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hooc roht
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Posted - 2013.06.22 19:45:00 -
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No it is not because of hot wax on nipples and Iron madden album covers. Those things are kind of cool.
Fundamentally satanism is a the belief in one's superiority over everyone else. Like a villain with all his disposable henchmen (and yes this only happens in comic books) Of course if everyone is superior in a group then no one is a ditch digger. In other religions ditch diggers do just fine. Christianity for example the ditch digger goes to the same heaven the boss does. In Hindu or Buddhism it is your fate to be a ditch digger and in the next life you will be the boss and the boss will be a ditch digger.
The other religions have an "out" for ditch diggers...an equality that allows the ditch digger hope. Satanism does not. Either you are the one and only top guy or you suck and must follow and dig ditch.
No one will choose of their own free will to be a ditch digger.
In video games this is a problem.....especially in multi-player MMOs. No player wants to be the potion shop keeper...they all want to be the hero.
There are lots of ways MMO designers get around this. They use NPCs for all the ditch digging...this sort of works. But if you have ever played WoW and gone into Stormwind and seen all the heroes climbing on the fountain, infesting the streets, and hopping everywhere (guess now they are flying every where as well) it gets kind of crazy and out of proportion. Another way and this is more recent is to make controlled instances. In other words areas that are co-op and areas that are public. It looks like destiny and the division will do this...wow has done it as well...though to a lesser degree.
Anyway Dust is like satanism. It has no out for the ditch digger but a long hard slog of months of grinding and getting stomped by players who are not particularly good but were here first and therefore have special powers. Now other MMOs have level disparity but they get around this by making safe areasof seperation between old players and new players. Like in EvE's hi-sec and multitude of PvE play or in WoW's PvE servers or leveled PvE areas.
Just like satanism Dust has no out for the ditch digger. And any player who plays a game by choice will choose not to play it. This is a fundamental game design flaw and why Dust fails in the market place. |
hooc roht
Deep Space Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.22 19:57:00 -
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Cody Sietz wrote:I wanna transport player vehicles onto and off the battlefield.
I wanna run a salvage and scrap with a little mining business on the side.
Seriously, I've done the hero thing...I'm happy to step the side and support now.
Sign me up.
That would be a PvE "out" as i described above. EvE and WoW and about a billion other MMO's have the same thing. Dust does not. |
hooc roht
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Posted - 2013.06.22 20:17:00 -
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SoTa PoP wrote:Did this post have a point other then, "We need to seperate new and old players?"
Nope you read it wrong. Separation is how EvE and WoW do it. I am not making suggestion of how to fix it in this post.
I am describing a fundamental game design flaw in Dust.
Planet Side 2 for example does not separate. it just makes the old and new players relatively equal on the battle field.
There are probably a hundred different ways to mitigate or eliminate the flaw and probably a hundred more yet to be discovered.
The point of the post is drive home that it is a fundamental flaw. Dust has lots of "problems" OPs need to be nerfed, UPs need to buffed, lag needs to lowered, PC needs different timers, Dust needs to be ported to the PS4, Links need to be made with EvE and on and on and on....but none of these are fundamental game design flaws. They are just features that need to be added or tweeked according to someones preference.
This is not to say there are not other fundamental game design flaws....but those are not the point of my post. |
hooc roht
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Posted - 2013.06.22 21:11:00 -
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Baal Roo wrote:
This is both offensive, and inaccurate.
My apologies to all the satanic ditch diggers of the world. I meant no offense. |
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