Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I used to play a lot of MUD's in the day, and I liked the fact that some things could be automated, such as casting self heals when your health dropped to a certain percentage.

That was really useful because the games were laggy as hell, and sometimes you played while doing other stuff, and wasn't 100% of the time looking at the screen.

My idea is to set certain conditions on repper modules so they automatically start to rep when the condition is met, and stop when another condition is met.

For example - set my small armor rep to start at 50% armor, and stop at 90%.

This will save running the repper on 100% and wasting cap on some occasions, as well as allowing the player to focus on other stuff. It might also help noobs who forget to turn on the repper at all...

Where do you stop though? Have warp scrams and webs activate on primary target when in range automatically?

As far as I'm concerned having to activate/deactivate local reps to conserve/manage cap is a good thing. I've been in the odd fight where if my repper had turned on automatically I'd have lost my target as it would have drained what remained of my cap so my scram and web would have turned off and my guns would have stopped firing.

It removes some of the skill involved with active tank setups. If you don't like it try using passive shield tank or make your fits cap stable.

Yeah, you really should get used to manage your moduls, otherwise rats would get really boring, and in pvp these modul scripts would become influencing.

The only thing which would be quit usefull would be a Hardener-Activation key/script, which activates all your DC, shield or armor hardeners with one switch.

You can already do this. Simply bind the hotkeys for all of your hardeners together into one keystroke. It's doable purely software side if you want, but any gamepad or keyboard with hotkeys can do it extremely easily.

And to the OP, no, learn to actually play the game rather than wanting it to be played for you. If you're doing other stuff and are distracted from Eve, either accept your possible loss or just log off.

You forgot rule No1 of eve: eve is a harsh and cruel world !

No automisations. The more things there are cutting player groups into different skill levels the better. Not everyone can be very good in everything, as in real live.

Sandrine Starfire

lol, you guys need to differentiate skill and the reality of playing a game that has lag.

I've had rats firing at me with no damage apparent, only to have the game catch up on lag and suddenly find myself halfway through armor.

According to the logic of some of the comments, we should remove orbiting from the game, because it should be done manually with double clicks...

You don't have to agree with my idea, but it definitely doesn't make the game "easier", it just helps with micromanagement of a module. If I'm a pro, I will leave it at manual. If I'm more worried with micromanaging heating my guns, webber, disruptor and pulsing my MWD, I'd put repping on auto.

That can be done exactly today, just build a cap-stable Vexor/Domi/whatever.

I don't know, it sounds very reasonable that a space-ship with a repair system would know when to self engage it...

(I guess I shouldn't mention auto-loading guns, huh?)