EVE General Discussion

I feel like knowing the ins and outs of a system and having done your homework should confer some kind of advantage.

I'm sure thousands of newbies have quit three days into thier trial because someone can baited them at the Jita 4-4 undock, or they suffered from some other grief.

This game (that includes us, the veteran players) is really really hard on newbies and we need to make the transition from WOW a little easier on them.

This is a good feature.

And how, exactly, is a new player supposed to know what kind of homework to do? All the vets of this game already have a huge knowledge-based advantage over new players, but that doesn't mean they should suffer just because they have some stuff to learn.

The safety system will not interfere with any vet's game, it won't take away anyone's choices (hence why you have the ability to turn it OFF), and it isn't going to give new players an unfair advantage over the massive knowledge-based advantage that veteran players already have over noobs.

Removing the safety will require a confirmation.
Yo, dawg...

Says the guy in the NPC corp, perfectly safe from wardecs.

CCP have already indicated that they're working on persisting between logins. You'd know that if you've been following the dev blog comments thread. But even that amount of homework is apparently too much for elite PvPers. So take a chill pill and whine on someone else's dime.

No respect for you.

The safety in and of itself doesn't matter, as it doesn't prevent people from doing what they like. I think it's indicative of the direction CCP are taking with eve though - hand holding and pandering to the lazy and stupid. Many other recent and upcoming changes seem to suggest the same thing

How is the safety system pandering to the lazy and stupid?

Is it only "lazy" who find the pop ups annoying? Is it only "lazy" people who get the popups when they have to reinstall their systems or use a different computer so the popup can't be permanently dismissed by checking the box and clicking "OK"?

Many other recent and upcoming changes indicate that CCP realises that nobody reads popup dialogs anyway, and most of the procedures for suicide ganking are, "click the weapon button, then dismiss the annoying dialog that pops up."

Please provide some support for your argument that I am lazy or stupid because I don't like dialog boxes popping up interrupting my flow of action.

You seem to have misunderstood. I said the safety that prevents you firing weapons was pandering to the lazy and stupid, I did not say disliking the crappy current pop ups was for the lazy and stupid. Reading comprehension, mate. It's important.

Of course the current pop up system is crap, but the solution to that is simply giving players the ability to toggle them off. Not to implement something that prevents weapons fire entirely unless you turn off safeties. See the difference?

Probably not.

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