Gemini Cuspid
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Posted - 2014.07.15 20:21:00 -
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The dark cloud wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:The dark cloud wrote:Senator Snipe wrote:Ya so i was looking at the video and noticed that they were talking about Project Legion for half the video. the other half, or 1/4 of the video, you guys said that your focus atm is keeping a balance of the game. I been hearing lots of people talk about how legion is killing dust 514 and all that **** (I don't believe that because the players online numbers are the same).
It seems that you guys are giving up on dust 514. That CEO dude said that "the only way to realize that vision, is to go on PC".
Whats going on? There was no Dust514 keynote on the fanfest. And Yes they gave up Dust514 cause there wont be anymore client updates which translates to "no new content ever again". Rattati and the CPM's are just there to motivate AUR sales. Just look at the caldari scout for example and its scan precision bonus: -scan precision bonus gets moved from the caldari scout to the amarr scout -amarr scout is the least used scout cause of its useless bonus -lots of veteran players specced into them for competetive reasons/FOTM Alone by announcing this CCP pushed the veteran players to buy AUR boosters to get the needed SP in time to spec into the amarr scout (roughly 2.8 mil SP required) when the "hotfix hits the server. Ya know tripple SP events are not just the only way to get people buying AUR/boosters. You can aswell use the tool to flip the balance upside down. Or we just want to level the playing field, make the game enjoyable with as few OP suits as possible so players enjoy the game and aren't forced into FOTM fits because their preferred fit simple isn't viable. Those tinfoil hats may come in handy one day... If thats the case why do i have the feeling that we are going to get another SP event either just before the hotfix drops or stright after it (+/- 1 week)? It is not hard to see trough the tricks to get people buying stuff. Its similar like with a grocery store where bread, milk and eggs are usually on the opposite side of the market where you have to get past all of the other products to encourage the customers to buy more then they initially intended.
I hate to say (and I expect to get fully flogged and burned on this) but it is one of the times you are wrong on how SP events work Rattati. This is how I observed the events in the past and, unless I am really utterly wrong, I believe most players will agree.
You announce an SP event and lots of players show up during the event ranging from the rookie to the hardcore veteran. The veteran pops in and has a relatively carefree time unless he encounters good corps otherwise the traditional hierarchy of who gets points and what are experienced corps > experienced players > less experienced corps > rookies. It's a short list, I admit, but when we had the million man SP event I was ambushed by a spawn in the corner by one rookie and in the sequence of the 40 seconds that ensued I added 5 kills to my total. At some level I knew it was because I was running a proto setup and, at the other end, they were running militia.
At the end of the events the overall data you get is that veterans that are bunched to a lone wolf player can easily cap out their daily and weekly SP's and will sometimes continue playing because, as any person who played Dust may/may not admit, when your on a hot streak you sometimes just continue playing and with a huge influx of rookie on the field, what else to inflate that sense of ego we all have.
At the end of the skill point event, yes everyone gets a bonus for the event but the veterans are capped out also and then some. The rookies get the 2 mil in SP but it came at the expense of being walked all over on and may not have gotten even their weekly capped. I recall seeing tons of 0/double-digit deaths in that event and that WAS painful to see.
If we think how the matchmaking works and how players from veterans to rookies play, it's safe to say that while SP events are intended to diminish the gap between the 2, it's easier for veterans to just proto~walk over rookies and make it harder for them to cap anything. IF the proto is always having the superior edge, then it's a bit of a fools logic to assume it helps the militia runner as much; those 2M in SP's can help someone get to a better wpn or suit but those same skill points helps the vet get armor, shield, or wpn range bonuses as well as unloch additional proto armor.
That's essentially why SP events don't have the nominal effect we may wish them to have; they create community excitement but create massive rage quits and were really where you saw stomping at its finest. I'd also even add fits and what to spec into isn't either fun or exciting for vets right now. No one, for example, likes to have particular fits messed up and mangled since day one. I've run during the beta test assault suits and that was painful to run. I've run logi for over a year and that was even more painful when you consider the state of scouts then and heavies now.
While I know and am NOT asking asking for a fit to not be touched/"fixed"/nerfed with, I also know if I'm sitting on 10m SP there's no guarantee that if I allocate it into armor, next month there will be a change that makes shield tanking 3x superior to armor. Not probably going to happen but we all have the legitimate fear because it's happened: motion sensors, cloaks, scouts, AR's, swarms, etc. In some cases its fine when they are changed but sometimes the changes are made that are just horrid.
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