TYCHUS MAXWELL
The Fun Police
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Posted - 2014.08.16 23:27:00 -
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I think if this community had as well thought out arguments and at least explained their rationalism and sympathized with those that are not themselves as you are doing now, this game would of had a better chance and CCP would have an accurate place to look. Very rarely will players even acknowledge (Especially in the CPM) that sp disparity was a serious problem in the games longevity and appeal to newer players. Everyone says the NPE is messed up, but they always say its because the tutorials are bad and the academy being elongated would just teach them bad play. Rarely do people acknowledge that an intermediate playing field would be beneficial, as you have acknowledged and I have advocated since I first started playing. The Eve masochism is strong in the community as well that breeds much of the irrational hate and selfish hostility towards growing the community. Eve isn't Dust, they share the same lore but they are not the same game, not even the same genre.
As to frontline fits, that's why I would like to see non-frontline pre-made sets so that players can see that they need to restock them and see what a custom fit looks like, so that they know there is more to the game then frontline infinity fits. I fear if too many frontline fits are added that the new players would be less likely to experiment.
The isk thing is mostly just an anti-isk farm deployment, as Rattatai already ended the isk farming of PCs, I think it will help to stabilize the insane levels of isk that can be obtained in ways that seem not intended by design. Personally I'm not sure I see the point in skills having an isk cost in the first place, it seems like a rather small and pointless isk sink designed to suck the funds out of new players. Skill books are one of those features copy-pasted from Eve, a space mmorpg, that had no real point in Dust, a fps lobby shooter. I think CCP would of been better off asking, "How do we make a first person battlefield shooter that we can integrate into the Eve universe?" instead of "How can we make a stand alone land battle Eve?" In essence, they built a huge hollow shells (Skill books are a relic of the integration of Eve and Dust player markets) and should of started simple working on fundamentals and make something sustainable on its own, then added the bells and whistles. I think they are repeating the same mistake with Legion, where they haven't finished Dust and are jumping to conclusions it would seem on what went wrong. |