Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Please explain why autopilot should have no risks or drawbacks at all.

This is ****** bait

Manual piloting involves manual piloting.

Autopilot doesn't. Autopilot has drawbacks you want to see removed. Why is this?

Neither of those are a good gameplay reason at all.

Point one is literally pay to win, which is a terrible idea and you should feel terrible for posting it.

Point two is an outright lie. The closest thing in the game to paying cash for convenience is buying plex for cash to sell for isk if you don't have time to make it. That is not required, the way an autopilot to zero would be.

Just think about it: instaceptors would be utterly invulnerable even while controlled by an empty chair. Why is that a good thing?

You guys sound like the same naysayers who hated warp to zero instead of bookmarks

Paying PLEX to directly bypass a game mechanic because you can't be arsed to be at the keyboard is a terrible idea.

Lets take a look at the uses of PLEX as they currently stand and what they all have in common.

• Exchanging for game time, doesn't bypass a game mechanic.
• Selling on the market for Isk or exchanging for AUR, in short a currency exchange mechanism that doesn't bypass a game mechanic.
• Dual character training, not bypassing a game mechanic as it's mechanically the same as subbing a second account for the purposes of SP acquisition, the downside being that you can only have one character logged in per account.
• Vanity features such as the NEX store and resculpts, not bypassing a game mechanic because those items have no direct effect on game play.
• Fanfest tickets and the like, doesn't bypass a game mechanic because those events take place outside of the game.

Convenience features they may be, mechanical bypasses they are not.

Damn, that looks like what you'd get if you watched a pirate VHS tape via a 4K TV

You wouldn't steal a pixel.

Not shocked tbh, the anti piracy mob are quite adept at using or monetising other peoples intellectual property without permission or recompense.

The IT crowd spoof was better than the official piracy ads anyway.

I can confirm that what Daichi said is true.

Because people were making so many bookmarks around gates to warp to zero, it was causing massive amounts of lag (don't ask me why... there more than a few things about EVE's base architecture that doesn't make sense).


Anyways...

The warp-to-15 thing was originally intended to force players to interact with each other. Buuuuuuuut seeing how frustrated players were (and how much they wanted an auto-pilot feature) they made a compromise of sorts;

- Ships can warp to gates "more or less" at 0 km (there will always be a variance to everything you warp to).
- Auto-pilot will warp in at 15km and burn to the gate... giving people the automation they wanted, but with a stiff penalty.

Basically... the DEVs gave active players an advantage over inactive ones.

I do not see why this has to change.