White Sorceress wrote:Yes man, I have been running complexes when you all were a small babies. Yes man, I am not rich person in real life and I used to pay for my account running complexes and also that was the way I was making isk for pvp from time to time. Since you nerfed the ratio of dropping expensive stuff (like x-shield boosters) and replaced them with nothing just like 23' effects and nothing more this all resulted just in wasting more time running/searching complexes to can pay all that needs to be paid. But hey, I learned to live with that. BUT IT IS ALL OVER NOW. !!!
CCP you really should employ someone like me who can test your new changes before you destroy the most important thing and that's income for most people (making ISK by shooting NPC).
So here is the way most people (including myself) run complexes. We have cloaky T3, that can probe + run through bubble (nullifier subsystem) + tank the complex of any difficulty. Once we find it and probe it, we return back to scout the way for our dps dealers (ships that are fitted to fly fast and deal maximum dps). Then we always warp in in our T3 tank tengu and once we get full agro, damage dealers are called in and their start killing npc. This usually takes 1 hour to finish 10/10 complex in angel space, doing over 1500 dps. THE KEY of success of this we have very expensively fitted T3 that can tank even the last room where is the boss or station firing citadel torpedoes. The T3 is able to tank it, but in exchange of not having any guns. Saved CPU and PG you can use for extra x-large shield booster instead of large shield booster and that allowes you to tank even last room including final boss / station. AND THIS IS OVER. WHY? Because npc are now swtiching targets. There is not any single ship that can deal intelligent amount of dps, is fast enough, has good enough range of guns and can have tank over 1k dps that is needed for all rooms except the last room. And even if you use some damn expensive marauder like Vargur, use the best dead space fit (gist x type) and waste like 5 billion on it, it still can not tank last boss, who is switching target as well and once you would warp in the last room in vargur (battleship class) it will immediately switch to bigger target from tengu. No need to mendtion that we fly in enemy territory and moving 5b vargur throught enemy systems is not easy thing. Especially when you hit some good drop like 1 time from 10, so it's almost no worth.
I have been living in querious for pretty long time, running blood raiders complexes every day. Now I can give awesome tip to all market guys, go and buy all bhaalgorns blueprint u can find, because their price will increase dramatically. WHY? Because nobody will be able to run 10/10 complex in blood raider space since now. The final station deals HUGE emount of DPS that only very high specialized ship can survive. Yes man, it's passively tanked loki with over 97% rezistance to EM damage. Anything else, even with logistics behind will just pop. So only way to find bhaalgorns now will be some lucky drop from 8/10 or 7/10. Good luck in doing that. I got bhaalgorn ONE TIME from 7/10 and I have done like 50 of them.
NEW NPC AI completely changes complexes. IT's almost impossible to run any of them, especially 10/10 or 8/10. Switching targets simply makes it impossible. I personally don't have 3b to get some high specialized marauder. I don't have time and patience to run missions in high sec making 20-30M/hour. I like to shoot and I don't like to do market stuff. My accounts cost 1.2b every month that i need to pay to keep my accounts alive. It was already on the border now, spending most of my free time in weekends running damn complexes so survive another month. But now it's over. I don't see any way how to make ISK anymore!
I will wait one month if CCP realizes they totally ****** it up. After that I don't see any other way than letting my accounts expire and wait what happens.
Very bad job CCP, you really need someone who understands this game from inside ! Thumbs down !