
Martineth
Sihars Little Industries
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Posted - 2012.03.08 22:41:00 -
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CCP is about to make one of the most common mistakes that game developers on MMO's are doing, but unike a handflull of them they think they ought too cause time has cought up with them. Rebalancing ships my big shiny greek Buttweiser.
You find cyclones scythe's desies and the lot obsolete? Yes they are. But they are part of a history that served us and served us well. Eve has a privillege only a handfull of MMO's has ever had. It matured, so did its content and so do its players. There is no need to rebalance an old cyclone to give it some more use. Its time is over, let people fly it like an old car model is driven.
We got the right to preserve what is a nearly 10 year history. Out with new Tiers and let us choose what we like.
Dont take my word cause i say it, HILMAR did as well. In last or overlast fanfest a player asked him if it is possible to make eve items more basic and condensed cause he was against the plethora of items in game. Hilmar replied that the tools are given for players to use and we choose-vote for out items by choosing or neglecting an item. True sandbox.
But.... you want to give old hulls a new polish right? OK here it is how i think it should be done.
e.g, a Cyclone. Players should have the right to take the basic hull and send it over to an NPC corporation that will enchance it slightly on certain fileds. Brutors would give it some more gunpower. Creodron some more drone cababilities. Sisters of EvE some more cargo etc. Make some of these echancements stackable up to a degree, make the ship unsellable and make it unique in a way. Make it smt like a new F16 block 52 adv. Same hull as the 1976 F16 but with new capabilities. Good and better cyclone but under no circumstance a better ship then a tier 2 or tier 3 ship. Its time has passed.
If we dont respect the fact that in our universe old and obsolete ships are rare yet here to show to new players how it was in the good old days we miss th chance to point out a simple fact that no other game in my humble opinion can with the same degree.
To show to new players we got roots, we got history and by stickign around you are participating into a better eve. So lets roll out these tier 4 BC's and tier 2 desies and let the older models become obslete. It is NOT a condition. It is a rightfully earned privillege of Ageing. Let them age with grace and respect them by letting them as they are.
They served, and served us well. |