So the latest dev to declare their hatred for high sec talks about how he/she is introducing a slider to dictate the aggro switching decisions by the AI.

How long will it be before we hear about how the separate sliders will be introduced, set differently for low sec, null sec, and high sec?
In other words, it will be next to nothing for null sec, and huge for high sec?

Or will we not hear anything about it at all, and it is simply and quietly introduced as a "feature"?

So the latest dev to declare their hatred for high sec

I wish more devs would declare their hatred for high-sec ... and then do something to confirm that hatred.

Are you really Glen Beck in disguise?

All your posts have this rumor-mongering fear-laced taint to them, but have just enough of a shred of truth somewhere at the root that you seem to pass the ISD rumor filter.

I wish more devs would declare their hatred for high-sec ... and then do something to confirm that hatred.

Bah, if it weren't for highsec all I'd be able to afford to fly would be atrons all day.

You just have to get better at not losing ships.

So the latest dev to declare their hatred for high sec

I'm tellin yas, OP is scared silly the day may come he won't be able to plop his double rep Dominix in a lvl4 and go eat his mama's salisbury steak while the game plays itself.

So the latest dev to declare their hatred for high sec talks about how he/she is introducing a slider to dictate the aggro switching decisions by the AI.

This is my last active account, and if I quit, who really cares about one more account. (I let
What I do care about is how much time I have invested in this game, and how I see it is an utter waste now.

What I do care about is how much this will affect legions of players who NEED high sec missions to keep playing the game, and how many of them use drones. I have enough liquid ISK to buy 3 years of plexes, and if I liquidate my BPO's, enough to pay for plexes for a long, long time. But for the newer players, this is a huge, huge hit.

A linky would be useful.

"if I cant AFK l4s they might as well not exist

why yes i have billions in liquid isk and BPOs from grinding L4s that i just sit on

don't listen to the nullsec zealots about l4s needing adjustments though"

Honestly I'm surprised their hasn't been whining yet that this will somehow keep people in highsec and that highsec NPCs should be made easier so people get bored and leave highsec sooner.

Here's a thought: other people play the game differently then you, and their playstyles are hurt by a constant and massive influx of liquid isk into the market, thus depreciating the value of every other activity in the game. Explore? Highsec lvl 4s have better isk with lower risk. Wormholes? Highsec lvl 4s have equal isk with lower risk. Nullsec sanctums? They're about on par with lvl 4s and you need a bunch of ships and nullsec space to run them. The game is skewed by highsec missions. Why would anyone do anything else? Its safe, its easy, its assured. Will eve die because of that? No, but it will be less fun, and honestly, there would probably be more player retention if 80% of new players didn't get sucked into the mission running for isk crowd right off the bat.

Like right now, where I am running an epic arc mission on one screen, managing the aggo of the spawns, making sure the drones kill in the right order, and typing a response to your ridiculous comment on the other.

Yeah, that is running missions afk.

Oh, and another thing. I made the vast, vast majority of that ISK when I was in NULL sec, in FCON.

Oh quit crying.

2 obvious solutions jump right out to solve your troubles.

1) Stay near your drones so you can pull them if they draw aggro, or remote rep them.

2) Use sentry drones.

The AI are ridiculously easy to defeat, no matter if you're in missions, nullsec, plexes, wormholes or wherever. If you can't figure them out and adapt, then you're really in the wrong game. Eve is for thinking people.

But the alternative needs to suck more.

Only if you're too dim to make the alternative you want people to choose better and more interesting.

So how about we nerf large auto-cannon range in high sec so the mach's have to be within 10 km of their targets. All the mach's have to do is fit an a/b to their ships and get close to their targets. It is all about adapting, right?

Well, lets consider that then? Shall we?

income per day for highsec missioning: 40-130 million isk (average)
income per day of a class one wormhole (which I'll remind all of you is nullsec): 60 million isk (it goes upwards in other WHs from there)
Income per day of an average nullsec ratter: 100-200 million isk (in well defended space)

So missions produce equal income to high risk group activities, right, well, clearly the solution is to buff those activities right? Why? Whats wrong with the amount of isk they make on those? Everything seems to be balanced in regards to risk except for mission running in highsec.