Missions & Complexes

A complete lie.

This change would simply kill drone boats.

Nope, it doesn't affect the tank of drone boats at all.

While this all sounds so well and good, I wonder what CCP is going to do to the petitions where someone has lost their drones and is scrambled in a mission by an NPC or two (which can't possibly kill them), and are stuck there until the next dt.

Here's a suggestion CCP, you guys don't live in highsec, you don't run missions, neither does the CSM. Every "change" to missions has nerfed them and infuriated mission runners. Give it up, now.

The average mission runner doesn't read these forums, nor does he really want to be 'challenged'. Missions (and other forms of PvE are mostly 'the grind' necessary to fund PvP activities, so why on earth are you thinking of making 'the grind' harder?

You want to make PvE more like PvP? Guess what, not many people jump into a battleship and try to solo 30 to 50 other people in PvP. So what are missions going to become? Jump into a battleship and try to solo 2 to 5 NPC's (hopefully they are faction fit so they have a chance of dropping something)? And use this to fund PvP? Are we going to have to fit a point to hold the NPC's? Will we have to probe them down if they jump away? Or will this end up really like PvP where I have to bring a bigger blob to counteract the NPC blob. - You, really sounds like fun to me.....

None of the CSM's representing HI SEC is HI SEC's fault for voter apathy for the most part. If we as the majoriy of EVE don't vote it is our fault. I'd perfer the CSM being more representative with electoral districts but any system that tried to base its its reps from where they 'appear' to be from probably would be highly susceptable to gaming.

I don't think none of the CCP DEVs lives in HI SEC but it does often appear to be true and I believe a majority are NULL or WH residents . I am positive they do care about HI SEC though.
I'm sure thegame designers such as CCP Afinity do read these posts here. That said I know it is tuff to not be overly negitive ( I'm often guilty of being too negitive though its sort of the nature of forum posters to be pessimeists IMHO ) but stating that improved AIs as being a negitive just is silly...

I believe making mission AI's in the long run will improve the game and hope Incursion AI's ( whom I fight daily) in the future too become smarter even though in the long run my ISK generation would be reduced; why? because I enjoy the challenge of a goodfight in PvE even though they are rare & usually are because of DC's of logi

I've actually like two DN posts already :D

In this case the man knows what he's talking about. Better AI, harder sites, = more fun. Not forgetting teamwork, which is what MMOs are all about.

Under the old conditions, what the dev did is impossible.

Under the new conditions, who knows?

But according to the other posts by the dev in the same thread, it is irrelevant, since null sec will be taken care of by nerfing the plex damage or some other method. But you already know that, because you have posted in that thread.

What this likely will end up being is a buff to null sec plex income, while at the same time satisfying the requirements of the null sec zealots to hugely damage high sec.

Yes I do read the posts :) and lots of us devs do live in HI SEC - but we have to move forward.. we can't just never update the NPCs because people are scared of the new challenge it might present.

Well I'm not afraid of new challenges. My concern is that currently, the drone boats only niche is PVE. They are very rarely used in PVP because missiles/guns are far more effective and reliable at applying damage.

If this new AI is too aggressive towards drones then it will only serve to make drone boats even more redundant.

I have also pointed this thread out to CCP Foxfour so hopefully he will post soon :) I don't work on this feature, so only so much I can comment on