Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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I don't mind NPC EW, but it is surprisingly strong EW (relatively) considering how weak NPCs are in every other aspect.

Also, it might be worth pointing out that "goddamnit" is actually supposed to be spelled "god damn it", NPC is non-player character, and EWAR is electronic warfare, bringing the total word count up to 8.

I made 50mil from player bounties and loot yesterday.

No EWAR, ******* great times with the fleet.

Why do you tease yourself by doing PVE? Make your money on the markets like everyone else.

With all the npc chages CCP wants you to buy isk with real money, that's the easiest way to do it and since you can't make enough isk in missions anymore we all should buy isk from real money if this continues.
By buying isk i mean selling PLEX on market so they can get more real money for exchange of isk.
Missions are so boring atm because of all that ewar so why do them ? just buy plex for real money and sell it on market.

After you get your isk from selling PLEX and buy a new ship, your new ship is useless for missions, because of TON of ewar.
So why would anyone buy a ship ? and why would anyone sell PLEX for isk if the ships are useless for missions ?
The whole missions / NPC's become so boring that there's nothing to do in eve beside pvp, oh and pvp is also dead sinde the large blocks control 0.0 and it's all peaceful.


Carebear = someone who gets isk from missions / NPC's instead of buying PLEX for real money then selling PLEX on market to get new ships.

Yea well if you play 24 hours a day then maybe yes.

I wouldn't go *that* far with the mining ... PI is OK for about a week before the clicking gets to me and I forget to run a cycle or seven. Mining is quick and easy way to just chill with people that's slightly more engaging than ship spinning.

Can't confirm. My web is constantly holding the agression on me :)

There are ways to work around that, and the mission runners I know have been angry about the new NPC AI for around 15 seconds. Cause it is not that bad.
As for running sites/missioning in lowsec-nullsec, mision runners went orgasmic about those changes, cause when a sologanker now flies into a guristasplex/anom, HE is the one to get instajammed.... yey.

It's not fleet-friendly activity cause you have no benefits of bringing a fleet to missions. The reward doesn't scale.



Extremely boring, doesn't worth it, solo activity with the same EWAR problem.



You don't wanna see the big picture, you just wanna mock me. It's sad. But I try to explain.

First, for me isk/hr doesn't mean anything. I'm playing the game and not working in EVE universe. I prefer to genocide missions and plexes because it's fun and satisfying, although I know that blitzing them makes you more ISK. I like exploration because you don't know what you will find in the next system. I like random factor in games. Annoying things like current NPC EWAR is just destroying the fun. It doesn't make the game more difficult or more interesting, it's making it annoying and irritating. See the difference? It's like: "Hey, you've found this blood raider expedition and wanna do it in your Harbinger with lazor turrets? Then F..K YOU, YOU CAN'T! Cause I'm gonna disrupt your tracking so hard you'll kiss the moon! Go kill some angels, moron!".

Second, there are plenty of ways to make NPC encounters more interesting and challenging without current EWAR.

You can make really interesting missions. For example, how about a mission there you need to explore insides of a gigantic asteroid (like 200 km in diameter)? You need to carefully make your way through the labyrinth, avoiding traps and ambushes, and then you find the objective... OH SHI~... The pirates trying to blow up the asteroid with you inside! Timer starts, and you need quickly make your way back and take care of the pirates outside. Oh, and guess what? Every time you take the mission the labyrinth is randomly generated. That would've been AWESOME!
Or how about a mission there you need to figure out and destroy the smuggler by speaking with various NPC-pilots, scanning their cargos, spying in them in cloak etc?
Or how about a pure fleet mission there you need to take down a pirate fortress?
How about random plexes, so you can't go to evelopedia and read about how to do it? And, more important, will never encounter the exact same plex again?
I come up with these missions in like five minutes. Ofc I'm sure CCP can make a lot better. If they really want. Probably in EVE Online 2.

NPC AI is crap now. It can't even go around large objects. They just fly straight at you and shoot. A schoolgirl can program that. All those asteroids and ruins and stations on mission sites are just decorations. You can shoot through them. Imagine if you couldn't. So much possibilities! You can hide behind them to lower the incoming damage. NPC can hide from you behind objects - no EWAR needed for that, and fight will become more interesting. Blowing up structures will become useful for a change!

How about different EWAR, designed specifically for NPC? They can slowly burn random module on your ship, and if you are not fast and careful enough you can end up without a gun or a shield booster. They can hack your target comp and make ship phantoms appear on your display so you'll need to figure out which enemy ship is the real one. They can use logists to help them. They can use suicide bombers for adrenaline "OH SHI~!" moments.

In other words, there are tons of things CCP can do to make the game more challenging and INTERESTING, not irritating! And while they are on it (I'm sure they are), let's get back to my original point: remove NPC EWAR, goddammit! It's crap! Just remove it while you do something better for NPCs!

Oh cmon! Show me even one pilot who do level 3 missions with friends? Just one? And don't tell me you do it cause I'm not gonna belive that.