Vell0cet
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.07.08 17:50:00 -
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Reav Hannari wrote:The 'incomplete' argument is one of the few reasonable arguments that can be brought into play. My only counter to that is lore based. The clone mercenary business is new and the megacorporations of New Eden are just now getting around to providing the products. Everybody gets access to the new products at the same time. I don't know of a good lore based reason of removing knowledge of one system and replacing it with another so you're instantly an expert. I'm fairly dedicated to Minmatar based tech and it's irritating that I have to learn other racial systems for now but I am and will adapt when I can go full Minmatar. I've been arguing that we need a final respec when CCP achieves racial symmetry. This can be handled in many different ways, and I wouldn't mind restrictions so you can't go from a proto Amarr Heavy Forge to a pilot with all of your SP's in vehicles. The biggest downside I see is that if we just spec into new things as they roll out we're going to have weird market imbalances since the Amarr Heavy suits will always be in much higher demand than any other race, or certain vehicles will be in higher demand too. It would be much better if there was a roughly even distribution of SP into each Racial variant than having things start out so lopsided.
I don't think this is an issue we have to worry about for a while though. CCP seems content to keep adding MORE roles and making things even MORE lopsided than it already was (e.g. Pilot, Commando).
To the OP: if you want variety play an alt, that's what those other two slots are for. You don't have to be fully speced into something to be effective with it and to have fun with it. You can buy passive boosters and they'll slowly build SP when you're not playing them. Sure you die a lot, but your suits are cheap and it's really satisfying to kill suits that are a higher tier than you. |
Vell0cet
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
46
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Posted - 2013.07.08 18:17:00 -
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CPL Bloodstone wrote:sure im cool with that. people will always play FOTB (build) and go with whatever is OP. This is about having fun. This is not Eve. Console players will never fully accept the Evetard mentallity of no respec's when they go thru tons of games per year. At least with this method it costs real money, there is a long delay between respecs and both CCP/Player both get what they want.
This die hard mentallity crap just wont fly here. Sorry to say. Though i do understand your point of being a diehard against it as well. The guys with the "die hard mentality" are the ones buying boosters every week (for their alts too), and will be playing in 5+ years, that's a lot more cash than the $10 people are willing to pay on respecs every once-in-a-while. The problem with the FOTM is that a huge percent of the players will all be specced the SAME. It's boring as hell and stupid. It's more fun when there's a variety of suits, weapons, tactics going on. THIS is the reason respecs ruin the game, it makes gameplay boring, simplistic, and homogenous. |