Missions & Complexes

Why are we allowed to run missions without having to compete against other players?, no other profession is allowed to do that.

Trading, exploration, production, mining and so on, are all influenced by the constant competition of other players. People might move to you area and start competing against you for the best sites, or constantly undercut your market orders. The market might get flooded with items, like we are seeing at the moment with data and relic items.

All professions are influenced by other players, except missions. As a mission runner you are payed by the npc, totally unaffected by other players. No matter how many players use the same agent the rewards are always the same, there is absolutely no player vs. player competition.

I know some are going to say, "another nerf mission thread", and i guess it is... but i'm not saying nerf the income, just make it more competitive, rewards smart, skilled, competitive playgame more then "afk" mission running.

Anyone is able to scan out your mission once you are inside it and take the mission objective / kill rats or indeed kill you.

Player interaction is everywhere

NPC reward is only a fraction of income of mission runner. About 50-70% of income is LP points. You compete with other players when you sell LP items.

Also, there are such things as ninja salvaging/looting and suicide ganking. Try to do some missions in popular mission hub (i.e. Osmon) in pimped mission-running ship and see what happens :)

I'll think about all the players I'm not competing against when I try and flog another million LP. oh wait who just undercut me.



If you want competition, sisters will sell you a nice probe launcher.

There is no need to nerf mission income, its been quietly nerfed by incursions, which has inflated the value of all gather tasks (ie everything but ratting and missioning are boosted by it).

As Rinnve and Tauranon said, there's plenty of competition in liquidating a large portion of the reward assets. Not everything has to be heavily contested in this game. Sometimes you just want to relax and blow stuff up.

Rinnve Elennean speaks the truth there.

After roughly a year and a half break i came back to eve and thought I'd give mission running out of Osmon a try. Two mission latter i paid the price for my own stupidity.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=18812644

I like exploration, if missions was designed the same way, there would be a chance the agent would give the same mission to more then only player. I can't choose opt out the possibility of other players showing up and trying to steal the reward, only the mission runner get to play eve in easy mode.

would you mind explaining the circumstances of that encounter; was it a simple case of alpha damage, or was the room also heavy with NPC DPS?

I think what OP is missing is the playerbase that enjoys missions, and the static gameplay it provides in terms of "always available" interaction...

...and the revenue the gameplay generates

Yeah i cocked up in the mission and set off all the triggers, so by the time i finished the mission and warped to the gate i only had around 30% shields left and hardly any cap. It wouldn't of made a blind bit of difference anyway as there was at least ten tornadoes there waiting. it was just me being a prat and cocking up my mission that made it incredibly easy for them to gank me though.

Ahh well i learnt a couple of good lesson,

Don't fly a pimped ship in Osman.

Also if low on shields and cap dock up before jumping through a gate.

And finally don't panic, overheat the crap out of everything and take as many of the b@stards with you as you can (i didn't even get on a kill mail).