EVE General Discussion

Torn on this one,

I do see the implications for hunting.

On the other side, I'm now forced to switch through voice comms to see if someone is online or not. And if I don't find someone there (they might be as reluctant as I am in this regard), I'd have to login to pilots where I'm comfortable to share that information myself, just to find out whether someone might be online.

It basically means, that I'll have to use mail a lot more often than now, just to get into contact with someone. I'm not really fond of writing mails, not knowing if they are going to be read in time or a month after it's too late.

Looks like there's going to be a lot of wasted time just in finding out if someone is / gets online or not. Overall I'd say, that my game experience is going to suffer from this.

This is limited intel, you have to be in the system to get it. Watchlist was unlimited intel about everyone in the galaxy.

I disagree. Local provides free, perfect, riskless intel across an entire system. I can be station-docked and know how many pilots are outside, without undocking and putting myself in danger. It is ridiculously overpowered. If watchlists are to be scrapped, then so should local.

Yay, more buffs for supercaps at the expense of everybody else.

And CCP is also removing local as well?

Thought not. Anything to make the game safer.

New feature, your screen is now black. Before, seeing other ships gave you free intel.

As a mercenary, this is terrible.

I get that watchlisting cap pilots was easymode intel that needs to be made more difficult, but killing the watchlist entirely (which opt-in does) completely wrecks certain lines of work.

I'd suggest allowing watchlisting of parties you have a "legitimate" interest in, such as killrights or declared warfare.

edit: this is a classic example of fixing a problem for one group of players without considering the impact on the rest of the player base.

Scratch that, add it to the NES as an AUR consumable item. "Clairvoyance Injectors"

Complaints like this make it fairly evident who the real predators are, and who are the guys just looking for fish in a barrel.

If you want to propose some kind of mechanic where certain Persons Of Interest can be tracked for a fee then so be it but it needs to be short lived and have the cost scale upwards in an appropriate manner. You should not be able to just watchlist people willynilly because you found some random space object they own somewhere.

It also comes back to a complaint I made a long long time ago about a similar thing. I don't put my name on the side of my car why would my depot have my name on it?

Wut.