Flyingconejo
KILL-EM-QUICK
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.12.10 12:00:00 -
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CCP Nullarbor wrote:
It may be too much, but we will keep a close eye on it.
We are considering removing the warbarge strike in PC as well. The problem is that it then only allows orbitals for people in alliances. We are discussing with the CPM ways in which we could open up orbital support to EVE pilots outside of an alliance which we think would solve this problem, then we can remove the warbarge strikes from PC as well.
This would then tie neatly into our plans for planetary conquest becoming more involved with EVE.
Warbarge strikes should never have existed in this game. They have always been easily farmed and exploited, and give a great reward for very low effort. For me, they are like a COD killstreak reward, and don't fit at all with the rest of the game design, where everything has a cost. (I got a strike? Nice, free kills just for pressing a button!).
But if they have to stay, I can understand them being in pubs as a placeholder for the real orbital strikes, but wargarge strikes certainly have no place in PC. The team using an orbital strike has to make the effort of coordinating with an EVE player, and that same player has to risk his money and his ship, and stay in the same place for 20-40 minutes. What effort does the team using warbarge strikes have to do? No effort at all.
I understand you guys wanting to give unaligned corps a chance to compete against corps with EVE support, but allowing both kind of strikes to coexist in this way is just na+»ve. Were you tired of people complaining about FG spam, MD spam and Core Locus spam? That will be nothing compared to the QQ from the Orbital+Warbarge strike spam that is coming.
I have no easy answer for your dilemma about corps not in an alliance. But allowing both kind of strikes to the same team in their present form sounds to me like the worst kind of solution, sorry. Eliminating warbarge strikes completely from PC would be a better solution, and short of that, increasing their WP cost, or deactivating them for teams with EVE support, or forcing a team to buy some kind of Warbarge Strike ammo previous to the battle, etc... Any of this would be better than what we have now in 1.7.
I really hope you find a better way soon. Good luck.
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