Kilostream
Caldari
Roving Guns Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.11.25 01:35:00 -
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Hmmm,
The more I think about this the more confused I get about what I actually think about it!!!
I think aside from the many and varied valid points raised so far in this thread, the main fundamental paradox with eve, for me, revolves around one thing, and one thing only - Lag.
CCP has stated time and again that there should be no such thing as a solo pwnmobile which, in itself is laudable enough.
However, to support this stance they have deliberately and meticulously brought about the situation where we all need to buddy up and go out as groups to pwn, because you can't really expect to go out solo and pwn much at all, besides the odd stoned NPCer.
Noble though this careful perparation is, lag is undoing all the good work - the moment we have a fleet (and comparable enemy fleet) of 10 or so numbers, the lag begins.
Multiply the figures out to an alliance-scale fleetfight and you have a completely unplayable game (right when you need it to be it's most playable!)
I sympathise with CCP, I cannot even begin to imagine the hassles they must have to overcome to bring us this unsharded virtual universe but, even using the awesome hardware they are currently employing, the lag in a multi-player situation is still pretty horrible (if you have never been in a fleetfight, go to Jita and fly around trying to buy stuff - you will get a flavour of the experience, even if you don't get a lossmail flash up in your mailbox whilst still flying the ship concerned around in space!!!)
I'm not really sure where I'm going with this train of thought, but i think it's somewhere along the lines that, until lag is a thing of the past, and we can form gangs as big as we like with impunity, I think we should be cut a bit of slack on the nerfs particularly on the ships and modules favoured by the solo pvp-ers, because often times going out solo is your best chance to get some lag-free pvp gameplay.
And definitely cut the walking in stations crap.
Unless it has streetfighteresque sub-games where we can challenge other pod pilots to fisticuffs duels!!!
If that can happen, I'm all for it!
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