
Phoebus Athenian
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.28 16:10:00 -
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Coming back from having quit eve for a while. The reasons lie within the really bad player-gm interaction. The lack of proper refunds given the game difficulty and buggy/difficult user interface.
So I've been playing GuildWars amongst other things for the simple reason that it is easy to get into pvp. Its easy to learn about the game without spending ages - but sure it is a different game.
First off, we need to make small pvp possible, outside of big gangs and blobs. 1 vs camp, 1 vs blob, 1 vs gank are all not fair - sure they're kills but it also kills people's interest. We can't really take them off the game, but we should figure out more ways for people to have fun with their ships, 1v1 2v2 3v3 and so on. Maybe an organized dueling "mode" place, you name it. Every empire system should have one, just for entertainment. Even with free ships to pvp in (cheap tech 1 fun?).
Secondly, why can't you implement a way to automatically buy the items you need for a said "build" and fit them to your ship? You can then have a template system for fittings, and people could exchange them. I would recommend making a GW account just to learn a few things about the ease of these templates. The amount of time it takes to PREPARE to have fun in eve is simply ridiculous, we need to reduce that.
I would also like to see general UI improvements, makings things more intuitive and safe from common mistakes. I've lost 3 clone sets because I couldn't figure out how this system works. It wasn't obviously documented anywhere - should people go asking for information? No, in my opinion information should be intelligently be presented to the user through the interface.
I may be adding more to this, other similar ideas are welcome in this thread. Please keep it to useful.
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Phoebus Athenian
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.06 20:43:00 -
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Edited by: Phoebus Athenian on 06/09/2008 20:45:30 Nice to see some positive feedback along the clueless and caustic usual. I'm still turned off from eve. So I'll wait it out for now. But it would be nice to see those things implemented anyway.
And someone should take that UI bug report seriously and start working on it as well.
Lets get more hype on the templates idea, and then maybe I'll LOG IN again! haha >.<
Backdaft, sorry for the short response but just think about it. Why should a game make you do more work than some people's actual work?
From the 1 hour I invest, I want 1 hour of entertainment. Rather than 3 hours of preparation for 5 minutes of entertainment (between waiting times). ---
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