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Racial Diversity - Fight against the 6/6/6 ships with a choice of color!
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Ruze
Next Stage Initiative
#21 - 2013-04-15 12:28:38 UTC
Felix Judge wrote:
The more diverse, the higher the risk that this or that feature turns out to be imbalanced.

And since people will always tend strongly to use the imbalanced feature to their advantage, very soon the imbalanced feature (this ship, or that module, or that tactic) will be much used, and everything else will be little used. Remember the drake fleets not so long ago?

For the devs, it is highly complicated to create balanced diversity. So their natural "escape" is to diminish diversity between the races, in order to actually have players choose among the many possibilites more or less equally, thus actually enhancing diversity.


Agreed wholesale. It's simply smarter to make a bunch of different color clones, as with that 'balance' comes less haggling over module/racial superiority.

It's not that the ships like the old Prophecy where bad, they just weren't as great. And when a ship isn't the best, it will rarely get used. This is sadly the way that works with people. We break the system, if you wanna get down to it.

If you're driven to threaten others with harm or violence because of what they do in game, you can't separate fantasy from reality. That "griefer/thief" is probably more sane than you are. How screwed up is that?
Diesel47
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-04-15 13:18:51 UTC
Agreed with OP 100%.
Sakkar Arenith
Kenmei Corporation
#23 - 2013-04-15 13:21:03 UTC
Job Valador wrote:
Have to admit though OP, the geddon is defiantly a good change theme wise. Big smile


Ohh dont get me wrong, i really love the new geddon.

Its a missile/neut wielding drone boat. Its basically a golden dominix!


And that is the essence of my critique.

We are really now left with 6/6/6 boats with a choice of color.


Of course i dont want the old prophecy back, and yes the old exeqeror was a piece of ****. But what we are having now is a cheap way out of a lack of proper direction and balancing.

And I say, dont settle for 3rd grade balance!

It is very well possible to have several very distinct races be balanced among themselves and each other. It takes some thinking, and an excel sheet, but that about it. How low are our expectations that we have to settle to "Well, at least its better than the old prophecy.."

Eating a polished turd, still tastes like ****!


Demand true diversity AND a viable role for each and every ship/module, IT CAN BE DONE!
Flyinghotpocket
Small Focused Memes
Ragequit Cancel Sub
#24 - 2013-04-15 15:31:41 UTC
Felix Judge wrote:
The more diverse, the higher the risk that this or that feature turns out to be imbalanced.

And since people will always tend strongly to use the imbalanced feature to their advantage, very soon the imbalanced feature (this ship, or that module, or that tactic) will be much used, and everything else will be little used. Remember the drake fleets not so long ago?

For the devs, it is highly complicated to create balanced diversity. So their natural "escape" is to diminish diversity between the races, in order to actually have players choose among the many possibilites more or less equally, thus actually enhancing diversity.


idk man, the higher the imbalance the more people are going to cry about, and the more crying, the sooner it gets rebalanced.

only the time frame differs, like with the proposed BS changes, ccp changed those within days, with all the crying over local/boosteralts/cloaks and what not its takin years

Amarr Militia Representative - A jar of nitro
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