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Let's fix EvE PvE

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Ragnar Nightshade
Defenders of EVE reserve 006
#61 - 2013-04-29 11:34:10 UTC
I am fairly new to EvE and from my point of view the lower pve missions do not need to be changed, because as a new player you are just getting to know the game mechanics and training skills that you many times dont even need, because you dont know better. So keep the L1-L2 as they are.

The L3-L4 could use a little improvement by for example changing the group layout of a mission everytime, so you do not always see the same groups in a mission. That also makes it a little more fun as there is no exact recipe for a mission, though you will still be able to do it, sometimes faster, sometimes slower when there are more BS's and so on. Maybe you will even have to warp out if you get (un)lucky to hit a group with lots of BS's and not that many frigs and cruisers.
Or make the random odd group spawn in some pockets of a mission occasionally, as a bonus group or to add some more difficulty.

Personally I am not interested in PvP at this point, because it takes a lot of time to just train your skills high enough to be able to have just the slightest chance of winning a PvP fight in low or nul sec. Where you face players with maxed out SP in the required skills and that is not fun for others than the vets that get an easy kill.

Also loosing your ship in the beginning of your career can be a huge set back, as you do not know how to earn isk and you dont make that much, that you can afford loosing a ship frequently.

just my 5 cent

Morrigan LeSante
Perkone
Caldari State
#62 - 2013-04-29 12:09:51 UTC
inb4 "dont fly what you cant afford to lose" and "you dont need high skills to pvp"

Blink
OllieNorth
Recidivists Incorporated
#63 - 2013-04-29 15:40:52 UTC
I used to play the 0.0 game. I had a lot of fun in RAWR and some other alliances when BoB crapped itself. That was cool. But now I am old and I have a 7-month old and I don't have the time or patience for PVP wars. On top of that I'm just generally bad at PVP. I can't have the mic plugged in because if I'm sitting there talking with some jackwagon in fleet as we roam around for two hours in our blob trying to track down that damn cloaker, it will wake up the baby, and that leads to a crapstorm of epic proportions.

As such, I have turned into the solo EVE player, and frankly I like it. I don't want to fark around with PVP anymore. Like I said, I almost always lose PVP, and frankly I can't be bothered to get better. It's not fun. If I want to gank people, I have Call of Duty. So whenever I hear about people wanting to 'force' me into null or low so they can gank me I go 'oh well, another thing I'm not going to bother doing since I don't want to go to null.' It's not my fault your mega-alliance drove everyone else out of your space thanks to thirty-person blobs jumping on everyone.

'Fix PVP' always turns into 'not enough people are around for me to kill in PVP'. Get over it. If you want more PVP, stop rolling in 20-man fleets. OR, alternatively, grow a pair and start a real nullsec war. Leave us carebears to our semi-AFK anti-social life. We'll keep paying EVE's bills so you can wave your E-peen in Delve and Curse.
Ryun Thar
Doomheim
#64 - 2013-05-02 02:33:18 UTC
meh.. there's no such thing as 'good' pve.. a script is a script.

if any team put in the time to produce good, dynamic AI, not only would the price of the game be absurdly out of reach, but %80 of the pve crowd would complain that its too hard.
Nometh Xergent
#65 - 2013-05-02 05:57:41 UTC
Make it moar interresting

“I’ve always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.”

Loki Feiht
Warcrows
Sedition.
#66 - 2013-05-02 15:57:11 UTC
I posted a thread (see signature) based on making PvE more interesting in the features and ideas section of the forum, please consider taking a glance and posting any ideas there as well, we need the support of the community to make things happen :)

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