Science & Industry

It appears CCP is dumbing down Research. Instead of ME/PE we get Level 1-10 in each in category and that is it. Blueprint Copies will be be made so fast, that they can be used just as well as BPOs.

The reasoning?

"The major reason for changing this system is that the current relationship between ME/TE level and actual savings is difficult to understand without wrapping your head around some reasonably non-trivial math, which adds fairly substantially to the mental barrier of entry for industry and generally makes the system more opaque than it really needs to be."

Who, exactly, the ****, are they talking about? I am feeling insulted here. Since when is a simple division "non-trivial math"? Where exactly is this "mental barrier"? Apparently they want to attract drooling morons to the economy sandbox, because, you know, simple math is just too much of a entry-barrier to pass. On top of that, apparently we can't have normal people (notice i don't use "intelligent" here) have an advantage over retards, so everybody is equalized to the same level of idiocy. The probably should call this expansion "Eve Idiocracy", "now with free character transfer from Wow and teletubbies online".

Say goodbye to your Excel sheets, your carefull examination of market niches, your exploitation and manipulation schemes, because it is fairly obvious everybody is going to be brought down to the same level of badness. Apparently the notion of complexity and the requirement to think for a modest time is considered a bad "entry barrier" nowadays. Funny thing though, i joined this game because of its complexity and not its "accessibility" (which is just an euphemism for "we made it easy enough for really really stupid people). Apparently there are just so so many really stupid people who desperately want to play Eve but can't. Yeah right.

Instead, it is not. The difference is between long-term efficiency and short-term effectiveness. It is a system of choice, with level 1-10 we will end up with level 10 BPCs only and that is it.

Actually Excel is used more by business-type people who by definition are more attracted to that part of gameplay. You will find the aspies in the Technology section of the forum. I don't think people interested in an economoy sandbox will like "one click mithril-armor in space" though. And it seems we are getting there.

Loved you in the First and third Jurassic Park movies....although, velociraptors weren't quite that big. They were about the size of a large breed dog...the movie ones were more like Deinonychus antirrhopus.

But back on topic, these changes wont cause spreadsheets to go away, IMO. You'll still need to figure out costs, and you'll still need to calculate expected profits/benefits.

Margins will likely come down as CCP seems intent on increasing the level of competition in various markets though.

Pretty sure they're working on the assumption that Easy Button = more subscriptions.

How did they remove choice? It seems to be just a streamlined process. Why do people like the endless clicking process? You still have to play the meta. You still have to choose and run the processes. You still have to find ways to beat competition. You just ddon't have to bore the **** out of yourself with redundancies that add nothing to gameplay.

It's the same ****... we research them now until they hit a good number for us. Too much research turns out to be dumb or just plain masochistic. How does that equate to choice? Negligible differences Vs other neglible differences?

The choice of being an idiot, obviously.

Yeah, this will be so easy now every goon can do it!

Sorry, couldn't resist but seriously, I obviously need to re-read the Dev Blog as I took away that it will be easier to understand but not necessarily easier to do. Maybe I missed something.