DUST Search - Rattati, Let's talk about OBs...

Aeon Amadi wrote:

CCP Rattati wrote:

I do believe WP are an essential part of explaining to a new player that there are multiple ways of supporting the team to win the battle, than just killing. And even now I still feel like I accomplished something when I see WP's tick in on an armor rep hive, or a good droplink placement. Positive reinforcement.

"You helped the team, good job +25WP"
"You helped the team, good job +25WP"
"You helped the team, good job +25WP"
"You helped the team, good job +25WP"

Pirate

Sure, I can understand that full and well. There are a lot of games that offer this sort of encouragement through supporting their team; then again, those points are there -for- that positive reinforcement, rather than a metaphorical currency for a weapon. You can reduce the frequency by increasing the WP cost but inevitably that's not going to solve the problem of the orbital strike being earned as a tool for winners to keep winning.

That sort of knowledge in the back of the players mind, it's not exactly rocket science to understand why equipment spam ever became a thing. Edit: Perhaps that's generalizing player behavior - but to be honest, while it does positively encourage some behavior, it's two sides of the same coin.


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Severus Smith Caldari State 546	Posted - 2014.07.01 17:17:00 - [1] - Quote Aeon Amadi wrote: CCP Rattati wrote: I do believe WP are an essential part of explaining to a new player that there are multiple ways of supporting the team to win the battle, than just killing. And even now I still feel like I accomplished something when I see WP's tick in on an armor rep hive, or a good droplink placement. Positive reinforcement. "You helped the team, good job +25WP" "You helped the team, good job +25WP" "You helped the team, good job +25WP" "You helped the team, good job +25WP" Sure, I can understand that full and well. There are a lot of games that offer this sort of encouragement through supporting their team; then again, those points are there -for- that positive reinforcement, rather than a metaphorical currency for a weapon. You can reduce the frequency by increasing the WP cost but inevitably that's not going to solve the problem of the orbital strike being earned as a tool for winners to keep winning. That sort of knowledge in the back of the players mind, it's not exactly rocket science to understand why equipment spam ever became a thing. Edit: Perhaps that's generalizing player behavior - but to be honest, while it does positively encourage some behavior, it's two sides of the same coin. Agreed. Decouple OBs from War Points. Make it so that every merc can only request a Warbarge Strike once every few hours or something and maybe have it cost 50,000 ISK. That way, you can use it when the match is close as a tactical strike. Not as an "I win" button for the winning team to decimate the losing team even more. Orbital Strikes, from EVE players, are available whenever and have no cost or cooldown. [Crazy idea] Or, why not make OB's purchasable items? Kind of like a service / favor that I can call in anytime. I sometimes earn them at the end of the winning match (with my salvage) as a reward. Or I can spend LP to buy them from the different Empires. Put a cooldown between requests so I can't spam it, but now I can now call it in the same way I call in a HAV or Dropship from the OMS menu and it has nothing to do with WPs. This makes them far more tactical, decouples them from WPs, incentives winning matches more, and makes LP even more desirable.