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And another one I just bug reported: did both the Business and Industrial career agent missions and didn't receive Venture with skillbok from either one. I saw someone else report the same thing in some thread very recently, so it's not just me.

There is one file called win_launcherinfoTQ_inc.txt in that location, deleted it and tried to launch, no change, still get the popup saying to check the log file and client does not start.

Edit: yes it's installed in the default location.

Loss of drones is a new "feature" and the costs suck bad / add up fast.

NPC behavior based upon AI changes is not consistent as far as I can tell. I mean, the NPCs switch targets randomly without any regard to who is doing what or when. It does not matter what DPS I deliver, what EWAR I deploy, whatever I do ...

There is simply no consistent behavior that can be used as a basis for an aggro management strategy. The only aggro management at this time is to kill stuff before your tank breaks. And that is not really aggro management.

I really think CCP missed the point of PvE when they stated they wanted to make it less predictable. PvE is all about precision execution, which comes from rehearsing the same scenario until you've optimized all aspects for success. At that point is gets called "farming status". Adding unpredictability throws a monkey wrench into all that. Having complex behavior is cool. Having completely unpredictable behavior is not fun at all.

If I want unpredictability, I'll do PvP. PvE is kind of like playing the same song on your instrument many times. It's still fun, even though you have done it many times and you have memorized it from beginning to end.

Happy New Year!

Can we please have a fix for the broken "double click on probe to center view on probe"?

It was a pain before Retribution already, you had to hover the mouse over a probe's label, wait until the label vanished, move mouse away, wait until label show up again, double click. But then it was at least fixed for a while and you could double click the label right away, it didn't vanish anymore for that set of probes.

Now you have to go through that whole process and than hope you can double click it... sometimes, i think when you close the system map with probes out you cannot double click them at all anymore and need to call the probes and launch new once.

Please get this fixed finally. Or at least make it just as broken as it was before the Retribution expansion.

Once you are done with this then please work on an options menu to turn of the annoying aggression sound that clutters my senses every time a smartbomb cycles or a activate a remote rep or energy transfer or disable a transfer on someone or for a million other reasons i don't care about. Imagine, some of your players live in w-space, we don't give anything about aggression timers, we just don't care but getting spammed with this noise all the time. Please get it sorted finally.
It is massively ruining the fun atm. '(beeezzzzzbringblilililililbeeeezzzbringbilililiibrezzzzzzecreeeabrrrreee, thats how my client sounds once i start doing anything, pve or pvp atm, this is so f...ing horrible)

Just as horrible as the new locked targets nightmare. Try using a tool to write stuff that doesn't show the text as line but as semi-circles. You will soon realize that semi-circles are not so very much readable as they might look cool.

There is a new year now, so get going and get some of the stuff fixed you seriously broke or made worse. A lot of your long term subscribers are suffering there.

Thank you.

Galmas: Read the part where I state that there is no consistent NPC behavior, nor is there any way to consistently control aggro.

What is not predictable is controlling which players are targeted by the NPCs, as in tanks tank and healers heal.

Specifically, I have been using a CNR and a HM Tengu after my drone boats have proven to be useless after the patch. At any given time, I cannot predict that my CNR will hold aggro. Sometimes I can leave the drones out for long periods and they will not take aggro. Other times, they get hammered hard and must be pulled in or sacrificed. The unpredictability is in aggro management, in that, there is none. I can do all the things that are supposed to generate high threat (EWAR, high DPS, etc) and it does not matter. The NPCs behavior is seemingly random.

If someone has a formula for consistently predicting NPC behavior, I'd sure like to read it. But as far as I can tell, PvE scenarios are now highly improvisational, and the "farming status" that is the hallmark of repeatable PvE scenarios for ISK gathering are a thing of the past. I'm sure some players are happy with this. I am not.

Don't know if you have already found them but the Damage Notifications have moved to your Overview settings, [Misc] tab

Reposting from the general feedback thread since this is apparently the correct place for it:

Here is a picture of the damn "Tracking Disrupted while not disrupted" bug.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2923/exefile2013011013204115.png

The effects applied there are from all four ships, yet it only shows one is doing it to me.

I have reported this over and over now CCP as have others, could we please see something back from you about the NPC TD issues. It's really beyond a joke now how worthless Turrets are vs Sansha.


Again here is a thread with all the issues and feedback from the community effected by them.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=178599

Well CCP, you lost another one.

Since the Dust integration, I've been experiencing routine game freezes and disconnects on my Mac.

I sent this eve-mail to my corp today:

I, too, completely lost the ability to log in - but on a Windows machine:

The launcher is stable, but after you click PLAY, it's a downward spiral from there.

I spent all day today rooting through my machine, trying to figure out event errors, etc, filed am extensive bug report... wasted hours back-tracking by restoring my system to a backed up state about 6 days ago...
Same old problems. Inexorably leading to the blue screen of death crash.

I've filed a bug report (#151686)

Recreation is basic:
Open EVE Launcher.
Click "PLAY".
The Login screen appears.
Wait for about 2-7 seconds.
The screen flashes white, then black, then attempts to "restart and recreate" the screen, but if it is not successful, it will crash as a BLUE screen crash.

Sadly this means any attempt at saving a logserver file or a screen capture simply are not available, as those files are lost when my system reboots from a fatal crash.

I found one in particular that included detailed error information on an "Application Hang":

The program ExeFile.exe version 2012.12.45.7575 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed.
Process ID: 1068
Start Time: 01cdf356f0ae0a05
Termination Time: 25
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\bin\ExeFile.exe
Report Id: 73b2ef51-5f4a-11e2-8e61-0021856397ee


After more testing tonight (10 hours later), Eve simply is not playable, and nothing has been changed with my software or hardware setup since my last successful log in several days ago.


Platform: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, 8G RAM
Processors: AMD Phenom II X2 545 (2 CPUS), ~3.0GHz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO (~4Gb on-card graphics RAM)