Shadowmine wrote:

Man, you guys are crying a lot about a game mechanics change that you have said won't affect you. Because you guys RSA buddy each other with your ewars and you have dedicated logi pilots... So why all the crying if it isn't going to affect you?

Apparently tears are what grease Zooms wheels, so I will 'cry' all day in the name of not ruining this game more. Someone may listen. Some will only see their own self interest. Some don't care one way or another. Some don't even have a clue in the first place.

My main gripe is NOT follow nerf, its terrible Developer Decision Making Pattern:
1.) Forum cry on fuzy 'problem'
2.) whacky sideways 'solution' proposed
3.) Forum campaign for whacky sideways 'solution' forgetting original 'problem'
4.) Zoom tear catching bucket reaches it's capacity
5.) Incoming dumb change

Ville wrote:

Cassius wrote:

Now we can win all those fights we were losing because of lag!

And hooray for new artifact sites!

-25.

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SpnX wrote:

And yes I would say that multiboxing is abusing/cheating, cause it makes you way more effecient then a guy with only one account.

You are comparing apples to oranges here. Multi-boxing is way less efficient then using TWO different players controlling those same two accounts. And by using the same logic as you apply, but not to argue my position, i could claim:

using two real live players to control two accounts is cheating!

The way I see it, it's just envy in your reasoning as facts seem absent. It is not possible to do everything solo as you state, certainly not from the start. Hell most things are straightforward so impractical people feel the urge to subscribe at least a second account. And with impractical i mean efficiency drops well below 40% compared to doing the same with two guys and often much lower!

Specific reply to you SpnX:

Having an opinion is fair and all, but game wise it all comes down to forcing it onto others as well and that is where it becomes problematic. Essentially you want others way of playing to be restricted to one account (in this discussion) and them having to rely on say buddies.

Knowingly or not, this implies at least two things:

1. Screw solo players that just want to build up their empire in a virtual world! You don't need that subset of players to also pay for this game and contribute in the form of live content?

2. Because of it being impractical to do just about anything with one account in the game, making it impossible to use more, means it becomes impractical to play the game unless we have an insane regional fitting population explosion. If you need three specialists to accomplish tasks with not to much micromanagement for mundane boring stuff (like hauling) then who is going to be your dedicated hauling buddy? Someone in the same TZ, loving to be your pet?

See, game mechanics and also content are such that you need multiple accounts, or be part of a really large group where a few players do have those spare accounts for those dull tasks. It is terrible to have to sit idle somewhere not being able to do what you want, when you want and when you can, just because some other dude is not online or has other plans.

So unless you can convince or finance say 2-4k active new players happy to do mundane tasks on command and be there when you need them, your desire to practically limit players to one account essentially means you want this game gone!

I certainly do not want to loose the approach/follow feature, it is the only realistic way to move my support bots to a site, be it for mining, hauling or just farming NPCs. Increasing micro-management is the single worst thing you can do for a game that is already burdened in this respect. Hauling is i think the most prime example.

PS. I did only ** one ** NO vote, even while I have 6 accounts. Even logging in 6 times in a row is a horror, so why force this on the game play? That just makes no sense at all, and I am surprised so many votes yes...there must be many many bitter people for some reason!

SpnX wrote:

Why you want more tokens?

It's fair that you want it changed, but atleast put in a reason. I really think ppl in this game needs to get facts and stat reason why they want stuff changed before the devs have any chances of taking the suggestion seriously.

I don't have to state facts or reasons for something that is obvious and I expect at least some common sense from the devs.

Tell me, would you waste EP for complexity 5 extensions which only increase money rewards?

Maybe we should just go hard-hard core mode, where bots are on terrain all the time. No outposts, no logging.

One land mass!

Burial wrote:

I think those player and dev run events don't generate as much publicity as a multi-billion NIC corp theft or some other form of meta-gaming. That's what makes games like Perp and EVE so fun.

Brb, creating new character..