CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.01.04 02:09:00 -
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 Always keep in mind when stating your case at the beginning of threads like this, that unless you are one of the Devs, you can't simply say your point of view is "Everyone agrees" correct, or a condition is "We All know" screwed up, or a component "undeniably" useless.
I don't play EVE-Online, but what minuscule learning I have gained about that game tells me several of the "tools" players use in that game (such as "ratting" or "rats") were never thought up by the designers, but by the players who took lesser or general-purpose game pieces and, err, "bastardized" them for very eyebrow-raising purposes.
I am an example of this in Dust 514.
I decided on a "role" for my character (I prefer to say she has a "career" or profession, rather than a role). Immediately afterward, I decided a bonused frame would give me design-biases I couldn't use advantageously, and wouldn't give me enough room for what I knew I'd need: Maximum Protection While I Leave or Await Rescue.
No kidding, that is the function of my drop suit. That is its narrow but imperative requirement. No other suit does this for me except a Basic frame. It took a year to Skill-unlock all the modules I targeted for the suit, but the time finally came to load the slots, it fit-out perfect.
I have a second suit that is heavily bonused toward Dampening and Speed (the idea being "if I can't get Maximum Protection, then help me Escape"), but even the skill-boosted prototype version of this second suit is not as ultimately survivable as my honey Basic.
 A bonus-biased frame is a great idea, and makes perfect sense in the New Eden corporation obsession to tweak a better war-weapon. Players who are sure they have become good at "the math" of this game, and clearly know how they want to kill the enemy, should not waste their time on Basic suit skilling.
 A Basic frame is just as great an idea, fits CCP's banner slogan "Build your Own War", but shouldn't be chosen by folks who want to be a comfortable "role" specialist. Players with unique but very specific ambitions are the ones who should be studying the wide-capacity of this suit type. That type of player could sink a lot of SP into a bonused-frame before it proves itself "not big enough to fit".
I want to think (just THINK, no real proof on my side) that CCP deliberately designed a significant handful of the tools/components/etc as general-purpose or flat-use items specifically for players to "bastardize" if they enjoy the fun of being customizers and combat-clever---
---and then made biased, bonus-based items for players who want to enlarge a classic combat role, and believe they can efficiently put those bonuses to use (GǪwell, let's be honest, many players who reach for bonuses DON'T prove to be very savvy at utilizing their potential in combat anyway).
If CCP did this deliberately, kudos to CCP from me.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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