EVE General Discussion

Madman or troll? You be the judge, dear reader.

Seems the relevant question is why they would. They probably wouldn't up through some point, but that's fine. What they could do is more effectively make ISK and play the game. Some sources would say that's a trend for effectiveness, which is correlative with enjoyment and coming back for more. The cool part about an open door is that if what's on the other side is really cool, it gets attention.


SP limits politics, though, doesn't it? It limits strategy?

Dror-y boy, are you ever going to respond to me? Pretty please? I just want to talk to you, and you just ignore me. My feelings are hurt. Please talk to me!

Your trolling and ability to start the same thread over and over is fun!

No, social aspects are effected by the people engaging socially. SP doesn't dictate this.

this is just nonsense

if you want newbies - whoever they are - to be involved in large scales engagements then everyone would be restricted to flying frigates (with very restricted gear) and there would be no campaign development (i.e SP)

What if he's the 'mad troller', sort of like the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland except he goes around trolling forums?

Not at all.

There are a lot of things in the game that come down solely to your skills as a person and particularly your organisational, interpersonal, cognitive and other skills.

Being a Logistics Director has almost nothing to do with skillpoints and much more the ability to organise, schedule and manage other people and information.

Being a Diplomat has much more to do with cognitive and interpersonal skills than it does with any skillbook.

Being a good educator in the game has much more to do with organisational and communication skills than what skillpoints your character has.

There are many more examples where roles and functions within the game depend more on the life skills of the player than they do on the skillpoints of the character.

Skillpoints provide flexibility for the character at the immediate (tactical) gameplay level. The real game is played at the meta level (operational and strategic), where the most successful players have the RL skills to achieve their goals, no matter which character they are using at the time.

I think that will be his next thread. Followed by another asking that gated complexes enforce even fleet numbers.

I've already told you, oh sweet Dror of mine.

Vets who've played for years will quit, because we don't want to be carebears in space like yourself. EVE would do a 180 degree flip from being what it is to a themepark WoW in space game, causing the subscribers who have make it one of the highest rated MMOs in existence for over a decade into just another run of the mill game. It would ruin what makes EVE, EVE.

For the sixth time in this thread, can you respond to this champ?

Actions have consequences. We like that. I can't blindly re-roll a new character and have the same skills. My reputation is tied to my name, and I have to live with my actions. We like that also. If you remove time-based SPs, reputation is suddenly meaningless, as anyone can re-roll a new character at any time. The entire social-political landscape of EVE disappears overnight.

Look forward to how you dodge this point for the sixth time, Dror-y boy.

Rep and sec status are 90% of the game. Asking to ignore rep or sec status in EVE the same as asking someone to ignore the fact they have to shoot guns in counterstrike....Have you even played EVE, Mr. Dror McTrollingSon?

This is one of the places Dror runs to under pressure, whacky analogies. Then when that gets strained by sense, it's back to game design 101 extracts mixed with incoherent, stilted high school debating.
The one place he won't run to is speaking from an informed point of view. A goon, a PL fc, a 5yr hisec mission running miner, any of these could sound informed and have opinions. It's pretty clear we're dealing with someone who hasn't played EvE.


edit: realistic paintings are problem solving exercises, which have been performed better by machines for over a century, allowing distortions in art beyond the bland goal of realism. Truth is nothing to do with realism, since problem solving is a less arbitrary decision making process than finding 'truth'. Thanks for coming, watching you get destroyed is getting a bit old now.