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Missions update > eta this decade?

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Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2015-02-11 00:57:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Aston Martin DB5
Seriously? When was the last time the Devs went through current missions in the game and added or updated conent or even changed up the visuals? I for one would to see this happen and hopefully I could grab support from other mission runners. It would also Be epic to have audio from enemy NPCs or aura (women ai voice) during missions giving players status updates or warnings with incoming waves of hostiles.

Sorry for any typos... typing from my iPhone and a beer the other hand.

Bring better immersion to the game 😉

Your one and true Lone Ranger!

Hit me up on Kik surfpun2001! Cheers.
Serene Repose
#2 - 2015-02-11 01:04:07 UTC
What are you, a carebear or something? Don't you know about EVE's new direction? We're catering to nitwit gankers now. We say, "They create content." (It may mean we can lay off a few designers, but so what?) Take your demand for innovative AI to another venue, such as My Little Pony, or that kitty kat game! Geez.

The nerve of some people. Shocked

We must accommodate the idiocracy.

Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2015-02-11 01:10:17 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
What are you, a carebear or something? Don't you know about EVE's new direction? We're catering to nitwit gankers now. We say, "They create content." (It may mean we can lay off a few designers, but so what?) Take your demand for innovative AI to another venue, such as My Little Pony, or that kitty kat game! Geez.

The nerve of some people. Shocked


There's pvp?
Miomeifeng Alduin
Lithonauts Inc.
#4 - 2015-02-11 02:09:37 UTC
The last time? Lets look through the patch notes:

Fixed issues with threat evaluation causing NPCs to stop responding properly and disregarding drones. (HOTFIX 15.1.2015)

Proteus (13.01.2015)

Many structures in missions have had their names changed.
In the mission 'A Wolf In the Fold' the force field will now be removed when the Starbase Main Reactor is blown up.
Various grammar and spelling errors have been fixed in missions.
Unauthorized Military Presence now refers to the correct pickup item in the mission description.

Visuals updated inRhea which changed how every ship is rendering and whenever there's a change to a player used pirate ship too.

I believe there was also an update which gives background noise in mission sites and exploration sites but can't remember when that was.
Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2015-02-11 02:13:36 UTC
Miomeifeng Alduin wrote:
The last time? Lets look through the patch notes:

Fixed issues with threat evaluation causing NPCs to stop responding properly and disregarding drones. (HOTFIX 15.1.2015)

Proteus (13.01.2015)

Many structures in missions have had their names changed.
In the mission 'A Wolf In the Fold' the force field will now be removed when the Starbase Main Reactor is blown up.
Various grammar and spelling errors have been fixed in missions.
Unauthorized Military Presence now refers to the correct pickup item in the mission description.

Visuals updated inRhea which changed how every ship is rendering and whenever there's a change to a player used pirate ship too.

I believe there was also an update which gives background noise in mission sites and exploration sites but can't remember when that was.


Epic stuff.
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#6 - 2015-02-11 02:16:43 UTC
There was also Burner Missions, The second pass of Burner Missions using navy ships, and the addition of Dread Pirate Scarlet

The Drake is a Lie

Jenshae Chiroptera
#7 - 2015-02-11 05:22:27 UTC
More parallel missions with more teams required so people meet each other and stop being solo in NPC corps, please.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#8 - 2015-02-11 05:51:22 UTC
Havent you biomassed already?


I swear, you must be going for the longest biomass timer record.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2015-02-11 05:54:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Aston Martin DB5
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Havent you biomassed already?


I swear, you must be going for the longest biomass timer record.



2 times actually.
Yun Kuai
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2015-02-11 06:48:09 UTC
Aston Martin DB5 wrote:
Seriously? When was the last time the Devs went through current missions in the game and added or updated conent or even changed up the visuals? I for one would to see this happen and hopefully I could grab support from other mission runners. It would also Be epic to have audio from enemy NPCs or aura (women ai voice) during missions giving players status updates or warnings with incoming waves of hostiles.

Sorry for any typos... typing from my iPhone and a beer the other hand.

Bring better immersion to the game 😉

Your one and true Lone Ranger!

Hit me up on Kik surfpun2001! Cheers.



The burner missions were a good start. The only real way they'll make missions not so easy to be completely 100% tracked by players is to make missions dynamic.

What that means is adding scripts that change randomly every time you accept the mission. Number of spawns, ship types that spawn, ewar that spawns, neut and web towers, different race that might randomly invade (i.e. you're completely tanked for the wrong damage type), toxic fields that spawn, etc. By creating x number of different variables and then making them all be choosen randomly every time you take the mission, you now have always changing content that can't be followed step by step following the wiki page.

Also, I recall they introduced new missions a while back only to have them mapped out within a few days of release with triggers, spawns, etc. Not much you can do there when players so avidly count everything to maximize their profits/hr Ugh

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Ferni Ka'Nviiou
Doomheim
#11 - 2015-02-11 11:03:58 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
More parallel missions with more teams required so people meet each other and stop being solo in NPC corps, please.

No.
Lan Wang
African Atomic.
Dreadnought Diplomacy.
#12 - 2015-02-11 11:07:35 UTC
you could always become a roll-player and immerse in pvp, who knows you might like it

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#13 - 2015-02-11 11:14:50 UTC
Ferni Ka'Nviiou wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
More parallel missions with more teams required so people meet each other and stop being solo in NPC corps, please.

No.


Yes.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#14 - 2015-02-11 14:14:43 UTC
Opposing team missions can be gamed by one player controlling multiple ships, and not just traditional collusion. If there would be any benefit to overcoming odds, I would do things like chew away at a raven with noobships.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#15 - 2015-02-11 15:36:46 UTC
Yun Kuai wrote:
Aston Martin DB5 wrote:
Seriously? When was the last time the Devs went through current missions in the game and added or updated conent or even changed up the visuals? I for one would to see this happen and hopefully I could grab support from other mission runners. It would also Be epic to have audio from enemy NPCs or aura (women ai voice) during missions giving players status updates or warnings with incoming waves of hostiles.

Sorry for any typos... typing from my iPhone and a beer the other hand.

Bring better immersion to the game 😉

Your one and true Lone Ranger!

Hit me up on Kik surfpun2001! Cheers.



The burner missions were a good start. The only real way they'll make missions not so easy to be completely 100% tracked by players is to make missions dynamic.

What that means is adding scripts that change randomly every time you accept the mission. Number of spawns, ship types that spawn, ewar that spawns, neut and web towers, different race that might randomly invade (i.e. you're completely tanked for the wrong damage type), toxic fields that spawn, etc. By creating x number of different variables and then making them all be choosen randomly every time you take the mission, you now have always changing content that can't be followed step by step following the wiki page.

Also, I recall they introduced new missions a while back only to have them mapped out within a few days of release with triggers, spawns, etc. Not much you can do there when players so avidly count everything to maximize their profits/hr Ugh


In the time it could take to create a new mission system where you can't put up perfect guide about them for people to tollow tot he T, they could maybe just make triggers in the current missions much more random so can't just follow a guide.
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#16 - 2015-02-11 15:48:43 UTC
First mining. Then missions. Got to obsolete the POS code, so it can be extracted and auction off for the highest bidder to some cyber warfare department.
Baggo Hammers
#17 - 2015-02-11 15:57:26 UTC
Please no more investment in the single player game. I hear there is a new space game out for people who like to play alone.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#18 - 2015-02-11 17:33:17 UTC
You also have a new faction coming, the drifters, which might have there own set of missions and stuff as well, but we don;t have full details on that so who knows.

CCP already stated they are still finializing updating there tools to make new missions and that they have tons of underused stuff they want to adjust so it starts getting used.

So stuff is coming, but you, op, are not paying attention

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.

Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#19 - 2015-02-11 23:45:54 UTC
Thanks for the replies. I'll try out those burner missions and hopefully with the new faction - they might add a few more.
Glathull
Warlock Assassins
#20 - 2015-02-12 00:46:37 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
More parallel missions with more teams required so people meet each other and stop being solo in NPC corps, please.


Incursions didn't fix this already?

I honestly feel like I just read fifty shades of dumb. --CCP Falcon

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