Nuyan Zahedi
Amarr
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2008.04.26 15:05:00 -
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This is all a bit too skeptical for my taste. And comparing it with WoW battlegrounds goes way too far.
It is however indeed probably a controlled form of PvP, that may go a little bit against the player-driven sandbox idea, but you've got to be realistic. When CCP made Eve Online they somehow decided to throw 4 major Empires (+ an awful lot more smaller factions) in the backstory of their game, perhaps they shouldn't have, because if they wouldn't EVE could've become a truly fully player-driven sandbox game.
Thing is that we're stuck with 4 major NPC Empires that supposedly have an enormous influence on the universe. Now what would you want CCP to do with that? Do like all the other MMO developers out there and keep it a static world where the storyline doesn't progress and where was as players can completely ignore all the storyline? I'd applaud CCP for actually progressing the storyline with some major events that are supported by implemented game-mechanics.
Actually letting players have an influence on what The Empires control and what not is already incredibly ambitious. And you've got to be realistic, epic bombardments and huge npc fleets dynamically moving around and conquering places is (probably) impossible to implement and that wouldn't be all that player-driven.
And if all FW would be is just a massive war-dec implementation that gives players a lot of targets you can shoot at with actually a good reason (besides doing it just for fun and forum-bragging which is mostly the reason for pvp action at the moment), I'd already be very happy with it. Missions/Standings-grind make me frown a bit as well, but a lot of people seem to like that playstyle and this could be the much needed fix for the currently flawed risk vs reward between high-sec and low-sec.
So lets not be too cynical, I do hope for you and those who don't want to side with any NPC faction that there'll be a way to join all the combat and shoot at the involved pilots. What about a way to join the massive war-dec without backing up a NPC faction and without any standings gain, CCP?
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