Ventis Gant
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.15 07:16:00 -
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New Eden has never even heard of Geneva. The accepted way to fire a senior executive in the Caldari state is to have him killed. It saves face. The Amarr are slavers, and the Minmatar have done some pretty horrible things both to escape from and get revenge on the slavers. Read the "Methods of Torture" series of chronicles on the eve website (not so easy to find the chronicles section, but if you hunt it down, there are TONS of stories that will tell you what New Eden is like). The capsuleers are generally seen as sociopathic mass murders with godlike power, and, for the most part, from the point of view of non-casuleers, that is absolutely accurate. War in New Eden is as cutthroat as it gets. You can attack anyone, even in the most secure regions of hisec, for only the cost of having your ship blown up and CONCORD, the police agency, mildly annoyed with you for interrupting their card game. War in New Eden is all about winning, by any means allowed by the game that CCP hasn't called out as an exploit...and things CCP considers to be an exploit are pretty rare. More often than not, when someone complains about someone using a game mechanic in a way that the devs probably never saw coming, the answer is "working as intended". |
Ventis Gant
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
37
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Posted - 2012.07.15 22:33:00 -
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Asher Night wrote:
1) It's a game and not a real war 21,000 into the future in space.
2) If all sportsmanship is removed from the game, I promise people will remove the game from their hard drives.
If you want a game with sportsmanship, then a game set in New Eden is not for you. The hisec battles that don't mean anything and don't have any persistence in the game world beyond the SP/ISK an individual gains or loses are not the game that CCP is building. That game will be there, and, right now, it is the only game we have, but CCP must balance for the null sec game, where people will use any resource available that doesn't actually break the rules CCP has set down to win, because they and their corp have spent a great deal of time and effort on building something. It may be only a game, but if you and your corpmates spend months taking and building up a planet or several planets, and someone comes to try to take that away from you, it means something.
CCP has already stated that null sec battles will not be balanced. For example, if CCP figures out how to make 200 player battles work without breaking the servers, then a null sec battle will be 100 vs 100...but if the attacking team can bring 100 and the defenders can only bring 30, then it will be 100 vs 30. The concept of fair play only exists in New Eden if BOTH sides agree to it, as with Red vs Blue. They have a permanent war going on in EvE, but it is with rules. There are things they won't allow you to do, but that is all from the players. When it comes to a real war, declared or not, the gloves come off. There is no "sportmanship".
If you want sportsmanship in DUST, then you will never be able to experience the game that CCP has promised us. You will only ever be able to play in the controlled environment of hisec, and you will eventually gain all the skills you want to max out, and then you will get bored and leave. Or, at least, that is what many if not most of those who only play the hisec battles that don't really have persistence will do. The long term players, the ones who play for years and years, will be the ones that are playing for keeps in null sec. |