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TimGascoigne
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Posted - 2008.04.27 14:20:00 -
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Edited by: TimGascoigne on 27/04/2008 14:23:21
 Originally by: Patch86
It has been said time and time again:
Local is too powerful. Simply removing local would leave a gaping hole and make many professions unplayable.
Local needs to be removed and replaced with an integrated, effective, realistic, but inherently limited tool.
The Jury is still out on what exactly that replacement should be...
oh how is local to powerful? I am in 0.0 all the time and every four seconds I have to check local otherwise I will lose my ship. Seriously you have to look through the entire channel as often as an airport security desk has to scan luggage. Why do people and CCP think that it is too easy to use local it becomes a second in game job especially if you're in systems which have 40+ in them and are 0.0 trade hubs.
Getting back to the OP he mentioned that local needs to be replaced with something similar he did not specifically rule out removing local.
Although it begs the question if you're going to replace local with something similar why bother at all you just risk damaging gameplay and creating more bugs eve is complicated enough as it is. Let's just have something simple that works like local.
If there was a new tool that would mean even less space for me to watch a fight. I don't know how many people in this thread have noticed that the majority of your screen is filled up by things like overview and chat channels and ship interface. You don't actually see that much of space any more especially if you're on a 17 inch screen.
Or even better lets..... wait for it...... not change anything and just stop changing things 
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TimGascoigne
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Posted - 2008.04.27 14:27:00 -
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Originally by: Rawr Cristina
Originally by: Kale Kold
Local is essential for War! Period!
No it isn't.
War worked just fine before standings in local appeared.
yes I guess war will work just fine because you wouldn't be able to have effective scouts and the alternative is to bring all of your friends and move as a blob all the time which would cause another problem. I think you can guess what that is.
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TimGascoigne
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Posted - 2008.04.28 01:22:00 -
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Originally by: Colonel Rykef
Local is far too overpowered for war, you dont have to do anything to get all this intel which can give you a fair idea of if your going to win or not, meaning a smart FC can pick and choose his winning battles very often.
By making it harder to get intel you open the floor to more pvp, hunting people will be harder but the reward is that its much easier to sneak up on them.
For the war debate, I agree with an idea suggested earlier in the thread, stats should be made available such as 10 war targets have passed through this system in the last hour/30mins/5mins, giving you some clue as to when to start hunting for them.
dude this game has over 4000 solar systems just finding the correct system is a challenge in itself. Also all because you can gauge numbers does not mean (A) thats all of them because who knows how many reinforcements lay in wait behind the next gate. (B) the number of times I have been in a fight which we should have won and then super capitals are cyno'ed in (C) more numbers does not mean victory at all I have been in gangs of 30 people and being victorious against gangs of 50 people and of course naturally I have been in the reverse shoes and lost.
So what are you going to do replace local with something that is all but local in name...... because if you do then you open the way for a more complicated interface and bugs. And if you don't then you will have to undock in a very large blob every time to ensure you have the upper hand and this will make particularly 0.0 inaccessible to smaller organisations which corp used to be. |
TimGascoigne
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Posted - 2008.04.28 01:30:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Zoidbeirg
Have a "local" type window which you have to refresh manually.
Or a system scanner which shows you whats there but not where (also manual refresh only).
I think the code writers will be making the macro for this even before it is launched lol |
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