Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.05.17 00:21:00 -
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The more I think about this idea, the more I see it as incredibly elegant.
It gets the Tieracide that would solve a lot of different problems and it drops down on the amount of non-needed things in the game. It is a really smooth, though I wonder if it would be more difficult than CCP is capable of doing right now.
Each power core would need to know how much PG/CPU to give each suit based on the role and race, which I wonder if that would be difficult to pull rather than just having huge amount of memory for each suit and having that number tied to the suit. It would certainly require a lot of editing to the game. With us being in a kind of purgatory at the moment, I wonder if it will happen at all.
It certainly should though.
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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.05.18 11:27:00 -
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Himiko Kuronaga wrote:Aero Yassavi wrote:Taking an idea from Avallo Kantor and expanding it.
Currently we have 180 unique base suits.
5 roles
4 races
3 tiers
3 variants aurum and ISK and LP
Compounded together is 180.
The SKIN system looks to eliminate redundant assets of BPO's, but let's take it a step further. Give all suits the slot layout of their prototype, then add a power core slot similar to the SKIN slot. The power core would add the tier appropriate CPU and PG. Suits would cost the same as standard, and then power cores will cost the equivalent difference in tier costs. There will also be aurum cores and LP cores unlocked early.
Now you have
5 roles
4 races
nothing else
Compounded is 20 unique suits
You just shaved off 160 suits from the memory cap. Even more if you do this to basic suits as well. When CCP Z suggests something similar, everyone tells him to go to hell. But when you suggest it, apparently you're the messiah. Lol. I guess people who are desperate for performance gains will do pretty much anything.
To be fair:
1. People might not have been angry at the idea that Z had; they might have just been royally pissed at the Rouge Wedding. I still contend that people were mad with how it was released and told rather than the actual fact that they were looking to transition. Z's entire thing even came down to "this is all for Legion", which further pisses people off.
2. Z's idea was a hell of a lot more involved than "keep your suits; the modules are what are important." With each thing being tied to a separate dropsuit role, you were going to have to go down a certain line of dropsuit just to get a certain module. Being a 100% Assault suit guy and having to make a detour into Scout or Logistics for a Nova Knife or Mass Driver sucks. People could have easily been more angry at that idea than "you mean to tell me that the prices will be tied to modules rather than suits?"
3. A lot has changed. People calm down, see it a different way. A bad idea in June might not be such a bad idea in December and in another year it might even be a great idea.
4. This idea is delivered in a way that people can easily understand. Z's idea, which is still a lot more than just this, was delivered in a bungled kind of way. That confusion and shock of something so different.
Honestly, I support this idea even if there isn't a single bit of jump in performance.
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