Amastat
Caldari
Omegatech
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Posted - 2008.05.18 20:52:00 -
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Edited by: Amastat on 18/05/2008 20:54:23
Edited by: Amastat on 18/05/2008 20:52:59
Your both idiots and are completely off.
No local would remove chat, and help with lag a bit - but that's really the only useful thing about it really.
The bad stuff is that you can't see who all is in the same system, so that makes it less a convince for BOTH the prey and the hunter. The hunter's going to have a harder time even realizing who's in local, and make a lot more effort with the scanner. While the prey is more at risk of being jumped without even seeing it coming.
You have no way of telling if any allied groups are nearby, so it creates a pretty bad communications problem. You also have no idea who you are scanning down is friend or foe, talk about a waste of time looking for a red to kill. This would also make the abilitiy for 0.0 alliances to even defend their own territory impossible, it's already hard enough for a alliance to even remotly secure most of their territory.
Intel networks would be rendered useless.
No capital pilot can navigate through 0.0 or low sec and have a stable frame of mind. This would kill off a lot of capitals - most people would not be willing to risk that much ISK because local was removed and it was too dangerous. The demand would crash and no producers would want to get into the capital market ever again.
This probably would make a lot of people not want to even PvP in general anymore - which would completely devastate the markets.
There would really be no safe place, even in dock - only cloaking. Everytime you undock, you have no idea if your being camped or not.
This list could go on for another 5 threads if I wanted to spend that kinda time.
If the vast majority of the forums thinks that local can be removed without any consequences, well - must be the vocal majority, because we are having a mass collection of idiots.
The only way it could work is if local was removed and something else was put in it's place - like a better system scanner - however it would be incredibly annoying having to spam your scanner button 24-7, it's more work than play if thats the case.
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