Spoon Thumb
Paladin Imperium
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.03 16:14:00 -
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Having not read the other 17 pages of replies,
I've considered this idea before. It'd fit a lot closer with what people's preconceptions are of any game. What other game can you be blown up in straight away after you start?
If you told newbies the truth, "that you're at risk soon as you undock" they would never undock and no one would play the game.
However, such a change would require a major rethink about the way security works in Eve:
For example, if you made the 100% safe newbie island and then had the rest of Eve as low sec, the pace of the game would be much slower, you'd have to make it much easier for people to move around and avoid gatecamps.
You'd have to disincentive people from going back to the newbie zone (maybe even ban them from returning).
There would also have to be a lot more tools to help casual players and help anti-pirates, or those who want to increase security (stuff like being able to take control of gate guns or become official local militias / police enforcers, market controls / embargo's etc, lots of the sorts of things that 0.0 players have to defend their own space and make it secure would have to be transported to low sec).
I think though, what wkould happen is the happy gank crowd wouldn't like it because atm the emphasis is on a very hands off approach by concord, where security is in the hands of the players and the mechanics are on the pirates side. If there were no secuirty and pvp zone almost anywhere, it'd have to be the other way round
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Spoon Thumb
Paladin Imperium
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.05 14:08:00 -
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 Originally by: Malcanis
Originally by: Spoon Thumb
Having not read the other 17 pages of replies,
I've considered this idea before. It'd fit a lot closer with what people's preconceptions are of any game. What other game can you be blown up in straight away after you start?
If you told newbies the truth, "that you're at risk soon as you undock" they would never undock and no one would play the game.
So did you join the game under false pretences?
No, funnily enough I joined it with all the preconceptions of single player games. Was my first MMO
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People like that don't have friends just temporary common interests.
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