Missions & Complexes

Everyone know the PvE side of EvE are the worst part of the game. Not even mining can compare as at least you dont need to pay attention to that.

So how to fix the boring combat?


My suggesting would be to remove the gazillion very weak ships and put in one or two actually dangerous ones per mission instead that's equal to a actual player ships in power, both tank and dps. Current missions are only dangerous for a moment and only if you **** up your aggro.

With one or two more powerful ships instead, it would be tense during the entire fight instead of a boring yawn you are forced to pay attention to.

Besides...what's more fun? Taking down a hundred ships with a 200k bounty or a single strong ship with a 20mil bounty on it?

Well, it would still be flown by a stupid AI. But maybe not equal to a player, but still actually dangerous if you are stupid.

Look back at the threads around the time the new NPC AI was introduced. There were some dev posts indicating that this is the direction they're planning on going in. (Did a cursory glance and couldn't find them, but they're there.)

Edit: Here's one.

They've said PVE isn't really going to get touched in the next year or so, so I wouldn't hold my breath. Of course, "fun" is subjective, and no two people will agree on what is or isn't fun.

part of the problem is immersion and believability
another part is play style differentiation


you look at the AI ship type, and what it does doesn't really make sense
a kestrel has missile launchers .. why is the rat shooting at me with lasers, hybrids AND missiles
the AI loadouts need to make more sense
they need to follow the descriptions far better than they do currently



a pve fit is normally based around active boosters
a pvp fit is normaly based around a buffer tank

• pvp fits need to be made more like pve fits
• pve fits need to be made more like pvp fits

currently Point, Web & Prop form eve's trinity of abilities
if you try to break that trend, your laughed at, and informed you have a fail fit
even when you have long range weapons fitted, your expected to also fit a short range web & point
eve is full of ships that have specialised roles
eve is full of players that fit ships to do all things

CCP cant do anything about the people that play the game, they are stuck with them
but they can change the way ships work


when, if, ccp can work out how to do either, in a balanced and beneficial way, it should help make eve a better game (in my opinion)

Great, the first 3 days I would like to enjoy warping 3 chars on the top of their heads.. and then I will be bored by easy missions not taking more than 5 minutes.. great Idea.. lolz.

Give back LV 5 in Highsec, with LP rewards reduced to 20k, so I can have fun with my buds without feeling like Superman in pink pony land (as this is what Lv4 feels like in a BS-party).

Heh, if you don't like doing PvE content, then don't do it, plain and simple.

Also, speak for yourself. There's lot's of players who like doing PvE content.

It seems like every couple of weeks, there's another PvP player posting a thread about how PvE is boring and broken and then suggests that it be turned into a PvP simulation.

I like the current PvE content. The NPC's definitely could be balanced and brought in line with player ships, ie - EWAR, cap, weapons, etc but other than that, it's fine.


DMC

Maybe get rid of Materials for War preparation storyline? It would be a little thing but I know i sure "love" having to go buy 8000 kernite in station with the agent every time. Started up mission alts cause bored and figured they might have fixed that after three years.

As a variation, I'd prefer if the L1-L4 could be split among hull types, so basically you get missions that vary in difficulty 1-4 for frigs only, destroyer only etc etc to Battleships, technically having accelleration gates size lockouts.

The L1 would be equivalent of an L2 now (L1's are not even hard even for training) with an L4 having L5+ difficulty, and needing a small fleet, that way we could have fun with all the hulls, and even get special module drops for the correct hull types every so often, and also, we get to fleet up in different hull types.

* We already have size limitations mechanics in anomalies and acc gates.
* Apparently mission difficulty scaling is some some sort of numbers based slider thingy and not individual missions messing around (I might be wrong here) and not manually placed everything.
* Based on what happened with the new AI tweak, aggression and aggro distances also seem sliders, as ALL misions were effected.
* Most drops seems on sliders, and the special drops seem to be manually placed "special NPC's", which would only appear at end mission anyway.
* etc etc

Actually these are less annoying than "carry extended indy worth of crap over 10 jumps".