Eddie Rio
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2014.05.15 16:06:00 -
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the ins and outs of it all are very confusing and because the details currently are shady I find it hard to comment in depth over specifics that aren't realised yet.
in saying that I can see allot of fear from our shaken up community over mercs not wanting legion development to 'reinvent the wheel', my view is that this is the best time restructure the whole damn progression system and make it more accessible for new players as well as keeping the interests of the old and hardy dust/eve player who likes to spreadsheet...
my main issue to trying to bring friends and others to game is telling people that you currently need months and months of training to enjoy the game and feel equal to other in dust. I hope a new progression system will make this easier, being able to make your gun 10% more powerful from 2 months of training in that weapon is one example that I would like to see eradicated from the game. if i can use a gun, i can use a gun just as well as someone who has just specced into it, the skill should come from how well you can use it...
another issue is mainly the risk you take speccing into something, you have no idea how it operates or feels or even if you like it, you can easily spec into a basic version, but you will never know its true potential... in other games, they have a firing range or a server you can jump in and unlock all the things to try em out.. unlike eve, even in the test server you are still bound by your skills, but maybe it would be nice to try before you buy so to speak,,, some form of game mode, which is a test range or a game type with no meaning or results would be great...
I cant really comment on anything else until maybe a dev blog is out really outlining the plans of the progression system, i feel we need something we can all refer to when giving an opinion on this subject..
now is the time for change, change the whole progression system as this was one of the main factors from stopping new players to the game. I look forward to future posts and discussion about this, now the cloak has been unveiled about legion I hope we can get allot more communication of the development process, hiding ideas and information at this point is not needed, things in the gaming world have changed allot and the players have allot more interaction with devs and this is a good thing (bar the trolls)..
ive said it before and i will say this again: a weekly or bi weekly dev blog outlining the thing being worked on and ideas being discussed will keep the whole community happy, toss in a cuple of images of game play or features. set up some player drive polls and questionnaires to boot...
Im excited...
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