Aimee Maken
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.10.03 17:22:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Hey guys!
Look, at this point, it does not seem that there is an willingness of ccp to put out actual pve content, having the AI change is not something that was completely needed for pve in high or null.
Having some tiered system where people can scale up and down group size and risk (think of how wow handles 5 to 25 people content, add in scaling up to 100 or more people and call it something for eve) that is not just high end content like incursion which would be very nice. Something that scales from baby's first group content with frigates and destroyers, to 100 man shiny fleets out in null with good location choice, eyes, hot drop backup and semi pvp fit with good FC.
PvE in any other game is something I can get a group of my IRL friends to come in, does it in an hour or two, and then if they want to do something else, I can do my own thing that is harder afterwards. There is no such equivalent in eve.
It would be nice for example to have some scripted content, like say having the need for smaller ships to bait larger ships into asteroid belt or mine field. Or having ECM applied at specific times to mitigate a "big hit", think something like a charge up time for a large gun that you better have enough TD and angular velocity ready to counter it.
Then to scale those, at the start the bait ship could be done by any thing reasonably fast, and the mine field or asteroid would be easily avoidable and don't need much manual piloting. While at the highest end, you need Inty or AF to tank some incoming damage (gear check), that has lots of zones where you need to do manual piloting to avoid (skill check), and has the chaser needing some sort of ECM to get things going (coordination check).
Eve needs some content to be consumed, it can't all just be dynamic player produced content when it is Player verses ENVIRONMENT. Having this AI change is simply going to annoy the high sec players that never reads forums or communicates other than their little bubble of people, it isn't going to draw in any more people or interest any more people than what we got now because it is simply making the tedious and boring pve content a bit more annoying to do.
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