Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.10.04 09:49:00 -
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Zekain Kade wrote:CCP even said that orbital strikes were suppsoed to ave a cool down during their fan fest.,
this update is like being spat in the face.
I think they said what they meant in a slightly misleading way. In EVE, most weapons/mods/equipment work on a cycle time. For example we have active armor repair modules on vehicles - you open your equipment wheel with R2, point to the armor repper, and activate it. Then, the armor repair module runs its cycle, repairing X amount of armor, and then going on cooldown for 10 seconds or whatever it is (which is part of the cycle I believe).
My guess, is that what they meant by OB's having a cooldown, is that the cycle time would be longer than the actual firing time, meaning that if the cycle is 15 seconds, maybe only 5-8 seconds of that would be spent firing. So, if you have 10 players orbiting in EVE, on call for OB'ing, there would be "no cooldown" as it wouldn't be the same person firing over and over. They didn't mean there would be a literal cooldown, by which I mean if you call in an OB, you -must- wait X seconds before calling another.
I'm relatively sure about this, as I remember reading somewhere (either in IRC or one of the IRC transcript threads) on of the Dev's saying that OB's could be fired without restriction as long as they are available and the WP requirements have been met.
Talruum Tezztarozza wrote:The Polish Hammer wrote:Maybe make it so you can't earn SP in your starting spawn area? Idk. Actually I believe this to be a great solution. If they hide for their safety under the assistance of the system (whether out of necessity or devilious intent), why should the system reward them anything ?
It's a terrible solution, as it would promote rage quitting in pub matches. How many people do you know that would stay in a non-paying situation unless a planet was on the line?
Fasjh wrote:remove leaderboards for individual players, if they have nothing to aim for then *most* of them will stop farming. Give people an easy route to the top of the leaderboard and they will *naturally* exploit the kitten out of it. on a side note, I've never really understood why we have an individual player leaderboard when Dust is *supposedly* a corp/team game, surely the only boards we need are corp ones, otherwise it's encouraging players to abandon the team game and concentrate on their own glory 
The individual leader boards are good for both gloating and recruiting. If a corp is looking to recruit the cream-of-the-crop, they can just look at the leader boards and see who is the best person available. |