Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Bingo!

Thats basically it in a nutshell. My game experience suffers due to non logical changes.

If I didnt care I wouldnt be here complaning.

I'd like to actually understand the reasons behind the changes.

Did they feel that adding a blink to local and having NPC's target the last ship to arrive on grid would essentially encourage more people to belt rat because they felt safer?

Because that's not happening if that was the plan, mainly because ratting is boring.

The game I played as a solo'ist and small gang hunting has taken a huge hit to the point where I now need to completely change the way I play the game or quit.

Why am I a solo'ist?
Not actually through choice. I have a young family and a fulltime job. Finding a time to fleet with friends isnt often possible, For this reason I hunt alone mostly.

I really fail to understand why something enjoyable has been stripped away from the game, quite clearly CCP did not forseee this impact or they didn't care about a small percentage of players or the majority of players bitched about being solo ganked.

Rat agro should spread like PvP agro. If you aren't attacking the rats or aiding someone attacking the rats, you aren't deemed a threat to the rats and they don't attack you.

Warping in to get tackle on a plexer only to have to warp out in structure 2 seconds later is a bit ridiculous.

Sanbox models are a bit more than only this. But yes, what you say is part of it.
Point is: here you (I'm not adressing you perosnally) asking to keep a game mechanic dumb or to be implemented so to allow you to play in easy mode. If all you do come not from your gameplay but from a game mechanic (and if yous ay now is impossible means before was eentirely based on the NPC game mechanic) then THIS is not sandboxy at all.

Rats do not care, they aggress anyone entering their site, outside a storyline or a quest based system there's no reason to expect them taking a side. And no reason to take just YOUR side. They are envinromental elements, like the asteroids: asteroids don't care, if you bump in them your ship slow or stop, no matter if you're a badass pirate or a carebear, it's up to the player to manage to move prooperly.

We are all cool when it's to kick down someone else sandbox but then we whine and ask game mechanics when is our castle to be kicked down. How this?




And just a case "intelligent" means "helping me instead of him" :)

Do not break anything; simply add some risk and variable (still not enough) to that gameplay.

Want to kill a missioning drake? then have to be better, have to fit and manage to not only outplay in PvP the drake but also to fit properly to deal with the mission site (the drake already did this).

Entering the mission site you're interfering with someone else gameplay, and this is cool in a snadbox, but have also to accept his gameplay (the mission envinroment) to interfering with your. Cannot be all one sided and shaped around your own idea of "fun".

How about this?

You can get the rats AI to ignore you in a fight, but the consequences are that you take a security hit.
After all, you are assisting pirates, and as such bear responsibility for their victory against forces attempting to reduce their number.

Enemy combatants... tsk tsk, the empires frown on that.

Now, if you stick around after, and betray your new allies by trying to kill them, they call in reinforcements against you.
(A full spawn that drops no added loot, they had no time to pick up any on the way over)
Think of it as the reinforcements hate double crossers more than honest enemies.

They're not defending the first ship, they're simply attacking you instead because *insert reason: you have ewar, you're a weaker target that's easy to clear off the field, whatever*

wormholes have dealt with this for years without filling the tearbuckets

Dear ccp i have a solution, make it so you can generate killmails, or create "pve" play ships people can shoot, but make sure they dont fight back at all thatl make it hard so the gankers can kill and fill important.

Problem solved. Pve can pve and deal with rat aggro, and people who want easy kills get bottlefed as they wish

Sorry, but EvE is a PvE game as well as a PvP game.

All isk in the game comes from PvE. No matter how it ended up in your pocket it originated from some mission runner or ratter. If you want to engage those people on their turf you need to adapt your tools and techniques to survive there as well.

You seemed to be misinformed on the topic, or you wouldn't have said what you did.

Since you claim to have known this already I can just assume that you are malfunctioning in some odd way that you don't recognise the need to deal with the environment you wish to PvP in.

This thread is great entertainment... PVP'ers asking CCP to make it safer for them to gank PVE'ers. In NS no less!! Along with the cries about AFK cloaking, I'm beginning to think the concept of NS being for the 'real men' is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors!! ;)

Systems appears to be working just fine. Adapt so you can get your kills some other way.

+1 to OP.
This behavior by the AI is completely illogical and should be fixed. Simply because it's plain stupid.