Bots don’t matter.
Null sec is so far out of balance in rewards that it is destroying the rest of the game.
CCP have shown they will do nothing about it, so let the bots be they are just destroying the game like the rest of null.
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“Emergent gameplay” is what players do with tools available. And what was not developed by developers.
It does not matter if you like it or not.
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Ridiculous comparison. Supercapital umbrellas do not go outside the rules of the game, physically beating your opponent does.
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The only actual “emergent gameplay” in your list is “players adopting best practices”. The other 3 are the use of game mechanics that apply to Null, the same as Concord is a mechanic that applies to high sec.
Regardless of how it came about, having a region that offers the most rewards with the least actual risk is bad for the game. So we can just add it to all the other ways CCP has designed EVE to actually be bad for the game. CCP has for years been less focused on “what makes a good gaming experience?” (because they don’t seem to know how to address that issue) and instead on “Our metrics show this group of players pays the most in subs and plex. How can we make all our other players play like these guys and therefore pay us more dollars?”.
The fact that they have shot themselves in the foot repeatedly, and over time created power blocs who by voting with their dollars (and their feet) can force game design changes… apparently never occurred to them.
Fortunately, PA now has real money (hundreds of millions) at stake, and they aren’t subject to Hellmar’s need to run a vanity project for his ego. Once they decide they will no longer accept CCP’s lame-ass development efforts, the current decision makers will be ejected and they will start looking for someone who isn’t stuck in 15-year-old design paradigms and insulated from reality by an office full of yes-men.
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No they dont go outside the rules, they just break 90% of actual game play because the amount that exists and the oppresiveness of them.
Theres a reason people dont use caps in WH, its because GFs are a thing, at least in wh space.
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Fixed that for ya. you are welcome.
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Supercapital umbrellas are not a game mechanic.
Intel networks are not a game mechanic.
Corporation and alliance contacts are the game mechanic, the way they are used is not.
The least risk compared to where? People don’t AFK mine, AFK haul, AFK rat in nullsec unless they absolutely don’t care about losing their ships.
No you just have afk scout sitting in a station watching local and using thrid party software to read when nuets show up and automatically send a message in game in a private chat your alliance mates are in. Thats not emergent gameplay, thats automation of a broken game mechanic.
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lol what, people see hostiles in local and click and drag their names to intel channels and mention the system they’re in
i’ve never heard of this being automated
Erm no one has to drag a name into the chanel.
Just read out that information, that the system offers you.
In my chat-window all pilots have a colour tag.
This can be anounced very easy, ether with external equipment,
or with a little bit of criminal energy by reading out the data stream server -> client
Just because you havnt heard of it doesnt mean its not happening.
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Just because it can conceivably happen doesn’t mean it’s regular practice across all of 0.0 lmao
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Didnt say across all of null but if you enjoy making assumptions go ahead.
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Wrong.
Every PLEX that is on the market was bought by someone with real world hard $$$ from ccp. Every PLEX that has been put on the ingame market serves one sole purpose to turn real $$$ into ingame ISK. Lazy ppl who want to earn ISK super fast buy PLEX from ccp and sell it on game market. The higher PLEX in game price is, more likely more PLEX would be bought with real $$$ from cpp, to turn it into ISK at more favourable rate. But in order to keep exchange of $$ to isk attractive, PLEX isk price should be high.
But how to do it ? … If only there was some kind of mechanism to remove excessive PLEX from market so PLEX supply is in check (less supply = higher the isk price). … Damn this is hard … so so hard. That would require some players (?) to just print ISK on massive scale in order to buy large amounts of PLEX from market and then use it to extend theirs accounts game time so they can print even more ISK and buy more PLEX. $hit! I just can’t think of anything …
Do I need to say more ?
Did you noticed what happened with PLEX prices during ‘BlackOut’ ? I was paying careful attention to that. At first , nothing. PLEX prices were hanging on 3.5 - 3.7 mil/pc. Then, “a miracle.” In a matter on days, PLEX price went down from 3.6 mil/pc to 3.2 mil/pc on friday/saturday with potential of falling even lower. What happened then ? Out of the blue. BANG! No more blackout ! What happens like next day ? Yes, literally NEX DAY. PLEX prices go up to 3.6-3.7 mil/pc.
Coincidence ?
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Oh how I pity the people who buy plex for real $ with intention of selling in on market. You are playing right into their hand.
I blame the Illuminati.
It’s pointless. I haven’t logged in two weeks. Now that they’re bringing back local and caving in to the bots, I just don’t care anymore.
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