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Why make auto-pilot so slow?
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Angen Oskold
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-04-06 04:09:47 UTC
What is the point of making auto pilot so slow?

It is already quite dangerous as the user isn't paying close attention.
Speeding it up would help alleviate the tedium of traveling distances - and reduce a pointless frustration for players.
At the same time, it wouldn't have a serious impact on the safety of traveling either.
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-04-06 04:12:51 UTC
Risks vs convenience.

If a pilot wants to AFK travel, there's risks for doing so.

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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#3 - 2013-04-06 04:12:55 UTC
Not sure what you are doing, but i can set and activate my AP in about a second.

It don't get much faster than that.











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Frying Doom
#4 - 2013-04-06 04:13:40 UTC
To increase the likelihood of your death. You chose to go AFK so that is the cost.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-04-06 04:22:37 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Not sure what you are doing, but i can set and activate my AP in about a second.

It don't get much faster than that.



Maybe he has lag?

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Slymah
DorpCorp
#6 - 2013-04-06 04:30:22 UTC
Angen Oskold wrote:
What is the point of making auto pilot so slow?

It is already quite dangerous as the user isn't paying close attention.
Speeding it up would help alleviate the tedium of traveling distances - and reduce a pointless frustration for players.
At the same time, it wouldn't have a serious impact on the safety of traveling either.



If it makes you feel any better there used to be no warp to zero on gates at all unless you created a bookmark on the opposite side of the gate for every single gate you fly to.

So in a way .. it's not that using autopilot is slower, it's that manual piloting got a speed buff !
Mayhaw Morgan
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-04-06 04:35:01 UTC
Why make autopilot at all? It's bad enough that you can move so many m3's in a freighter, but that you don't even have to be at the computer is even worse. The only thing that would make it harder for people trying to interdict you would be if your freighter just teleported to where it wanted to go without having to travel the intervening space at all.

Some of us would prefer that CCP took the nerf bat and beat autopilot to within an inch of its life.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#8 - 2013-04-06 04:37:28 UTC
hiseccers get crimewatch, the "last nerf" to 'unwanted' hisec aggression

dissatisfied, hiseccers demand more nerfs to hisec aggression

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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-04-06 04:41:54 UTC
Andski wrote:
hiseccers get crimewatch, the "last nerf" to 'unwanted' hisec aggression

dissatisfied, hiseccers demand more nerfs to hisec aggression


How do we know it's a high-sec poster? I mean I really don't hear them complaining about this issue. They'd more complain about the gatecamps at chokepoints just trying to play the game, though.

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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#10 - 2013-04-06 05:28:54 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
How do we know it's a high-sec poster?

Angen Oskold wrote:
Pator Tech School
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2013-04-06 05:36:49 UTC
Vimsy Vortis wrote:
Ace Uoweme wrote:
How do we know it's a high-sec poster?

Angen Oskold wrote:
Pator Tech School


<-- Republic Military School -- doesn't mean the player is actually a high-sec poster, let alone someone who started today.

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-04-06 06:01:02 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
How do we know it's a high-sec poster? I mean I really don't hear them complaining about this issue. They'd more complain about the gatecamps at chokepoints just trying to play the game, though.


you're not really playing the game if your freighter is on autopilot and you're making dinner hth

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Josef Djugashvilis
#13 - 2013-04-06 06:28:39 UTC
Andski wrote:
hiseccers get crimewatch, the "last nerf" to 'unwanted' hisec aggression

dissatisfied, hiseccers demand more nerfs to hisec aggression


There you go again Andski, just whinging about hi-sec for the sake of it.

Had you bothered to check, you would have noticed that the OP is a new player and probably knows little about the space mechanics in Eve and why they are the way they are.

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Zaraz Zaraz
Zontik Paraphernalia Inc
#14 - 2013-04-06 06:43:41 UTC
To provide diversity in the ways that non-consensual pvp can happen.
SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#15 - 2013-04-06 06:46:42 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
Andski wrote:
hiseccers get crimewatch, the "last nerf" to 'unwanted' hisec aggression

dissatisfied, hiseccers demand more nerfs to hisec aggression


How do we know it's a high-sec poster? I mean I really don't hear them complaining about this issue. They'd more complain about the gatecamps at chokepoints just trying to play the game, though.


Because autopilot is generally seen as excessively risky in nullsec/lowsec?
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2013-04-06 06:52:04 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Because autopilot is generally seen as excessively risky in nullsec/lowsec?


Which still doesn't address the question.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#17 - 2013-04-06 07:01:43 UTC
Angen Oskold wrote:
What is the point of making auto pilot so slow?

It is already quite dangerous as the user isn't paying close attention.
Speeding it up would help alleviate the tedium of traveling distances - and reduce a pointless frustration for players.
At the same time, it wouldn't have a serious impact on the safety of traveling either.

Auto-pilot isn't slow. You travel just as fast.

If you are asking why you are dropped 15 km from a gate, then CCP have answered that as being to allow ships time to recover capacitor. CCP later also claimed that auto-pilot isn't supposed to be as efficient.
Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-04-06 07:06:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Montevius Williams
Mayhaw Morgan wrote:
Why make autopilot at all? It's bad enough that you can move so many m3's in a freighter, but that you don't even have to be at the computer is even worse. The only thing that would make it harder for people trying to interdict you would be if your freighter just teleported to where it wanted to go without having to travel the intervening space at all.

Some of us would prefer that CCP took the nerf bat and beat autopilot to within an inch of its life.



Nothing wrong with AP at all. One of the better changes that the game has made.

Spaceships without autopilot...hahahaha..no thanks.

And what the hell is wrong with Freighters? I mean, they are freighters. They have one role and they do that role well...whats you issue with them?

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Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#19 - 2013-04-06 08:07:26 UTC
Angen Oskold wrote:
What is the point of making auto pilot so slow?


This is EVE, developed by CCP.

CCP believes that anyone that wishes to play their game should be punished by being made to sit at their desk performing the same repetitive set of mouse clicks time after time after time.

See also:
- Trading & Selling mission loot
- Research & Manufacture
- Planetary Interaction
- Mining
- Solo PVE

I jest, of course. I suspect the real reason is that making proper UI and dynamic, interactive in-space things is hard. Manual jumping is one of those particularly annoying ones in that there is an enforced period of time between actions (click click wait for warp... click click wait for warp) that makes a significant number of people reach for the "Automate this. I have better things to do with my day" button.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#20 - 2013-04-06 08:11:39 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
Andski wrote:
hiseccers get crimewatch, the "last nerf" to 'unwanted' hisec aggression

dissatisfied, hiseccers demand more nerfs to hisec aggression


How do we know it's a high-sec poster? I mean I really don't hear them complaining about this issue. They'd more complain about the gatecamps at chokepoints just trying to play the game, though.


People dont tend to last long outside of high sec when using auto pilot.
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