EVE General Discussion

Sounds a lot more like they want to eliminate the "pve" vs "pvp" build, which makes a lot more sense than the op.

People tend to avoid mission running outside of high sec because the ship fits to run the missions tend to be counter to what you would need to survive a pvp encounter. There's little incentive for a mission runner to put themselves into a position that they might have to fight another player when their ships are fitted to deal with npc's who require a different approach.

CCP should have been setting up NPC's all along to mimic pvp encounters, instead of making them require entirely different fits. This is a common problem with most mmo's that have uch a focus on pvp. Developers tend to develop different gameplay for each aspects of the game, which has a tendency to turn people off because the experiences are completely different.

If the NPC's behaved more like players, and required the same types of fits as would be needed when fighting other players, the transition from pve to pvp would be much smoother and organic to those players who aren't actively seeking other players to fight against.

If shooting an NPC ship is relatively the same as shooting another players ship, then that distinction between doing pve, and "omg another player is shooting me" becomes much less defined and it really just becomes "shooting ships" regardless if that ship is an NPC or another player.



However, I'd like to see them start doing real work on WiS, I just think your speculation is way off base.