CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.09.17 19:22:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote: AFKers only motivation is to get isk or far more likely, active sp. We could stop AFKing by going to a full passive system. With no active sp to work for, people will have no reason to AFK. As long as that active sp is there, people will continue to AFK to get it, especially in light of panza said.
Although I think this may make many people not login for months at a time, hurting CCP's numbers. PArt of the reason I suspect the active sp was put there in the first place.
True, from my POV. Alena, you are on the right track in both points. AFK players want to get "unlocking-power" (whether in the form of ISK or SP) without having to GIVE much effort. They don't want to be an active part of the match at all---they only enter the game because it's required to accumulate the ISK/SP.
If you turn the matches into a place where no SP is gained at all by entering, then AFK players will show up just for the ISK---and if for any reason active-ISK were removed, AFK players wouldn't show up at all. (They'd wait until enough ISK and SP were built up passively, and then visit Dust for an hour every two months to buy/unlock their goodies, and play with them a little.
EVE-Online allows a LOT of passive-SP option, but what helps keep you returning to the game is that that passive SP must be actively assigned to a particular neural skill (like having to order your pizza a week in advance).
I think we collectively settled into the fact a year ago, that, even with the innovatively unusual mechanics of Dust 154, we "righteous" gamers have to accept an x-percentage of AFK players (arguably "cheat" hustlers) in all out popular games. We can only look forward to agressive experimental ways to REDUCE their numbers and supress the damage their presence causes in realtime gameplay.
We need to be careful how much we're willing to contort the core functions of the game just in the (fruitless?) hope of eliminating AFK entirely. As Alena Ventrallis concluded, active-SP is in there for reasons we're not always consciously seeing.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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