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...which is exactly why CCP's repeated attempts at economic balancing have been so laughably bad.

I pride myself on being able to set up and implement solutions to PVE related problems/content , in other words adapting. The 1st thing I thought when i hear dof the proposed Heavy Missile nerf (while others screamed blood murder) is what i could do with a Tracking comp'd up Navy Raven lol.

But done wrong this change could make high end null sec exploration content seriously bad and broken beyond our (often incredible) ability to adapt. The 1st 2 rooms of guristas maze are bad, but doable even with switching, but that last room would be impossible if you can't control or predict where that torp is going to go......\


.....and as I was typing that I thought "maybe I could put a smart bombing rokh between our dps ship and the station... see, still trying to adapt lol. But if the rokh takes torp aggro and dies, blegh.

Yea, we'll see, hope CCP thinks this all the way through.

But isn't the real key of carefully controlling aggression something that should be based on observing the behaviour of the opponent and adjusting your behaviour to suit?

Not just carefully observe the opponents behaviour over a couple of runs and set down a strict tactic that will always work for a given scenario?

I do agree that it will be harder to grind out isk in null by using a well established tactic, but it will at the same time also be harder to grind out isk using a well established tactic everywhere.

However, I do think that forcing people to engage their brain to grind out isk instead of following a given manual is a good thing.

This initial change isn't doing anything like that.

I rat null sec Forsaken Hubs with a single macharial at time, aggro switching doesn't matter if there is nothing to switch too lol.

Why didn't you use your drones to kill the scramblers first? Why didn't you use a secondary flight of drones? Why not use smaller drones to kill scramblers faster, and save the larger drones for bigger targets? Why not use sentry drones and use your empty highslots for remote repairing?

Does CCP plan to follow up on this AI revamp with other enhancements or additions to PVE content? Right now there is a distinct lack of worthwhile content for anything smaller than a battlecruiser, and, while it is a good start, most of the missions and complexes need a lot more than an AI change.

Well new tactic is to dump rattlesnake / dominix and train for another more usefull ship.
Rattlesnake / Dominix becomes obsolete.

This is why CCP fails and keeps failing: Working on creating new ways to nerf things while not concentrating on what you said you were going to fix. Sure I want deadspace loot to be even more expensive because those that farm it will have a harder time or not even bother. In turn newer players would have to do more high sec missions as a peon to save more ISK (also at increased risk) to buy overpriced items, while PLEX prices drop.
So the translation is: We want more people doing PVP and not PVE, we also want to reduce the circulation of ISK and devalue plex because those who farm for them by selling deadspace items to pay rent will not bother. Your messing with a delicate circle here: Those who buy PLEX with real life money from CCP to sell for ISK because they are too lazy/busy with a job and family to farm items, and those who are poor or frugal that don't mind grinding for items to sell as long as they can sell those items to buy game time.

This is not a rant about new brains this is a rant about fixing things that are not broken and wondering why people leave the game. I have been playing since beta and still feel like this is beta. Stop "fixing" things that are not broken and fix the things that are clearly broken and release some new content. Why are you creating "new things to test", new things to be broken, instead of fixing the stuff that IS BROKEN? Every time you introduce something you risk creating more bugs to squash, at least take this risk for something interesting, something someone would actually WANT to come back to the game for! Hmm should I go back to EVE? Its mission rats are harder, making it harder to grind ISK which is already a boring grind, making it less boring is not by making it more risky! If you want it more fun you can start by introducing new missions to go along with the ones that are more than 10 years old. This would be new content, this would be exciting, not tweaking code. From experience when I come back to eve I don't want new mechanics, I want the same old eve with new content and fixed bugs, if I see a coded AI change it must be tied in with a reason. The first thing I would ask is " a code change? why a code change? Oh I see.. while I have been gone they introduced ship X, which does Y, which is new, and in order to compensate, the did this to the code, so it all makes sense to a returning player. As a returning player I don't want to see altered mechanics I want to see new content with the same mechanics. I only want to see new mechanics introduced for reasons that warrant new mechanics such as new mods or ships that REQUIRE the NPCs to adapt to these mechanics. If your going to add code and break content at least make it worth coming back to EVE for. Not "we nerfed more stuff, come back to EVE".

Oh I forgot there is that mission where you have to pick up a load of Quafe in a shuttle

70k are for sentry drones. Most active drone pilots won't use heavy drones until 20-25k since Gardes can easily track (with omnis) most things that close.