Nova Knife
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
1888
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Posted - 2013.09.05 07:06:00 -
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Mossellia Delt wrote:He's not full time, he does vehicles and logi as well. I havent seen him communitcate with any of us on the forums either.
Nonsense!
That said, most people tend to ping me on skype since it's a hell of a lot easier than playing forum tag.
While it's true I'm not 'full time' scout, that doesn't mean they aren't dear to my heart and I'm not utterly crushed at the uselessness of my beloved pink suits :(
However, the question "What is the CPM going to do" is moot. CCP has never flat out asked us "Well, what should we do about this?" when it comes to anything related to balance. Honestly? Nor should they. Even though I pride myself on being as objective and unbiased as possible, no one is completely without bias. It is my honest belief that I am the only one on the CPM with the proper mindset for fair balancing, and as arrogant as that sounds, I know that such things are not why I am on the council. With the amount of conflicting opinions on the CPM and given SP paths of each member being massively different, it would be a horrible move for CCP to come to us and let us dictate balance in almost any fashion. As a council, we agreed at the very start of our term that pretty much any balance discussion should be forwarded to the players in the forum of a sticky, rather than CCP coming to us. This is something CCP has not really accomplished, despite our constant urgings that they take up CCP Fozzie and Rise's shining examples. Balance is something that should never be decided behind the closed doors of an NDA. Changes should be proposed and discussed with the entire playerbase prior to being locked in.
I suppose the question isn't entirely moot, actually. We can impress the uselessness or brokenness of certain things and ask them what they are going to do about them, and why people are perceiving them as useless/broken and what their expectations of X item are. This is why forums and skype are excellent resources and we openly welcome people to barrage us with such opinions. That IS why the council exists to filter through and exercise judgement in bringing those opinions to CCP. |
Nova Knife
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
1888
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Posted - 2013.09.05 08:25:00 -
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Temba Fusrodah wrote:Nova Knife wrote:It is my honest belief that I am the only one on the CPM with the proper mindset for fair balancing, and as arrogant as that sounds, I know that such things are not why I am on the council. I have no doubt your balancing skills are only surpassed by your modesty. Pardon me while I pull your fellow CPM members from underneath the bus where you just threw them.
What bus? :)
Everyone has their strengths. In order to properly conceive fair balance, one needs to be able to put an almost freakish amount of thought into the consequences of any action, and predict the ripple effect it will have as best they can. Not everyone is good at this. It's not an insult to say someone isn't good at it, any more than IWS would be insulting the rest of us by saying he's the only one on the CPM with any artistic talent whatsoever :) (IWS is a pretty damn decent artist, for what it's worth)
Like I said. None of us were chosen to be balance wizards, despite any aptitude that may or may not exist among us. We're not on the council for that. We've all agreed to do our best to shunt any discussion of balance away from us and towards the community whenever possible, like I said in my first post here :)
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