I never understood why scanning was changed...
Funny that it appeared to be CLEAR for me immediately.
And i'm sure some PCF posters have been reading & remember my posts explaining it.
Here is the closest post I did about that.
* Something I always noticed and often said in all forums, is that Mindark is quite all the time doing things with an evident reason, and a hidden reason.
(I could list many features like that).
A little flasback when it was nerf'd :
If i'm correct, it was nerf'd in august 2011 VU. (scanning).
Saddly Entropedia is completly fucked up atm, I can't provide the VU links.
Where all of us couldn't understand why this change ???
Then the VU after, September 2011, the new Mentor System appeared.
Requiring 3 skills :
Anatomy, Geology, and Engineering.
You can be 100% sure of it, the scanning nerf was made to avoid people scanning AFK humans for hours to get the precious
Anatomy skill. This is pure Logic if you have a minimum of knwoledges about this game.
So like I explained it above, this was the hidden reason.
And I find UBER WEIRD that some people have found so many wrong theories and arguments,
when in fact it was just in front of the eyes.
3 years ago, there was no plans (like there have never been, even dan and myself asked it so many times) linked to the scanning professions.
So destroy this profession was no problem in Mindark's POV.
And you must consider that at this time, probable projects with Taming were in a dead end.
So it is legitimate to understand in Mindark's point of view why they did this scanning nerf, as in all evidences they prefer people to go hunt, mine, eventually craft to get those skills.
This will force/motivate people to deposit, and particularily new players.
In the same line, Mindark knowes that rich players will create tons of avatars (like sweating CAPPED in the PE times) but also avatars repairing in motherships, which will lead into 2 aspects :
* The depo aspect for all new avatar created.
* New accounts, for their target dream of 1 million account.
One more time, this pic for those who can read it is full of objectivity
PANIC !!! yes.
And suddenly we hear that
taming will be back...
So please mindark, let scanning humans like it is today if it hurts you so much,
but bring back the other scanning professions like they were before.
PS :
At least, due to this nerf, I organised 2 FREE events for ALL players which were a HUGE success.
Saturday Scan technology Event
Saturday Scan technology Event Year 2
EDIT :
A bit of colors in this big black post.
Hey, that's me taking off with my Sleipnir
!
Ak.