[OOC] January’s Blog Banter
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This month’s EVE Blog Banter comes to us from Manasi, of A Mule in EvE fame.
Manasi asks “How do we, EVE bloggers, adapt to changes as they are thrust upon us (speed changes, no more ghost training, all the dev blogs, etc), or as our lives make playing the game different (more time, less time)?“.
For me, the answer is simple. Although I love Eve and am very passionate about it, I don’t react in the same way as some of the other people who are also passionate about Eve.
Some people take to forums and
* have a damn good whine
* emo-ragequit (along with their eleventybillion accounts- that’ll show CCP!!1)
* try to talk sense and get shouted down
* troll
* whine about the whiners
I’ve never done this. Changes have affected me personally, sure, but I am of the opinion CCP aren’t just changing something for the hell of it. I really doubt they fling out changes that haven’t been thought about, discussed, refined, changed, re-discussed and finally released. I am not talking about subsequent bugs, I am talking about the actual ideas in the game changes.
They occasionally make mistakes (the Carrier changes which had everyone up in arms about and was then shelved), but on the whole, their changes have been good for the game. The recent QR speed changes have been really good I feel, and PvP has improved as a result.
I think in some respects they are ignoring certain aspects to the game, like the whole piracy side of things. Piracy needs a buff in general, as does a structured bounty hunting scheme to make people go after pirates properly. These things need changing IMHO.
Drifting off-topic there. With CCP’s proposed changes to local (for those who don’t know, they want to limit local channel to only show you if you speak in local), this will be the biggest change to gameplay in a long time. Not so much in Empire, even with empire wars (although seeing system numbers spike is always helpful wherever you are), but in 0.0 it is very helpful. Take this away and you will have a lot more frustrated and upset players… to start with. It’s a double edged sword- it favours the campers and the hunters, but then it also masks you if you are ratting or evading. Being good and quick at scanning will become compulsory if you are to be successful.
So, in summary- whatever changes CCP bring in is fine by me. I trust them not to ruin their own game, and I’ll just adapt as I’ve always done.
Participants:
- Attitude is Everything
- The Game with the Thousand Faces
- New Ballgames, Same Home Team
- EVE Blog Banter #4: I Don’t Know
- Adaptation
- CK’s Blog Banter #4
- Roll With the Punches
- Blog Banter 4: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- We, the EVE-bloggers
- Adapt or Die
- I’m in ur blogosphere, hijackin’ ur Blog Banter
- Blog Banter
- Opportunity or Burden?
- Mystic Pizza
- “Stay on target…”
- January EVE Blog Banter
- Re-Prioritization
- Bonzai in my Bookcase
- Delicious!
- EVE blog banter: Adaptation
Thanks for your thoughts Ombey I respect your thoughts almost as much as I do CK’s. That is meant as a compliment. The whole removal of local strikes me as funny in two ways: 1st) Wanna see some nasty 0.0 dweller get scared..mention the local no longer being intel channel…that will do it for sure. 2nd) Those that have never used local as intel seem to not care at all till they get to 0.0 and see 800 ppl in local and then they start saying..oh shit. I will adapt as well!
Manasi said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1246 UTC
Thanks Manasi
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I am that 0.0 dweller you refer to, and we do indeed use local as intel. If it’s taken away, we’re all in the same boat, and it will be frustrating for a while.
It will also hit Empire, as you won’t see war targets or outlaws, but also you don’t get bubbles in Empire. So you’ll likely be tackled on the in-gate anyway, where you won’t need a local channel to see them!
Ombey said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1255 UTC
Every second ship will get cloak… Count my words.
X1376 said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1348 UTC
Heh heh, you may be right. Local going will be the most impacting change since WTZ.
Ombey said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1351 UTC
I’ve read about the proposed change to local only populating when there is chat activity. One facet of the change is that you would still show up when you initially jump into the system and then you would disappear after 5 minutes of no chatting. They wanted to do this to ensure that you loaded into the system and to give those who are hiding a chance for intel that they were not alone. When you disappear from local, they really don’t know if you jumped out or you are “fully cloaked”. I’d like to see this put into place. Would add another level of fun imho.
Ga'len said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1757 UTC
Ah, thats interesting… would be a good thing I think. Would benefit the people already in system though, moreso than the person jumping in.
Ombey said this on January 30th, 2009 at 1904 UTC