CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.12.24 05:10:00 -
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DeadlyAztec, your theory does hold some water, and actually jives well with two other noteworthy threads I read this month.
 One was making the point that players are so used to playing pre-fitted roles/gear from other games, they really don't perceive the advantage of combining a racial suit with the weaponry that agrees with THAT race's approach to combat (as example, if the race that made your suit believes in extra EHP protection for short-range fights, it doesn't help you to carry meduim/long range weaponry on that dropsuit,... the weapons take longer to kill your enemy up close, and leave your enemy with all the time she needs to wear down your extra EHP protection).
 The other thread made a good argument that too many players rush to close the distance toward their enemies, because they've brought the close-up, quick-n-savage kill guns (shotgun, Mass-Driver, etc.), and they LOVE the hallway and room shootouts,... but they insist on wearing the Cald and Minmat suits that, by racial-design, can't endure the punishment of sustained close-up hosing by an opponent.
Don't get me wrong,... I still see more juvenile nose-picking behavior from players in Caldari matches than any other race from FW, and I'm sure the deliberate "err, he-he, I only joined this Cald FW match to see if,... he-he, I can get WP for shooting my own nanohive, umm, I wanna try" behavior contributes to about 40 % of your losses in those matches.
But, yes I'm willing to accept your argument that Race-attitude in the design of your gear is not being thought about strategically enough when players slap their fitting together and run so eagerly into "the exciting close-range shootout" for the umteenth time.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.12.24 06:52:00 -
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sir RAVEN WING wrote:I came here to say 'Yes because when 90% of battles are fought by Academy players, we lose because of racial disadvantage.' But I honestly thinks this points something out.
I honestly think we need more long range maps (As I have for about a year now.) EIther that or a new FW mode that favours both close and long range.
There is also a huge myth that so many believe to be true; That the Caldari can never win, never.
Also some weapons like the Combat Rifle over preform. (Trust me. I have boundless and Six Kin. Both shread armour as they are supposed to, but they work just as good against shields.)
Then we have the those who saw the trailers for each race/Read each race and heard 'democracy' and went to fight for them, (About 1%. Sadly a large portion of the community has no knowledge of the simplest of lore.
I think it was one of your threads I read, sir RAVEN.
Again, you are quite right, I think. "Lore" for many of the PS3 players is probably considered just an corny CHORE, that only the drama-queens and graphic novel/ anime fans can take the time to get into. (Hey, who wants to read a whole BS encyclopedia full of made up character story jazz---we got on this game to face-shoot, not do all this boring reading, like homework!! ).
But in EVE, the Lore is a strategic-mechanic in the game. It explains the inherant weaknesses and flaws in all the ships' racial designs, and it's (partly) a factor in what ships and modules those players go after, and how they decide to use them in an engagement.
Whether you like reading or not, all that "reading chores" clues you in on racial-tech (and racial design-biases) that we ought to be using strategically in our dropsuit fittings and our engagements----just like the EVE players appear to do.
Imagine how cool it would be, if we ever got smart enough to beat the other team by having half of us in Shield-bias suits tearing the approaching reds with our long-range guns, and then mopping them up with a close-quarters sweep performed by the half of us who are wearing armour-bias suits and carrying short-range weapons. Red clone-reserve depletion would occur in nearly every match.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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