EVE General Discussion

This things are amazing.
Provide, lot of fun and require something more than just single faction battleship to kill it.
This how eve PVE should look like in Nullsec - we need more features like this in future.

Ps.
You made me rat in sov first time in last few years.
Income is small, but fun compensate it all

I'm sorry, i'm not trying to be mean, but damn is it funny to watch the tears of all the people who got used to the old "semi-afk just watch local" lifestyle that's been in null since Dominion (when ccp introduced respawning anoms in upgraded systems).

Not only did CCP up the profitability of null with these caps, they did it in a way that potentially *slows down the massive afk bounty isk faucet and encourages people to at least fleet up to do anomalies. The exploding pve ships of people not smart enough to adapt to the new reality is an added plus.


* I say slow down because CCP didn't go far enough. This capital spawns should be in hubs (regular, forsaken, forlorn etc) as well, leaving them only in sanctums and havens just shifts the afktars to forsaken hubs and that's still not optimal.


I'd say 2 things to CCP:

#1. See the tears of the afk crowd CCP? This is what happens when you give people stuff that is too easy, then later take it away. The smarter thing to do is not give people easy, afk-able stuff to begin with.

And #2 (this is the big one). The very good outcome of adding NPC caps demonstrates how you (CCP) should be thinking about PVE in this game. You didn't add any fancy new AI, no convoluted new 'dungeons' (like you did with incursions which few people do) or 'space that has a different affect on ships' (like in Wormholes, where few people live). This time You didn't add super-invincible "interesting" NPCs (Drifters, which almost no one screws with because they are too annoying).

You simply took pretty much existing PVE mechanics that you know is popular because you see how much we do it and added extra risk and extra reward to it. I've been saying this for a long time, stop wasting your time listening to these pie in the sky PVE complainers who want soloable but safe 'immersive' PVE that's not compatible with the game. Give us sandbox PVE , like these npc capitals the encourage social interactions and conflict (people are already fighting over npc capital spawns).

I have not yet had a chance to see the NPC caps but this is great content.

I think, that's is a cool feature.

But I also think, that the droprate of the Dreadnoughts is too high. Not everybody can fight against Dreadnoughts I think and not everytime stand up a fleet to fight against Dreadnoughts. So there is a risk, that many sites are blocked.

The correct dosage is important, I think.

One of those (Erebus class) spawned in a belt in O1Y the night before last, even with the low bounty for the size of the ship, I could tell watching the video that all the newbros were having a blast killing it.

We've had a few in our Nullsec area...and they pack a punch. They will take a team effort.

They also spawn in Ice Belts. One of the ways I make ISK besides Exploration and PI is Mining Ore and Ice in Nullsec.

Safe to say with what I have been hearing, we will need SOMETHING done with Mining Ships to allow them to escape these new Cap Rats.

Not complaining by the way. I just don't want to have to lose profitability as I train for combat-based PvP ships.

I hate it when you guys are happy about something. I need my Pepto-Bismol®

Faction capitals won't come out till next major patch and the Serpentis will be the first to get them.

Seems the info so far is that they drop the components needed to make the new faction capital modules. Not sure if they drop the bpc for the modules as well, they might come from ghost sites (would make running data sites worth it again).

And still nothing on low sec spawns.

So for the longest time I've been a PVE carebear, and I would love to see LESS Solo PVE content in the game..

Though I would instead like to see MORE Group PVE content.. aka missions, anoms, combat sites/whatnot with fights that require a fleet, not a big one, but some sort of fleet, preferably of the variety that cannot be boxed..

Tone down the ISK faucet that is Solo PVE content and tone up the group PVE content, and at least try to make it so you can't just grab two characters and box it as that would defeat the purpose and probably make it an even worse isk faucet..

So question for people that have already encountered one. Are they a challenge at all for a carrier, or are they a complete pushover like most NPCs vs. their capsuleer counterparts?