Rumba Purring
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Posted - 2009.07.15 16:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Kashre
I have this dream where you go to an agent, and instead of "hey there's 18 pirate battleships in this very system go kill them all with your battlecruiser", the agent says, "A madman in a Megathron named Dark Charity just murdered a convoy coming in to dock at one of our stations in X constellation, go take care of him." Then you go running around the constellation looking for him. You see him in local (only you can see him in local), narrow down his location with the directional scanner, warp into a planet where he is. Then you have to warp scram him or he'll warp away before you kill him. Takes an hour if you're going solo and not lucky, maybe 30 minutes if you find him quickly. Then you go back to your agent and get ~20 mil in rewards. And if you don't have a setup that can deal with a real Megathron fit with all medium level meta gear, you die.
THAT is what running missions should be like.
Agree 100%.
Along the idea of missions introducing PvP tactics, here are more ideas for missions that teach large fleet tactics.
Tackling mission: best flown with frigates or interceptors
- Upon warping to mission area, you join a fleet of friendly NPC ships: BS and frigates.
- Then you are gang-warped into hostile NPC BS group position.
- Goal of your mission is to prevent as many hostile NPC ships from warping away while friendly NPC ships take them down.
- Hostile NPC BS can web you down, so you'll have to learn to keep proper orbiting distance from hostile ships.
- Your mission reward is calculated based on how many hostile NPC BS are destroyed as a result of your tackling.
Logistics mission: you can fly with logistics cruiser or RR battleship
- Upon warping to mission area, you join a fleet of friendly NPC ships: BS and frigates.
- Then you are gang-warped into numerically superior hostile NPC BS group position.
- Goal of your mission is to keep healing friendly NPC ships so that they can overcome and destroy a larger group.
- Hostile NPC ships can target you. So you may have to warp out and return frequently.
- Your mission reward has 2 components: 1) victory pay, and 2) bonus based on number of friendly ships survived.
ECM mission: best flown with BB/Scorp/Falcon/Rook
- Upon warping to mission area, you join a group of friendly NPC ships.
- Then you are gang-warped into a group of remote rep'ing NPC battleships, whose combined repair output is superior to combined dps of friendly NPC group.
- Goal of your mission is to disable remote rep of hostile ships with ECM so that friendly group can take out the hostile group.
- Your mission reward has 2 components: 1) victory pay, and 2) bonus based on number of friendly ships survived.
(This mission is obviously tailored towards Caldari EW pilot, but there should be missions that require other racial EW skills)
And so on.
We'd have so many more players familiar & comfortable with tactics used in PvP. This cannot be a bad thing.
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