Player Features and Ideas Discussion

At first this may sound like a good idea, but it's not. Why? It rewards sloppy play. The easily visible timer would help you to avoid mistakes that would otherwise risk your ship. This would narrow the gap between playing well and playing badly. Change like this is not good game design, IMO. CCP, please reconsider this.

So then should we get rid of aggression timer indicators, what about jump fatigue timers, boosters timers? Tac-Dessie mode timers? reload timers? Structure anchor timers? cycle timers for all modules? If players should be able to "easily track" arbitrary counters, then why have any of them at all?

Did you complain when micro jump drives got a cool down wheel?

Any comment even remotely reminicscent of "we don't need it, get a stop watch", should be considered asinine and be ignore CCP. This is a great implementation.

+1

Mouse acting up pls delete this Sorry

Mouse acting up pls delete this. Sorry

Woot!

Not in todays patch. They surprisingly need to do testing first ;)

I can't even... I strait up can't even.

If you are in a combat situation, a stopwatch is exactly what you need right now to know the first few seconds that you can safely dive past a blockade and activate the Hole, maybe giving you precious few more seconds before the enemy can enter themselves. Precision is something you cannot do with the current mechanics. Which in my opinion is sorely lacking.

"current way is better" .... what?

You are really going all in on the "don't buff multiboxing!!!" argument aren't you? My god. A buff to multiboxing. If someone is multiboxing to roll a hole, they only have to be accurate to the minute, not seconds. Because they're not potentially under threat of combat, and If they're under fire, they're already at such a huge disadvantage simply because they are mutliboxing. Its a complete moot point.

It's far too easy to fall for the incorrect thinking that "a new feature that gives more power to the player makes the game better". Sometimes it can be so, but most often it is not.

Good game design doesn't give constantly more power to the players. Good game design makes players face solvable problems and forces them to make painful compromises, and sometimes even forces them to face problems that have only bad, painful solutions and players are forced to make a decision that really matters. A good example of this is ship fitting in Eve. Imagine how lame it would be if you always had the powergrid, CPU and slots that you needed for a given task. It's just the difficulty and the compromises that makes it rewarding to come up with a setup that works. It's not good trend to keep increasing the power of the player.

A new feature that so visually helps player avoid potential tactical mistake is not a good change. Good game design gives the players the tools to avoid the said mistake, but leaves it for the player himself to use or not use the tools.

I've been thinking a matter a bit. And I have to agree that current way is kind of bad. Still I would prefer that over the currently shown new way due the grounds I have stated. The biggest issue is the graphical timer that is shown all the time over the WH. Maybe it could be made such a way that one would need to hover the mouse over the WH before it would show anything? Small active input from the player would be needed to check the time.

Vasama

I understand that the "polarization" is intended to slow solo chain collapsing of wormholes; in that regard it is probably a good idea (probably). The polarization itself is a effect that builds up in the ship .. and as such, it should be able to be measured and metered by a ship function (once pilots understand it). I have no problem with the idea. The mass and time to collapse of a hole in space, on the other hand, should never be broadcast to any player. Let's not mistake the two ideas. It's far better that they calculate a collapse timer on their own or "guess". This is not what they are talking about with a polarization info "wheel" by the way. Some have called for a popup with mass and time to collapse on it in the past.. which would be a game killing mechanic. Mystery = good for the game. Full disclosure in handy free info popups = not usually so good. (free intel in null sec local for example...)