F'nog
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Posted - 2008.03.31 07:26:00 -
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Originally by: Sarakiel Answering the OP I agree with you on the conservative side.
New ships requiring more skilling should not be added to the game. Character skill progression and what new toys a player can fly is the lowest form of entertainment this game has to offer and nothing should be changed until everything the current ingame mechanics have to offer has been exhausted through the progressional development of the player run environment.
I don't agree with this at all. Adding new ships with higher skill reqs adds something to the game for people who have been playing even for a few months. Now they have a new goal, being able to fly that ship. They they have the goal of being able to use that ship. This can apply to any other side of the game, like Invention or whatever.
Adding nothing new stagnates the game. Eventually you run out of goals.
Most of these complaints seem to come from the fact that there's no level cap in Eve. So there's no way to know that you're equal to others in Eve. You can run in terror from a 70-mil SP character, but if those SPs are all in Science and Industry, plus Learning, you made a tactical mistake, because their skills are useless in a non-mining ship. Eve isn't most games, where the player can say "I'm Level X. He's Level Y (and Class Z)" and know everything they need to whether or not they can defeat their opponent, within a certain and fixed set of parameters.
Thus in Eve there's no way to know that you'll be a maxed character after a set amount of time and then you'll be as good as everyone else. I'm reminded of a motivation poster:
Level Caps: Because there's nothing like knowing you're the best there is at what you do, just like 100,000 others.
Or something like that. What I'm getting at is that even WoW knows that stagnation = death. There will always be a new expansion that adds more levels and makes all your stuff obsolete.
Luckily, Eve doesn't do this. The devs add skills, but a Rifter is just as good today as it was 5 years ago at launch. You can't say the same about most other MMOGs.
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
F'nog for Amarr Emperor. Nuff said
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