EVE General Discussion

This is already possible, in terms of running sites together, or someone probing you down and invading your mission space.

Upping rewards according to number of participants is not an operable solution to anything.
Last thing we need is mission multiboxing for even greater rewards.

Some of you won't like this, but PvE is inherently boring. Whatever boss or NPC they add to the game will end up being predictable. Predictable content is generally what PvE players will run, they like feeling fairly sure when going out that they will be safe. They get a sense of accomplishment from running the pve sites and winning. Fatally though, predictable = boring.

CCP has flirted with unpredictable PvE, in drifters and originally the burners, but even these have been mostly figured out and can be farmed if you google for a couple minutes. Truly unpredictable PvE would require constant dev attention to rework sites without unbalancing them, which would be a lot of work. Even if it was done, how many mission runners would take a mission vs a random number of enemies compared with rescue the damsel for the millionth time?

Before one is too quick to rag on the OP, remember, the better days of Eve were thanks to PVe. And it's not about "easier PVe". More does not mean easy. And to make matters worse, existing PVe was in fact made easier in the solo aspect, and newer stuff made difficult to require a team (or alts). That which was challenging and not nerfed is just plain "old" now. We have the same missions now as then, but much better ships and more modules. So even what appears static is indirectly nerfed.

Hence interesting, productive and challenging PVe was the heyday of Eve. Players who ask for such things would best not be harassed with "Hurrrr durrr PVP game" for as we have seen, that argument has been the argument winning with CCP and the "vision" of the game, and the game seems like a ghost town compared to the days of olde. And there isn't much "content" in a ghost town, is there?

Announcement: Rubicon – Towards the Future of EVE Online
by Andie Norden (CCP Seagull)

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This is what the "downtrodden PVEr" crowd cannot understand. If you don't like EVE PVE already, you never will.

Look at Drifters, and how little people do all the "new" (post 2011) PVE compared to running Missions and shooting rats in Anomalies. CCP delivers new pve, EVE PVEr's ignore it while claiming they want more PVE. CCPs PVE efforts since 2011 have been largely wasted.

I don't fall into that trap. I KNOW I prefer the current system of Missions and Anomalies and Complexes, I like how you can tackle the various forms of content in new ways and how you can even turn that content into a PVP weapon if you know what you are doing. I like EVE's take on PVE so much I actually turned up at the last CSM PVE townhall, unlike the posters in this thread who are complaining about the lack of PVE.

They are just looking for some way to feel like a victim, because in some twisted way being a victim feels good to them. They aren't actually interested in PVE.