EVE General Discussion

Before I go off on this, I'm curious, why is "willing to undock with them" the criteria here?

Let's remember who we're talking about here. The group who are still stuck in the Intel Mem / Per Will support skill rut. This is a group of players who don't understand that armor repairs are free if they use a local repair module at the undock, rather than paying for in-station repair services after every mission. A few years ago, I met a rookie flying a Navy Raven with CN gear, who couldn't figure out how to come out of missions with a profit after paying for armor repairs. I was a bit envious of their gameplay, for making use of station repairs and taking them so seriously, but if they are to be helped by changes to make things smoother, it would look like standardized attributes at a minimum.

And free station repairs for anything not heat-related. I don't see why not, since the only people who use them are the uninformed, and repairs to armor and hull are free with modules. Shields could also use a button to request repairs, instead of letting this depth of gameplay fall through the cracks. (apparently rookies like that sort of thing).

A bit ago I mentioned I don't have these types of problems, and the hard decisions of Intel Mem or Per Wil. Looking at it from the perspective of someone who does, I'd say yeah it sucks, and it's unusual when it comes to game design.

There's something called Principle of Least Astonishment. It's a UI term, but I think it applies here. If it takes too long to figure out, or something looks unusual enough, after a certain point it simply qualifies as bad design. For being confusing or confounding.

I'll give it to EVE for being different, but attributes are just awkward. And why is the time limit a year, anyway. Another compromise aside from the ones already discussed would be more frequent remaps. Once a month, perhaps. I think that's fitting because it coincides with a unit of subscription (1 month).

Seems to me that for a DEV who keeps repeating he has no part in the game design process regarding the subject, you sure are involved in this and seem to have facts on how "things are". Why aren't any of the DEVS who ARE responsible for this reacting here?


Personal bias showcasing as company policy?

Ultimately, you'll know this better than I - I would assume you have statistics you could easily find to see how much of what gets destroyed. Granted, as "combat" 1-5 slot Implants share slots with Learning ones, its hard to get a feel how much they would be used more if Learning ones were gone, but Hardwirings don't, so it should be fairly trivial to datamine how much people use and lose those things in comparison. Even the high-use hardirings (which I would guess would be fitting Implants) probably get lost by several orders of magnitude less than Learning Implants, and the damage ones (what you would probably consider a fairly highly-desired Implant type for someone with money to burn for performance), even less so than those.

His expertise is elsewhere and, as he keeps stating, he has no say on the subject. So is he stating his own opinion? Company policy? Brainstormed ideas? And why isn't anyone who IS involved replying?

Just to be clear, I'm not saying he shouldn't (as if my opinion on that would matter) but I'd like to know who I'm talking to. The person CCP Darwin, CCP as a company or someone relaying between the responsible Devs and us?

Don't these already exist? Learning implants that are paired with boosts to armour, sheild, etc etc.

There are two things that will encourgae you to undock. (re clone / SP / implants)

1) Push
2) Pull

The push will be a thing that makes your current position bad. Ie, with implants in your head you actually have a detrimental effect from them, until you undock.

The Pull will be where the implant only works outside, or works better outside, or is only 'useful' outside (ie in combat).

These can be mixed and matched as desire likes.

Technically that makes you a troll, using the CCP banner to make it, somehow, official.

Because as soon as they say one word, everybody is going to jump to the best conclusion that starts the next pointless argument =p

Whenever I see someone posting with a righteous or indignant tone I assume it's a dev posting on an alt.

lol. no, not you. but come to think of it, maybe CCP Darwin should start posting on an alt for his own sake.

don't use a character with the same born date as CCP Darwin, like CCP Veritas did with IIshira. or we'll find you.