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The idea of getting attacked by rats when you fairly caught someone ratting without them noticing is very bad design, and will defeat the purpose of the fixes to faction warfare plexes, because the rats are supposed to focus on the person capturing, not another person who comes in to kill them.

It also nerfs a form of PvP, and nerfing forms of PvP that have nothing wrong with them is not good. Don't do this. Please come up with something to fix rats up in null and low sec, even if it's just "the rats will wait X amount of time before beginning to think about switching targets"

Regarding the PvE in Hisec ... beginners may (will) have to start with lower level of missions (eg L2, L3 ...) with smaller opponents, hence NPC likely more distributing DPS (friends and drones included). In the case of L3, drones loss may cause the reward to be not the worth doing the mission. If I compare with WH (with the very little experience I have in this area, TBH), that means that people might stop using T2 drones and use garbage-T1 drones, assuming that they will eventually lose them as baits.

Also in the case of L4, Buzz Kill is a typical example where player drones with this new AI will be simply wiped out, because unless you fly T3 / CS, you'll have a BS which is far bigger than all the rats.

Doing L3 or inferior in fleet with modules not used before like RR is very different and likely inconvenient as the small ships used are already though to setup in a fittable AND usable manner with low SP. Moreover, EWAR modules are mid-slot, which makes shield tanking a no-way (I know, some already use painting, but I'm not convinced it will suffice as a threat to switch aggro). OK, you can counter this with a big fleet, but come on, what the point of having a scout / vanguard sized fleet where people won't even get reimbursed from they ammo / drone loss ?

Buckingham has a custom DUST build right now, it does not have the Winter release. I would love to give a timeline for when Duality will be up, but the best I can do is before the end of the month.

While you are at it can someone make towers not have completely useless drops? 100 T1 ammo is not worth shooting it in the first place.

Thank you for looking into our concerns. This highlights our concern that

While this is to me (as an explorer) a bit of welcome news, there is still the issue of the REST of the NPCs in the final rooms of High End Plexes (erm, by the way, plexes, not "missions", missions are soooo Empire).

For instance, Blood Raidern Naval Shipyard. 20 neutiing battleships plus the torp chucking structure. It takes almost a dedicated logi to rep even a loki enough to keep it alive in full aggro. The 20 BS switching target off the "tank" is not as bad as the torp switching off, but, since a logi is also cruiser sized, it would be a toss up as to who the neuting BSs aggro right?

Not an insurmountable problem, if the "tank" can hold torp/overseer aggro, the players could just use spider tanking BS feeding each other cap as well as reps. But even then it could be way more iffy, and if top end plexes become too "ship-killerish", peolle will simply not do the plexes until you go back and fix them. This just recently happened with Forsaken and forlorn hubs after the recent buff, you guys had to turn around and change spawns on them yet again because (in the words of the developer, whover it was) they had become "to killy" lol.

Still, glad you are listening to our concerns. I'm sure many of us still feel that given how complex, widespread and interconnected this portion of PVE is, it would be better to do a few things ,like redesigning a fair bit of the sites and missions, like Blood Raider naval ship yard, the mission "buzz kill" that is frig heavy and many others. Also like doing something about that god-awful drone control interface.

But at this point I'll take whatever consideration we can get lol

Please go away (or take whatever medication you take to control unjustified paranoia).

Gee, it's almost as if this whole change is meant to reduce the use of certain ships that depend solely on drones for DPS in nullsec anomalies.

IMHO earning MORE in high sec than nullsec IS wrong.

I have played this game for over 4 years. I have lived in wh's for over a year, lived in null sec for 8 months, run low sec plexes for years.

The char's on this account combined have a NAV of about 50 billion.
The VAST, VAST majority of that was made in the 8 months of null sec plexing.

High sec NEVER has made as much as nulls sec, not even Incursions before they were destroyed.

Have you run L4 Buzzkill in a drone boat?
Or Moudus Headhunters?
Or Sansha Recon 1st room and actually hanging around to kill the rats?

Or any number of other missions I can state?
And how about if you have, you could post your fits and post up a You Tube of how easy it is with the new AI.

Given how you are the ONLY one who can test, given how difficult it is for CCP to get Duality up and running.