CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.23 18:41:00 -
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 This is actually developing into a really good thread on "cloaking".
I am against Cloaking of any kind, and have always been against it in previous games. I think it's a fantasy toy that was inspired in players by the Romulans in Star Trek, and has always become a nuissance toy that gives the user-player satisfaction pestering the opponent players, or gives the user-player an upper hand at increasing her kill-rate without risking her life in an open fight.... but DOESN'T give the user any solid means of improving her winning a match. It's never been regulated in a game to become an honorable "tool" for overthrowing an adversary and winning a match.
BUT.... I am hoping Dust can introduce cloak-equipment for the individual in a way that finally makes a cloak a useful tool for winning battles, not just toy that players annoy you with.
I don't want cloaking vehicles to be provided to us as a way of giving new powers to our IDVs (Improvised Detonation Vehicle...please let's stop spreading the j-jeep stuff---it's out of jargon with the game)------because I don't want IDVs to become our IRREPLACEABLE way of dealing with the goofy HAV problem we are having.
 I know, that sounds all twisty-brained. I mean this: We need to hold out, and continue to complain about the HAV problem until it gets a proper long-term fix---I'd hate for us to get accustomed to the HAV problem and get too reliant on the explosives-LAV as the Dust-Solution.
I fully enjoy the IDV because it shows players using their noodles to adapt and improvise cool means of destruction in these matches, but if we get new devices to enhance/protect our IDVs, I'd like to see us constantly put at RISK using the IDV, and constantly tempted to find even MORE improvisations in the fight.
RISK is the factor I want to see always running through Dust, like it seems to in Eve Online. Anything that starts to eleviate our anxiety about risking our valueable gear, is a thing I am against! That's one of the reasons I don't like "Cloaks" of any kind---too many players will only use it as a free gift to come over and attack YOU because now there is less risk to THEM losing anything.
I understand and accept the cloaking is not a new technology in New Eden (big ships used it, and RDVs represent "cloaking componentry" being miniatturized/stabalized enough to bring it into a planet's atmosphere... ) Finally, okay, it's been miniaturized enough to make a rudimentary cloak-field for the foot merc. But PLEASE keep it rudimentary.
I'll put up with annoying cloak-boys for now, but PLEASE, no cloak DSs, cloak-HAVs, cloak-Orbital Strikes, cloak-nades, cloak-installations, cloak-CRUs, cloak-... |