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Oso Peresoso
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Posted - 2013.08.07 17:59:00 -
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Billi Gene wrote:
I believe that the people are afking because they believe it is worth it, that DUST will eventually flower, and these people don't want to be left behind should that happen.
Yes, however more likely its people who actually play the game and don't have the time to cap out, and would rather save their focused play time for when their friends or on. Or because a lot of their play time is sucked up by Dust-related activities that don't net them SP. Also, have you tried playing on the US servers? is it bad? i know you're in oceania.
Quote:I really really hope that this event is indeed a sign that CCP has proactively set up a situation where AFKers now have to enter twice as many matches to cap out, and that this was done to gather empiric evidence before a mass SP wipe or forced character biomass of repeat offender AFKer'?
When such an exploit is being massively abused, and without retribution, then if CCP decides to start cracking down, they will do so with a tiered warning system. Its been very effective for them in the past. AFKers won't wake up with removed SP or lose their characters. A "repeat offender" is classified as such by not responding to warnings, not by carrying out a behavior over a long period of time without intervention.
Also, this event encourages AFK farming, because it doubles the cap but only increases the SP gain of non-afkers by a 20-40% or something. To meet the cap it requires significantly more grinding no matter what your method. |
Oso Peresoso
RisingSuns
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Posted - 2013.08.07 20:20:00 -
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Zahle Undt wrote:The AFKing will cease when Dust becomes fun to play and delivers on some of its promises.
Wrong, because people are AFKing who also think the game is fun and do play it actively. If Dust delivers on its promises like increased Eve-Dust interaction, market stuff, etc. that might result in people spending MORE time outside of battles without spending less time in Dust. AFKing is primarily motivated by the fact that it takes forever to hit the cap, and if you don't cap out, then it takes FOREVER to accrue enough SP to rank up skills. |
Oso Peresoso
RisingSuns
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Posted - 2013.08.07 20:23:00 -
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ZDub 303 wrote:However having hundreds of people afking each evening is boosting the player counts for dust, allowing some justification for continued funding and keeping CCPs stock up due to an increased perception of player activity.
There is no "CCP stock price" CCP is a privately owned company, there is no stock price associated with earnings reports or any such stuff. |
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