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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    but will the new system make the solo nonvet low gear doff ship quality often lacking in teamwork using player happy even when they still fail to win as consistantly as their egoes say they should?
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Dose anyone else have any new ideas?

    Yes.

    However, I'm still working on it.

    May not happen.
  • roxbadroxbad Member Posts: 695
    edited January 2014
    Dose anyone else have any new ideas?

    More open PvP zones.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Dose anyone else have any new ideas?
    Live and let live. PvP players can strive against each other, PvE players can strive against NPCs, those who do both can do both, and none of the groups needs to assume it's in competition against the others.

    Unlikely, I know, but every idea has to start as a dream, right?
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  • raphaeldisantoraphaeldisanto Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    Live and let live. PvP players can strive against each other, PvE players can strive against NPCs, those who do both can do both, and none of the groups needs to assume it's in competition against the others.

    Unlikely, I know, but every idea has to start as a dream, right?

    I'm with this guy. People need to quit evangelising.

    The only way I'd ever PvP is if you removed it so a human player didn't lose. Wait. We already do that. They call it PvE.
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    Live and let live. PvP players can strive against each other, PvE players can strive against NPCs, those who do both can do both, and none of the groups needs to assume it's in competition against the others.

    Unlikely, I know, but every idea has to start as a dream, right?

    I share the dream of an end to the absurd "they need to join us in [PvE/PvP/whatever] and stop having fun wrong" mentality.

    Of course I also realize we'll all be flying around on winged donkeys before it ever comes close to happening, due to the nature of this species.

    -shrug-
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    When the PvP playing gets better IE, better mechanics, sure. Till then, not really.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    So we see the catch-22 the PVPers are in, which is similar to the KDF catch-22. PVEers avoid PVP because it's superbly unbalanced and it isn't fun to get used for target practice by the cadre of PVP-exclusive minmaxers who one-shot fully shielded tank builds. And because everyone's over on PVE, Cryptic invests there instead of improving PVP to where PVEers have more fun.
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  • raphaeldisantoraphaeldisanto Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    PVEers avoid PVP because it's superbly unbalanced and it isn't fun to get used for target practice by the cadre of PVP-exclusive minmaxers who one-shot fully shielded tank builds. And because everyone's over on PVE, Cryptic invests there instead of improving PVP to where PVEers have more fun.

    That's not the only reason some PvE players avoid PvP.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    So we see the catch-22 the PVPers are in, which is similar to the KDF catch-22. PVEers avoid PVP because it's superbly unbalanced and it isn't fun to get used for target practice by the cadre of PVP-exclusive minmaxers who one-shot fully shielded tank builds. And because everyone's over on PVE, Cryptic invests there instead of improving PVP to where PVEers have more fun.
    That's not the only reason some PvE players avoid PvP.

    Indeed... As I said before... I don't need to stroke my ego, by some false sense of accomplishment, while having to read the kiddies whine when they get their butts kicked without being able to slap them.
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  • lordkratos1974lordkratos1974 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    make a dedicated server for those that want to 'PvP' and there ya go, problem solved. If Cryptic could make PvP more like First Person Shooters id definitely play some.
  • raphaeldisantoraphaeldisanto Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    Indeed... As I said before... I don't need to stroke my ego, by some false sense of accomplishment, while having to read the kiddies whine when they get their butts kicked without being able to slap them.

    Aye. Lots of reasons why people don't PvP. Fear of being one-shot by min-maxed builds might apply to some, but it's certainly not everyone. Not even close.

    I don't PvP because it's a competitive activity, and I don't engage in competitive activities.
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    talonxv wrote: »
    When the PvP playing gets better IE, better mechanics, sure. Till then, not really.

    "Make mechanics better" is as imprecise and open to interpretation as "balance the game". The problem is that we can't seem to agree on how to even start this process.

    Min-maxers who "got theirs" are likely to fortify their positions that "everything is fine, L2P" and just complain that the PVE peasants are cowards and don't want to be skilled by their skill.

    Out and out PVP haters (they do exist) would want PVP removed entirely for obvious reasons.

    Middle grounds include removing reputation buffs and the like from PVP, indeed, even going to the extent of stock ships and loadouts (which would work, but boy would the min-maxers hate that), among many other spectrums of offered ideas.
  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    but will the new system make the solo nonvet low gear doff ship quality often lacking in teamwork using player happy even when they still fail to win as consistantly as their egoes say they should?

    Funny how you directly equate people with young accounts or suboptimal gear/reputation sets as "lacking in teamwork" when they are completely different things with no direct correlation.

    Well, that's the "hardcore" PVP mindset. The gear didn't carry them, surely the other side simply didn't work together. :rolleyes:
  • jrbrianjrbrian Member Posts: 157 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    No interest in it. PvE is usually more balanced and you get to increase the difficulty level at your own pace.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Funny how you directly equate people with young accounts or suboptimal gear/reputation sets as "lacking in teamwork" when they are completely different things with no direct correlation.

    Well, that's the "hardcore" PVP mindset. The gear didn't carry them, surely the other side simply didn't work together. :rolleyes:

    Funny how you ignore the fact that all those description have been used by those claiming what is wrong with pvp and then say its a hardcore mentality.
    Premades ruin pvp for the solo player is one complaint that has been stated...
    Vets have more experience and access to better gear due to the time ingame which makes those new to pvp disadvantaged...
    The better gear of the vet player makes the new pvper less capable of a player in pvp has been another complaint...
    And team woork among the premades designed to work in unison puts the solo new pvper at a risk of not having a chance at victory when said solo new player cant do the same with a pug...

    I used the definitions and excuses used by many new and unhappy players through out this thread.

    So how will those who look at pvp from under these definitions and excuses react if they are removed and such players still remain at their current level of pvp victory?
    Will they be happy or find blaim elsewhere?

    Its still a valid question as it stems from the most important part of any competition, the sportsmanship mindset.
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  • venetar90venetar90 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I don't PvP bc I honestly got tired of it after the first year. I got tired of my super surviveabke cruiser build getting drifted to death in less that 5 seconds by one freaking cookie cutter unoriginal escort. I hop into every now and then to see if things have changed much and no they haven't. Science is more useful which is good but that's about it really. Escorts are king.

    Oh and I'm tired of the trash talking trolls that make fun of you when you run away bc you can't handle them and 3 of their teammates but then run away from you when its one on one. I hate the trolling trash talk and the uselessness of tanking cruisers in PvP.
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  • arrowmaticarrowmatic Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I love PVP in an MMO -- unless the PVP is a completely self-contained minigame that has no impact on or connection to the larger game world.

    There are so many possibilities; fighting for areas of the map that grant access to special instances, offering buffs or other boons to the side currently winning a particular cyclic engagement, and so on. There are all manner of things large and small that might be done. And so when a game offers precisely zero of those possibilities, it's hard for me to see its PVP as anything but a lost opportunity that falls short of being worthwhile.

    Honestly, if you're going to make a war between factions part of the underlying story then it's a little silly to have battles that don't matter, at all, in any measurable way.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Territory control is a great idea but the capturing and gaining control of another fleets Starbase is a bad idea as it destroys lots of effort by said fleet and is unfair to any player in said fleet that does not pvp but put in resources to help grow it.
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    Funny how you ignore the fact that all those description have been used by those claiming what is wrong with pvp and then say its a hardcore mentality.
    Premades ruin pvp for the solo player is one complaint that has been stated...
    Vets have more experience and access to better gear due to the time ingame which makes those new to pvp disadvantaged...
    The better gear of the vet player makes the new pvper less capable of a player in pvp has been another complaint...
    And team woork among the premades designed to work in unison puts the solo new pvper at a risk of not having a chance at victory when said solo new player cant do the same with a pug...

    I used the definitions and excuses used by many new and unhappy players through out this thread.

    So how will those who look at pvp from under these definitions and excuses react if they are removed and such players still remain at their current level of pvp victory?
    Will they be happy or find blaim elsewhere?

    Its still a valid question as it stems from the most important part of any competition, the sportsmanship mindset.

    If you had an epiphany of self-awareness you might be aware that posts like that, right there, are exactly why PVP is such a lamented minority group in this game. The sense of arrogance and exclusivity and broad generalizations about PVE players does you no service here and is only perpetuating your overlooked status.

    Your idea of "sportsmanship" is apparently the e-sport mockery of the idea where people mutter how the other team was "garbage" after some MLG event. It's a rotten attitude that is toxic to game communities.

    And if PVP involves being around people like you all the time, frankly, it's a good thing that PVE chugs on just fine without you.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    What the hell are you babbling about now?
    I made no statement that these where or are complaints from PvE'ers. I stated that they are exactly what they are, complaints that have been made by some who are upset with PvP in its current state and of corrected I asked if said individuals would continue to be upset at the system if their pvp experience does not change since no amount of Dev tweaking for balance can make up for a fault of gameplay on the part of any participant.
    All in correlation to a sportsmanship mindset.

    You have issues about pvp obviuosly and those whom enjoy it to see my question as a hardcore or elitist statement meant to keep others down or show superiority of pvpers.

    I have never played any pvp and ridiculed any player for their lack or abundance of skill before, during or after a match.

    I think you doth protest too much.
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    What the hell are you babbling about now?
    I made no statement that these where or are complaints from PvE'ers. I stated that they are exactly what they are, complaints that have been made by some who are upset with PvP in its current state and of corrected I asked if said individuals would continue to be upset at the system if their pvp experience does not change since no amount of Dev tweaking for balance can make up for a fault of gameplay on the part of any participant.
    All in correlation to a sportsmanship mindset.

    You have issues about pvp obviuosly and those whom enjoy it to see my question as a hardcore or elitist statement meant to keep others down or show superiority of pvpers.

    I have never played any pvp and ridiculed any player for their lack or abundance of skill before, during or after a match.

    I think you doth protest too much.

    "I don't understand you or claim I don't therefore you are babbling" and "you must be traumatized by people you don't agree with" are poor rhetorical tools.

    Plus, you're justifying things based off an anecdote, which I can only assume you would not afford to someone disagreeing with you.

    Here, I'll test it right now. I've seen some very ugly and toxic smack being thrown around in PVP matches, even while the match was still underway, the worst of it after the biggest smacktalker cloaked and wandered off to ragepost instead of continuing to play.

    I take it you have some heirarchial explanation for why your anecdote is more valid than mine? :rolleyes:
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    capnkirk4 wrote: »
    But isn't the whole point of "growing" a starbase, the PvP (fleet) gear you get from the vendors? It's not like you need fleet gear for PvE. The whole starbase system is predicated on PvP. Except for a couple Doff missions, starbases are about as useful for PvE as the Captain's Table. I think it would be highly amusing, if they tied loss of starbases to PvP territory control. That way all the "Awesome Gamers" that continually gripe about how easy the game is, and extoll their mad skills at video games, would have to either put up, or shut up. Give 'em something to fight for that matters. You lose, you have to start all over again from tier 1.

    Except its not. Starbase building is a fleet event and can be enjoyed as mch by the PvE fleet as the PvP fleet.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    "I don't understand you or claim I don't therefore you are babbling" and "you must be traumatized by people you don't agree with" are poor rhetorical tools.

    Plus, you're justifying things based off an anecdote, which I can only assume you would not afford to someone disagreeing with you.

    Here, I'll test it right now. I've seen some very ugly and toxic smack being thrown around in PVP matches, even while the match was still underway, the worst of it after the biggest smacktalker cloaked and wandered off to ragepost instead of continuing to play.

    I take it you have some heirarchial explanation for why your anecdote is more valid than mine? :rolleyes:

    Yes babblng. Because you made assumptions about my intent based on whatever grievance you have against me is all I can believe.
    You call me unaware, arragant and elitist towards pve'ers when I never specifcally targeted them in my post and them babbled some more about me being part of the trash talk issue, that exists as much in pve as it does in pvp, even though I have done no such trash talking.
    Something that has a lot to do with sportsmanship and ego. As they say the wounded dog barks loudest and you are the only one I see barking.

    So yes I think your views against me are more personal and have less to do with the issue at hand.

    But go ahead be a dck and act the asain manga groupie again just because you seem to get some jollies out of trying to harras me, it doesnt change my question or concern.

    Will those players whom are upset at pvp still be upset after pvp is balanced to their demands if they continue to have a poor pvp gaming experience?
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    Yes babblng. Because you made assumptions about my intent based on whatever grievance you have against me is all I can believe.
    You call me unaware, arragant and elitist towards pve'ers when I never specifcally targeted them in my post and them babbled some more about me being part of the trash talk issue, that exists as much in pve as it does in pvp, even though I have done no such trash talking.
    Something that has a lot to do with sportsmanship and ego. As they say the wounded dog barks loudest and you are the only one I see barking.

    So yes I think your views against me are more personal and have less to do with the issue at hand.

    But go ahead be a dck and act the asain manga groupie again just because you seem to get some jollies out of trying to harras me, it doesnt change my question or concern.

    Will those players whom are upset at pvp still be upset after pvp is balanced to their demands if they continue to have a poor pvp gaming experience?

    Yo dawg I heard you liked personal attacks so I made personal attacks about what I think were personal attacks? :confused:

    The burden's on you, here. PVP needs PVEers to be interested a lot more than PVEers need PVPers to be interested in PVP. Being smug, presuming in some bully-like fashion the psychology of your "enemies" and attacking them as such only hurts your position.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Yo dawg I heard you liked personal attacks so I made personal attacks about what I think were personal attacks? :confused:

    The burden's on you, here. PVP needs PVEers to be interested a lot more than PVEers need PVPers to be interested in PVP. Being smug, presuming in some bully-like fashion the psychology of your "enemies" and attacking them as such only hurts your position.

    I like personal attacks??? Find any player whom playes pvp or has tried pvp, if even once, that has ever had a foul, ridiculing or dark remark directed at them come from me before, durng or afer a match.
    They do not exist. Ive never even badmouthed a premade after being trounced much less any player for playing pvp, wether I win or lose to them.

    As to the forums, its a TRIBBLE for tat affair. Be civil and you get civility from me. Act or even give the impression therwise and I respond in kind.
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    I like personal attacks??? Find any player whom playes pvp or has tried pvp, if even once, that has ever had a foul, ridiculing or dark remark directed at them come from me before, durng or afer a match.

    As to the forums, its a TRIBBLE for tat affair. Be civil and you get civility from me. Act or even give the impression therwise and I respond in kind.

    You asked for one, and you got one. Me.

    You used an anecdote to defend your position, and I am doing the same. I leveled up to 50 on my first KDF character (out of 3) almost exclusively on early game PVP, back when Reverse Shield Polarity was absolutely necessary (and people would say "its fine L2P" refusing to change mechanics back then too). Even with that issue, it was fun, fedballs versys swarms of cloaked KDF ships, and I was often the one that would decloak first, just to force the others to chase me and break formation, and that was the chemistry of early PVP. Mines and warp plasma and birds of prey darting in and out of it trying not to get focus-fire on them.

    I peek into PVP from time to time and attitudes remain toxic. I do not even speak in /zone or elsewhere but the "kids got reckd" talk is still present.

    Well and good that you don't see it. I do. Either we're simply finding different things or one of us is a liar. And to simply say "you're a liar" is presumptive, isn't it?

    I'm willing to believe you just haven't been in the matches I have.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    You asked for one, and you got one. Me.

    You used an anecdote to defend your position, and I am doing the same. I leveled up to 50 on my first KDF character (out of 3) almost exclusively on early game PVP, back when Reverse Shield Polarity was absolutely necessary (and people would say "its fine L2P" refusing to change mechanics back then too). Even with that issue, it was fun, fedballs versys swarms of cloaked KDF ships, and I was often the one that would decloak first, just to force the others to chase me and break formation, and that was the chemistry of early PVP. Mines and warp plasma and birds of prey darting in and out of it trying not to get focus-fire on them.

    I peek into PVP from time to time and attitudes remain toxic. I do not even speak in /zone or elsewhere but the "kids got reckd" talk is still present.

    Well and good that you don't see it. I do. Either we're simply finding different things or one of us is a liar. And to simply say "you're a liar" is presumptive, isn't it?

    I'm willing to believe you just haven't been in the matches I have.

    Really? Ive personaly insulted you in pvp before? (which was my question-not a statement that trash talking doesnt exist in pvp)

    Untrue, as I have never insulted or trash talked anyone in a match. ever. The least that I chat is GG. The most is " had fun, good game".

    As to antedotes, sportsmanship is real and egoes spoil it. Even in virtual sports like pvp.
    This is why I have many times said in the past that ego has no place in pvp.

    You just seem to pick fights against other posters for no good reason and Im not the only one to notices it. Whatever floats your boat.
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  • amalefactoramalefactor Member Posts: 511 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    Really? Ive personaly insulted you in pvp before? (which was my question-not a statement that trash talking doesnt exist in pvp)

    Untrue, as I have never insulted or trash talked anyone in a match. ever. The least that I chat is GG. The most is " had fun, good game".

    As to antedotes, sportsmanship is real and egoes spoil it. Even in virtual sports like pvp.
    This is why I have many times said in the past that ego has no place in pvp.

    You just seem to pick fights against other posters for no good reason and Im not the only one to notices it. Whatever floats your boat.

    PVPers have. And since your anecdotes have included statements of how civil and genteel PVPers are (and in earlier threads, how surly and terrible PVEers are by contrast), I was speaking about PVPers and my experience queueing with them. You're splitting hairs here and I think you know better.

    I will continue to disagree no matter how you frame it about this. Saying "I see lots of GGs being a jerk has no place in PVP" does not invalidate the experiences of many, many people here, myself included, that have seen otherwise.

    Of course you can go on saying that only your anecdotes matter, but that would be silly, right?
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