Missions & Complexes

Lol I started doing level 1 missions on my new character and in the first one The Blockade I was perma jammed. Had to warp out and abandon it after warping back in and trying again to no avail.

1. I am a person who doesn't mind grinding, Most of my time is spend on school so the few hours a day(sometimes none) are usually spend doing lvl 4's because I can't really be bothered doing anything else. Especially since my skills are still quite bad(focused on paladin pretty much, don't even have 5 drones yet) and will be spending my next few months training skills to be even viable in pvp.

2. If they change all rats stats & numbers etc. etc. I doubt active armor tanking will be viable... active armor tanking is on most ships a very bad idea and will not work. And I doubt I will be running lvl 4 security missions if they will be as badly balanced as I think they will be.(I do like your adventure missions tho, or Advanced Security) not to mention ships that aren't really viable in pvp(Marauders for example) will probaly not be that viable in them either unless they apply tiercide before this breaks loose.

Also let's not forget new people in eve. They would probaly need a substantial increase in skills before even being able to do lvl 3/4's if the AI get's more pvp-like in security missions.

And I really don't mind the drone changes as much anymore, just don't deploy them more than 20km away and they should be able to make it alive(Maybe heavies is another tale tho) and I must say that the aggro switch is a really weird mechanic, in 1 mission I had 4 drones on 1 elite frigate for about 5 mins, and it would not switch to my drones. then when I somehow got out to 15km from him it suddenly switched to my drones and I was able to get close enough to web and kill him.

man that must be really sucky to deal with :( i havnt played long and the whole sandbox idea has wore off very very fast, its almost like they are carving the way we play, what we fly etc :(

Ok so explain to me why you expect to be able to warp into an belt/anom and not be aggressed by the rats? Lets say you and three corp mates are fleeted and in a belt trying to kill a red. While this is happening a neut warps in to the belt but does not aggress you immediately. Are you and your friends going to wait for that neut to aggress you or are you gonna go blow him up before he has a chance to shoot you. And before you say you would kill the red first lets say he is flying a T1 frig and the neut is in a Tengu. Why should the rat AI behave differently than a human pilot?

The rats changing aggro seems to have something to do with their assessment of the threat level of whoever just warped in. I've been jumped in sites where the rat aggro stays on me even with a new target jumping in.

I assume you are agreeing with me as I must admit your post didn't make that much sense to me?

For me i am glad that rats have new AI. And highly disappointed that CCP made it highly buged EWAR

Welcome to the party, glad to have you. Could you please elaborate on what problem you ran into even if it's a repeat and offer any advice you can about correction that doesn't involve a total rollback. (unless that's what you really want.)

Lol do people actually do this? Ninja looting in your mission?

Switching aggro to drones should only happen on new spawns of NPC's like it was before
constant drone loss severely cuts into the profit margin

And as for making PVE more like PVP NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

PVE is there to make LP and ISK period

if you want to make a new level of mission or new anomalies that will be harder fine by me

But stop blowing holes in my drones either that or give them rig slots so we can improve the tank on drones

I for one like the grind yes i would like new missions too but if people want to PVP they will PVP

if people want to grind they have level 1s though 4s missions

if people want a challenge with a group there are incursions and wormholes and level 5s or they can go to 0.0 and run complexes

QUIT trying to fix what is not broken , drones are a weapon system pure and simple , we can not target someones guns or missile launchers so why are Npc's targeting drones ????????

ROLL it back , then test, then implement way to often CCP acts like the US congress and passes something before thinking of the unintended consequences of that action

Mining is boring but i don't see you adding sensor damps to asteroids or putting gun platforms on the asteroids
reason , BECAUSE IT would be stupid as are these drone changes

you want to add to mission content here is an idea
1 how about some escort missions you have to protect the ship from the npc's until it can warp out
2 defense missions defend the star base from waves of npc attacker until reinforcements arrive
3 guard missions you have to safely escort a hauler through three to five dead space acceleration gates
and there is a rat spawn at random somewhere in it if the hauler dies the mission is a failure
4 a delivery mission that takes you to a random dead space drop off point , which again has a random spawn or two in it that attacks you for the cargo
5 gank the big ship like a NPC freighter but you got wave of ships coming in to stop you from succeeding
many other story ideas for missions to be had if you just think about it

To be honest I tried the new NPC AI, because I have done lvl 4's long time ago. And it's awful. They ate all my drones in a few mins, and permajammed. So mission running was a boring **** in the old days, and now, it is same boring but more ****. Nice work CCP!

Also my tactic was to run lvl 4 with two accounts, but is it possible now, when NPC's switch targets? Can one ship be the tank and other the damage dealer or this thing is messed up too?