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Well mission npc's target quite fast.

Giving NPCs brain sounds great. I always loved the challenge with sleeper and Incursion NPCs. You will also need to give our drones brains, unless you are trying to put drone boats at a disadvantage compared to the other weapon systems. If drones are set to return to bay upon receiving aggro, then when drones are targeted, they should turn off mwd and AB away from the targeting NPCs at an angle to avoid 0 transversal as it approaches the drone boat and enters the drone bay. Drones should also have the broadcast for reps whenever they are targetted. Carriers should be able to see their fighter's health while away and be able to recall them from a pursuit of a player. Players should be able to set the order of targets without targeting them (drones can target on their own) and when drones select their own target, they should broadcast it. Drones need lots of work for sure, especially if NPCs get brains.

This character (my main) flies with a group of people who do things like run high-end exploration sites in PvP fit Brutixes. We've gotten some nice drops like that – and some nice kills. But I guess that won't work any more, not without extra logi. Which is a shame, because we can often barely find enough non-logi pilots as it is. And I guess new players can forget about coming along to help in smaller, softer ships.

My alt scrubbishly grinds high-sec combat sites solo in a Tengu. What changes am I going to notice here? Oh, that's right, nothing.

Requests.

(1) Mining Drones
Is it possible to develop Medium sized mining drones that can take a beating

some of us have tanks willing to shoot down the rats in Null sec, but some times it takes a bit to target and having Beefier medium mining drones will mean they will last longer, or long enough the repping drones can be used.

Since perma tanking will no longer be an effective tactic for null sec mining ops.

(2)
Will it be possible to "Dial Up" missions in the future, I have been on some mission in high sec and they are more fun in groups but they get to be too easy. Dial up the difficulty majorly but no need to dial up the reward much as the reward is the group fun

Yeah, this is definitely going to break all the higher-end DED complexes, in addition to making gallente less useful for PVE and making group PVE more difficult, especially with newbies. Good job, CCP!

Me likes the smart rats ideea . And about high end plexes the extra time lost / less people doing them will be automaticaly compensated in time by higher prices on those (rarer) drops .But about exploration what i like is a drop rate increase and also a drop variety increase . That will reduce a little the maddening "i did 7 highend plexes and got 7 boxes and one drop " (my recent count atm) and will mean less max drop and less min drop.

Assuming that changing NPC AI doesn't change time requirements and therefore the income is a rather bald statement in the beginning. At least for all 6/10 and higher complexes from Angels, Sansha and Blood Raiders (I ran those for years) you have to balance before putting those changes on TQ.

Here some examples: a logi can't tank 6 siege towers when being webbed from 12 stasis towers even when a 2nd logi is in the room and the dps ships have remote reps as well. Some complexes have up to 12 web/scram frigates in one wave, there is basically no chance that drones can take them out with the drone aggro. No cruiser unless its a HIC can tank the alpha from 20 BS, while it may be able to take out those scram frigates. Siege stations have a 50km web with grid wide citadel torps (your warpin is 30km away from those) - a only slowboating tank ship with remote reps on it or extremly blink fitted survives that and with the announced changes this will not be possible.

I hope you change your mind and do not quit.

However, it does seem odd that CCP seem to be trying to finish off the Gallente.

Why would any new player choose Gallente and fly their ships?

Cost of goods have at least doubled in recent years and the profitability of pretty much every area of EVE has climbed (though not at the same rate). The one type of income that has remained unchanged for years is 0.0 pve leaving average 0.0 pilots reliant on socialism (alliance reimbursement etc) as prices climb and their income does not.

In addition, you've now delivered two huge nerfs to 0.0 pve. Ratting and such were already medicore at best due to the introduction of wormholes, high sec incursions, and now FW. With these nerfs, 0.0 ratting will be in line with some of the least profitable activities in EVE.

Just as an example of what a huge nerf this is, imagine ratting in Gurista space:

Drake/Tengu - nerfed, aprox. 20 reduction in income
Ishtar/Gila (typical Gurista ratter) - not even viable with these changes
Carriers - haha

So you'll be left with high skills/expensive options like vindi's or taking the 20% hit in income with Caldari stuff. Additionally, every plex will be even more broken, with each one requiring a very high skills, specific gimmick setup. Yes, they already require gimmick fits, but I don't think anyone expected you guys to reinforce this with even more gimmicky-ness rather than fix it.

Tech is nerfed, ratting income is nerfed, and there is absolutely no incentive to manufacture in 0.0. More money can be made in high sec (incursions), FW (low-sec), and wormholes. Is that intended?

tl:dr 0.0, the least profitable area of the game for PVE, is now even less profitable and is coming ever closer to being inaccessible to new players. If I was cynical I would say this is a coordinated maneuver to increase profits as more and more 0.0 pleebs say "screw this" and buy plex (regardless of intent, this will occur).

I hope you'll read this and start to look for a viable solution to this issue that allows you to press on with these changes while not wrecking 0.0 into even more of an unprofitable mess than it already is. I just don't think you guys realize how unfortunete this winter patch is shaping up to be. Someone please start looking at the big picture here.

Can you please rewrite collision avoidance algorithm on MY ship while you at it? Just cut off engines, or pick some avoidance course on slow speed or something, but at the moment those hysterical moves my ship does each time it gets stuck on gate is comedy online (not spaceships online).

As i noticed, rats use same routine and gets stuck in asteroids too, often for hours, not looking least bit intelligent while doing it.

Stucking among roids is cool, but please make it look less hysterical and agonizing, it really ruins immersion.