Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.07.14 00:57:00 -
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Eris Ernaga wrote:Shame because now there are these hardcore anti respec people on the forums who are almost as hardcore as anti abortionist or anti marriage people who feel their way is the only way and that anything else would completely totally obliterate and nuke the game to nonexistence.
Firstly, this looks like a slippery slope, and that is bad. Never blow things out of proportion. Leave that to the media.
Okay, sorry. I couldn't help myself. Anyway.
A solution to the SP problem? A solution to everything? How about all items are initially unlocked and SP only improves their efficacy? Imagine a prototype tank. You can buy it, straight off the bat, as soon as you start the game, and it will be usable. There's only the hurdle of a 10mil ISK price tag.
But wait. You're a mercenary. Money is your element! So you take out contracts, you control your budget, you purchase cheap gear, until you get that dream tank.
Once you have it, though, you look back and you realise all that hard work... it's not worth losing in a public match.
So you never use it in public matches.
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Apart from this benefit of reducing pubstomping protobears, having all items unlocked, WITH NO SP INVESTMENT REQUIRED TO USE ANYTHING, CCP can go wild implementing new items, new dropsuits, new vehicles, new weapons, without the worry about a new phase of SP RESPEC PLZ threads. Why? Because the ability for a merc to be acquiring new items is based on your wallet, and there is no cap on this.
Or so you think. You're effectively limited by how much you spend on games, how much you control how much you spend, and how much you gain in battles.
Think about the immersion! Right now, if CCP offered a triple ISK event or a triple SP event, which would you pick? Yeah, that was rhetorical.
But how do you explain a triple SP event, in terms of the universe of New Eden? "blablabla unprecedented information processing abilities by immortal clones..." hahahahah no.
But a triple ISK event? "... corporations are desperately seeking any form of protection viable for their vulnerable resources..." That's New Eden.
So what we need is ISK to become all-important, and for SP to take the back seat. |