Herschel Yamamoto
Bloodmoney Incorporated
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Posted - 2008.06.05 19:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Sariyah
Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto
And it will make players able to play more. I know which I care more about. Besides, scripting is already possible, it's merely disallowed. You think that stops any macroers?
It surely won't make people play more, not sure where you took that idea from. It will make players play considerably less and afk more while their UI is doing a good part of their job. You want to make a christmas tree out of your UI, there's other MMOs that support that and don't care much about the bad consequences. 10 mill is 10 mill, who cares if 50k of those are botters. It's extra $$.
You want to promote macroers and help them more. You one of them yourself or just a wannabee? Press the damn keys and play the game instead of wanting to just look at it while it's doing it (nearly) all.
I know there's places in this world where things like using manual transmission would be classified as heavy work  that doesn't mean Eve should do all your work, though.
Besides, I always enjoyed the simplicity of eve ui, no need for plugin/addon/script/macro etc. updating headache after every patch. Bad idea.
By "play more" I mean "spend more of their time actually playing", as opposed to fighting with the UI. And it's not that I want to make a "christmas tree" out of my UI - WoW pastels aren't really my thing - it's that I want to be able to do something with it to make it not like beating my head against the wall. I'm not a fan of WoW gameplay, and I love Eve's, but on the UI front my opinions are completely the opposite. Eve's UI is an abomination in so many ways, whereas WoW has done just about everything right that I can see.
Originally by: Sariyah
Originally by: Hugh Ruka
yes please, long overdue. EVE UI is one of the worse in MMORPG
Tbh I'd say it's THE best by far.
Tbh I'd say you're nuts.
Originally by: Sariyah
Edited by: Sariyah on 23/05/2008 10:12:42
O'rly. You can change those 6 buttons in gw or whatever, nice.
Eve has an unusual ui, I needed some time to get used to it at first, but I can use it effectively for whatever I need to so I see no issue. It has everything I need and everything is easily accessible if you are familiar with it and know where to look...
Not sure why one would need scripting and such, unless some hidden desire to be able to cheat even more. It's clear really. If you think a certain game is better, well, feel free to choose. You won't be missed. Not everyone likes eve and it's fine.
Oh btw, when did GW even became a MMO? Last time I checked it was like almost fully instanced so basically nothing better than a LAN game.
I can't comment on GW(unlike WoW, it hasn't eaten the life of half of my friends), but this insinuation that people only want scripting so that they can cheat is insanity. I don't cheat, I've never cheated in any multiplayer game I've played, and I don't intend to start no matter what scripting is added to Eve. And while none of us can be sure, I imagine myself to be pretty typical. Most people are here to play, not to rack up bigger numbers, and even if most of the worst fears about scripting were realized, a large majority of players wouldn't abuse the new system.
Also, the "go back to WoW" bit is provincialism at its worst. I don't like the game, but it didn't get to 10 million subscribers because the devs were stupid and implemented a game with no redeeming features. I've never heard of a game company doing badly by picking up best practices from Blizzard, and WoW's UI is definitely one of the best things Blizzard has produced that I've ever seen. Don't ignore them just because of the deep inferiority complex everybody on these forums seems to have with regards to our local 800-lb gorilla.
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