EVE General Discussion

Well maybe they should be all for truth in advertising - instead of calling it crime watch, just call it aggro flagging, cause it hasnt really impacted "crime" in either high or low sec, which is what we were promised it would do.

As for blot - well i dont know if this is going to be easier to run from a lag perspective, but I do know that if you have to read two large charts with the help of a magnifying glass to even beginning to understand what they are doing, then they have failed on their goal of reducing complexity for the players.

Which is exactly the point - why worry about the consequences when there are no more crimes to worry about? High sec is a safe zone for the kiddies.

There are still neutral reppers, which hopefully will be gone once and for all with Retribution.

Orca / carrier tricks gone too (some of those were already addressed).

With no disrespect towards the huge amount of work you guys have done and still going to do (hopefully) and probably slightly unrelated to the crimewatch development. No matter how you spin in it, CCP are, moving towards that direction, all these buffs, nerfs, changes, modifications or whatever during the past few months (even years) proves that, or at least to an extent that a lot of players feel that way.

Again, I have a huge respect towards the devs, you guys are probably the best devs in terms of devs-player interaction I've seen during more than a decade of playing MMOs, so, there's that. But suffice it to say, we don't know what were the decisions made internally in CCP during the past few, we don't know whether the CCP executives made the decision to change from a pure and harsh sandbox to a more themepark styled MMO which caters a bigger market share. All we see are the impacts, what you guys did and where we think the game is moving, in which it's very clear. No matter what you, soundwave, or what other devs says.

Just my 2 isk. Please take no offense.


Basically this. Thank you.

PS: All of my rambling was not directed towards the new flagging system, I quite like those.

I like everything about this change.

This opens up so much more pvp for my battle hauler. I am positivly giddy with excitement!

This.

Welp, that's the end of can dueling (for better or worse).

The end of station games. Good riddance.

The new system may decrease the scope for highsec pvp, but it greatly increases the scope for lowsec pvp by effectively removing GCC as long as you don't pod people.