Victor Gallows
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Posted - 2012.09.24 17:10:00 -
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FoxFour,
I've been running missions for some time while these billion and a half skills train that I'll need for PvP, and more dangerous adventures. Tried mining and it wasn't interactive enough to keep me interested. I'm still doing primarily level 3GÇÖs as IGÇÖm about a week or two from support skills for level 4GÇÖs. So, IGÇÖm still running with a Drake and T2 LS drones.
First, IGÇÖd like to say I love the idea that missions would become more challenging. Hell, IGÇÖd like to see all lot more thought go into this from the player all around. IGÇÖve managed to do just about every level 3 in the database in my Drake with a Tech 1 tank; even though I was told many times this would cost me my ship. Presumably, because I fit for the mission, IGÇÖm not AFK, and I watch my triggers, etc. So, more challenge would be welcome, especially if itGÇÖs not in the form of more damage and tougher rat tanks. Increasing that stuff just means new players have to train longer before starting a mission level bracket, and not that doing said mission bracket will require any more thought than it does now.
I do have one concern thoughGǪ IGÇÖve seen in the thread here how much hate there is for LS drones now. While pulling them in and re-deploying isnGÇÖt an issue for me if they happen to grab agro; there is one issue with LS drones: NPC destroyers. A stray rail equipped NPC Catalyst or Cormorant can already 2 shot a T2 LS drone between the time you first notice it being hit and it returning to the bay. If an entire group of destroyers were to re-target your drones in a level 3, I donGÇÖt see many of them surviving long enough to return to the bay. So, you might want to watch the destroyer hate on LS drones or I might as well not bring them on destroyer-swarmed level 3s.
Yes, NPC destroyers easy enough to drop with a target painter and a volley of HMLs. But, IGÇÖm more concerned with times when the drones are still out whittling down that last GÇ£DireGÇ¥ NPC frigate's tough tank and a timed spawn goes off filled with destroyers.
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Victor Gallows
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Posted - 2012.09.24 18:20:00 -
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Scatim Helicon wrote:Marlona Sky wrote:There still needs to be a way for null player stations to have agents or something. Station upgrade maybe? Station upgrade, or perhaps something that gets bolted on to a TCU and plants agents in space. I've sometimes commented in the past that Dominion will be a good expansion when CCP finish it, and while it's only a drop in the ocean by itself, its one way to help place some badly-needed flesh on the bare bones.
Would give a new player like me a reason to start looking at null corps as well. And a reason to look for more on the DScan than just ninja salvagers. (Not that salvage is worth picking a fight and loosing an expensive mission boat over anyway.) |