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[Rubicon 1.3] Drone Assist change

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HVAC Repairman
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#301 - 2014-02-06 17:04:08 UTC
1Of9 wrote:
Seems a bit odd to me that when ccp talks about "community" is usually referring to goons.

That Mitanus idiot that have high connections in CCP really knows how to use them.


anyway, CCP: Can you kindly just grow some balls and remove caps from the game? We vets that actually been paying for this goon fest game would like to spend our time doing something useful besides skilling for stuff that goons want nerfed all the time.

Or at least consider bringing AoE DD again, because honestly, you just removed the only counter in game against the blob (goons).

With this change, they are invincible, there is no weapon to defeat them.


Quote:
[14:48:37] directorbot: Drone assist is being limited to 50 drones per person. You may now spend the rest of the day posting like maniacs while trolling our various defeated foes. Enjoy yourselves, you've earned it. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=319278

Yes, this means we'll have to toss Dominixes into the dustbin and return to using some real goddamned warships once this hits. :toot:

*** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all at 2014-02-06 14:48:34.730289 EVE, replies are not monitored ***


This make it pretty obvious that mitanus was involved, ccp caved in again.



CCP Rise wrote:

  • We feel that drone assist, at a large scale, leads to passive gameplay that most players do not enjoy.

    • I just wanted to quote this because, CCP dont even realize that this is a S A N D B O X game, everyone should be able to do whatever they want. If i want to spend days in a row docked, fine. If i want to spend weeks auto piloting back and forth, fine. If i want to gate camp for hours without anyone coming thru, fine. If i want to be in a fleet doing nothing but repping and assigning drones ... i cant. yay

    another delicious bit added to eve-o.txt

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    Darius JOHNSON
    Viziam
    Amarr Empire
    #302 - 2014-02-06 17:07:52 UTC
    1Of9 wrote:



    CCP Rise wrote:

  • We feel that drone assist, at a large scale, leads to passive gameplay that most players do not enjoy.

    • I just wanted to quote this because, CCP dont even realize that this is a S A N D B O X game, everyone should be able to do whatever they want. If i want to spend days in a row docked, fine. If i want to spend weeks auto piloting back and forth, fine. If i want to gate camp for hours without anyone coming thru, fine. If i want to be in a fleet doing nothing but repping and assigning drones ... i cant. yay



    I just wanted to quote this to save it for posterity because it may be the dumbest post I've ever seen. Sandboxes have barriers. When you find something broken fixing it doesn't make it not a sandbox. If that were the case this game would be unplayable. If what you ignorantly said was true you would not be here making this post. You'd be off crying in some other game about how they made it so warriors can't one hit kill everyone anymore or some other dumb argument for how you should literally be able to to whatever completely broken activity you feel entitled to because I CAN DO WHAT I WANT DAD.
    Edmark I
    Deep Core Mining Inc.
    Caldari State
    #303 - 2014-02-06 17:08:04 UTC
    1Of9 wrote:
    This make it pretty obvious that mitanus was involved, ccp caved in again


    If anything we should get a consultation salary for helping beta test and balance this game.

    Remote AOE Doomsday, AOE Doomsday, Tracking Titans, Technetium and Drone Assist were all dumb and bad mechanics that we said were dumb and bad and it takes a while but eventually everyone agrees that those things were dumb and bad except the ones who profited and abused them the most.
    Mister Vee
    Magellanic Itg
    Goonswarm Federation
    #304 - 2014-02-06 17:08:54 UTC
    Heh, justice of sorts. Why did it take this ******* long and why would you not remove it entirely? With 50 assisted drones, ishtars are still going to destroy small/medium gangs of every flavor
    Harvey James
    The Sengoku Legacy
    #305 - 2014-02-06 17:10:01 UTC
    Edmark I wrote:
    1Of9 wrote:
    This make it pretty obvious that mitanus was involved, ccp caved in again


    If anything we should get a consultation salary for helping beta test and balance this game.

    Remote AOE Doomsday, AOE Doomsday, Tracking Titans, Technetium and Drone Assist were all dumb and bad mechanics that we said were dumb and bad and it takes a while but eventually everyone agrees that those things were dumb and bad except the ones who profited and abused them the most.


    well this barely makes a dent in the drone assist mechanic

    T3's need to be versatile so no rigs are necessary ... they should not have OP dps and tank

    ABC's should be T2, remove drone assist, separate HAM's and Torps range, -3 HS for droneboats

    Nerf web strength, Make the blaster Eagle worth using
    Xylem Viliana
    homeless bum
    #306 - 2014-02-06 17:10:20 UTC
    50 is IMO too low, 100-150 i can see working. Or just alter it so sentry drones cannot be set to assist but then you would likely need to look at the whole of the drone coding.
    Desert Ice78
    Gryphons of the Western Wind
    #307 - 2014-02-06 17:10:28 UTC
    Quote:
    [14:48:37] directorbot: Drone assist is being limited to 50 drones per person. You may now spend the rest of the day posting like maniacs while trolling our various defeated foes. Enjoy yourselves, you've earned it. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=319278

    Yes, this means we'll have to toss Dominixes into the dustbin and return to using some real goddamned warships once this hits. :toot:

    *** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all at 2014-02-06 14:48:34.730289 EVE, replies are not monitored ***


    I'll just keep quoting this for the truth for Foozie and Rise, because I wouldn't want them to miss out on their deserved share of the smugness.

    I am a pod pilot: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DesertIce/POD.jpg

    CCP Zulu: Came expecting a discussion about computer monitors, left confused.
    Darius JOHNSON
    Viziam
    Amarr Empire
    #308 - 2014-02-06 17:11:26 UTC
    Mister Vee wrote:
    Heh, justice of sorts. Why did it take this ******* long and why would you not remove it entirely? With 50 assisted drones, ishtars are still going to destroy small/medium gangs of every flavor


    Who cares we just blob eh? EH?!?!?!?!
    1Of9
    A Blessed Bean
    Pandemic Horde
    #309 - 2014-02-06 17:11:52 UTC
    HVAC Repairman wrote:
    another delicious bit added to eve-o.txt


    At least i have balls and post with my main vOv

    enjoy the "bit"
    Weaselior
    GoonWaffe
    Goonswarm Federation
    #310 - 2014-02-06 17:12:22 UTC
    MeBiatch wrote:
    Andy Koraka wrote:
    So unless I'm one of the 4 triage carriers in a full subcap fleet (or I'm suicide Triage to save some Supercaps) my Archon has no reason to ever enter combat again.

    I understand the reasons behind breaking drone assist, but there needs to be a replacement mechanic. Maybe some changes to Fighters to make them actually useful would keep Carriers relevant.


    not going to happen. ccp likes sub caps. because goons like sub caps.

    honestly when was the last time a capital ship was boosted? I think since 06 when i started to play there has been nothing but rebalance nerfs to them... only boost would be to dreads with tech II siege mod and reduced to 5 min instead of 10.

    capships and supercaps are in line for tiercide, i think there's pretty widespread agreement the whole group needs to be looked at as a whole

    Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division.
    Shinnyo
    Garoun Investment Bank
    Gallente Federation
    #311 - 2014-02-06 17:14:38 UTC
    I ain't even mad.

    Another good thing that hasn't really been mentioned is that this effectively removes the "perfect alpha" problem that people have been complaining about.
    MeBiatch
    GRR GOONS
    #312 - 2014-02-06 17:14:40 UTC
    1Of9 wrote:
    Seems a bit odd to me that when ccp talks about "community" is usually referring to goons.

    That Mitanus idiot that have high connections in CCP really knows how to use them.


    anyway, CCP: Can you kindly just grow some balls and remove caps from the game? We vets that actually been paying for this goon fest game would like to spend our time doing something useful besides skilling for stuff that goons want nerfed all the time.

    Or at least consider bringing AoE DD again, because honestly, you just removed the only counter in game against the blob (goons).

    With this change, they are invincible, there is no weapon to defeat them.


    Quote:
    [14:48:37] directorbot: Drone assist is being limited to 50 drones per person. You may now spend the rest of the day posting like maniacs while trolling our various defeated foes. Enjoy yourselves, you've earned it. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=319278

    Yes, this means we'll have to toss Dominixes into the dustbin and return to using some real goddamned warships once this hits. :toot:

    *** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all at 2014-02-06 14:48:34.730289 EVE, replies are not monitored ***


    This make it pretty obvious that mitanus was involved, ccp caved in again.



    CCP Rise wrote:

  • We feel that drone assist, at a large scale, leads to passive gameplay that most players do not enjoy.

    • I just wanted to quote this because, CCP dont even realize that this is a S A N D B O X game, everyone should be able to do whatever they want. If i want to spend days in a row docked, fine. If i want to spend weeks auto piloting back and forth, fine. If i want to gate camp for hours without anyone coming thru, fine. If i want to be in a fleet doing nothing but repping and assigning drones ... i cant. yay



    dont worry now that drone assist is gone you can go back to alpha fleets...

    as those are real ships apparently.

    There are no stupid Questions... just stupid people... CCP Goliath wrote:

    Ugh ti-di pooping makes me sad.
    Rectar Kinir
    The Scope
    Gallente Federation
    #313 - 2014-02-06 17:14:41 UTC
    Maximum Bandwith for assisted drones should equal the bandwidth of the current ship * 10, or another factor. Makes the whole calculation a bit more complex, but adds the requirement that only ships that already have the drone systems can be drone bunnies.
    LOL Kashada
    Doomheim
    #314 - 2014-02-06 17:15:46 UTC
    1Of9 wrote:


    CCP: Can you kindly just grow some balls and remove caps from the game?



    Typical PL grunt, sure now you lost most of your super/titan superiority you want to nerf/remove them from the game ahah hypocrite, you are happy to abuse those mechanics and call us out for doing the same but now the tables turned you want out.
    Darius JOHNSON
    Viziam
    Amarr Empire
    #315 - 2014-02-06 17:15:48 UTC
    1Of9 wrote:
    HVAC Repairman wrote:
    another delicious bit added to eve-o.txt


    At least i have balls and post with my main vOv

    enjoy the "bit"


    Tell PL to give you mercenary roleplayers some posting lessons please. It never took any "balls" for anyone ever to post on the internet as a fake mercenary corporation in a spaceship game that was never actually paid to do anything.
    Walker Ahashion
    Imperial Academy
    Amarr Empire
    #316 - 2014-02-06 17:17:03 UTC
    CCP Rise wrote:
    Omnathious Deninard wrote:
    Why 50? That still seems too much.


    This is certainly the most common concern we ran into. As I said above, we think it's low enough. We didn't want to go lower because of the potential impact on other uses for assist, but if this doesn't work we will consider going lower at that point.


    Tell you what mate, I'm not buying this as an enhancement, not swallowing any of the CSM posts on here either.
    This was done for the Martini. Look at what the PL guy posted a few posts back up about it.

    Nothing will be said or done of course, think we all know how eve really works, but I feel better for this small rant.
    MeBiatch
    GRR GOONS
    #317 - 2014-02-06 17:19:01 UTC
    Weaselior wrote:
    capships and supercaps are in line for tiercide, i think there's pretty widespread agreement the whole group needs to be looked at as a whole


    dreads are more then fine.

    fighters are crap which is why drone assist was key...

    Personally I would have prefered they keep drone assist and just remove drones from carriers and then fix fighters.

    as for super carriers... half the build cost remove the e-war ability and let them dock...

    as for titans? Just remove them from game or turn them into semi anchorable outposts. make them a very large deployable structure.

    There are no stupid Questions... just stupid people... CCP Goliath wrote:

    Ugh ti-di pooping makes me sad.
    Rhes
    Brutor Tribe
    Minmatar Republic
    #318 - 2014-02-06 17:19:16 UTC
    N3, PL *and* Dinsdale tears? It's like Christmas came early in 2014.

    EVE is a game about spaceships and there's an enormous amount of work to do on the in-space gameplay before players (or developers) are ready to sacrifice it for a totally new type of gameplay - CCP Rise
    zoichh
    Solar Dragons
    #319 - 2014-02-06 17:20:05 UTC
    Yay! Finaly!
    dudley
    Neurosurgical Reconstruction Centre
    #320 - 2014-02-06 17:20:09 UTC
    Stick Eve up your arse!! CCP= mittens pupets o/