Missions & Complexes

Well I HAVE solo'd 6/10, 8/10, and the nonrated ones after path, against SANSHA of all the races. Its far from impossible.


(Can't run the 10/10 sites because I don't have leadership V)

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This is untrue not. Fleet Staging point start out as an unrated plex. It' is now the 9/10 DED plex. CCP made it that way to avoid putting a real 9/10 in.

All Fleet Staging Points tell you in the description they are "DED 9/10s" . You get the description as a pop up when you warp to the 1st grate of Fleet Staging Point 1.

You must not do null sec exploration, The Guristas 10/10 (the MAZE), the Angel 10/10 (Angel Cartel Naval Shipyard) The Sansha 10/10 (Centus assembly) and the Serpentis 10/10 (Serpentis Fleet Shipyard) are now and have always been solo'able. I only use two or more ships in those plexes for speed's sake. There was no bug, the torps always worked as they were supposed to.

Even before the Tengu, you could solo in drakes and night hawks. Live personally solo'd every 10/10 except the sansha, Blood raider and drone ones. I watched a corp mate solo the sansha Centus Assembly with a dual rep abaddon.

Blood Raider and Drone 10/10s are the ones you can't "solo" and solo is never the OPTIMAL way to do them. But saying you can solo a 10/10 (or omg 8/10, ALL 8/10s are soloable) just demonstrates inexperience.

Based on what? I'm not looking for an argument either, I'm explaining to you a fact. A fact I've verified personally before and after the npc AI change. Have you ever even tried to solo one of the 4 10/10s (or any of the 8/10s) I've described?

You are free to ignore facts you dislike, it's just not very smart and makes everything else you say less credible.

I don't think it really matters if lvl 4s, complexes, whatever are doable or not. The AI change was supposed to bring more excitement to EVE PvE, and It didn't. I admit I have seen a few posts so far that said since the AI change, their PvEing had become more enjoyable, but the majority of the community doesn't seem to think so.

For me, it has just added more annoyance, not excitement. I can't really tell how the AI currently works. Sometimes the elite frig/cruisers just ignore my light drones, no matter how long I have them out, but sometimes they seem to really hate drones and tries to kill them at all costs.

At first I thought the NPC behavior was defined mission specifically, but is it, actually, as I am beginning to have the impression, just plain random? I'm not sure. I'm not noting down each rat behavior I encounter per mission, so this is just how it seems to me at the moment.

If the NPC behavior is really just random across the board, and CCP hopes their customers will be entertained that way, I must say it is rather lazy of them. What kind of "AI" is that anyway. Please redesign all sites and give each and every site unique NPC behavior. One that would even encourage players to move around EVE universe just to encounter different missions/sites to tackle. It will probably involve a lot of work, but even if it is so, that doesn't allow you to just randomize some stuff and be done with it.

"Adapting" to this change that some people seem to promote is pretty pointless. You must adapt to intentional changes/nerfs for sure, but you don't have to adapt to new excitements. You just have fun and enjoy it and get used to it. Since a lot of people are not enjoying it at all, and are having to "adapt" to this new feature, it is quite clear that the new AI has failed in its attempt to add excitement, thus I agree with the "no" in regard to OP. I know there are conspiracy theories about the real intentions of this AI change but I'll stay away from that.

Each one is different.

Take the MAZE for example.

Used a Tengu with 6 HML in the highs, 3 Caldari navy Ballistic Controls and 1 Damage Control in the lows, deadspace medium shield booster (the toon I use for exploration and 10/10 plexes has a crystal implant set) and deadspace hardeners + afterburner in the mids + 2 tech CCC rigs and 1 Tech1 CCC rig. i'll link the exact fit later when I'm closer to home. I also use X-instinct boosters to lower my signature radius (which helps against all the battleships.

Before the last expansion, 2 of the hardeners we EM, now all you have to do to tank the MAZE is tank for Kin/Therm period.

1st 4 rooms of the maze, kill only scramming frigs and ignore the rest, then go through the proper gate (gates are not locked which is why you only need to kill scramming frigs).

Last room, warp in, orbit beacon you land on with afterburner on, kill web towers and any frig web/scramming you, kill guns, then cruisers (leave battleships), shoot station for 1st battleship spawn (ignore those BS as well), keep shooting station till next spawn, kill frigs and cruisers, rinse repeat till station is dead, afterburner to loot (still ignoring all the BS that can't do much damage to you. Scoop loot, warp out. Win.

Angel 10/10 is trickier because of target painting, but almost as east. Serp10/10 is laughable but structure is a ***** to kill even at range.

It's not hard, just time consuming. Some DED plexes are ridiculously easy now, like Serp, Angel, Blood Raider and Guristas Fleet Staging Point 3 can be "tanked" with a passive tank drake (whatever you bring for dps will take ship aggro, but you can hold torp + neut battery + gun aggro with the drake).

Now, Blood Raider Shipyard (the blood 10/10) is a whole 'nother beast, but I've been able to beat it with remote repping battleships. No solo ship in EVE can beat the BR 10/10 imo. I've tried it with tech3 passive shield tanked high em Lokis that breeze through lvl5 missions and it just doesn't work.

Not empty quoting, I was there and also said this.

Apparently people still believe that this change was an answer to "AFK whatever" rather than was made for the sake of it.
Please, don't come up with suggestions that are intended to fix PvE, but directly affect more than PvE even in theory.

This makes no sense, how fast do they target drones? Surely npcs are subject to the same sensor rules for lock-on time as players?