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Devian 666
Igneus Auctorita
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.11.17 05:24:00 -
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Edited by: Devian 666 on 17/11/2007 05:25:36
 Originally by: GM Nova
Ave, Curzon Dax
I hate to rain on your parade. In essence I like your idea. More than that, I like your williness to find a solution. The problem with this idea is that by allowing players to automatically block trial players, these new players who are actually trying the game are in danger of missing out on one of the most important aspect of the game, the community. The social network which has eveolved is immensly valuable and it could be harmfull to allow new players to be blocked from it in any way.
Actually trial account players will not be missing out on anything. The signal to noise ratio is around 1 to 1000. I believe I have had one trial player contact me with a genuine questions. The remainder is isk selling spam. For every spam I get I generate a petition. This is wasting my time and distracts me from playing the game that I am paying for.
All new player on trial accounts have access to npc corp chat and help channel chat. Having the option to block them will not result in trial players being unable to communicate with the community as they already have the two most critical channels available to them. Anyone using those channels can uncheck the trial account blocking option. So your statement is factually incorrect and endorses isk selling spam to the community. To state that it will harm new players is disrespectful to the playerbase.
Overnerfing creates unbalanced ship builds. Stop overnerfing! |
Devian 666
Igneus Auctorita
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.11.17 06:45:00 -
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Originally by: Synseer
THis is an awesome idea but it could be even better...
I traveled through some l4 mission systems and was just shocked and awed by the number of farmer alts with names like "adffasd" and "opirutioe" farming missions in ravens, all in State War Academy or in Perkone.
To get rid of these farmers in one fell swoop would be simply to allow players to wardec them. But what about the true newbs?
Simple. After say a month or 2 months, all starter NPC corps kick players into a NPC corporation that player corps are able to wardec.
The only issue with that is a lot of new players are scared and intimidated by the CCP warning messages and war dec mechanics.
While all of this stuff is understood by experienced players it's rather confusing for new players.
By the majority of players blocking out trial accounts the isk sellers would have to subscribe and once they get banned it'll be costing them around 200m isk in gtc for every seller they lose. This also creates an audit trail for the GMs that investigate isk sellers, unless they use stolen credit card details which in that case can be turned over to the authories (assuming they live in a country that cares).
Overnerfing creates unbalanced ship builds. Stop overnerfing! |
Devian 666
Igneus Auctorita
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.11.19 05:42:00 -
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Originally by: Snake Doctor
:( not that im not willing to help anymore, but its too hard to read all of these threads, let alone 3 pages of one I've managed to miss.
Can someone sum this up for me? Is there anything MacroIntel can do? We do have our own forums set up, you know....
Call me lazy if you must. I just can't keep up with it all. See the recruitment post if you think you can help. We need it.
Unfortunately it's mostly mechanics under the hood. However, educating people about configuring CSPA charges would help.
I usually put it on allow all because "unfortunately" I end up working with a lot of people in many alliances.
There was one occassion where I was contacted by evemail where I'd seen the offending pilot at the gate in a hauler. Needless to say one petition later that pilot would have been banned.
We almost won.
[ 2007.11.17 08:26:19 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 150mm Railgun II places an excellent hit on Shrike [EVOL]<BOB>(Avatar), inflicting 41.4 damage. |
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