EVE Information Portal

Good stuff, all around.

Nothing about this arrangement strikes me as permanent. It's more like, "here, we're trying these out. if you like them, run them and tell us what you think."

From a development POV, there's no reason to build out a whole new interface to accommodate 5 new missions that still run on the old AI, while they're building out a whole new system underneath it, so they didn't do that.

I’m looking forward to these new missions! Can’t wait!

As for new mission types..?

What if npc ‘reacted’ or scaled in difficulty based on how easy one kills npc: ie. you warp into the first room and kill the first set of npc, depending on how fast and how easy this was done, the following room would adjust in difficulty either by adding more npc or different npc ships classes or both. And if you bring help, like a friend or two, the mission npc call in even more support to aid them - again based on the group performance.

Essentially this would mean a scalable difficulty with parameters taken on ease of npc kills, maybe even player ship-class(like frig, carrier, bs, t1 or t2…) or even player SP and average player group SP - these could all affect mission difficulty settings.

This would actually then do away with this type of mission level system, l1, l2, l3, etc… since the difficulty and challenge would be based on a whole string of player/character info. If i have a character with 9mill sp and i take a t1 frig into the mission it will have x-difficulty, but if i go to the same mission in a t2 frig it’ll be x-times harder.

There could be and very long list of variables that could affect the mission difficulty and so make them interesting and less procedural.

just my 2c…


*edit: damn spellcheck telling me I'm fly frogs when I'm flying frigs! Pfff!

These will suit me fine actually, I have standings for level IV missions but don't fly BS because I just don't like them. I'll be skipping the standard missions waiting for the burners.

It's already been clearly stated that you can request a mission every 4 hours without a standings hit *per agent*

Depending on your standings, you could have access to a number of agents that you can hit up for missions round robin while waiting out your 4 hour timer on the others. This could easily be done by low/null-sec players as they roam looking for fights in their frigates.

Not everyone grinds 24x7 in the same basic circle with the same agent doing the same content as it is fed to them...

been putting a list together of all the lv 4 agents I have access to within a couple jumps. Cant wait to try they out.

The whole request mission decline if bad and request another if bad wait 4 hours rinse and repeat is what I do for lv5's, Now with more agents available at lv 4's I hope I can cycle them a little more.

I like this idea. I like it soooo much I might actually run missions again.



I also cant wait for all the "ARGH RABBLE BLARG WHAY CANT I USE MY AFK MISSION ISHTAR IN THESE MISSIONS!!!! CCP NEEDS TO LET CRUISERS INTO FRIG BATTLE!!! ARGH RABBLE BLARG!!!!!" threads because highsec.

Exactly, I think a lot of the critical comments so far are because it isn't clear who these missions are aimed at. If it is the hard core L4 mission runners who are thinking that they don't know how to do PvP, this is a nice easy way to get them involved with some setpiece scenarios.

you mean teal and grey

Wait wait wait, so you want us, the capsuleers who are inexplicably bound by CONCORD's law and get an ass kicking the moment we over step, to fight and kill a bunch of terrorists who have managed to elude CONCORD and are using better equipment then even we have access to?

In any realistic scenario anyone would take two seconds to think that over and say HELL NO. But in this case, I think it's just another piece of bad story writing. All is good. (Really, put some more effort into decent background stories for game mechanics).

As far as the gameplay itself goes, I'm sure we all like the addition of new missions, but this is once again more static content that is able to be mapped and countered to perfection each and every time. Hell, the dev blog already gives a neat little list of exactly what each mission's dangers are. It will take 1 week tops before someone has all the details of each Burner written down and mapped out.

The reason missions in general are boring is not because there aren't enough different ones, but because it's the same stuff each and ever single time. The rats are always the same. The method of attack is always the same. The incoming damage is always the same. All you have to do to beat a mission is do the exact same thing you did last time.

If you want to improve missions and PVE content in general, start working on dynamic missions that change ever so slightly each time they are ran. Dynamic rats, dynamic triggers, dynamic damage and dynamic stats. That way at least there's still some challenge instead of being able to find every single piece of information on a website.

Of course a system like that takes time to program and stuff, I get that. But this basically goes for everything in EVE; make it less static.