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Posted - 2015.02.04 21:54:00 -
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Lightning35 Delta514 wrote:Ccp?
Saluations, Lightning! I'm afraid that CCP is running into a BIG problem when it comes to Updates and Patch Notes. (This problem tends to occur with ANYBODY, when they have been at a job over a LONG time, and they tend to get a bit laxed and splashy with the words they use.)
Warlords is a Patch that is likely to get a lot of scrutiny because of what it represents in Dusts age and progress, but oddly, it's has the LEAST words I ever remember seeing in the "Patch Notes". WHA!!!
I believe Rattati DID attempt to explain there is a difference in CCP's definition of "Veteran", from what we players might throw around as Veteran.
There was a strong concept in CCP that Vet means a player who has had an account in the Server well into the Beta period. That's all. It doesn't mean the player has got X-number of SP or ISK, just that she has held an account long enough to have experienced most of the evolution and transformation of the game.
CCP had somewhere an extra term they often used for players with high SP or ISKGǪ called "Advanced Players". We in general don't use the term much, but since Dust is arguably such an intricately structured game, the RIGHT terms and right explanations are SO darned important.
I am an Advanced Player. My SP in any of these matches relies almost completely on what WP I earn in the match---I get verify little SP (only about 1000 SP) if I just waltz around the map without a single death and not hack, plant, or fire anything.
But if I contribute enough to earn myself 1000 WP, my SP is at least 7000 SP.
Try a test. Enter a Skirmish match, and spend the entire match walking from one safe supply depot to another in the staging area. Don't fire a shot, and don't help anyone to anything. If your SP payout is more than 1000, you are being treated as a New player, and "New" likely has to do with how long you have held your account in the game.
Soewhere along the line, CCP will have to tighten up it's "language", and be VERY careful and consistent about terms like Veteran, or Accelerated, or New Player.
As you can see, I LIKE lots of words (got high marks in English classes during my youth). A few more sentences in posts and Patch Notes may seem a choreGǪ but they help a lot for folks who are really trying to appreciate what you mean. 
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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