Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2009.01.20 04:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Bomberlocks
The arrogance of attitudes expressed by CCP developers seems to know no bounds. Your post had my finger hovering over the cancel subscription button for a while there. It sadly seems to me that CCP is so undisciplined as a company that they are willing to let developers with poor communication skills loose on their customers. It is puzzling for sure. It also, sadly, points out a fairly glaring weakness within CCP itself: The inability to make good design decisions.
A case in point: If you love the game being so hostile (really "l337" attitude their, mate), why, for the love of all that's holy, not get rid of hisec altogether, make a decent introductory period for new players, with proper, detailed tutorials and training, and then, after this period, let them loose into the big, wide "hostile" world of PvP? YOU made hisec. YOU made carebears possible. YOU made Concord. If you don't like it,why the hell did you make it in the first place. It smacks of either gross incompetence, or, what is more likely, a ploy, combined with laziness on the part of the designers ("Coders rule" mentality) to keep new players in Eve in order to drive sales.
It is a favourite pastime to sneer at so called carebears on this forum, yet you make them possible, albeit with barely concealed hostility. Yet you keep them and hisec around, probably because there are so many of them and they, surprise surprise, help pay for your salary. It's ironic that in the REAL hostile world out there, you are dependant on real people to keep you alive.
But what they didn't do was make High Sec risk-free, a point you have missed entirely. Personally I like the way CCP communicates with us on the forums. It's a more human sort of communication than just spouting uniform company talking points. |
Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2009.01.20 19:24:00 -
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Originally by: Gunnanmon
Originally by: Leaving Eve
Actually, I think salvage & looting should not cause a criminal flag.
See my thoughts here:
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=977995
Quite why this isn't the case is baffling. Surely if salvaging is ok, looting is ok, too.
Any comments about "it's merely an NPC wreck and not your property" support this. So the flagging for looting, but not salvaging completely contradicts the CCCP stance on this.
Loot is good stuff. Salvage is garbage. CCP has explained this. The most baffling thing is why that isn't the end of this discussion. 
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