Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking to limit it to one thing, like shields only. But get a very good bonus to one thing, or a little bit bonus to 2 things could work aswell.

Other than that I guess we have too diferent perspectives on the matter. I still feel you are being too rewarding since, while it may be more or less a common ocurrence a player still have to invest time to get the implants. Wether it is the top hardwiring implants or attribute implants.

So I feel that taking away the implants, and their points would be "better", but also since this is a game about getting an edge over others. One should have that aswell. Boosters was just an example

This topic is still stupid.

Everyone makes choices, the fewer that make a difference, the faster this game becomes "Who wants to spend more cash" Removing risk of losing implants,and the choices that goes with plugging them in means that fighting means even less then it already does. One of the interesting things about learning skills and learning implants was the balance of skill training to game play. where you placed the greater import, fighting now? or being much better later. It asked people to learn about the game and follow up on how its mechanics worked, learn how to use the ships so you didn't blow up all the time, what happened when you didn't pay attention. Learning the pain of getting podded with your first set of +4's that you couldn't immediately replace, made people learn caution and how to avoid getting blown up a second time. It also made getting jump clones (and the later annoyance of slower training times when you didn't want to risk the +4's understandable) because of the risks and rewards of different behaviors.

it was both good and bad that they removed learning skills. one fewer of the choices that was important to your development, but good because it meant that you didn't have to spend the first two weeks doing nothing.

Racing to the bottom in terms or which things you have to concentrate on and how it affects your game play doesnt make the game more interesting, it makes it less important to make good decisions, or even learning enough about the game to make a good decision. if you never get burned by anything how are you supposed to learn? or rather, what incentive do you have to learn. The sheer number of people that still have to get told to do tutorials is staggering. even now that CCP has done several revamps of the tutorials. before they were just a way of weeding out the stupids.

Because something has become standard doesn't mean that it an essential game function, the standardizations of the implants use is because it makes sense, the risks and the rewards remain the same. you still give up something for the benefits of pirate implant sets, that's part of their balance. and you lose the benefits if you do something dangerous.

What you are suggesting isnt game breaking, isnt somewhat understandable, but it is selfish and bad for the game. especially one that has time based skill training and not repetitive action skill training.

Why, why is the basic question should everyone train equally? Why should there be no modifier for decisions?

this has always been true. plex was not CCP's first foray into the cash for isk realm. GTC has a long history.

what you are describing is people can buy implants all they want, these are the same people that will continue to lose them in stupid ways, and continue to pay cash for them again and again.

why this is where the rebalance should come from in not sure. because something is beyond the reach of someone who is just starting the game and is therefore in need of equality is an argument that holds no water. why cant noobs use titans? or deadspace fit vindicators to their full potential? why cant people just pay isk for sp?

because there is a game in the way.

throwing cash at the game doesnt make you understand it, and noobs, cal and do already purchase characters, be it through selling gtc on the forums and purchasing a character through isk, or through EULA breaking means, noobs using old characters has been in the game since , well mostly forever. this occurs in other games as well.

If learning implants are extraneous because of plex for isk, why aren't skill implants as well? or ships? or modules?



a willingness to throw real money at a situation without changing behavior is not something that you can legislate away. the people that don't want to spend extra cash will always be at a disadvantage. Be it through ships, modules, or alts,

giving everyone +5 attributes jsut emans that they never have to make a decision (the people with more cash) about plugging in those pirate implants, over the +5's, they will get the benefit of both, and the isk they got for the cash will just go to always having the best implant sets they can. you have solved none of the inequalities that you were looking for.

If you cant afford the implants, maybe you are doing something wrong by risking them? just a though

1) I have a job, but I also have a life, a house, pets, and a family

2) In other words, be risk averse and never go anywhere that losing my POD is a high probability such as in null where bubbles exist.