demens grimwulff
A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S.
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Posted - 2013.08.31 07:39:00 -
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Looking at this from the sidelines and thinking about it, I find that there is a middle ground that is being overlooked... yes, TeamPlayers won their districts fair and square using the weapons that were openly available to everyone. Flaylocks were broken, yes, and Mass Drivers are still out of balance as they do 120% damage to shields instead of the actual 80% to shields that they should be doing, but the majority of EoN is holding onto their lands during these FEC fights. You can call them cheap for using weapons which are known to be unbalanced or doing more damage then intended (and have other glitches that I won't mention publicly as we have been complying video evidence to submit to CCP to fix before widespread use occurs)... but those attacking them are no better when they use exploitable glitches like the melee glitch. So... we have one side using cheap, but openly available weapons, and the other side using actual exploits... so maybe it isn't unreasonable for TeamPlayers to stop the hemorrhaging while they try to sort things out?
Personally, I have 0 interest in PC outside of helping out my corp... I find PC laggy and the game too unbalanced at this point to care to much for it. If all things were equal, then I'd be more interested in it... if we had player created private matches to train, strategize, and get a plan of attack down, then it would be enjoyable, but we don't (as a side note: CCP, please make private matches a reality... where you don't lose gear, don't win anything, but can train and play with friends, since, quite frankly, Academy is probably the biggest joke of an intro I have seen in a game of this size and complexity). Also, I get in enough PUG matches where 50+% of the enemy team is using mass drivers... why would I want to go into PC to fight a whole team using them?
Anyways... my two cents is this... Chicago is no more greedy then anyone else... what does he, or for that matter, any EoN have to gain? "ZOMG I GOTS ISKIES ON A GAME! I CAN BUY STUFFZ... that can only be used in said game... that I lose if I die...". It is, however, not legit to lock down your district through a shell corp that then allows you to gain a profit over the expenditures of the shell corp, this is, for all intents and purposes, an exploit of the original intent of lowering the cost of clone packs (so that PC was not cost prohibitive). If you want to sit at the bargaining table, bargain over a fight... FEC should keep in mind, TeamPlayers, and subsequently, EoN holds all the cards in the situation as they can lock themselves out of PC for as long as CCP allows it. TeamPlayers and EoN should keep in mind that the "we won the game and now we hold all the cards" mentality will only mean you will be the king of nothing as your actions drive more people from PC, and then, ultimately, from the game.
Good job... you won the game, and I respect you for that (and for your skill at fighting), but the question is, do you want the win to be realized, or do you want it to be pointless? Who cares if you hold 27% of PC if no one is playing the game anymore... and what is 100 million isk to you, if you are also saying you're doing it for the good of the game? Let the fake politics go, both sides, and be reasonable... otherwise you're just negotiating over the short term death of the game. |