Missions & Complexes

I'm with ya.
The new NPC AI is for the loose. It only brings more frustration then challenging.

There are a lot of different complains about the new AI. In some parts I like the new AI and in some other I'm not quite sure yet:

- The complains about the drone attacking "issue" is somewhat overstated in my opinion. Nothing you won't be able to handle with drone durability and some attention. Exaggerated: Missions can be boring and to pay attention on your drones is at least something more you have to care about ;-) Perhaps most of the complains about the AI attacking the drones cut across with the "tracking disruption issue". Thats really annoying, though and needs to be fixed asap ;-)

- The complains about Veterans not be able to take new players with them in lvl4s is something I'm not quite sure with. In my opinion the new AI behaves more naturally now, but I understand the complains about that point.

- In pvp it seems legit, that the attacking player has a chance rats switch their target to him. Perhaps it needs a little tweaking. It doesn't seem to feel naturally when all AI switch to the attacking player immediately (do they really?).

-tl;dr-
All in all I like the new AI changes. Perhaps it needs a little tweaking here and there, though.
-/tl;dr-

Ive posted several times about light and medium drones beginning to die within 10seconds of deployment in level 5's, Is this overstating ? I don't understand. How are drones even useful with this kind of micromanagement? Not to mention Dscanning every 3 seconds.

Ive been shooting elite frigates now with cruise missiles because its unfortunatly faster and cheaper than the other options.

First let me lay stress this is my personal experience and I'm not claiming I'm exclusively right. :-) But there is only a slender chance I get into such situations you descripe (except I'am under heavy TD ;-)). Frigs are my first targets, before they get into heavy transversal: Scrams und Webs first. When something got under my guns my drones still are able to handle it, without beeing destroyed/instapopped.

I refer to lvl 4 Missions, though...but when you read the topics, that seems for me the part of the game, where most complains come from and that isn't simply true for me.

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...and you guys thought we only hang out in noob channels and the Character Bazaar. Keep it civil and on topic please.

It wouldn't be so bad if my own freaking drones didn't have ADHD. They still to this day (despite I don't know how many patch notes saying yay we fixed drone AI) have an entirely different idea of what 'focus fire' means to what I, my dictionary, and everyone else who speaks English thinks 'focus fire' means!?

It's the only evidence I've seen yet that anyone vaguely affiliated with CCP is even looking at the AI threads.

Hey that's great! One more will make it three.
When 3rd post happends lasers will be shooting rainbows!

To be honest, living in 0.0 I didn't have much trouble with the new AI, since my main targets are bountiful battleship sites and frigs rarely get within range, so sentries all the way, and yet I don't really feel like logging in.

Problem could be elsewhere, and this being just another straw.

Go and try for yourself.

Joke aside, should work, maybe even better than with a battleship since your sig is closer to that of your drones.
On the other hand, you might need more spares, and can't just grab agro deploy sentries and then just speedtank away, fitting EWAR may be harder, and your guns do low dps for trying to keep agro (if that helps at all).

Really, try it and share.