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Posted - 2009.08.12 18:39:00 -
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 Originally by: Abrazzar
Do those arcs feature anti-empire objectives or are they 'standings-safe'?
Actual standing loss for fighting faction ships will be infrequent. Most missions have been designed to override the usual NPC-kill penalties.
Players should see minimal standing hits after running an arc.
Exception: The Amarr arc "Right to Rule" has the player shooting the crap out of Sansha in the first third, but there is an option to turn that around before the end.
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Posted - 2009.08.13 13:24:00 -
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Lowsec missions are something we debated about internally. We understand lowsec is a risky prospect, particularly when your character isn't kitted out specifically for that playstyle. However, it is a major element of EVE. We wanted to have that option available to players. So yes, lowsec missions are in. But we've made two design decisions that we hope will mititgate the problem elements.
1) The vast majority of lowsec missions are tied to particular branches. These branches focus on the more legally dubious options available to the player, making lowsec a natural choice. However, the player will most often be presented with an explicit choice between this and a safer--if lower paying--hisec branch.
2) Lowsec complex sites for these arcs are designed to be completable in interceptors or assault frigs. Get in, make some pretty explosions, get out. These are still level 4 in difficulty, so although you won't be fighting fleets of battleships, you will have a difficult fight for your ship class ahead of you.
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Posted - 2009.08.13 16:32:00 -
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Bug Update: The Caldari mission "The Paths that are Hidden" may be displaying only one option for the next mission. This is not the intended behavior, and the hordes have been unleashed upon it.
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Posted - 2009.08.14 16:02:00 -
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Originally by: Kethry Avenger
As an Amarr loyalist and pilot involved in Factional Warefare are there paths in the Amarr Epic ark that would put me into Gallente or Minmatar Highsec? I don't want to start an Arc I can't finish and lose standings with my Empire.
Right to Rule occurs exclusively in Kor-Azor space.
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Posted - 2009.08.18 14:53:00 -
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Originally by: Sturmwolke
1) In short, you've got a dialog display reliability bug here. I've also noticed the blank black mission dialog on several occasions, even with the normal agents.
2) The choice "Silence Rahsa: The Nation's Path" takes me to a True Power agent under the Sansha's Nation banner. My Sansha standing is -7.5 modified. Here comes the problem. By rights, this path is closed to me .... but yet it is offered. To make it all galling, it is offered without even a pip-squeak of a warning note to those who don't qualify. Should I or should I not click on this choice? What will happen if I did? If the path is truly closed, then why do you need to even have it offered? Just have it greyed out eliminate all that confusion!
P.S There's a minor text mistake in "Background Check Encounter". The text says the manor is in Nebian, but mission directs you to somewhere else (I forgot its name).
The text display issue is known, and one we're hoping to solve.
To the Sansha question, once you are on an epic arc, agents will no longer make standings checks. So even if your Sansha standing is absolute crap, for this arc you can still successfully take the Sansha path. The only instance this wouldn't hold true is if the branch also took you into faction X's space and you were at KOS status. Luckily Krethar Mann is hiding out in Kor-Azor space and won't be so cruel to you.
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Posted - 2009.08.18 15:02:00 -
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Originally by: Cheekything
What about us pirate mission runners why dont we get some mission low too :(
Feedback from Apocrypha 1.0 convinced us that our first priority for release was high level empire arcs. The Apoc 1.5 arcs are the result of that. However, we are even know working through our final drafts of designs for the next arcs, and more than a few of them are of the "legally dubious" variety.
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