Missions & Complexes

Why do rats hate nagas?

I rat with a naga and a tengu. Warp the tengu into a forsaken hub and the naga follows. Tengu gets all aggro, slowly turns yellow box, naga gets redboxed. It stays red boxed until either rats are dead and a new spawn comes in, or I warp out. When the new spawn comes in, it goes for the naga. Never for the tengu. It stays on the bloddy naga. Why? I understand rats are supposed to switch targets now, key word being switch. I just want the tengu to get some aggro, some of the time.

u best be trollin' naga

sometimes, they go for the softest target. like my noctis if I get caught by a late spawn (pirate scarlet).

your naga fits both criteria: soft target, big guns.

U made all the rats harder but kept the rewards the same. Good job ccp. The new ai is just a push to get more ppl to buy plex or start other accounts. This expansion should be called Extortion. When a 4yr old player who has run 100's of missions needs to fleet to do a L4. something is wrong. Fine the rats are harder. I'm all for that. But the loot sucks. The pay for mission is a joke and bounties are crap. I'd have to make this game my life to sustain myself in it.

Anyway that's my rant. I'm done.

Guess the naga fits both. Kind of strange that I'm better off running multiple 150 M isk nagas instead of multiple 1 B+ isk tengus.

Is that Sig Radius ?? or does the damn AI actually know our tank values ?






I'm not sure on the priority for each subsection
but DPS, E-War & Remote Reps all affect the AI's target Choice

The AI's Initial choice might be hull based, or Sig Radius based .. or a combination of both .. i'm not sure.

Indeed missions after fixing NPC Ewar are far from Impossible. I'm just disappointed that for the most part if I launch my drones I'll most likely loose them if they fly too far or there are more than a few similarly sized rats. This makes my drone bay useless. Even the new salvage drones are a bigger pain in the arse than they are worth.
Removing dps from me removes profit and this is just the latest nerf to my missioning profit.

- The Agents were dumbed down, the corp I was doing missions for LP no longer had a mission giver that gave out combat missions.
- Drone alloy removed
- T1 modules/ammo/cap charges removed
- Drones useless

Maybe there is too much ISK floating around but my missioning is a drop in the bucket compared to corps that can sponsor bounties on any mining vessel in the game.

I'm thoroughly confused. There seems to be absolutely no rhyme or reason which a player can reasonably predict on how they switch.

Just last night I was ranting in local to let off steam about some irritations:

In the pocket we have a BS, a BC and some salvage drones kicking around. An enemy BC (I know this was the offending ship as it was the last one alive) decided to switch targets from BC to salvage drones. Then, after they were recalled, it began shooting the battleship (whose guns had been silent for a very long time). These drones had been out happily for ages whilst the pocket was demolished by the two boats.


Now, based on everything I know, the salvage drones should have been the last on the target list by quite a margin.

It's not an isolated example either, I can never predict what ship is going to get hit, despite the modus operandi of the missions always being the same - BS blasts the BS and works down the size scale, BC eats the rest at the bottom working up. Usually they meet on the last BC. some missions the BC takes the aggro of the entire pocket, other times the BS is having to run it's tank like a fiend.

Other oddities include having 10 unmolested drones buzzing about downing frigates like crazy, yet another mission where I used the drones on the last frig, it instantly started shooting them (at this point the only reason they survived was because I was within scoop range and a sole frigates left alive).

There really seems to be no discernible pattern or logic to their target changing.


Obviously I can't speak for anyone else but for me, this has simply caused so much micro-management/general irritation to gameplay, I've basically just stopped using drones as a platform, they don't bring anywhere near enough to the table (either through gameplay enjoyment or DPS/utility) to merit the hassle. Yes, I can micro them like a madman and yes I can watch the little yellow boxes like a paranoid nut and yes, I can not deploy them to long distance targets however none of that is worth the added couple of percent DPS they offer. Not even close.


In short, it has not been an experience enhancement to me as a simple player, it's just a pain. Sufficiently so that I've eschewed the weapon system almost altogether.

I don't think that was the aim of the change, however that is the effect it has had on this particular player.

I tought it should be because of sig radius. Naga has bigger sig radius than tengu. Also activating modules on rats can cause target switching. Afaik atleast..

Reading comprehension hickup?

Ya

Was allready going to answer "what u talking about" before i realized it myself..