Gunner Nightingale
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Posted - 2013.03.26 16:51:00 -
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What you see is the symptom of a greater underlying disease. The disease being boredom via the result of restrictions and lack of gameplay.
As it is many veterans have earned well over 6M SP add to this they are simply bored at the lack of content, while all this is fresh, new and exciting for most of you, this is the identical game many have been playing for many many months now. We've seen little to no progress and we merely log on to maintain of SP because people want every last ounce of it for the coming wars that will likely ensue.
Moreover you blame players and not the game environment that fosters this attitude. The attitude being why should i risk time, money or effort to go after a little bit more SP than i would otherwise get for doing nothing(not fightng, simply observing the fight from the MCC). Moreover this is the basic divide behind socialism and capitalism.
The game provides no "incentive" to performance the bulk of SP gained is simply by participation. This lack of incentive drives down the competitive drive and the most skillful cease to perform or even try their hardest when they know they can get similar results with no effort (thats basic energy utilization, getting the most for the least energy expenditure)
Add to this the game mechanics, poor shooting controls and host of other gameplay bugs that have continued to have gone unchecked has taken the "fun" out of the game for the vets. Sorry simply getting kills and wins is not enough for leet players they want more then what the average casual player cares about.
Now we offered the solution that make the reverse equation where it is 1 WP for 1s of gametime and 1WP=5SP. This would allow veteran players to hit their cap and log off, the reason why they wont do it is because one it would make it that much more difficult for less skilled players to gain SP.
Some falsely argue that this switch would allow vets to create a larger gap and i would say yes if they continue to play after they hit cap and grind the soft cap. MOST LOG OFF AND STOP PLAYING. Tomorrow you will see a large influx of play and by Saturday it drops like a rock so we know this is already the case.
Point is don't blame a burnt out veteran community for afk farming, when the game doesnt allow us control of who we play with, once 6 player squads come you will see more vets actually playing the game. Add to the fact that most players don't even bother to get on comms or communicate in team chat and CCP still refuses to make voice on and PTT off default and force team chat at the start of match it makes coordinating teams largely impossible.
TL;DR Its not our fault, blame CCP and ask them to make the game worthy of closed beta tester veteran attention, gives us the tools that brings back the joy we once had that you currently have. Also come back to me in two months and tell what your stance on AFK farming is then. As to why we don't move on, many have and simply log to get their SP for when they come back. Ordinarly people would simply leave and come back months later but now that there are no SP resets of course people are going to get every last ounce they can because they want to be as versatile as possible for upcoming PC/FW. |