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Posted - 2005.04.22 12:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Viceroy
The problem isn't missiles. It's the simple fact that you can spawn 2.5mil npcs in 1.0 systems with a single click. You can also spawn drones that drop zyndrine, not to mention that you get faction modules from bonus stages in missions.
The terms in bold used to be exclusive to low security space, but atm they're avaliable in Niyabainen.
Let's have a look; In 0.0 you have to go around looking for zydrine or npcs, with agent missions you are given a bookmark that leads directly to whatever you want. Can things get any easier, repeative and dumb-friendly?
Yes they can; you're in a system with at least one station (usually 50), a privilage that most would kill for in 0.0. Also, you are stocked with everything that you could ever need; if not in your system, then in a neigboring system. Zero logistical problems. Compare that with 0.0. Wow looks pretty good eh, but it gets even better!
When mining zydrine or farming npcs in 0.0 you are at a public location. This means that someone can warp to your belt without your consent. With lvl4 missions, you have the same zydrine and npcs at safespots. You are only vulnerable while undocking and instajumping! Doesn't get any better than this, right? WRONG.
You do not need to interact with other players. You do not need to forge alliances. You don't need friends to watch your back, you don't need to defend yourself against ANY threat. Just spam torps at the NPCs. Zero player interaction, save for the chat channels which are usually full of people spamming "Your XYZ gun hits Guristas YXZ perfectly, wrecking for YZX damage!" for e-peen power. Compare this with 0.0, where teamwork and organization is difference between life and death. Wow! It looks too good to be true. Fortunatly it is.
Welcome to Carebearland, where competition and smarts are punished while grinding and incompetance is rewarded. I know of one other game that promotes these standards; Progress Quest.
Originally by: Kin Hanyerec
It takes a few seconds to slaughter frigs in a spawn (and the spawn even with new crystals dmg changes) for 100km in my apoc. I can pretty do all lvl 4 kill missions that aren't deadspace alone.
I agree with viceroy some stuff should belong to 0.0 and low sec only.
I guess I stand corrected then 
I've never really done agent missions and the fact that they were almost always done by raven pilots made me think missiles were part of the problem.
Nvm, live and learn.
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