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[EVE] - A Game of Megathrons

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  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    They should have had a system whereby those precious materials somehow rotated around the galaxy every now and then. Maybe every few months? Gives people an incentive to 'settle down' but (one would hope) disincentivises them wanting to turn a region into a fortress?

    That would require totally changing how moon mining is done. Basically the logistics of moving moon mining arrays around/taking them down every month would make an already shitty job, astronomically shitty.

  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    I say tear down that whole stinking anti-fun system and start over then. No idea what, but there's got to be a better way.

  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Reapped. Apparently had 1.8 million in unspent skillpoints.

    Heroically blew half of it getting Sentry Drone Interfacting from IV to V.

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  • HerothHeroth Registered User regular
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    I say tear down that whole stinking anti-fun system and start over then. No idea what, but there's got to be a better way.

    Its not even just about the logistics behind moon mining... to expect people to 'move around' every couple of months or not have enough to pay the bills would probably cause the logistical teams of all the alliances to commit suicide.

    Not even joking... Logistics in eve is fucking terrible.

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Comahawk wrote: »
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    They should have had a system whereby those precious materials somehow rotated around the galaxy every now and then. Maybe every few months? Gives people an incentive to 'settle down' but (one would hope) disincentivises them wanting to turn a region into a fortress?

    That would require totally changing how moon mining is done. Basically the logistics of moving moon mining arrays around/taking them down every month would make an already shitty job, astronomically shitty.

    I GET IT

  • SokpuppetSokpuppet You only yoyo once Registered User regular
    I will say this for CCP. They've got some fantastic art directors or whatever stuffed in a cubicle somewhere... their trailers always manage to make incredibly boring, mundane things look super thrilling.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Comahawk wrote: »
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    They should have had a system whereby those priecious materials somehow rotated around the galaxy every now and then. Maybe every few months? Gives people an incentive to 'settle down' but (one would hope) disincentivises them wanting to turn a region into a fortress?

    That would require totally changing how moon mining is done. Basically the logistics of moving moon mining arrays around/taking them down every month would make an already shitty job, astronomically shitty.

    I GET IT

    it would be sheer lunacy

  • rucdocrucdoc Crazy guy in the corner ClassifiedRegistered User regular
  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    My point was to tear down and rebuild the ENTIRE system of owning space. POS's are a terrible method of ownership, especially in moon-heavy systems. I'd make it so every system had 3 POS 'slots' and whoever owns 2 of the 3 has ownership of the system. Make moon-mining like PI but with more financial investment necessary or some such and do away with that whole exhaustive logistical need in favour of people actually playing a game.

    But i'm no developer and I'm sure they'd tell me that all of that is impossible or not feasible.

  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Your understanding about how sovereignty works in Eve is obsolete.

    http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Sovereignty_guide

    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • SquiddyBiscuitSquiddyBiscuit Registered User regular
    rucdoc wrote: »

    I would love to see a little video contrasting all these trailers of EVE with the actual gameplay.
    It would be hilarious.

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  • hoodie13hoodie13 punch bro Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I think the models are running off of their proprietary engine? The cloth looks really good. Also, I think that was more of a EVE Universe trailer than a EVE Online trailer.

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  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    Immortality?

    *50 dollar monocle falls out of eye*

  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    We just killed four titans! You should play this game.

  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I am curious as to why NCdot decided it was a good idea to use titans alone in US Prime Time when we knew they were coming because we have access to their entire forum.

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    Much smug is to be felt, even though my scorpion was immediately blapped by what I'll call a pod of Erebii.

  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    rucdoc wrote: »

    I would love to see a little video contrasting all these trailers of EVE with the actual gameplay.
    It would be hilarious.

    I saw one of these contrasting the Dominion trailer with the usual shit that happens in a fleet fight.
    Your understanding about how sovereignty works in Eve is obsolete.

    http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Sovereignty_guide

    Crap, I actually forgot all about these. Shows how much attention I've been giving the game.

    My point still stands on moon mining though. POS's are terrible when compared to PI's relative ease.

  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    rucdoc wrote: »

    I would love to see a little video contrasting all these trailers of EVE with the actual gameplay.
    It would be hilarious.

    are you saying EVE doesnt look like that? pff

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  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    So four titan kills, three killmails. Did one of them self-destruct?

  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Wren wrote: »
    rucdoc wrote: »

    I would love to see a little video contrasting all these trailers of EVE with the actual gameplay.
    It would be hilarious.

    are you saying EVE doesnt look like that? pff
    I think he means more the actions than the appearance. Like in Dominion, that command ship that warps onto a hostile gate and dies horribly.

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  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    Mostly that the fleet fight is depicted as fast-moving, decisive and fun.

    None of these are present in the usual fleet fight.

    Good Fights are obscenely rare.

  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The Titan nerf should go a long way to fixing that.

    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • SquiddyBiscuitSquiddyBiscuit Registered User regular
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    Mostly that the fleet fight is depicted as fast-moving, decisive and fun.

    None of these are present in the usual fleet fight.

    Good Fights are obscenely rare.
    Visually as well, but that's a bit more obvious.
    Half the screen is filled with numbers and little symbols, and there is no reason to zoom in as close as they are in that video.

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  • jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    CCP is apparently launching an investigation about the part of mittani's speech about scamming a suicidal player. Between that and another goon's recent scamming of 100B isk worth of crap from an apparently bipolar player who bought the stuff with plex it makes me wonder how much pressure CCP will take and still hold to their "scamming is allowed' rule. This is doubly true if their 'video cards for plex' pilot becomes a regular thing.

    Scamming game money is one thing, but when someone puts in $3000 for that money (wtf) and the scammer can turn that into video cards that he can put on ebay for $2000 that brings up a lot of issues that I doubt CCP wants to deal with.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    That guy is only as suicidal as he says he is

    (ie: not very)

  • hoodie13hoodie13 punch bro Registered User regular
    Mittani is stepping down, according to his twitter.

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Got some details on that?

    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
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  • AvynteAvynte Registered User regular
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    Wouldn't be surprising if CCP was pressuring him to step down as well, due to cyber-bullying being a hot button issue. Too many high-strung crazies out there that can't separate internet spaceships from reality. Having one go all :royofca: on themselves is bad press.

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  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    And I'm still not sure what I think of it. On the one hand; ouch bullying sucks. On the other hand maybe the guy should get real help instead of having 23 Eve accounts spending his life on an MMO that really doesn't matter. Then there's the fact we have no idea if the guy genuinely was suicidal IRL.

    But then maybe it's time everyone realised that there comes a time when we need to step back and just be cool to each other instead of doing the goon thing and being monsters. And finally; freedom of speech etc.

    Conflicted...

  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    Euphoriac wrote: »
    And I'm still not sure what I think of it. On the one hand; ouch bullying sucks. On the other hand maybe the guy should get real help instead of having 23 Eve accounts spending his life on an MMO that really doesn't matter. Then there's the fact we have no idea if the guy genuinely was suicidal IRL.

    But then maybe it's time everyone realised that there comes a time when we need to step back and just be cool to each other instead of doing the goon thing and being monsters. And finally; freedom of speech etc.

    Conflicted...

    Pretty much what I thought when I read about it. EvE makes everything possible after all. One day your jacking some moron's corp from under him, next day you yourself are on the receiving end of a shit sandwich. This kind of thing is inevitable. But it's better to have this and know when to stop then to have the boring, carefully controlled alternative.

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Mental health is EVE's hot button, who knew?

  • Exile1337Exile1337 Registered User new member
    Mental health is EVE's hot button, who knew?

    I don't think it's mental health issue that has me annoyed, it's the fact that representative and liaison for the community, during a public event has called out for his fellow community members to harass a member of said community for that he or she would commit suicide.

  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    Regardless of the consequences Mittens should receive I'm pretty irritated at the people who aren't taking his apology at face value and instead as some completely Machiavellian political move, even if I can understand it from people who have pretty much never encountered any facet of him outside of his in-game persona. But then in spite of countless people telling them that there's more to him than this and them dismissing those people as just brainwashed goons or compatriots in some vast political conspiracy...ugh. Not to say that it wasn't a completely horrible thing he said, I seriously considered whether I really wanted to be a part of this alliance when I saw that part of the presentation.

    It's an ugly event and it's really going to suck if this results in the game getting worse due to a lack of a CSM representative (not necessarily chairman) such as Mitanni. If they do have to sack him/he resigns from the CSM entirely I hope CCP keeps in mind the interests of those who voted for him even on a council without him, since if this game somehow reverts to supercaps online/eve as it was a year ago I'm not going to keep playing it.

  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    Regardless of the consequences Mittens should receive I'm pretty irritated at the people who aren't taking his apology at face value and instead as some completely Machiavellian political move, even if I can understand it from people who have pretty much never encountered any facet of him outside of his in-game persona. But then in spite of countless people telling them that there's more to him than this and them dismissing those people as just brainwashed goons or compatriots in some vast political conspiracy...ugh. Not to say that it wasn't a completely horrible thing he said, I seriously considered whether I really wanted to be a part of this alliance when I saw that part of the presentation.

    It's an ugly event and it's really going to suck if this results in the game getting worse due to a lack of a CSM representative (not necessarily chairman) such as Mitanni. If they do have to sack him/he resigns from the CSM entirely I hope CCP keeps in mind the interests of those who voted for him even on a council without him, since if this game somehow reverts to supercaps online/eve as it was a year ago I'm not going to keep playing it.

    I pretty much agree with you.

    Really, the only part I found disturbing about that panel was the whole suicide thing, had Mittani not encouraged the trolling/harassment, nothing would of stuck out. People losing their shit over this really need to step back and take a breath. It is only a video game, the goon's actions were sanctioned by the creators of the video game, scamming has been a key part of Eve for years. This person is mentally disturbed and from their actions (20+ accounts, discussing suicide with strangers, etc.) obviously needs some help. He is not really a victim so much as his own abuser in this scenario, and I truly hope that CCP takes the initiative to help this guy.

    But yeah, Mittani getting off the CSM is a good move and really, his apology is about all he can do at this point. Other than that, it's a relatively non-issue that people are blowing way out of proportion.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Comahawk wrote: »
    Regardless of the consequences Mittens should receive I'm pretty irritated at the people who aren't taking his apology at face value and instead as some completely Machiavellian political move, even if I can understand it from people who have pretty much never encountered any facet of him outside of his in-game persona. But then in spite of countless people telling them that there's more to him than this and them dismissing those people as just brainwashed goons or compatriots in some vast political conspiracy...ugh. Not to say that it wasn't a completely horrible thing he said, I seriously considered whether I really wanted to be a part of this alliance when I saw that part of the presentation.

    It's an ugly event and it's really going to suck if this results in the game getting worse due to a lack of a CSM representative (not necessarily chairman) such as Mitanni. If they do have to sack him/he resigns from the CSM entirely I hope CCP keeps in mind the interests of those who voted for him even on a council without him, since if this game somehow reverts to supercaps online/eve as it was a year ago I'm not going to keep playing it.

    I pretty much agree with you.

    Really, the only part I found disturbing about that panel was the whole suicide thing, had Mittani not encouraged the trolling/harassment, nothing would of stuck out. People losing their shit over this really need to step back and take a breath. It is only a video game, the goon's actions were sanctioned by the creators of the video game, scamming has been a key part of Eve for years. This person is mentally disturbed and from their actions (20+ accounts, discussing suicide with strangers, etc.) obviously needs some help. He is not really a victim so much as his own abuser in this scenario, and I truly hope that CCP takes the initiative to help this guy.

    But yeah, Mittani getting off the CSM is a good move and really, his apology is about all he can do at this point. Other than that, it's a relatively non-issue that people are blowing way out of proportion.

    The victim in question has actually been pretty cool about the whole thing. Turns out no one mailed him and he didn't even know about the whole affair until some random guy told him.

  • TheKoolEagleTheKoolEagle Registered User regular
    so last week I tried to resub, ccp says my account is banned, 1 week later after putting in a petition I have heard nothing.

    urge to shoot spaceships is fading D=

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  • Opiumden34Opiumden34 Registered User regular
    I just resubbed today. While I wait for my app to be accepted, I'm thinking about what to do with my 3 accounts. Pvp/incursions/anomaly ratting? maybe a carrier alt?

  • EuphoriacEuphoriac Registered User regular
    Heh, I've been thinking of coming back too. Maybe I should so I can wave to you from inside the cool club. Totally not dickish of me...

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