Doctor Mabuse
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Posted - 2009.03.31 11:34:00 -
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Edited by: Doctor Mabuse on 31/03/2009 11:45:20 They had it all nicely balanced, and then went and messed it up.
I have two characters, my main, who amongst other things has been doing exploration since it was released; Astrometrics to 5 and all other skills to 4, and my combat alt, who has the bare minimum necessary to scan his way out of w-space.
On release of the new system things were just right, my main could quickly find wormholes, get the gang into w-space and quickly find any wormholes leading out. Scanning was more fun and didn't require excessive time, which was about right given the skill training time invested in this chracter.
My alt on the other hand would find the wormholes in k-space fairly quickly, but would have a long and difficult time in w-space due to the large amount of signatures. Again this was just fine, after all, he had hardly any skill time invested in explorataion.
So far so good, CCP had done a good job on the balancing of this one. Unfortunately this balance kind of hinged around the Deep Space probes ability to quickly tell what type of signature it was seeing, which allowed my main to concentrate on the type of signature required. It was this ability which was nerfed meaning that now there is little difference between my skilled main or noob alt.
The problem is the large amount of signatures in w-space and having to rule each one out. For this the old Deep Space probe was perfect, they still needed deploying, focusing and moving around to get the results, which was hugely preferrable to some 'filter' that identifies signature types. Furthermore it could only be used by people who had invested the training time into exploration, unlike a filter would be.
All in all CCP had this right and then dropped the ball...
Edit: What would be ideal is to have the strength of Deep Space probes kept as it is, but allow them to detect the type of signature at lower strength levels. This would still require the more specialised probes to be used to actually find the signatures, but would make the Deep Space probes very useful again for characters with the necessary skill investment. ------------------------------------
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