EVE General Discussion

Reduce the number of gated rooms - there is nothing more boring than having to slowboat 40 - 50km to each gate in multiple rooms.

Reduce the number of npc,s - but make them much tougher, instead of multiple rooms filled with 20+ npc,s have 1 (maybe 2) rooms with 2 to 4 groups of 3 or 4 npc,s, but make those npc,s as tough as the previous 20+ and take as long to kill. Give them the ehp / resists and dps of an equivalent player fitted ship.

Inprove Npc AI. - the upcoming AI changes are a good start, but the pilot of an npc should be thinking hey i'm getting hammered, im warping out to rep up... give them the abbility to warp / micro jump out of range to rep up and then return to the battle rather than the current lemmings to the slaughter.

So you will have to tackle / scram them to hold them in place.
Have only 1 group aggro at a time, unless you get too close or shoot at another group, in which can your in serious risk of getting your ass handed to you on a platter.

Remove / reduce bounties - remove the isk faucet that everyone complains about, compensate by increasing LP payout and add lots more shinnies to the LP Stores, That way the isk comes from trading those shinnies with other players instead of an isk faucet.

Reduce the quantity of tags required to purchase LP store items - Seriously, the quantity of tags required for most items in the LP stores is ludicrous and can only be obtained by buying them of the market which renders a lot of the LP store items worthless and cheaper to buy from the player market than the LP Store. increase LP required to buy items, reduce isk / tags required.

TLDR. Reduce # NPC's, make them much toughter, remove / reduce bountys, increase LP Reward / Items to compensate
Heat shields activated, flame away

so you're suggesting more effort for less reward?

i can see this going down well.

Then the market will be flooded with that crap and they will be worthless. Missions already earn considerably less then they did years ago and if people are to afford pvp they need an income. Missions are not the faucet that forum fighters would have you believe.

wtf!

you know eve have different shiptype and this shiptype are for different thinks, like for different missions btw....

if you boring of missions, and the npc are not smart enough for you change to FW or go 0.0 or low sec....

its seems to me, you dont know nothing about eve... sorry

Then it will create a self-balancing ecosystem that keeps people flowing from one activity to the next (or, more likely, from one faction to the next).

Nah. Missions earn about the same — it has just become relatively worse compared to the new means of making money that have been introduced.

Actually, they are, and the numbers are there to show it.

The elimination of drone metals and lower meta drops made missions far less profitable. As for a self balancing ecosystem, I don't see that happening. The only result of this action would be the large null sec blob alliances would control even a greater percentage of the games wealth, in my opinion. Not denigrating your position but I just disagree.

Worth remembering that while missions still give a fair amount of ISK, that ISK now buys less. I get ~100k-~300k ISK per L3 mission; an empty Blackbird hull costs 4m ISK. Good fittings cost more, and of course missions are tedious enough that it's hard to make yourself do the 20 in a row you need for the hull alone.

In short, missions need to be interesting before you should consider nerfing them. If they're nerfed and boring, nobody will run them.

See the OP is really not suggesting nerfing missions, if anything it may be a bit of a buff. Jace you hit the nail on the head, your isk buys less than it did 24 or even 12 months ago, and that is due to inflation. Every time somebody runs a mission they are rewarded with fresh isk injected into the economy. This means that every single time somebody besides you runs a mission the isk you have in your wallet becomes worth less. As more isk comes into the game, the buying power of the isk you have drops.

If missions rewards were changed to not be worth less, but to be paid out with mostly items as opposed to new isk, it would benefit the mission runner (and every one else in New Eden). You would be getting the same amount of isk (after selling LP items), but your isk would have much better purchasing power allowing you to by more ships for the same amount of isk.


Although I do think this is a pretty good idea, IMO wormholes are a more pressing matter. They are massive massive isk faucets, and due to the sheer number of wormholes there are pretty risk free. There is no competition with WHs because there are so many, pretty much every pilot in EVE could have their own solo C5. Half the amount of wormholes and make those WH corps fight for their isk faucets.

You may be right, but there are 20x more mission runners than WH dwellers. Missions are very accessible while WHs are not so much. If high-sec mission runners moved to empty wormholes in droves, our economy would be in trouble. But I digress, and am getting off topic.

…they are the perfect target for reductions in ISK injection since you can go a long way with very little. Their large numbers mean that even a small change can have a large effect, all without making the life miserable for them individually so no subs will be lost.