EVE General Discussion

Locator agents need a buff. Specifically, the ability to use them remotely.

i died inside... so sad right now...

I'm inclined to agree, except that a major problem is that those three-player corps aren't doing Eve any good, either. I've been in those corps before. They insulate themselves against the rest of the playerbase, and the vast majority of those people quit the game after 12-18 months. It was wardecs against us that piqued my interest and kept me in the game when the rest of my friends quit.

What's stopping a 3rd party from developing a watch list tool?

because you cant get the info when someone is online i think

You've obviously never actually been apart of wardeccing corp before?


Unless you already know where the dec corp likes to hang you basically picking a random direction and moving towards it, not counting the hot spots like Pipes, Mission Hubs, and the ever popular Trade Hubs, which a lot of highsec corps surprisingly dont go to during a dec. Surprising I know.

The after effect is either more trade hub camping which ever loves to ***** about, or more mass dec's. Which mean Mercenary corps get bigger because expenses are higher and it further stales highsec as a playground.

It'll probably be both. Merc corp grow bigger taking up more members because paying for 100+ decs to expensive. The current large merc corp, Like CD, Marmite, Archetype, P.E PIRAT, will either collapse due to the inability to have enough decs to have readily available targets, The ones that survive will increase in numbers.

About 90% on the new merc will just camp hubs because randomly moving in a direction will be tedious and annoying if unfruitful. Some of the smarter hub camps, will have scouts and check trade hubs and near by pipe but only move away from the hub if a target presents itself .

You would have the constant push and pull relation between the mercenary alliances that are around right now. It's probably be only a few left that either leave each other along or more likely have a constant dec against each other.

Contract will break down to only poco/pos removals which although pay well for the mercs, are boring and more of a chore then a actually content.


This nerf effects more then just the nullsec blobs, and because it does a broad stroke shouldn't be the action CCP has taken.

If he is afraid of PVP, why is he playing a PVP centric game? Does he say that for CoD, World of tanks, or other such games as well?

Some people just dont have brains...

You do realise that now they also can't see that you're online?

The aggressor doesn't see when his targets are online, so he will fly around a lot just to find that his war targets aren't actually logged in. The defender will not know when the enemy is online and potentially out hunting, and will have to be extra careful, even if nobody is actually around.

So, yeah - in that case it balances out. But mostly in the sense that it makes the game more annoying for both sides equally.

My hope is, that at least in smaller wars people will add each other anyway, hoping that the other side does so as well.

- Imagine if there was a war, and nobody knew if the other side was even logged in.

The watch list was an essential tool in our capacity for resource protection and investigation activities. It was also a mainstay in our other activities regarding enforcing the EULA. I guess CCP will still be able to access this information for their own use within security and EULA work but we are being denied it within the game.

Yet another bad change to add to the list and another disincentive for players to return to the game.