Re: Important update to EVE Online rules coming January 2015
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:15 am
barrenearth wrote:They were very careful to be explicit about what is banned because they do not want to lose the subscriptions/plex purchases that isboxers make.
This is clearly not the case. They specifically left out names of any programs on purpose and according to their dev team did so in order to leave their options open in the future to ban users of software as they see fit. They couldn't care less about anyone using isboxer or any other program, they care about the current mob mentality that is anti-all things candy giving.
I disagree and feel they were very specific. They listed specific ways in which you are not allowed to manipulate gameplay. There are many hardware and software options and if they name them and a new one comes out it opens the door for issues policing the policy. Banning the specific type of input is as clear cut as you can get. According to the new rules about broadcasting and multiplexing this is banned as well. Sure they left their options open should the workarounds we decide to employ prove to be too effective. I'm ok with game balance. I feel there should be degrees of difficulty to managing more clients and the difficulty should scale.
I don't think this kills bomber fleets that are actually using bombs but torp fleets yeah not being able to broadcast targeting for 20 accounts pretty much wrecks it but lets face it isboxer bomber fleets were ridiculously overpowered anyway. Everything in this game has it's day then ccp comes in with the nerf bat and some other method of gameplay is crowned champion. Adapting to change is part of eve. I'm not thrilled with the changes but even before I used isboxer i could run cap escalated c5 sites with 6 characters and make 6b isk in about 2 hours. I'm not even gonna pretend I know how much incursions will net you but I don't even get into a pve ship for less than 1b per hour and that's working under ccps new rules...point being there are more than a few ways to get rich in this game leveraging your isboxer fleet.