.
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Posted - 2012.01.26 19:22:00 -
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Dear CCP GreyScale,
i'll pay one hundred (100, european) bucks via bank transfer or by buying PLEX
if you put a name of my choosing onto the former Y-T and hundred (100) more
one month after that for it's brother, the Y-S.
Consider it. :)
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Posted - 2012.01.26 21:15:00 -
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Barakkus wrote:Yeah but now I don't have to remember where to put the damn dash in Y-T8, I always got that messed up.
The old names were just complication for complication sake, <3 the new names.
No offense, seriously, but this reads as a confession of failure,
if you're not able to remember this simply, little thing ...
It takes like five seconds of conscious thinking to implant the right order into memory ...
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Posted - 2012.01.26 23:46:00 -
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Are you guys out of your minds ?
Talking about "being forced" and "usability" and whatever.
Barrakus, you lame ass are using stupid excuses for not being willing/able
to use your brains for damn FIVE seconds ! One conscious thought !
Do you wonder why people everywhere get more and more stupid ?
The reason for this, you can find easily !
You only have to look into the mirror !
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