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Letouk Mernel
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Posted - 2008.06.04 20:01:00 -
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What do you think? Of course it's gonna be a one-way street.
Currently, the way factions work, you can keep your corp factions, but if you have, say, +8 with Caldari Navy but -5 with Caldari State, the empire faction overrides your corp standings and all Navy agents stop talking to you.
Also, the way the factions are designed, some of them it's impossible to climb out of the Abyss from. Most people who have lost Gallente or Minmatar factions can do a round-about route via Sisters of EVE or whatnot, but not every faction has that option open.
CCP has said nothing about looking at the factions themselves and making sure that you can climb out from -10 for ANY faction, however difficult that is. No, the situation seems to be that once you're below -5, that's it, bye bye.
FW is only a carrot / shiney, in a way, to get people to blow up their factions in order to see pretty explosions.
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Murtank
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Posted - 2008.06.04 22:40:00 -
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I love that Caldari mimics the titles for the real life Army. Why Army ranks over Naval ranks though?
Brigadier General should be Rear Admiral or Vice Admiral.
Also, any thought about switching Wing Commander with Strike Commander? To me, a Strike Commander seems more suiting for a leader of a small squad penetrating enemy territory, whereas a Wing Commander seems like someone who would be back at the office planning general strategy
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DReadEyE
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Posted - 2008.06.06 19:47:00 -
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Edited by: DReadEyE on 06/06/2008 19:55:08
Moved
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Maya Rin
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Posted - 2008.06.07 00:12:00 -
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Oooh, I seem to remember a while back the idea of corp logos being painted on specific places on ships in the future. Might we also see these insignias being applied in other Places perhaps.. someday.
I'm not sure why people are worried about things being "level restricted". It's not like eve doesn't contain a certain amount of grind anyway, just to get the iskies or LPs or Tags to pay for stuff. Furthermore it makes the game more attractive to other different kinds of players, hence you end up with more people to pew pew with. Then there's the fact that the entire rest of the game has none of this level restricted stuff, even if they implement it for faction warfare, so it's not like they're ruining the game you love, even if you can't stand the thought of having something slightly different in it. And then there's the fact that it's not exactly like you can just sign up with the best agent of a corporation straight away. you have to "grind" through that corporation or that faction before you can get them. You still have to spend time working on your standing, like you have to for the faction warfare ranks. Compared to a lot of the skills the time it'll take to rise in ranks is likely to be not that extreme. Lastly the rank system and potentially the rank-restricted material is clearly designed as a method of reward to those who might otherwise not engage in PVP, but would enjoy it even if they hadn't had a good experience of it before hand.
So it's not about doom and gloom, it's like the rest of the faction warfare expansion, it's about making more of the game accessible to more people, so that everyone can have a better time, not so the hardcore players or some noobs feel left out cos they happen to not have got the particular requirements for something. No doubt it won't take too long before there will be contracts available for the restricted stuff. I mean there's nothing stopping a guy who's never worked for the Amarr from getting a Navy Apoc, if they have the cash for it. I see no difference here in basic phylosiphy than before.
Maya
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GreenYoshi
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Posted - 2008.06.09 11:55:00 -
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To start, another amusing blog. Nice work, hippies. You deserve all the tofu you can eat.
As far as I'm concerned though, the titles and ranks seem fine to me. From a roleplaying aspect, people must remember that Eve is set tens of thousands of years in the future, and that it is more than possible for a list of rankings to get mixed up during the rise and fall of several civilisations. Navy officers holding seemingly army-like ranks? Not too big a deal. On that note, though, it will be interesting to see how CCP prevents every noob with a rookie ship from becoming a Bloody Fist of Matar (<- please bring this one back!!!). Empyrean Age will be a balancing act of making sure that we're not WoWed into grinding 18 hours a day for bonuses (economic or otherwise), and giving meaningful use to FW. As far as I've seen FW PvP is supposed to be its own reward. Is it profitable? Will there be any money to be made in it that will not make the game a grind-fest? If not, you won't likely see a whole bunch of carebears lining up to lose their hard-mined fortune by getting blown up for no incentive.
This being said, I do plan to join up and kill as many Ammarians as my IP will allow. FW warfare sounds like a great idea, as long as it is not reduced to grinding for meaningless standings. Basing the ranks on actual accomplishments sounds good, as well as lp reward. Cheers to the think tanks behind that.
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Xtho
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Posted - 2008.06.10 02:05:00 -
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ditto
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Green Aen
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Posted - 2008.06.24 12:15:00 -
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^^ can't see the ranks anymore 
and i want bigger ranks pictures ingame
yarrr
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Zathi Shaitan
Minmatar
Illiteracy Combatants
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Posted - 2008.06.27 22:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Chainsaw Plankton
but i want to be a bloody fist of matar
"matar" means "to kill" in Portuguese (and Spanish, i think), so... we already got enough racist, xenophobic and homophobic comments on the forums, no need to take them ingame...
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Mad McMad
Gallente
The Copernicus Institute
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Posted - 2008.06.27 23:33:00 -
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graphics links seem to be broken
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Solomunio Kzenig
Amarr
SPORADIC MOVEMENT
The Gurlstas Associates
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Posted - 2008.06.28 07:32:00 -
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Originally by: Mad McMad
graphics links seem to be broken
Yup same here. Also a quick question? when/if ambulation comes, will our avatars be able to display ranks/medals etc. (not sure if this has been covered allready).
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ISD BH Garik Michaels
ISD BH
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Posted - 2008.06.29 16:15:00 -
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Originally by: Mad McMad
graphics links seem to be broken
They are back now.
Email US: contact[at]eve-bh[dot]net |
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Spiteful Soul
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2008.07.02 18:07:00 -
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Gone again...
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Amira Silvermist
24th Providence Templar Division
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Posted - 2008.07.04 17:25:00 -
[133]
Originally by: Zathi Shaitan
"matar" means "to kill" in Portuguese (and Spanish, i think), so... we already got enough racist, xenophobic and homophobic comments on the forums, no need to take them ingame...
So it sounds like "The bloody fist of killing" in Portuguese?
What is racist/xenophobic/homophobic about that?
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