Missions & Complexes

Is there any news about when the "real" AI is ready for deployment?
EvE is starting to get boring without ratterhunting..

I mean the AI that CCP FoxFour told us CCP would make to replace the current failiure..
The one considering damage done to rats rather than silly things such as sig radius and use of ewar on other players.

So your mad that you can't jump onto an ship made to tank rats in your PVP ship made to kill ships.


Why should he not be happy that you can't tank rats in ship made to kill players?



Why does all the disadvantage have to be on the PVE'er?


Grow a pair, he has a huge disadvantage against you due to the way he outfitted his ship, this allows him to stand up against hordes of rats.


You have a huge advantage over his ship, this however makes you very vulnerable to hordes of rats.



TLDR; This is fair and balanced.


If your a cloaky gank or something, just wait until the rats are destroyed before you attack him.

Bears got angry I see..

Thanks for your oppinionated irrelevant input.

This is not a question about fair or unfair, it is a question about when the promised AI will see the light of day.

This is not a question of "fixing" the AI, this is a matter of applying the "real" AI for "normal" rats as CCP FoxFour stated in the post about this AI before it was applied.

If you so badly want NPC bodyguards, then head out to W-space, where there is no local, intelchannels, stations or jumpbridges to save you..
Then im fine with the rats helping their nemesis..



Intel channels, even intel maps with sound alarm in some alliances.

Blinking Local channel when new players enter or exit.

~20sec headstart from the neut jumps from the other system till grid is loaded while beeing in your local.
10sec scanning for anoms.
~20-30 sec Dscanning to locate the ratter.
~10-30sec warping to anom and >maby< landing within tackle range of the ratter.

Really.. Practically allways at least a full minute for the ratter to align out and gtfo from the time a neut enters local..

There is allso the option of *Gasp* actually tanking your ship properly instead of only going for max isk/tick..

Please explain to me how sitting in a significantly larger ship, with all your alliance mates in local and neigbouring systems is having "all the disadvantage" over a single frigate-class ship?

If you feel that it is a unfair gamemechanic that players can shoot eachother while playing with NPC's in 0.0 or low-sec, then either don't rat there, or feel free to add suggestions on the relevant subforum.

There really is no excuse for getting caught in an Anom or Plex besides stupidity or lack of attention.
Why do you feel either of these things should be rewarded with NPC bodyguards?

Edit: Should the reward for ratting in 0.0 and lowsec not be lower since the risk is significantly lower than it used to be before this AI? Risk = Reward is what I keep hearing from CCP, but now it is allmost risk free ratting yet the bounties remain?

Why did you post this on the forums if you weren't wanting feedback?

Just because you didn't hear what you wanted from your rant doesn't mean you can decide you "didn't want any responses".



If its not about fair or unfair why exactly are you on the forums whining about it again?



You say that almost as if you don't have intel channels,

local (to know when to stop and look for people PVE'ing),

the map (to show exactly where in the universe (almost) people are pve'ing at,

spy's to provide intel and a hell of alot of other advantages.



Again, you have intel as well so I'm not sure what your whining about.



And when your "ganking" someone fairly, do you not watch local like a hawk to see reinforcements?

Stop being so biased and just think about what your saying.... Your whining about advantages that you readily take advantage of.



So whats the problem with this?

Would you like to be dropped on grid with anyone in system when you jump in?

Also, all of these things imply that the PVE'er stops what they're doing (making isk) to evade you, which while it seems like you lose, really the ratter doesn't win either.

I asked for news on the promised AI, not your oppinion on game mechanics.

Rest of your rabble im not going to bother with, as it is really completely unrelated and I hope it is just a troll.

If not then: If you don't want the risk of PvP while doing your PvE, then stick to Highsec....

Risk of getting attacked while doing PvE in 0.0 is why you earn more ratting..

It is that simple..

Fair enough, I'll take that advice.

And for you, if you don't want to risk PVE while your doing your PVP.

Look up the new dueling mechanics in the lineup, and go play against your corp mates and they're buddies.

And honestly, if thats CCP's stance, they should change it.

I'm tired of CCP listening to people just because they whine, regardless of balance and what makes sense.

The AI is broken if the NPC are switching to targets that show no threat to them while beeing engaged by
targets damaging them.
Also my standings with the NPC are not beeing considered. If i have +8 with Sansha, than why are they
opening fire on my ship on every gate instead of acting like the highsec NPC and beeing supportive to the
pilots with good standing and only shooting the pilots with bad standing or if i shoot first ?

Edit: This will open a couple of posibilities, if you hunt in serpentis space you could improve your standings
with serpentis and than be their ally fighting their enemy (the players shooting them)

I have heard nothing about this, but I know wich has higher priority for me..
But in all honesty, I don't care much..
I just wanna know if there is any estimated time for this AI, because im beginning to grow bored with the kind of PvP im forced to do atm.

I haven't made any claims about how pvp should or should not be done..

I think you should try it out for yourself before telling me about how it should be done or how easy it is..
Because to be honest it sounds like you are inexperienced and have only tried this sort of pvp from the ratters perspective.
If it is so easy as you claim, it should be no problem at all right?

Now could you please find some other tread to fill with oppinionated offtopic posts?