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Dex Nederland
Caldari Lai Dai Infinity Systems
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Posted - 2008.10.18 17:39:00 -
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Quiet a bit of focus on CVA & U'K here; a bit disappointing from my view since you both have been interacting with each other for 5 years and creating your own storyline without the aid of CCP.
A bit of this discussion is going on over at Chatsubo as well, here is the thing. Assume Factional Warfare mechanics didn't exist and the storyline was progressed as presented to date. What then?
Yoshito Sanders said on Chatsubo that all of the story part is background.
Does U'K OOC recognize that CVA is Empire loyalist attempting to add a new province to the Empire with the Empire's laws and religion?
Has the storyline/PF ever said that Providence is outside the realm of reclaiming? I thought there was a regional description that described it as a region the Empire was planning to colonize before the Minmatar revolution. Oddly enough Pure Blind has a similar description just for the Caldari, earmarked to be the Fourth District.
I think almost every RP organization has struggled with its place in the 'new world'. Some have given up, others continue on.
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Dex Nederland
Caldari Lai Dai Infinity Systems
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Posted - 2008.10.21 05:50:00 -
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Originally by: CCP RyanD
Originally by: Misanth
I always wondered why CCP decided to make FW a "pvp introduction"-area, since well..
When we looked at our market research, and the cancellation texts left by exiting players, one of the largest areas we saw to improve EVE was to make it easier to engage in consensual PvP.
We also see Alliance Warfare in 0.0 space as the biggest and most valuable difference between EVE and every other MMO on the market - a truly persistent player-organized nation building experience.
Our hope is that FW will let people fight more easily and that they learn how to be good at it. Our fear is that FW could replace some of what makes the 0.0 game so incredible. And we have a long list of potential abusive tactics that Alliances could use to disrupt FW, even with all sorts of RP restraints placed on them. So we are cautiously evolving FW by making a lot of observations and then thinking about ways to achieve our goals without breaking what is already so great about EVE.
RyanD
So why bother with a story change, a book, or any background at all?
One of the few reasons the people in this thread; the ones leaving you paragraphs of feedback and not one line of "make it easier to engage in consensual PvP"*; stay with the game is because of the background, because they want to interact in the dark, complicated, futuristic world your company created and supported for a time and they have invested in. We are being disappointed; struggling to stay with the game because we are trying to figure out how we fit into the world, one in which we no longer even have the illusion of impact and in which the long awaited expansion that would have focused on the RP conflict effectively cast out those who had been fighting it for years.
*The answer to that is wardec someone; take a stroll into low sec and look for someone to shot at you or for you to shot; etc.
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Dex Nederland
Caldari Lai Dai Infinity Systems
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Posted - 2008.10.22 03:45:00 -
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Ginger, not to decry the efforts of Mercury; but how does colonizing a planet, food poisoning on a station, corp failure due to disease, convoy disappearance, convoy survivor rescue, etc matter as news when we, the players, do not take part in anyway with those events?
When Malkalen Disaster occurred; pod pilots made news in response to these events. Where is that now? How do we interact with the recent news in game?
Two separate worlds seem to exist - the world of the players and a background story that is a nice read.
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Dex Nederland
Caldari Lai Dai Infinity Systems
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Posted - 2008.10.22 04:43:00 -
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Good point Hurs, and I think it is more of what I was trying to say, but it didn't come out that way. Thanks
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