Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Its not about rewarding people who AFK, its about making auto pilot a bit better to make an alternative to constant clicking. You dont have to train the skill, but you can, if you use Auto pilot alot, and you can train it if you want to start using auto pilot. Even if people are afk when traveling it doesent matter, its just travel

It matters to me and quite a few other people. I get a lot of my kills on autopiloting players. If what you propose were implemented suicide ganking would be made more difficult.

Nope. There'll be 15km, because this skill will never appear in the game. Ever.

I don't get it. You first post a thread suggesting this skill [1], then you create this thread saying you heard about the 1st thread. Then you post a dead link to themittani.com. Soooo.... I don't see any evidence of this so called skill.

And are you even reading the feedback people are giving you? You seem to just ignore everything they say and go on with your "it is useful" point of view.

I call troll.

[1] https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=157746

I understand you to be saying you are frustrated by the relative inefficiency of autopilot as compared to attended piloting, when considered across multiple systems.

Perhaps you are not AFK, but performing other tasks. I assume these tasks to not interfere with the travel of the ship, so this would limit the options of what you may be doing in a game context that would not be considered AFK.

To be precise, you cannot have the EVE client minimized or otherwise unavailable, since this effectively is the same as being AFK.

If you are on a second EVE client, you are effectively AFK to the first. You can hear sounds just as well from across the room as you can from a client not on top.

What is left for you to be doing with your client then? Browsing web pages with the in game browser, and chatting in channels.

Please help me understand why unattended play should benefit like this. Have no doubt that even if you are present chatting or using the browser, it is the significant group who are AFK that will also be rewarded, and the balances that have worked since attended piloting was changed will be undone.

I appreciate your interest in having the game play closer to your ideals, but you in exchange must accept that compromises need to exist, since your ideals are in obvious conflict with others.

This change would be rewarding AFK play, by making it less detrimental than today's system. I see absolutely no need for this.

I'm sorry, but how much damage do you honestly think that would achieve? Keeping in mind it might add a false sense of security to those auto piloting.



You mean besides making travel less of a bore? Being able to do more faster?

Your premise of being able to do more faster, based off this idea, has you doing no piloting or other significant activity on the pilot flying. As he would be on autopilot, your activity level with him is effectively AFK.

To do more, would mean bypassing your idea to use hands on control rather than auto pilot.

And how would you know travel is a bore? You are the one arranging to remove all activity associated with piloting a ship in order to rely on automated piloting.

Travel is what you make of it.

exactly if your not afk you can push the buttons and fly faster anyway so why would you use the skill even at lvl 5 if your not afk and its faster to press one button every min or so and your there anyway?

Do you actually read what other people write? This thread is 5 pages of people telling you its a bad idea and why its a bad idea, yet you dont come back with a reason why its not, just that you want it that way. Honestly I call either troll or stupid

Is the name calling really neccesary? :)

Tbh. autopilot sucks atm because its so slow, no-one would use it unless they are afk