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[Proposal] Dialling up my Locator Agents
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Tjorven Einherjar Valkyrja
Insight n Foresight
#1 - 2013-05-19 14:19:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Tjorven Einherjar Valkyrja
I enjoy the new bounty hunter system and all that it now enables us as players to do.
It allows also for new parts of the game to open up to players in the form of 'Intel' channels and a market for players to jump into such as the 'Locates are Us' channel which allows players to join who are either hunting other people or making ISK by lending out their services to players for a fee.

The proposal I have is entirely selfish of course but I also think it's convenient in general.

Why is it when I call up an agent I get the automated response from my agent saying: 'Sounds good. Please drop by, so we can formalize the mission contract.'

If my agent can say that much to me surely with Eve's technology I can talk to my agent over the phone and make my request?

Could I not be able to request my agent's location services via a phone call as opposed to flying all over the galaxy for a 1-4 min convo?


I believe this would add more fluidity to the game play and reflect the 'Advanced Technology' that Eve Online possess's in making a simply phone call.

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Jean-Pierre Olenarde
Room for Improvement
Good Sax
#2 - 2013-05-23 19:54:56 UTC
+1

With a the shiny tech in the game...agents can't send a simple text message?

If I had something witty to say, this is where I'd put it.
Dark Drifter
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#3 - 2013-05-27 21:35:59 UTC

having to actualy visit the agent is more to stop farming than anything els it has nothing to do with RP reasons.

its in place to stop Joe mission runner from sitting in space and warping from mission to mission without having to dock up (assuming its not an item retrival mission)

however i will +1 the premise of being able to use locator agent services within their area of influence (determent by agent level)

maby add new locator agents:

-level 5 navy agents (cover all home empire regions high sec)
-FW locator agents (cover FW primary contested pockets)
-pirate locator agents 2 types: 1 for regional lowsec and one for NPC 0.0
-concord locator agent (locate someone for LP (say up to 500K lp for Kspace location) (and 600k flat fee for WH)
Svarii
Acclimatization
#4 - 2013-05-31 20:02:27 UTC
+1 | let locator agents answer you without flying to their home.
-1 | remove personal contact for mission assignments.

Deny Pirates the Use of Implants
Tjorven Einherjar Valkyrja
Insight n Foresight
#5 - 2013-07-13 01:30:00 UTC
well I did only add it for mission runner's sake... heh at the time didn't wat it to be completely about me ;)

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Ephemeron
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-07-15 22:58:14 UTC
train up your alt enough to get good standings with locator agent, then just log him in any time you need info
Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#7 - 2013-07-16 14:03:33 UTC
Jean-Pierre Olenarde wrote:
+1

With a the shiny tech in the game...agents can't send a simple text message?

Why should they even bother with the likes of you? Twisted

Expand on them, let them develop a relationship that has to be maintained. They start at level 1 and can only 'improve' by player doing their dirty laundry .. lowsec agents might order a hit .. highsec agents a base courier job.Relationship deteriorate over time.

Levels are on a "per player" basis so the random guy who only use them once in a blue moon will only have access to a level one whereas the bounty hunter who has a cot at the agents office will quickly have a level four available.
With agent level the accuracy, speed and options of the service they provide improves .. from 'target in constellation X' to 'docked in station Y, currently picking his nose'.

We need less "free intel" in Eve, not more .. make us work for it!
Tjorven Einherjar Valkyrja
Insight n Foresight
#8 - 2013-07-18 00:43:04 UTC
Veshta Yoshida wrote:
Jean-Pierre Olenarde wrote:
+1

With a the shiny tech in the game...agents can't send a simple text message?

Why should they even bother with the likes of you? Twisted

Expand on them, let them develop a relationship that has to be maintained. They start at level 1 and can only 'improve' by player doing their dirty laundry .. lowsec agents might order a hit .. highsec agents a base courier job.Relationship deteriorate over time.

Levels are on a "per player" basis so the random guy who only use them once in a blue moon will only have access to a level one whereas the bounty hunter who has a cot at the agents office will quickly have a level four available.
With agent level the accuracy, speed and options of the service they provide improves .. from 'target in constellation X' to 'docked in station Y, currently picking his nose'.

We need less "free intel" in Eve, not more .. make us work for it!


Heh we do already work for it. Blink as for having another alt trained up to do the work, well I have a few doing that already to bridge the gap, but its, in my mind, an unnecessary waste of time, building the rep required for the lvl 4's and then flying between them in order to track a target.

However I can understand the 'frustration' one has in thinking its free info to the lucky guys who has locator's on stand-by (even if they earned them) So maybe they could have a notification from their own agents they might have the same + standings with that would inform them that someone was on their tail. For a prepaid fee of course for such information from their own contacts.

This would only happen however if they both had standings with the same corporation by chance. that way no affiliated corporations would have the interest in the goings on between two pilots.

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