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Eternus8lux8lucis
Journies End
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Posted - 2013.12.28 17:15:00 -
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Im really curious who remembers doing this when they first started in Eve.
Do you think that it could be redone for the new age and made into something fun again?
I would love to see CCP redo these again if possible, but Im not sure how they would do that, would anyone else like to see them redone or ideas how it could be done? Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak.
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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries Solar Assault Fleet
977
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Posted - 2013.12.28 17:25:00 -
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Eternus8lux8lucis wrote: Im really curious who remembers doing this when they first started in Eve.
Do you think that it could be redone for the new age and made into something fun again?
I would love to see CCP redo these again if possible, but Im not sure how they would do that, would anyone else like to see them redone or ideas how it could be done? It can still be done, with some marginal profit. There are some rules that needs to be understood and it tends to have bad influence on your standings towards your target.
Station guns will only defend convoys from their own corporation.
Which in most cases means outbound convoys, while they ignore hostile acts toward incoming convoys (unless incoming from another station belongin.
CCP Eterne: Silly player, ALL devs are evil. CCP Fozzie: When Veritas describes a programming challenge as "very hard" I tend to believe him.
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Ambassador Crane
Hellhound Productions
102
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Posted - 2013.12.28 17:29:00 -
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Can these be scanned for their contents? What are they usually carrying anyways? Making a guess at PI type trade goods. |
Eternus8lux8lucis
Journies End
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Posted - 2013.12.28 17:29:00 -
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Lors Dornick wrote:Eternus8lux8lucis wrote: Im really curious who remembers doing this when they first started in Eve.
Do you think that it could be redone for the new age and made into something fun again?
I would love to see CCP redo these again if possible, but Im not sure how they would do that, would anyone else like to see them redone or ideas how it could be done? It can still be done, with some marginal profit. There are some rules that needs to be understood and it tends to have bad influence on your standings towards your target. Station guns will only defend convoys from their own corporation. Which in most cases means outbound convoys, while they ignore hostile acts toward incoming convoys (unless incoming from another station belonging to the same corp). And don't mess with Concord convoys ... Oh Im well aware of how it works, I used to do it back in the day when it was still profitable and you could get good drops from them. Yes stone age and all that. Im just curious if people think CCP should redo them again and freshen that up cuz I remember it being pretty fun. Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak.
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Eternus8lux8lucis
Journies End
208
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Posted - 2013.12.28 17:42:00 -
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Ambassador Crane wrote:Can these be scanned for their contents? What are they usually carrying anyways? Making a guess at PI type trade goods. Yes they are scannable and its mostly trade goods they carry. Theres some PI stuff but not in a huge quantity. Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak.
http://tinyurl.com/YarrFace |
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries Solar Assault Fleet
979
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Posted - 2013.12.28 18:01:00 -
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Eternus8lux8lucis wrote: Oh Im well aware of how it works, I used to do it back in the day when it was still profitable and you could get good drops from them. Yes stone age and all that. Im just curious if people think CCP should redo them again and freshen that up cuz I remember it being pretty fun.
Questionable.
No matter how it would be redone it's single player pve stuff, and as such it has to be limited to keep it from being farmable.
And there's lots of games that can provide similar single player pve stuff, but very few that can compete with Eve when it comes to draconian multiplayer pvp.
So while I'd enjoy it being refreshed, I wouldn't want any dev resources spent on it. CCP Eterne: Silly player, ALL devs are evil. CCP Fozzie: When Veritas describes a programming challenge as "very hard" I tend to believe him.
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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries Solar Assault Fleet
979
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Posted - 2013.12.28 18:04:00 -
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Ambassador Crane wrote:Can these be scanned for their contents? What are they usually carrying anyways? Making a guess at PI type trade goods. Yes you can scan them, and they carry standard trade goods, you can actually check info on each npc corp to see what they normally produce and what they consume.
CCP Eterne: Silly player, ALL devs are evil. CCP Fozzie: When Veritas describes a programming challenge as "very hard" I tend to believe him.
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Tuttomenui II
Aliastra Gallente Federation
171
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Posted - 2013.12.28 18:33:00 -
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Lors Dornick wrote:Eternus8lux8lucis wrote: Im really curious who remembers doing this when they first started in Eve.
Do you think that it could be redone for the new age and made into something fun again?
I would love to see CCP redo these again if possible, but Im not sure how they would do that, would anyone else like to see them redone or ideas how it could be done? It can still be done, with some marginal profit. There are some rules that needs to be understood and it tends to have bad influence on your standings towards your target. Station guns will only defend convoys from their own corporation. Which in most cases means outbound convoys, while they ignore hostile acts toward incoming convoys (unless incoming from another station belonging to the same corp). And don't mess with Concord convoys ...
I thought they changed this. I was under the impression you could now blast them at will regardless and be ignored by station guns.
I was tempted to shoot some yesterday but I wasn't sure I could trust my memory that it had changed so I opted to not do it. I might just have to use my empty slot and roll a temp newb alt and test it. Maybe later If I feel motivated =).
I do remember though (before this supposed change I may have just imagined) that at Dodixie fed navy station shooting them there the navy would show up. And blast you to.
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Ambassador Crane
Hellhound Productions
104
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Posted - 2013.12.28 19:06:00 -
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Frankly, I wouldn't want to shoot 'em. They're one of the few symbols of "life" present in Eve! |
Tuttomenui II
Aliastra Gallente Federation
171
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Posted - 2013.12.28 19:11:00 -
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So yeah shooting them now does not get gate gun aggro. I am outside a Gallente station in Ardene with an alt, shooting one at the undock of the station.
No navy around so not sure what they would do if they were. |
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Zifrian
Licentia Ex Vereor Black Core Alliance
1381
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Posted - 2013.12.28 20:04:00 -
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They don't drop anything good anymore whenever I do them. Whole lot of time to get some weat or sprits. Wish they would add some better loot tables or make them have a better payout or something. Maximze your Industry Potential! - Get EVE Isk per Hour! |
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University Minmatar Republic
19084
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Posted - 2013.12.28 20:15:00 -
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Eternus8lux8lucis wrote: Im really curious who remembers doing this when they first started in Eve.
Do you think that it could be redone for the new age and made into something fun again?
I would love to see CCP redo these again if possible, but Im not sure how they would do that, would anyone else like to see them redone or ideas how it could be done? Yeah, I remember doing that in my 1st year of playing this game. Was fun and required some thinking to do it properly.
Yeah, the game mechanic definitely should be re-worked and the loot drop tables updated. Especially since CCP is updating everything else in this game.
Yeah, the loot pool for those Convoys should be an equal mix of Manufacturing Resources, Trade Goods and Invention Items pertaining to that specific Corporation. Not the generic mix of stuff currently found in all Convoys.
Also there should be a random chance of getting some finished products and BPC's in the Convoys loot drops. Those items should be related to the type of NPC Corporation as well as be race specific. The Convoys should also be immune to Cargo scans which would keep it from being exploited by players.
Last but not least, to add more risk have all players who attack NPC Convoys get a suspect flag with the Crimewatch game mechanic. To encourage player fleet opps, have the NPC Military Corporations spawn Faction combat ships to engage players who attack their Convoys. The spawned Faction NPC's would have a small chance to drop Faction module loot as well as incur a Faction standing hit for ship kill. Convoys of civilian NPC corps would be exempt of this game mechanic.
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Carnaby Wakefield
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2013.12.28 21:51:00 -
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Good old hunting for harvester mining drones back in the day, however that was nerfed fast enough. |
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting Home Front Coalition
1074
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:28:00 -
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+ Add better drops. + Cause Suspect tag. + Enjoy emergent gameplay.
I just fixed it! |
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University Minmatar Republic
19112
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Posted - 2013.12.29 02:19:00 -
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Inxentas Ultramar wrote:+ Add better drops. + Cause Suspect tag. + Enjoy emergent gameplay. I just fixed it! Umm, granted you condensed what I said into a few little sentences but I posted it first.
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Chopper Rollins
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
428
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Posted - 2013.12.29 05:47:00 -
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Used to do missions waiting for npc haulers to spawn, they would spawn all over the constellation at once, different times for optimal hit though, since they formup, move to 100km of station then appear 100km from destination. Helped feed a pos with that stuff, made about a billion from it. The mechanics actually required a bit from you, unless like some guys i saw you just roll up in a BS with hauler, pop n go. The nerf was a sad day. More could be made from this, it could definitley be a thing, the real challenge is how to protect it from the already insanely wealthy weirdos who just want to suck it all up every last crumb. Low sec variants could be amusing as well.
Funny thing i noticed back then, the Pax Amarria would reprocess to a surprising amount of nocxium per book.
Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good. |
Tuttomenui II
Aliastra Gallente Federation
173
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Posted - 2013.12.29 07:00:00 -
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The last 2 ships I killed one and a hurricane was watching me, I guess he decided if a Velator wasn't getting nuked for shooting them he could shoot the last one to, but when he shot it it disappeared.
I tried to take a screen shot of the drop but I forgot to use the screen shot key and just used print screen all that did was capture my desktop. Something weird about windows 7 I don't know. It was like 7 different types of stuff, Datasheets and some other stuff. It was the Iteron V variant it drops more stuff I guess. Just Commodities. |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
7914
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Posted - 2013.12.29 07:05:00 -
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If you up the rewards for killing them then you need to up the consequences. Otherwise people will farm them so much they'll flood the market with whatever drops and it'll be worthless again. Latest video - Pandemic Legion titan and supers killed |
Azbogah
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
7
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Posted - 2013.12.29 07:26:00 -
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After PI was released they were a gold mine. They would drop hoards of robotics, coolant etc. But then CCP noticed after a year. :( |
Spacing Cowboy
Ordo Drakonis Nulli Secunda
62
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Posted - 2013.12.29 07:56:00 -
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A old idea is that players would be able to use them as courier , for a small fee you could get your stuff moved in Highsec.
That could potential be also providing the -gankers- with pricy loot
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
10653
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Posted - 2013.12.29 08:19:00 -
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Convoys are so boring now that you don't draw aggro. At least it was a bit of action when you got sentry aggro if doing it wrong.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
3003
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Posted - 2013.12.29 08:36:00 -
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its as easy as ever... but the neat stuff that used to occasionally drop is gone. They should bring back elite mining drones. :D
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Tuttomenui II
Aliastra Gallente Federation
173
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Posted - 2013.12.29 08:57:00 -
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Curiosity got the better of me while in my naga outside Dodixie Fed Navy Station. I shot a convoy ship that was arriving of the same faction and the faction police sent 3 ships after me, but they did little damage They followed me to my star center bookmark and when they engaged again instead of warping I just headed in to the star and got kicked away
They used a web and damper on me. No scram but the star kick would have fixed that.
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Eternus8lux8lucis
Journies End
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Posted - 2013.12.30 01:43:00 -
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Some great replies. Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak.
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