Eran Laude
Gallente
The Aduro Protocol
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Posted - 2008.08.08 06:55:00 -
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I'm a carebear with teeth, of that I have absolutely no doubt. I enjoy PvE as well as PvP and do the occasional spot of contract hauling [not AFK and taking risks where necessary]. I am not concerned too much about the suicide ganking fix/nerf/whatever you make of it, I think it was definitely necessary in some respects, particularly insurance, and while it will make my job harder as a contract hauler as AFK idiots now have less to fear whilst actual players will lose out on more lucrative contracts, I generally agree with the two proposed nerfs of nanos and suicide ganking and the proposed focusing of wars into objective-based wars.
However, I do feel that the player for whom PvP is a staple has been hit too hard. There are many things broken about PvP already, and while ganking and nanos were problems and it's nice to have them fixed, there are much more pressing issues. Now that we have had 3 successive feature announcements inside of a month which have many of the community up in arms, could bounties be fixed please? Bounties are incredibly lucrative in many cases, are a 100% player-driven market with huge opportunities to profit and in just about every case the target is a low-sec or null-sec resident. Surely, by fixing bounties [and be sure on this the C&P forums have come up with so many good ideas on the issue that it is by no means a herculean effort to fix it, they've basically done it for you] and encouraging people to move out to low-sec hunting for prey, you'd appease profiteers [i.e. those people like me who balance PvP and PvE for profit] and pirates alike. Profiteers have a new way of making money, a fun, PvP-orientated way which directly ties in to piracy by it's very nature. Low-sec pirates who haven't moved into suicide ganking get more targets, and finally, such a cool profession may even serve to attract people into EVE.
I'm not going to start whining about the nerfs/patches/fixes/etc. but every nerf has to be followed by a fix, so fix bounties? There has never been a better time!
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