Posted - 2009.08.24 16:24:00 - [3]

 

I feel they should replace it, if only to help a player make sense of why some LP stores just give out Navy bpc's; and others give out both Navy bpc's and ships. Those sorts of content reference points go alot farther to helping you remember than you might think.

Besides, I've heard there are some people who really like that RP fluff.

Posted - 2009.08.24 16:49:00 - [5]

 

Let us not forget that Eve is an MMORPG that means role playing game. As in you have created a universe in which my character exists. Removing the flavor text and other NPC info from the game removes pieces of that universe.

With all the work that goes into developing story lines and writing news releases about the happenings of New Eden, why would anyone consider removing NPC reference points? It undermines the entire effort of the content development team.

Posted - 2009.08.24 17:15:00 - [7]

 

Yes, they should be restored.

I don't understand why they were removed in the first place.

Need another 10 MB to cache all NPC corp descriptions on my HDD? Fine, please go ahead!
Need another 1 MB per patch for changes in those cached descriptions? Fine, please do that!

After all it's a slippery slope.
No one really needs those incredibly long descriptions of the T3 ships (or any other item for that matter) either.
If this continues we will really end up with online 3D spreadsheets.

Posted - 2009.08.24 18:18:00 - [9]

 

Supported

Posted - 2009.08.24 19:39:00 - [11]

 

Supported. I feel like it added to the immersion in the game, and helped understand the background between corps.

Now no new player knows the difference between Suukuvestaa and Hyasoda. The function behind the Ministry of Internal Order, the Theology Council.

It used to be that a new player could get some understanding of New Eden's lore by reading the description of NPC corps. Now no one has any idea what makes one corp different from another, and what role they are supposed to play in the universe.

Please put back in. Reading the descriptions of every corp in whose stations I docked was always interesting to me, I'd like to be able to do that again. Was there really ever ANY reason for removing them?

Posted - 2009.08.24 20:52:00 - [13]

 

Reading fail FTL

Thought Thread title was "Removal of NPC Corporations"

didn't see Descriptions

Posted - 2009.08.25 04:20:00 - [15]

 

+1

Posted - 2009.08.25 10:42:00 - [17]

 

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Was under the impression this was temporary while they revised them

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This could be possible, I looked over the patch notes and could not find an entry for removing/changing NPC Corporation descriptions.

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I reported this as a bug a while ago, and they said it was already fixed and closed the bug report.

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Its also possible that it was a mistake to remove this information in the first place in which case it would be nice if not a little over optimistic to have CCP comment over changes to this

Thanks for the feedback/support everyone

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Reading fail FTL Thought Thread title was "Removal of NPC Corporations" didn't see Descriptions

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Out of curiosity would you be for, or against removal of NPC Corporations? hehe

Posted - 2009.08.26 05:43:00 - [19]

 

VERY supported!

Posted - 2009.08.26 16:51:00 - [21]

 

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they should implement video-descriptions, with animated portraits of the npc corporation leaders and the complete history of the corporation.

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Similar to the videos played at race selection? would be good if not difficult/awkward to implement for each corporation.

While its true that the corporation descriptions are limited in usefulness to veteran players, I recall when I first started playing way back when, I enjoyed reading about the different corporations, and the descriptions were the sole piece of information I used to pick my first ever agent (Before I understood quality and levels).

It seems odd that given CCPs improvements and implementations to the "New player experience" that they would remove something like this.