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vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 18:00:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:As much as I love the idea of players naming new officer gear, this event is poorly done.
My initial problems with the event is that:
1) Only proto weapon kills are eligible, meaning only those with money to run proto for 3 days can possibly win. It will also make the protostomping problem much worse than it has to be.
2) Kills with eligible weapons of the same category are not counted together. This means if you use a Duvolle AR, and then use a Federation Duvolle AR, they get counted separately, so only the one you got the most kills with matters; this is stupid because both weapons are essentially the exact same thing. There is no reason for this rule, its not like CCP can't do addition.
I realized now that it is fundamentally worse than these 2 problems. It is a bad idea to have an event where only a small handful of super-rich super-hardcore people can possibly benefit while everyone else is effectively wasting their time.
CCP could have added other smaller rewards like "for very kill you get with X weapon, you will be rewarded 2 X weapon of the same tier" or something else, but they did not. There is no incentive for anyone else to participate except for the super-rich super-hardcore tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of the community.
Seriously, how did they think its ok to have an event where 99.99% of the community will gain NOTHING? there should have been smaller rewards for the majority.
Seriously, what the hell kind of community event benefits only a tiny fraction of the community? Sure, has some cons to it, but I'm just looking forward to the impact it has on those very same ISK fiends who've been hording hundreds of millions/billions ISK  If you ask me, I think it's a great idea to put a ***** (wow really? This is censored?) in the massive ISK savings people have.
This isn't going to make a dent in anything. It is barely going to change the play style of most players.
To the OP: If you are not interested in this event I would stick to Faction Warefare. This event is only for Public contracts.
I just noticed all assault variants are off the table too. |
vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 18:11:00 -
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CommanderBolt wrote:As much as I do LOVE the idea of this event, It does have major issues.
The first thing that my corp mates said after hearing about this is - "Well there goes what ever small amount of new players ~WERE~ going to come to the game for the next 4 weeks".
I too feel the event is disappointing as there is no real benefit for the vast majority of us. Not only that, it obviously favours those who can afford proto for the next 4 weekends. Its ok saying go to faction warfare - that's 4 weekends of most of the players enjoyable game time basically written off.
I mean, personally I am going to try it and accept it for what it is.
I do feel though that everyone should be able to gain extra isk per kill or sp per kill or something. Otherwise this is just a test server data gathering operation. You should at least reward the players for that otherwise I do see game play numbers dropping for a few weekends because this will force some people out of the game.
Go run FW then run whatever weapon you want that is proto from the loyalty store at a discounted price.
I do agree that new guys are going to get r4ped for four weekends. |
vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 18:17:00 -
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Hynox Xitio wrote:I would have preferred an event where you provide ideas for new weapons to CCP. You could create concept art and describe the weapon's usage and stats. It's obvious though that community inspired weapons will never happen in Dust.
That would be kool as hell. It would be interesting to see the ideas that come up. |
vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 19:08:00 -
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One Eyed King wrote:It would have been better had it been a milita weapon naming event. That is just my opinion.
This would have been so much more fun. This had better be on the horizon. |
vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 19:09:00 -
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Scheneighnay McBob wrote:Kallas Hallytyr wrote:Scheneighnay McBob wrote:Wtf? I didn't know about #2
I was stockpiling federation cannons to save ISK LP versions still count, but not Federation AND regular together. I love the idea behind this event, but there are many holes. I know they still count, but I can't exactly stockpile enough to last me the entire event. I was thinking about starting with federation before jumping to ISK when I run out
What are you running? What rifle? |
vlad stoich
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Posted - 2014.06.26 21:06:00 -
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I-Shayz-I wrote:I have 50 million isk
at the end of this event I'll probably still have 50 million isk
It only limits the players that:
-Aren't skilled into the weapon
-Aren't willing to risk proto gear for OFFICER WEAPONS
-Are so bad at this game that they LOSE MONEY running proto.
Seriously, if you lose isk running proto you're doing it wrong...and no, you don't need billions of isk to do it either. I guess it makes it a bit easier for certain players (as they don't have to worry about isk as much and can be more careless with their proto suits), but heck I could run this event with 10 million isk if I wanted to.
Besides, would it really make sense for someone to get to name an Officer weapon if they won using a weapon that they don't even have the skills to use said Officer weapon?
And it's slightly lore based. We're testing "prototype" weapons to develop new ones.
You could run it with a lot less. Don't forget about all the Loyalty Store points you could use to buy weapons at a fraction of the cost. |
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