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Why is Auto Pilot still in the game CCP?
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Qvar Dar'Zanar
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#61 - 2012-11-20 13:06:31 UTC
The question always, always is: Why not?
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#62 - 2012-11-20 13:24:12 UTC
If you get rid of autopilot how will I find time to read the forums?

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Suz1
Nuclear Enterprises
#63 - 2012-11-20 13:26:49 UTC
Ocih wrote:
Title says it all.

Why is this 'feature' still in the game?



So that while I'm hauling stuff through hi-sec, I can go do my laundry or make a sandwich etc.....
Lolar55
Banana Toaster
#64 - 2012-11-20 13:49:30 UTC
Its in the game so you could waste your time making this useless thread and get trolled about it.Deal with it.
Innocent Eli
War Prophets
#65 - 2012-11-20 13:56:22 UTC
Strong case OP. I would love to spend more time moving my junk around empire and less focus on the real world as a semi productive adult.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#66 - 2012-11-20 14:04:21 UTC
Because it's useful and because there is no reason to remove it.
Desert Ice78
Gryphons of the Western Wind
#67 - 2012-11-20 14:07:59 UTC
Because of falco...

Wait, what??

I am a pod pilot: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DesertIce/POD.jpg

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Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy
#68 - 2012-11-20 14:27:56 UTC
Also auto-pilot is the best built in navigator you can get... showing you a route to your destination and you can make a choice to let the ship follow the route automatically or fly manually only using the route as a guide :-)
Ocih
Space Mermaids
#69 - 2012-11-20 14:30:10 UTC
Pinky Denmark wrote:
Also auto-pilot is the best built in navigator you can get... showing you a route to your destination and you can make a choice to let the ship follow the route automatically or fly manually only using the route as a guide :-)


You do understand I'm not saying remove Set Destination?
Just Auto Pilot.

fuckit, CCP are ignoring me anyway.
Mire Stoude
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2012-11-20 19:19:39 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Highsec.

Using it in nullsec is suicide, and it's inadvisable in low.


Reminds me of a friend who used to autopilot haulers through 0.0 and into low sec. He actually got out and to his destination unscathed a few times to our amazement. We should have made an event of it and placed bets.
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#71 - 2012-11-20 19:37:37 UTC
Ocih wrote:
Pinky Denmark wrote:
Also auto-pilot is the best built in navigator you can get... showing you a route to your destination and you can make a choice to let the ship follow the route automatically or fly manually only using the route as a guide :-)


You do understand I'm not saying remove Set Destination?
Just Auto Pilot.

fuckit, CCP are ignoring me anyway.


Yes, because CCP have responded to every single thread on the forums - except this one.

So they are intentionally ignoring you in the hopes you go away.

Hmm, maybe the rest of us should try that.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#72 - 2012-11-20 19:41:11 UTC
EVE gives you enough rope to hang yourself, plus a few feet more.

I only AFK empty. I'd never expect to arrive if I was AFK with valuable cargo.

Whenever I do have a loss, I blame myself and not other people nor game mechanics.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#73 - 2012-11-20 19:48:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
Autopilot is just functional enough that your average risk-averse player will use it instead of significantly better, EULA-breaking alternatives.

But if autopilot were removed its current users would not go back to manual piloting.

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Gritz1
Ice Fire Warriors
#74 - 2012-11-20 19:55:38 UTC
I read the title as Aunt Pilot...
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GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#75 - 2012-11-20 21:19:05 UTC
Ocih wrote:
Title says it all.

Why is this 'feature' still in the game?


Auto pilot is a great way to get people playing the "truck drivers" of Eve Online without having to spend all that time behind their pc. They are what makes the market fueled, be happy.

Besides that, who doesnt love to go afk while traveling 40 jumps through highsec and come back, savely arrived at your destination hours later? ^^

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HVAC Repairman
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#76 - 2012-11-20 21:27:01 UTC
auto-pilot is doing gods work by providing us so many lovely freighter ganks

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Conrad Makbure
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#77 - 2012-11-21 03:25:31 UTC
More like, why is the 15km slowboat still in the game.
Sarah Schneider
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#78 - 2012-11-21 07:07:10 UTC
Ocih wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Ocih wrote:
James 315 wrote:
Ocih wrote:
Title says it all.

Why is this 'feature' still in the game?

You want to make highsec more safe by removing features used to AFK in highsec?

We are through the looking glass now. Smile


Speaking of AFK game play. Lets create a Scenario.

Suppose I am multi boxing and I have a character logged in to lets say Uedama III and another in, oh I don't know, lets say somewhere in Deklein?

I have a guy running fleet booster in Deklein, he doesn't need to be paying attention, he's behind a POS Bubble so he can watch his Uedama char and see if anyone is trying to Auto Pilot through the system in fat old freighters. He see's one and a bunch of his buddies, all running anoms in Deklein can flip to their dual boxed AFK account and go out and kill the freighter.

Isn't that really just using AFK to get more out of an otherwise boring game?

If they removed Auto Pilot, the game would still be kind of tedious but those guys multi boxing Deklein and Uedama would now have to chose. Do I sit on a gate in Uedama and kill freighters the hard way or do I sit in Deklein and do Anoms?

Sounds like Win- Win because we don't want those nasty AFK people in EVE, do we?


This information is still hilariously wrong. Despite Powers SA actually telling everyone exactly how we do this, people still have no clue.


I know how you do it.
I don't want to stop you from doing it. That gives you an EVE is becoming trammel soap box to climb up on to. I want to make it harder.

You seems confused between making things harder and making things more annoying.

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