Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This would, of course, be an absolute requirement. Changing missions in any way is like playing with fire, chances are if CCP messed up ISK/hour at all for mission runners we'd see more Jita protests rather promptly.


No extra insurance and that isn't bad. Scaling with difficulty is a difficult one though, how do you define difficult?

CCP evidently thought vanguards would be "difficult" when they introduced them, now they can be blitzed in just under three minutes by an increasingly large number of people.


Sadly this just isn't true. More complex AI, more complex code. More complex code, more server load.


Oh, that's all?

So, how is the players ship determined? If you warp in a ship, the site spawns a counter to that ship? This could be predicted and abused very easily.


Actually sleeper AI pretty much does pick targets at random. Excepting little things like battleships not targeting your drones, for the most part if you're just soloing/dual boxing them the AI is quite straightforward.

A devblog on what they hoped to achieve with sleeper AI can be found here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=645

Reading it may shine some light on what is a realistic expectation, at least in terms of AI, from a game like Eve. Basically, incredibly intelligent adaptive AI that truly utilizes PvP tactics to form dynamic engagements simply isn't going to happen.

Requesting that CCP merely buff current NPCs a little and reduce their numbers correspondingly is a little more likely to get listened to by the devs.

actually the dev blogs of late (think 2-3 months) went into some detail about the gerbils spinning the wheel that run this game. Its based on server technology not even general release yes. It is a new server more or less already.

Eve's botttleneck is its code doesn't multi-thread. They could put in a mega cluster of I7 servers....the game can't thread to use them like they should. They gave valid reasons for this setup. At the time of creation...they went with a stable technology (non threaded architecture) and moores law was still applicable to single thread processors. Years later, CPU maker have been cheating to keep moore's law going....they split cores to boost transistor count. Till a recode from line 1.....multicores won't affect eve. Many programs out there like this...ccp isn't alone lol.

I actually don't believe in making PvE more like PvP. If I want a PvP-like situation, I go PvP!

PvE though could still stand with a lot of changes, more advanced triggers in the missions and ability to fail said mission. Randomly generated missions. New mission types (protection of asset/ship, attack against boss, and so on). Missions that caters better to different ship sizes in one fleet (frigate rats attack player frigats, cruiser rats attack player cruisers and so on). And yes, smarter, stronger and fewer enemies, but not so smart and strong that it turns into PvP, we still want to feel invincible when we PvE.