EVE General Discussion

All the new players who have put all their skillpoints into Drones and Gallente are just going to love that bit of advice.
It is just terrible fail to make a complete race of ships mostly useless at missions in one go.
Most other ships that rely on drones to take out frigates are useless as well.

So CCP basically says, stop solo L4 mission or GTFO. This has overshot the get-rid-of-AFK-missioning by a mile.
Adjusting PVE mechanics dramatically but NOT adjusting missions to compensate is just terrible. I suspect a lot of casual highsec players will just say **** it play something else instead.

My ratting alt has max drone skills, I'm not delighted I'm now going to have to dock up his boat until the drone UI gets buffed. However; practically speaking you'll have to bounce to a new setup or spend all day raging. CCP aren't going to change this for a while, so do something else.

Good, this would be a better game without the casuals. Good riddance to them. And if you really think that drone boats have been nerfed to obseletion, all that means is you're doing it wrong. Because all my newly refit drone boats are working as intended.

Well I have an alt who has great drone skills and will admit not had chance to try the new mechanics for PvP yet but personally love the idea of making the game more interesting.

I have been guilty in the past of Dominix AFK L4 missioning and yes its an income (but was never great even with loot and salvage).

I would have been happier to see the offset of the addition of mission time or split of mission rewards (if you now need to fleet up) with some kind of recompense ..maybe slightly higher bounties, salvage or loot.

If, as certain posters seem to say, the possibility of solo L4s is dimninishing then that will effect the economy and push more of the less hardcore or newer players to purchase plex instead.

I love this game and really want to believe the best of CCP but I keep getting the nagging feeling that the abundant nerfs dressed up as 'new exciting content' are mainly cutting a large wedge of players from their income - which in turn is feeling more and more like turning this game into pay to play through plex.

Ive always thought that endgame is being able to sub your accounts through your hard work in game. I feel this is being stealthily removed.

Please prove to me I am wrong and revive my trust in CCP

I think one of the issues here is that.. How the hell is it more realistic that a NPC can not only target, shoot, and hit my small ass speedy drone.. better then I can hit there frigates or cruisers. I just dont get it.

I'm waiting for the post when someone tackles a ratter and gets killed by the npc rats. That's going to be a golden post :)

So the missions have gotten a more challenging AI and all everyone does is whine? Challenge makes a better game. To me it simply sounds like its more like PvP now, in that of course the AI is going to target vulnerable assets.

CCP made it pretty clear when they released Sleepers and Wormholes that they were testing this AI to eventually extend it to the rest of the game. You had YEARS to get prepared for it.

because even the bots were getting bored

Very true.

The new system is not challenging at all. It's more like a waste of time.

The thing is why T2 drones have T1 resists and die almost instantly?!


Moreover why Rats use some unknown weapons? I mean they hit drones, they can hit you within 5km radius with their Arties or Rails with a high velocity.
Why Rats use some super special weapons that we can't have?

I'd be perfectly fine with the new AI system if drones can stand more then 1-2 shots and have proper T2 resists (If the drones are T2).

Kill missions are not that different from running in wh site to kill sleepers and salvage their blood to build those pesky tech3 ships... And i have newer used drones as primary weapons myself, more like auxiliary support to help kill those pesky frigates that are way too small for battleship size guns anyways..

Not to mention 0.0 anomalies running, fly to signature, kill everything, very very sleeper styleish, expcept in regular space and no omnidamage comeing in...