From a nullsec players perspective the worst thing about the changes is Ewar like scrams/webs regardless of what ship they are used on greatly increase the chance of rat aggro switching to the PVP player. This is a general nerf to the small gang/roaming gang/solo pilots ability to kill in nullsec.

Your point: I do not grant it.

In most MMOs, this type of thing was called twinking or powerleveling - where more experienced or better-equipped players made life easier for the newbies.

Keeping that kind of gameplay is not essential, and tends to diminish the value of the content that is geared towards the newbies - like level 1 and 2 missions.

So aside from the fact that its made killing things with drone nearly impossible, along with turrets and soon to be missiles when they can be affected by tracking disruptors, what was the biggest hit that the new AI changes have hurt?

New players

How you might ask?

Lets say someone is very new to the game, maybe has a cruiser with one or two lasers and is somewhat interested in this game (god knows why). Well, you're a l4 mission runner, or lets say you're a null-sec denizen and you managed to get them to join you. In the past, what would you have done? "Hey my newbro friend, why don't you come join me in this mission/sanctum. You can see what this will be like when you get bigger, milk a bit off of my bounties, salvage a few wrecks, and have a good time with me while we chill."

Now?

Sure, have him warp to a mission or complex to die in a matter of seconds. Now these new players are resorted to doing silly little l1-l2 missions, or waiting patiently in a noctis to hoover up a site. You're really telling me thats the best way to get hooked on this game?

And I don't want to hear anything about "They need to put in the time to get sp to do those missions." If it wasn't for the older players of this game showing how this game can actually be somewhat fun, or bringing on a newbro friend just to see them oooo and aaaahhh over things you've grinded 5000 different times, what would be the point?

I'm sorry, but with all the nerfing CCP has done in the past, from sec status to everything else to make isk harder and harder to obtain, how do they think this is going to affect new players who want to explore this universe? Lets make drone boats useless, TD's right now are killing turrets and soon they'll kill missiles. Go try to gank someone in a mission/sanctum and use ewar, and just watch what happens as your ship pops. But inadvertently messing with the newer players? Yea...

New players will not die simply because they will think it is the ordinary feature of the game and will adapt to it.
People who actually dying in the mission are botting CNRs and obsolete years old high-sec bears in the railgun machariel.

Really pleased to see lots mission botters bankrupted after this expansion, gf ccp, want a dev blog for this

Having to run from a ratting drake because all three battleships switched to me and jammed me is the most painful thing I have experienced in Eve.

What's the logic on that?

1. Why would the rats switch to the target that ISN'T attacking them at all.

2. Why are battleships switching to a cruiser over a battle-cruiser?

It's stupid and CCP needs to change it before more people realize how stupid they can be.