EVE General Discussion

I was having a deep thought reading over an agents statement "If you want to talk to me, please meet me in person" and of course having the natural thought that agents must be luddites as they refuse to talk over long distance communications.

But then I realized to my horror that I was not actually meeting the agents face to face in the station because I am stuck in my captains quarters with no key to open the door!

Does that mean the agents have been lying to me about face to face communications the entire time and I have simply been using remote communications anyways, but the agents have been laughing at me because they make me travel long distances just to talk with them over the intercomm. Maybe the agents aren't in the stations that I go to and only taunt me with saying they can't talk without me actually being in the station just to be mean. I have no proof of their real existence since I cannot leave my captains quarters.

Madness.

Sparta.

I assume you are looking for the RP element to this insistance to "meet-in-person"? In that case, maybe the need to be in the station in question refers to insuring that a mission brief (which would, I imagine, be comprised of highly sensitive and confidential information) needs to be done in a secure fassion. Maybe communication from a terminal in your captains quarters is regarded as having superior security over the same communications from ship-based comms.

If you actually READ the mission briefings, specifically the ones involving data reports, you would understand that wireless communication is inherently insecure. Heck, even cloaked wessels vessels still show up in local (wormhole space excluded.)

Ergo, the only secure means of transmitting data is via a physical object. Said object is probably thrown to your CQ from the balcony of the CQ next to you. Which means you have to respect the pitching ability of agents since they have to put a wicked curve on the data object to get it past the privacy wall separating the various CQs.

It's even worse than this. In "The Burning Life" an agent admitted to another agent the use of AI to talk to capsuleers (because she was stoned out of her gourd).

Rather than opening another WiS thread (if this is what it is), you would do better to post your support in one of the current threadnaughts filled to the brim with support that CCP are ignoring. I think one of them is already the second biggest thread on the entire forum... Maybe if it becomes the biggest thread CCP will pull their fingers out of their collective asses and actually do something about it.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=161511

I like this idea, pleaze make it a city that one has to navigate through with thousands of rooms, like a real city, each station individualy designed, and you have to search every room to find the agent, after every mission, every time. This sounds brilliant! OH and make the agent walk around as if it has errands to do.