Synfulwrath
Requiem of Shadows
DEADSPACE SOCIETY
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Posted - 2013.05.11 10:13:00 -
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Ive read a lot of interesting things here and too much to try to quote everyone, so ill just bullet what i can remember and what i think. Also please take this into consideration, i do play EVE, Ive been playing for 8 years, my main has 94m SP. So please dont take this reply as me whining that things are too hard. I did my time, i did my waiting in eve. waiting 30+ days for the next "big thing" is nothing to me. Im thinking about all my friends who couldnt stick with eve because they didnt like waiting 21 days to get all the prereqs and minimal skills to fly something they thought would be cool, and it wasnt even T2. Lets not scare away new players by having them stomped every pub match and calculating the months its going to take for them to be on par with the vets and deciding it wasnt worth their time. eve is tough/unforgiving/gobacktowow blah blah blah save it. and anyway if this was true CCP wouldnt have revamped the whole new player process and added such great new agents and rewards and made noob ships useful. anyway i digress...
1. Academy matches. very good idea, goes a long way towards helping to draw in new players. now new players wont get stomped by proto wearing kill squads. there is a larger issue then just being brand new with no dust experience, but ill get into that later i suppose. I like the idea of it being SP capped because even a great player is still limited to what he can equip and use. this can only go so far towards helping out the brand new.
2.SP Tiered MatchingMaking. this i like BUT we cant just depend on caps. for example Noobie123 plays for a couple months, he has a main with 5m SP or so all over the place. he hasnt got any proto gear, but he put his points into things that he thought would make his gaming experience fun. He can use a tank, a dropship, all the non militia weapons some advanced stuff and has improved his suit skills to mostly lvl 3ish. he didnt put everything straight into proto stuff because thats weeks he has to spend grinding SP with no result until he levels that skill up another 400k SP to V and wanted to try other things before he started the proto grind. Veteran123 knew exactly how he wanted to build his toon from the get go and had 0 wasted SP, his toon has full Proto setup and can pretty much 1 shot Noobie123 all day long. Is it Noobie123's fault for wanting a diverse gaming experience? No, i dont believe so. But i also dont think he should be put into the same games as Veteran123. which brings me to WP....
3. WP. ahhh WP... i think this should be incorporated into an ELO system. Thats what this game really needs. In fact, i think this would solve most of the problems. the low SP guys that are really good would eventually be in matchs with some of the higher SP guys that are just pretty under average lol. but the low SP guy with his Skill advantage should be on Par with the low Skill guy and his SP(gear) advantage. so eventually it should even out to roughly even matchs. i wont put a bunch of examples because if you have played a game with an ELO system you know how it works.
4. Meta Levels. assign numbers to gear, hidden of course, but ill use meta levels for now. add up the meta levels and this should be a value to help determine matching. i think some MMO's call it Attack or Might. gives a pretty good idea of potential. this of course doesnt tell you how good they are, just that they have a potential to be good. you can put someone behind the wheel of a civic or skyline but that doesnt mean they can drift on the docks with the big boys.
I think a combination of some of these are a good idea. give the new guys a break, make them fight each other. put a cap on how long they stay there. Graduate them to an ELO type system but have them in a tier with like individuals with similar gear setups. Use WP to make sure high SP guys arent using "lesser" gear to stomp noobies. this should take more thought of course, but its 5am and i cant be arsed to think any much more then i already have lol. theres more i would like to say but im tired of typing and thinking.
whatever your plans i think your going in the right direction. :) |