Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've addressed your other objections in previous posts, but in regards to this, I could've said the same about clickfest-era PI.

No, the reason you don't warp to zero on autopilot is because when CCP first implemented warp-to-zero, they weren't certain about the effects it would have on the game. So they left autopilot as warp-to-15.

But, again, times have changed. If CCP really desires to re-add the whole "vulnerability on warpin" mechanic, they should just make warp-in inaccuracy. ie, when you warp in, you land 15km away from your target, but in which direction isn't specified. But I'm guessing they realized that warp-to-15 is actually pretty damned lousy in this day and age. They're probably concerned, as most people are, about if this would make the game "too safe". But the whole premise on APWTZ being "too safe" is based on the premise that there are a ton of people using APWTF. There aren't.

LOL. When travelling long distances I use Autopilot AND Warp to 0.

1. Warp to Zero and hit CTRL-S to activate Autopilot.
2. Do something else on my second monitor.
3. "Autopilot jumping" audio prompts me to return to game.
4. Hit CTRL-S to disable Autopilot.
5. Warp to Zero and hit CTRL-S to activate Autopilot.
6. Do something else on my second monitor.
7. Rinse and repeat...

So much for ensuring the capsuleer is in control of the ship for safety reasons when approaching gates. Jeez I hate roleplaying/backstory crap to explain away annoying 'features'.

But I'm not in favour of autopilot warp to zero, though. That would make things way too easy and destroy a few careers as well.

Speaking of roleplay crap, when are they going to update the top news item that has been sitting on the website frontpage for 4 months?

11/07/2011
Caldari scientist's defection causes stir amongst sections of capsuleer community.

If its a sandbox game like you say, then why are you so interested in having CCP hack apart the sandbox and fill it with cement to protect your ships in? This **** is literally destroying what made eve unique and awesome. At this rate, i will have nowhere else to play. Eve was the only MMO that provided completely lawless, full-of-risk ruthless environment. Once eve is done converting to this new **** set of rules, there wont be any game to fill the niche that eve once did.

Ok, I skimmed the first few pages of this and basically OP and Co.'s only argument was "I don't care what anyone else's profession is" and "I don't want to sit at my keyboard when playing Eve". Sure, you may have phrased it as "autopilot is boring" but that's what your saying. Guess what, if you change it to autopilot warp to 0, autopilot will still be boring, you changed the travel time and removed a big feature for highsec gankers, but it's still boring. If it's still boring then your original goal turns into just a whine about going AFK and being much safer than you already are. Sorry, no.

I haven't lived in highsec in years, so I really couldn't care less about gankers, but I'm firmly on their side here. You may think they can go suck a tailpipe (as one of your more educated members put it), but it's still a valid profession in the dark universe known as Eve. You have to live with that. Just because you want this game to be played a certain way doesn't mean you get your wish. I'm sure we would be much safer if the denizens of New Eden developed instant teleportation. I mean why not? All it does is remove the travel time, and I don't care about suicide gankers opinion, so that should be implemented. It'll make the game much more profitable and fun for industrialists!

At the end of the day Eve has value to most of the players because there is effort put into it and risk taken. We joke in comms about our extra job and the amount of spreadsheets we keep, but the day Eve starts holding my hand through stargates is the day I quit. If I get everything handed to me, then it has no value. There is risk to everything in Eve, and one of those risks is that while you are slowboating 15k to the gate, some pirate who makes his living off your BPO drops is going to scan you and kill you, or that war target has extra time to call his friends. Remember, it doesn't just slow you down on that gate, but on every gate, giving a player time to watch you and call backup, figure you're route, and set the trap. Warping to 0 will remove that.

If you don't like it, as others have said, sit at your keyboard and play the game. If you don't want to sit at your keyboard and play the game then either a) you're in the wrong profession within Eve or b) this isn't the game for you. And I don't mean that last part as some GBTW insult, but not everyone enjoys the Eve universe, if you don't enjoy it, then find a game you do enjoy and put your money there.

In the mean time you need to recognize that yes, you can put your opinion forth, but saying "Mine is the only one that matters, I don't care about gankers" while at the same time admitting you don't want to actually sit at the keyboard, is a pretty shallow way of putting it and really shows your lack of any intelligent argument.

Unless you have a valid reason (and "It's boring" isn't a valid reason, or PI would be completely automated for me) then you have nothing to complain about. There is no broken mechanic here. Sorry, move along.

No.

If you're going to pick an analogy, pick one that makes sense. Instant teleportation would utterly destroy any and all sense of local economy, along with making haulers almost completely redundant.


Tell that to the miners. DOOOOOHOHOHOHO


Honestly, I don't care much about the gankers, and I believe the needs of many outweigh the needs of a few, but even if we were to take the desires of gankers in top priority, they still wouldn't suffer from this change because you'd get a ton more people autopiloting AFK everywhere in highsec, which would mean a ton more people sitting AFK at their destination.


But.. PI did get majorly reworked because it was considered tedious.

How, exactly, is APWTZ safer or faster than manned WTZ?


I long ago learned to counter slippery slope with reductio ad absurdum. Don't tempt me.

Together with removal of autopilot, CCP should also remove Concord altogether as well.

7/10 I'm actually mad. There's a reason your Eve interface resembles an OS UI that was originally designed explicitly for multitasking.