Hirokinai
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Posted - 2012.03.30 20:15:00 -
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Well this was all fun and enlightening. If you expected this to last, that was kind of silly. I love mah pvp and blowing up hulks and freighters as much as the next guy, but this was so batently imbalanced it was heatscratching.
Yes, the inventor came up with an ingenious way of killing things with relatively low risk/reward margins. Yes it was fun for a few days. However the imbalance it creates is blatently obvious. CCP gave freighters a shitton of hp for a reason, and that was to make them extremely difficult to kill in highsec, and i'm PRETTY sure being able to solo a freighter outside of wardecs etc. is not something that is "working as intended".
It definitely would affect the overall health of the game, and start making freighters obsolete. You can only escort so many freighters, and you definitely cannot escort freighter alts in NPC corps. Alot of people are very short-sighted. They dont see beyond the "halp, i wants to be space outlaw pewpew all things make monay", but dont realize that if you took away a huge chunk of freighter industry, their pew pew is going to start being impossible to fund. CCP definitely cares more about the overall health of the game, while trying to please as many as they can, but they can't hit ALL the marks, especially if one of those marks creates an unintended imbalance.
I applaud the inventor of the tornado boomerang and admire his genious. But despite this, the argument that "this takes skill" is rather silly in light of the fact that it still works around one of the rules CCP intended. Its like saying con-artists/white-collar criminals/etc. should be allowed because they're amazingly smart and what they do takes a whole lot of skill.
In the end, big props to the creator of this little workaround, very good work on your solo/duo freighter kills. However, CCP made the obvious and probably the correct choice in this matter. They can't please everyone, especially if doing so would destroy the overall health of their game.
In the meantime, enjoy the game, and take heart at the fact that CCP lS trying. They didn't have to abandon a project (incarna) they'd been devoted to for years, issue formal apologies, and do a complete 360 turnaround and focus on making this game better because their players were screaming at them to do so. Yeah they ****** up, but they owned up to their mistakes and are at the very least trying.
Thank you for reading my wall of text. Fly safe! |