Missions & Complexes

he asked if loot spew was still being removed for Kronos - I was simply answering his question

Sorry if I came across as facetious, but I do not have much time to keep up with Eve lately.

I am relieved and pleased that one of the few Eve game mechanics I have really disliked is being removed.

So, has the originator of the loot spew mechanic idea been promoted to catching the toast jumping out of the CCP toaster?

...using only his left hand. And seven toasters spew the toasts simultaneously.

At a rough guess, he/she was transferred to the UI team that produced the new tooltips.

yes, we will balance accordingly :)

Please, don't forget to put some carbon there. Just for sentiment.

I don't understand. What is wrong with the mechanic from CCPs perspective?

Granted a lot of don't like losing any potential loot, but the masses are a bunch of babies who want things to be as easy as possible, if possible.

I don't see very many descriptive complaints on how the mechanic is bad.

I just started doing it and it seems enjoyable to me thus far. The more real-time interactive mechanics the better. You have got to be quick if you want to get the loot you need, and you will have to make quick decisions on what you can grab if you want to maximize your profits. Having a more agile ship and actively piloting your ship will help you get the further away containers you need.

Happy the loot spew is being removed, but I am wondering how players can do a better job getting features removed more quickly. When it comes to loot spew:

1. Initial feedback when loot spew was released on the test server was highly negative from a wide variety of players, many of whom cited good arguments (beyond simply disliking the mechanic) against it (e.g., the mechanic did not accomplish its stated goal, nor any other goals, it was difficult to interact with such small objects in space, it ruined the sense of accomplishing the mini-game, it hurt the hands after a while, etc.).

2. The feature, if I recall, was tweaked, even though the vast majority of players giving feedback argued it should be removed. The modification (making the cans fly slower) did not address most issues, and in fact contradiction the initial goal of the loot spew encouraging cooperative play (it is funny how a system can be developed for some goal G, and yet when it fails to accomplish G the designers of that system scramble to find something else that the system accomplishes, rather than actually revamping it to accomplish G).

3. Weeks and months after release players continued to argue on the forums, via csm, in person, etc., that the mechanic is terrible and ought to be removed.

Basically, I don't know what more players could have done to communicate to the devs that this feature is terrible. Here we are, a year later (!), and it is finally being removed. What I want to know is, why did it take so long? And what can players do better (if anything!) to get features like this removed--not just modified? (I ask because the new tooltip system is one such terrible mechanic which does not need to be modified but thrown out, for instance, and I don't want to be stuck with it for years.)

Yeah the market in Ancient Technology skill books completely crashed.

Has CCP decided what is going to happen to the Loot Spew Implant in the Kronos release?
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