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Possibly too far with balancing Incursions?

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xVx dreadnaught
modro
Northern Coalition.
#101 - 2012-04-25 14:03:21 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Hawk GB wrote:
occasionally lose said expensive ships and fits.

...HOW?

It took me almost a year to lose my first T2-fit w-space Legion, and that was to someone finally catching me not paying attention literally 30 seconds before I was finished with the hole I was running. If you're losing Incursion ships at a rate higher than I lose ships in w-space, you or your fleetmates are doing it wrong.



See, it's harder to find people in wormholes to kill... Incursions it's very easy for a griefer to find a target. They just need to join a fleet, get aggro (can flip or something like that)

And their buddies come in and nuke the logi's With the logi's down the NPC's will kill everyone in the pocket... and the griefers have logis to keep them alive.

DO I REALLY NEED TO EXPLAIN GRIEFING TO A SKUNK?

Why do you think so many griefer groups have clung to the incursion community, bleeding fleets for nice loot drops?

Not to mention ninja looters that attempt to steal the faction drops from the mothership kill?
Sverige Pahis
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#102 - 2012-04-25 14:05:27 UTC
Too far? Not far enough.
Tenris Anis
Schattenengel Clan
#103 - 2012-04-25 14:07:46 UTC
Xorv wrote:
Until Incursions are removed from High Sec or lose CONCORD protection they can never be nerfed enough, and yes lvl 4s should be next.


Nullbear detected. Though I am not sure if I have to disagree.

Remove insurance.

AstarothPrime
Pecunia Infinita
#104 - 2012-04-25 14:14:23 UTC
Jake Warbird wrote:



Where did I cry nerf/unnerf? I'll be nice to you and let you off with just that.



Actually IDK why I commented on your post...

My apologies, ment to simple reply to thread... Big smile

I.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#105 - 2012-04-25 14:18:01 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
xVx dreadnaught wrote:
See, it's harder to find people in wormholes to kill... Incursions it's very easy for a griefer to find a target. They just need to join a fleet, get aggro (can flip or something like that)

And their buddies come in and nuke the logi's With the logi's down the NPC's will kill everyone in the pocket... and the griefers have logis to keep them alive.

Logi aggro hasn't worked in months. It was patched in November, then we discovered a rather obscure flaw in a crucible update around the end of January that was patched a week later. Anyone who gets aggro from logi after all the patching CCP did to stop us deserves it, because they've ignored very specific warnings.

That is, unless CCP broke it AGAIN, in which case I'll come see in person just how "dead" incursions are.

The only ways I know of to grief incursions today:

- Suicide jamming the logi, which (I think) Lead Farmers executed quite well for a short time before they went on to other things.
- Logi abandonment, where the logi pilots don't rep or don't warp into the site with the rest of the fleet. This one I can claim as my own, I was one of the first to propose it. The problem is it has limited use as once a logi pilot is identified they have an extremely hard time getting fleets.

xVx dreadnaught wrote:
DO I REALLY NEED TO EXPLAIN GRIEFING TO A SKUNK?

Sometimes I just like to hear it Blink

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.

xVx dreadnaught
modro
Northern Coalition.
#106 - 2012-04-25 14:30:43 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:

Logi aggro hasn't worked in months. It was patched in November, then we discovered a rather obscure flaw in a crucible update around the end of January that was patched a week later. Anyone who gets aggro from logi after all the patching CCP did to stop us deserves it, because they've ignored very specific warnings.


That's strange because I got aggro when scooping up a can from one of the alts of the group the other day, the alt had DC'd but the can was still sitting there. It bounced around the logis for ages till eventually we took a break.

Wardec aggro comes up the specific message but as far as I understand looted containers doesn't
Tenchuu Khaan
Vagabond Association
#107 - 2012-04-25 15:19:49 UTC
Ye... Incursions are dead, back to nullsec actually playing the game.
Tenris Anis
Schattenengel Clan
#108 - 2012-04-25 15:19:49 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
[quote=Katy Ling]* when ccp applied the nerfings, they neglected to take in account how often people spend waiting to form a proper fleet with the necessary logistics and dps / ships to run a vanguard site

Get yourself an incursion corp or at least a group you can depend on running sites with. Schedule certain days and have a flexible-enough group that you can proceed with 1 or 2 members not available. Pick-up fleets SHOULD eat into your income versus having an organized and prepared group./quote]

Can not disagree here. But I can question how far they shoud eat into. Imho L4s should always give less income than incursions, no matter if you are flying them with picups or not.
Which leads me to the point that if incursions are fine now, than we need to nerf L4s now.

Which btw I said even before incursions were released.

Remove insurance.

OMGFRIGATES WARPOUT
Perkone
Caldari State
#109 - 2012-04-25 15:30:01 UTC
Trinity Six wrote:
Johann Zateki wrote:
Templar Nato wrote:
blah blah empty quoting

If you read one post below that you would see that assaults take longer too and are not by any means the new vanguards and are in fact Tier3 scout sites.

the only thing that didn't get nerfed were hq sites


Ya, Assaults WERE going to be the new vanguards with what we saw on Sisi and read in the patch notes.
Then CCP decided they actually love to lie to their gaming population, and ****** us all in our asses.



This attitude is quite frankly why I think public access to the SiSi server is dumb. Its called a TEST server for a reason. It isn't the "IF ITS ON HERE IT IS THE WAY IT WILL BE ON TQ" server.
Five Thirty
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#110 - 2012-04-25 15:34:32 UTC
Incursions are still one of the largest PvE moneymakers in game...
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#111 - 2012-04-25 15:48:58 UTC
i think there will be this way:
- less money from Incursion -> less people do it
- less people do Incursion -> less CONCORD LP generated
- less CONCORD LP generated -> more CONCORD LP worth
- more CONCORD LP worth -> more profit for people doing Incursion

process will balance itself at some point

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"

o7 Ohaya
Devastating Designs
#112 - 2012-04-25 16:20:47 UTC
Five Thirty wrote:
Incursions are still one of the largest PvE moneymakers in game...

Should have payed more attention at fanfest... they never were. not even close.
Liliana Rahl
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#113 - 2012-04-25 16:31:37 UTC
Did you spend all night crying about this in this thread?
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#114 - 2012-04-25 17:09:21 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
xVx dreadnaught wrote:
That's strange because I got aggro when scooping up a can from one of the alts of the group the other day, the alt had DC'd but the can was still sitting there. It bounced around the logis for ages till eventually we took a break.

Wardec aggro comes up the specific message but as far as I understand looted containers doesn't


Unless CCP broke it again, loot aggro now breaks logi cycles just like GCC and triggers a warning just like war aggro. Odds are your logi pilots just clicked "yes" to the warning because they trusted you to not abuse the aggro.

I'll have to fire up some highsec alts and see if something has changed from the last time we tested out aggro mechanics.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.

Apolyon I
Shadow of ISW
#115 - 2012-04-25 18:03:24 UTC
xVx dreadnaught wrote:
Gonzo TheGreat wrote:


Try w-space fleets, and they die a lot more often and no one is whining Big smile



I know, I fly in W-space as well... Usually I'm one of the people hunting trying to find w-space fleets to kill.

But never have I seen one with as much bling as any serious incursion runner.

Also I wasn't whining about losing incursion fleets... I was saying that one criticism of incursions is that they are "risk free" when in reality they are not. If your logi's bail/DC/suck/grief... You can lose billions of isk


hunting or get hunted??

and what did you hunt.??

some drakes runnning C1 site???
xVx dreadnaught
modro
Northern Coalition.
#116 - 2012-04-25 18:27:34 UTC  |  Edited by: xVx dreadnaught
Apolyon I wrote:
xVx dreadnaught wrote:
Gonzo TheGreat wrote:


Try w-space fleets, and they die a lot more often and no one is whining Big smile



I know, I fly in W-space as well... Usually I'm one of the people hunting trying to find w-space fleets to kill.

But never have I seen one with as much bling as any serious incursion runner.

Also I wasn't whining about losing incursion fleets... I was saying that one criticism of incursions is that they are "risk free" when in reality they are not. If your logi's bail/DC/suck/grief... You can lose billions of isk


hunting or get hunted??

and what did you hunt.??

some drakes runnning C1 site???


Last proper targets we got were a couple of RR domi's (one navy issue one standard) in a C3... not that it's a big deal or anything.

But as you say C1, I remember me and a corpy did go into a C1 witha pair of Assault Frigs and scored a Rook kill... I know, nothing special, but was more for the fun of it.
Apolyon I
Shadow of ISW
#117 - 2012-04-25 18:34:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Apolyon I
xVx dreadnaught wrote:


Last proper targets we got were a couple of RR domi's (one navy issue one standard) in a C3... not that it's a big deal or anything.

But as you say C1, I remember me and a corpy did go into a C1 witha pair of Assault Frigs and scored a Rook kill... I know, nothing special, but was more for the fun of it.


only killing that much and you call incursion risk-free, what a shame

in a C5 farming fleet, the only logistics ship is carrier which if he dc, the whole fleet with 2,3 lokis, 5,6 dread all die in seconds.

while your incursion fleet has 3 200m logis. isnt it risk-free
Liliana Rahl
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#118 - 2012-04-25 19:02:12 UTC
When are you people going to learn that rats, no matter the form, do not constitute risk?
xVx dreadnaught
modro
Northern Coalition.
#119 - 2012-04-25 19:20:00 UTC
Apolyon I wrote:
xVx dreadnaught wrote:


Last proper targets we got were a couple of RR domi's (one navy issue one standard) in a C3... not that it's a big deal or anything.

But as you say C1, I remember me and a corpy did go into a C1 witha pair of Assault Frigs and scored a Rook kill... I know, nothing special, but was more for the fun of it.


only killing that much and you call incursion risk-free, what a shame

in a C5 farming fleet, the only logistics ship is carrier which if he dc, the whole fleet with 2,3 lokis, 5,6 dread all die in seconds.

while your incursion fleet has 3 200m logis. isnt it risk-free


But isn't the reward from your C5 wormhole sites a lot higher than incursion running?

The risk does match the reward. Because in a decent incursion fleet before you could male about 100 mill an hour... any higher and you were in one of those "elite" fleets.

Yes 3 logi's but most spend more on their logi ship so they can get more out of it. To get all 4 reps being T2 my guardian has a Bailey plate on it, which is more than 500 mill on it's own.

And still if those logi's go down you can be losing up to 8 deadspace and faction fit Vindicators, Nightmares, Machariels... And they will all die in seconds if the logi's are down...

How often do your fleets come under attack? I imagine being in your fortress of a WH system that you have scouts every where not to mention Warp disruption bubbles on any holes while your fleets are active.

Because the Incursion fleets are out in the open for anyone to attempt a logi gank. And they do try, with some success.
BearJews
Order of Extrodinary Gentlemen
#120 - 2012-04-25 19:26:01 UTC
Liliana Rahl wrote:
When are you people going to learn that rats, no matter the form, do not constitute risk?

Hey whatever makes you sleep at night.