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drifters acting starnge
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Scath Bererund
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2015-04-28 18:47:53 UTC
since the update i've been seeing drifter BS in systems without jove structures or wormholes.

now after trying to shoot them i've found they just warp off and don't shoot back.

so has something happened to our new drifter overlords?
Memphis Baas
#2 - 2015-04-28 18:50:49 UTC
Sounds like they're acting like (carebear) players. Try warp disrupting them?
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-04-28 19:04:58 UTC
Maybe because they now contain valuable loot. Blink

I'm my own NPC alt.
Eru GoEller
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2015-04-28 19:09:51 UTC
Tipa Riot wrote:
Maybe because they now contain valuable loot. Blink

They already dropped the Antikythera thing before todays patch.
Eru GoEller
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2015-04-28 19:12:05 UTC
Eru GoEller wrote:
Tipa Riot wrote:
Maybe because they now contain valuable loot. Blink

They already dropped the Antikythera thing before todays patch.

Edit: And, came to think about it, i did see the roaming behavior outside of Jove Observatory system on SISI, when
i was on SISI yesterday.
Solecist Project
#6 - 2015-04-28 19:16:27 UTC
I sincerely doubt they'll change their whole storyline just for the whiners....

That'd go way too far.
There must be something else.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#7 - 2015-04-28 19:19:22 UTC
they've studied our tactics and these are the results.
Ryomaru Reaper
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2015-04-28 19:24:17 UTC
I remember watching a video, with someone from CCP saying that they'd wanted to implement npc's that weren't static?

Like as in they'd be doing some weird crazy stuff on their OWN accord...

Thus creating content without intervention from CCP. That'd be amazing if they'd been making these far strides of A.I programming.

Can't say for sure, don't remember the video, and it could always be just speculation.

Would be neat though.
Scath Bererund
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2015-04-28 19:51:13 UTC
Memphis Baas wrote:
Sounds like they're acting like (carebear) players. Try warp disrupting them?


once scrammed they act like they always did, much violence
Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2015-04-28 20:50:54 UTC
Rats you have to point?

Neat.
Eru GoEller
State War Academy
Caldari State
#11 - 2015-04-28 20:58:13 UTC
Ned Thomas wrote:
Rats you have to point?

Neat.

It's the other way, before some weeks ago you could escape the DD-gun. Not so much after they changed the behavior of Drifters. If you take out the overshield they point you even if you're at grid end and then DD you.
Paranoid Loyd
#12 - 2015-04-28 20:59:44 UTC
What I want to know is when/how did you get a look at the drifter's starnge?

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2015-04-28 21:06:27 UTC
Eru GoEller wrote:
Ned Thomas wrote:
Rats you have to point?

Neat.

It's the other way, before some weeks ago you could escape the DD-gun. Not so much after they changed the behavior of Drifters. If you take out the overshield they point you even if you're at grid end and then DD you.


........yes. And now you have to point them.
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#14 - 2015-04-28 21:12:23 UTC
Scath Bererund wrote:
since the update i've been seeing drifter BS in systems without jove structures or wormholes.
now after trying to shoot them i've found they just warp off and don't shoot back.

Follow them and let us know what you find out. Big smile

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Sol epoch
HELVEGEN
#15 - 2015-04-28 22:06:29 UTC
A drifter battleship killed at least 6 ships on Ammar undock tonight.
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#16 - 2015-04-28 22:32:18 UTC
Yes, they've changed. Scram 'em.
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#17 - 2015-04-28 22:38:14 UTC
Sol epoch wrote:
A drifter battleship killed at least 6 ships on Ammar undock tonight.

Tornados? Twisted

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Arla Sarain
#18 - 2015-04-28 22:59:33 UTC
Drifters forgot to move link alts into the system.
MRxX7XxMONKEY
Sleepless Enterprises
#19 - 2015-04-28 23:14:48 UTC
yeah I've noticed this too, i didn't see where they left towards =/
http://i.imgur.com/msJx3wz.jpg
Zealous Miner
Doomheim
#20 - 2015-04-28 23:44:52 UTC
Ryomaru Reaper wrote:
I remember watching a video, with someone from CCP saying that they'd wanted to implement npc's that weren't static?

Like as in they'd be doing some weird crazy stuff on their OWN accord...

Thus creating content without intervention from CCP. That'd be amazing if they'd been making these far strides of A.I programming.

Oh, great. Self-aware Drifters. The most enigmatic and dangerous NPCs in the most unforgiving online game ever can now think for themselves.

Just what the world needs, right? This couldn't possibly result in a Skynet scenario. Lol

Fedo. Fedo? Fedo!
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