Brush Master
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Posted - 2014.09.23 13:08:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:Evan Gotabor wrote:Three more question for you Rattati :
- are mobile CRU now giving WP ?
- are transport WP mechanic being modified, I saw some talks about it, but I don't know of it's wherabout
- do you have a capsulier or someone from CCP to who I can sent the link of our last PC game against Vengeance Unbound (unlisted on youtube) ? This way, you might see what is the true job of an incubus rail pilot. In the worst case, I will send it to you ingame as soon as I have access to my Eve account. nope no, not right now, but 100% on the table send it to [email protected]
Well glad it's still on the table but it's been there for the last 2 years but the question is, can the problems with it be solved? I've talked with devs and cpm over many generations of the CCP teams and it always seems to be tabled due to the complexity of how the mCRU came to be and how it is totally different from uplinks. mCRU still has bugs like it not appearing for players for extended periods of time, a long standing bug. I believe a support dropship pilot is the least rewarded role in the game as far as WP and the transport reward is far too low for the risk it entails to land for picking up troops.
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Brush Master
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Posted - 2014.09.24 14:51:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:Brush Master wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:Evan Gotabor wrote:Three more question for you Rattati :
- are mobile CRU now giving WP ?
- are transport WP mechanic being modified, I saw some talks about it, but I don't know of it's wherabout
- do you have a capsulier or someone from CCP to who I can sent the link of our last PC game against Vengeance Unbound (unlisted on youtube) ? This way, you might see what is the true job of an incubus rail pilot. In the worst case, I will send it to you ingame as soon as I have access to my Eve account. nope no, not right now, but 100% on the table send it to [email protected] Well glad it's still on the table but it's been there for the last 2 years but the question is, can the problems with it be solved? I've talked with devs and cpm over many generations of the CCP teams and it always seems to be tabled due to the complexity of how the mCRU came to be and how it is totally different from uplinks. mCRU still has bugs like it not appearing for players for extended periods of time, a long standing bug. I believe a support dropship pilot is the least rewarded role in the game as far as WP and the transport reward is far too low for the risk it entails to land for picking up troops. And it still is a problem, exactly as you describe. The mCRU is not an uplink and has none of the programmable attributes uplinks have. It was a shortcut hackjob back then and the only remedy we have is the transport bonus WP. Is that WP system salvageable in your opinion, if we play with those parameters, distance traveled, duration, etc?
I don't believe the current iteration of the mCRU sounds salvageable without those attributes and rewards. The transport WP rarely rewards me because:
- because it requires 150m travel distance - perhaps we can find a worked around by lowering this but does transport reward work for those that spawn in a ship or does it require pickup? I have never actually tested this because the reward is so minor and any pilot will tell you, the single place you will do a pickup is at home base and who spawns there after you have other points? the risk of being near the ground anywhere outside of that is too great.
- I have a mCRU and usually near an objective that I want troops to drop in on, thus do not exceed travel distance
It really depends on if a new mCRU can be built or if we just have to find work arounds like adjusting the transport reward to help make up for the zero reward mCRU.
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