EVE General Discussion

people will just fit auto targeting, job done

besides, drone aggro, triggers moving from anom to anom sorta makes 100% afk a bit difficult

If you want to make the game more engaging and discourage AFK behaviour, all that is needed is some increased risk. Make NPC spawns a little more random in power - sometimes weak ones spawn and sometimes harder ones - and very rarely spawn some Drifter-level uber-NPC that the player has to run from. Attentive players will warp away easily and AFK ones will come back to find themselves floating in a pod.

The AFK running of missions, mining and hauling could also be similarly discouraged by the risk of a rare yet powerful NPC appearing. In fact, perhaps these Drifters will turn out to be such a mechanism.

If someone is doing something in-game that you don't like, overwhelming DPS is usually the cure.

Whether you're right or wrong isn't the issue here. Anomaly ratting is damn boring and you can be certain that forcing players to select every target, no matter how small, and press F1 isn't going to do gameplay any favours. Players will always find more efficient ways to complete monotonous tasks; why try to impede that? Furthermore, trying to force even more mundane routines on players isn't going to win their hearts.

If you find yourself wanting because your neighbour is prepared to take more risk than you are and is reaping the benefits by enjoying a lazy lifestyle, the onus is on you to step-up your game!

I've probably been flying Ishtars for this kind of things and all kinds of other 0.0 shenanigans for close to 1.5 years now and yes, it's broken.

They brought drones in line with other weapons but kept stuff like automatic aggro and assist which makes very little sense to me but at the same time I am kind of glad you can do the most boring activities mostly AFK, you know, much like shooting POSes or capturing sov nodes.

NPCs aggroing drones doesn't work 99% of the time in 0.0, or at least not in Serpentis space.

That's all you're saying with your post.

I've never botted in eve and I don't even know the name of any bot programs in eve. I do have friends that have pointed out bots for me so I could watch and they have told me about capabilities. I also have +20 years of computer experience which includes casual programming. I have also seen bots in online games for that time period.

I can't imagine anyone is is botting with drones when turret ships are so much superior for bots. From a bot programmer's perspective drones are too unpredictable and unreliable when compared to a ship with turrets. You don't have to worry about turrets wandering off from the ship or getting destroyed or having to wait for your turrets to come back to the ship like you do with drones. Botting with drones just sounds stupid.

I know quite a few people that have made +1b a day while almost completely AFK in fields mining (certainly more AFK than the afktars you're talking about).

I know people who make billions a minute while AFK (market manipulation) or tens of billions a month with a little effort a week (PI chains).

So there's some more things to rage about in your next post.



EDIT : Auto targeting missiles can be relatively effective.

That's one Sisi gimmick gang I haven't tried: Fleet warp auto targeting carriers around with fighters out.

Those types of things only happen if I see them in space and they experience it directly. Like any other change.

Troll pvp the devs, change the game. Good times.