Aramith
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Posted - 2008.10.09 12:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Semkhet
1) Pure & simple financial fraud: it's CCP alone which has seeded all the ships, items, implants and whatever along with their respective stats. It's not the players who have invented all this stuff, they merely put 2 and 2 together with what got handed to them. Speed has been a viable alternative for at least 4 ( F O U R ) years down the drain. And suddenly it's not ok ? I remember you that while it's a game and all the bla bla bla, the money CCP is cashing through monthly subs is not virtual at all. By nerfing speed, CCP is voiding months of player's patient training. It's not difficult to translate the training time spent by the average nanopilot to max out navigation and support skills in real financial costs. Then multiply this by the number of players who will be affected by a nanonerf.
Umm, CCP have been going after extreme speed fittings for a long time.
When i first started playing the fitting of choice was a dual MWD Raven with torpedos. That way you fly in at your target with insane speed while launching torps so that by the time you reached the target they were hit by 12, 18, or even 24 torps at the same time. Once that became the cookie cutter fleet set-up that got nerfed as that is not how the Devs intended the players to fit thier ships and play.
Now we have the current nano-craze where nearly everything needs to be Nano-fit in order to be remotely useful. People even Nano fit Titans for crying out loud. if the previous example is anything, then again players have gravitated towards fittings that are beyond what CCP intended. Therefore they will fix it. You may call it a legitimate play style but in the grand scheme i bet CCP sees it as abuse of a game mechanic that needs to be fixed.
CCP fixing speed problems is not new. CCP fixing set-ups that are beyond the scope of what they intended is not new. If they did not care about speed or ships being ouside what was intended, we would still fit cruise missiles on any ship class, we would still have dual MWD fit ships (now with nanos too), and WCS would never have recieved thier nerfs so that everyone can go really fast and escape from any fight and the only people that would lose ships in any real quantity would be those that do not jump on the speed-***** bandwagon.
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