[Dev Blog] The second timer in M2-XFE

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@Zhalyd_Lyehin

No other game wants to because they see how it works in EVE. That is the difference. Other game developers know how hideous the experience is and do not endeavor in forcing it upon their players. In contrast to CCP.

This is not true. Planetside tries and fails (they need far lower limits to prevent people spawning right in front of you and that’s with client doing some of the heavy lifting which is a recipe for cheating.

@Zhalyd_Lyehin

No, I cannot imagine that people would be overly sad about this. Sure, some tryhardslike Scoots would get an aneurysm, but that’s something I am willing to accept as reasonable sacrifice. Most other people would be happy if they actually could fight in these battles instead of being stuck in endless jump tunnels, hours upon hours on a titan without doing anything after they alarmclocked in the middle of the night or even called in fake-sick at work to participate.

This is a sandbox game. If you want 5v5 fights there are billions of FPS games out there. No stakes, no losses, perfect for whiners like you.

@CCP You failed again

By introducing structures without learning and changing mechanics from the past. CCP knows that people will bring N+1 to the single most important point of action because the other side brings N+1 to the single most important point of action. CCP introduced a damage cap to “disincentivize people from bringing N+1 because it’s not necessary” but completely ignores that it is still absolutely essential to bring N+1 anyway because you cannot do anything else but go to that single point to achieve …

Again not true. We have been outnumbered by PASPI from day one and still are around and kicking. n+1 works to a certain degree but you still have to deal with strategic level of thinking and planning, and, yes, that includes handling server performance. Reality is hard and it’s apparent that paspi crew is blaming everyone except their leadership who screwed up in handling TiDi (note that we were formed and in system 4+ hours before the timer as compared to PASPI that formed shortly before the timer).