It breaks them in gently, leading to the realization that the whole game is boring, not just the fact that auto pilot is 'broken'.

another one of those great ideas which will make eve a much more entertaining game. AP WTZ = not being forced to endure the booring chore which is travel in eve, which is supposed to be a game, which is supposed to be fun and entertaining. Not a chore = cheers to that.

Autopilot's 15km warpin might suck but it allows for entry-level pirating in highsec.
You can gank all those haulers using autopilot quite easily.

This is not broken, this is intended.

If you want to avoid being blown up while you're snoozing, i suggest you sit in your pilots chair and fly your ship

LOL, "a broken feature is intented for the abuse of the broken feature therefore should not be fixed"

No. Don't generalize and dodge the problem.

Its not a broken feature. You are misquoting me, massively. Do you work for Fox News? I said, its NOT a broken feature, so dont quote me saying "a broken feature is..." because thats -not- what i said.

It is intended yes, so the lazy pilots are left at risk, As it should be. Lazy truck drivers are more likely to run themselves off the road. Lazy Ship Captains floating past Somalia are left at risk as well. This is pretty basic concept.

Your only reasoning for making autopilot warp-to-0 is that you're a lazy highsec noob and want the game to play for you, while you do other things

LOL, "a broken feature is intented for the abuse of the broken feature therefore should not be fixed"

Why is warping to 15 a good idea then?

LOL, "a broken feature is intented for the abuse of the broken feature therefore should not be fixed"

Its not a broken feature. You are misquoting me, massively. Do you work for Fox News? I said, its NOT a broken feature, so dont quote me saying "a broken feature is..." because thats -not- what i said.

It is intended yes, so the lazy pilots are left at risk, As it should be. Lazy truck drivers are more likely to run themselves off the road. Lazy Ship Captains floating past Somalia are left at risk as well. This is pretty basic concept.

Your only reasoning for making autopilot warp-to-0 is that you're a lazy highsec noob and want the game to play for you, while you do other things

Ok then:
Why do I have to log in and adjust my PI extractors when it would be just as easy for them to be coded to find the highest yield position within range? Oh its a time sink.
Why do I have to position my cyno alts into the destination system and 5km off of the undock of a station when it could be easily coded to have NPC cyno beacons on stations? Oh its a time sink.
Why do I have to monitor market prices and can't program in a price range that auto updates with other bidders? Oh its a time sink.

Please explain how shooting someone who is using autopilot feature is abusing said feature?

Boosted reaction wouldn't save you from warping into each other anyway so there really is no difference.

Dear CCP,

With all the stuff that you are fixing, can you remove the autopilot-not-warping-to-zero "feature" as well?

It is obviously outdated and plain stupid.

Tired Finger

No, travelling is an incredibly booring chore. It's like being at work with a super slow computer trying to do some spreadheets: click, wait, click, wait, click, wait... Doesn't require any skill what so ever, and thus can not in any way be classed as playing a game.

And supposedly there's a reward, which is supposedly that you get there sooner. I see it differently. If you don't do it, you get punished by increasing your travel time.

And you say too lazy highsec noob that wants the game to play for you, and you use real life analogies. Oh dear. You know what I think, I think it's the lazy suicide gankers who don't want to expend any effort in getting their ganks.

Its not. Its not supposed to be.
Everyone tells you, dont use autopilot. Its because warping to 15 and slowboating to the gate is a BAD IDEA.

This option however, is left open for people who want to take that risk still. Consider it a gift. If it wasnt warp-to-15 there would be no autopilot at all. Enjoy the bonus its giving you already.

PI extractors: because it takes skill to find the optimal layout or positions etc.

Cyno alt 5km: broken game

Monitor market prices: intellectually challenging game is intellectually challenging



But manualpiloting what should be the autopilot feature is braindead, repetitive, boring, useless.

Other than creating "ganking oppotunities" but it is of course just an emergent gameplay and not a design intention.

Okay, here's the problem with that.

Autopilot-to-15 existed back when the closest you could warp to the gate without bookmarks was.. surprise.. 15. And back then, people actually used autopilot because, hey, there was a reason to use it! Now, there isn't, except for a niche. Don't give me all this talk of "risk". Being AFK is a risk. This change would primarily benefit people who are attentive and at their keyboard. You'd see a barely noticable decrease in people autopiloting to 15 in exchange for an enormous jump in AFK pilots either flying through space helpless to adapt or else sitting AFK at their destination.

Even if you're a pirate, this change is profitable to you.

Moving PI extractors requires no skill
Monitoring market prices is not intellectually stimulating
Your logic for not having a cyno beacon on NPC stations is two random disconnected words.

All of these things are time sinks. Flying by auto pilot is a greater time sink than clinking the buttons to manual fly.

Even if the change is not profitable to pirates it is still a change that should happen.

Yes, traveling 20 or 30 jumps through highsec is boring.
*ding ding ding* highsec is boring.

Now that we've figured that out, we can maybe grow a pair and check out lowsec and nullsec. 5 jumps through 0.0 space in your hauler isnt as boring. This is where the real eve game is.

Have you ever played Guild Wars? Do you remember Pre-Sear? That is GW equivelent of HIghsec. The game doesnt start untill you are in low/nullsec. If you want to choose to remain in highsec for years and years (or forever) You will need to learn to love it the way it is, and stop crying to have YOUR gameplay style override everyone else's.

This game was designed ground up to be hostile, and unforgiving. If you cant handle that, you need to find a different game.

Dear CCP,

With all the stuff that you are fixing, can you remove the autopilot-not-warping-to-zero "feature" as well?

It is obviously outdated and plain stupid.

Tired Finger

Hi-sec isn't safe. It shouldn't be safe. It should be more secure than low sec and null sec. Hisec is more secure than null sec and low sec. Autopilot WTZ would go a LONG way to making hi-sec safe. That is not what CCP wants. Also, quit whining, there was a time when there was no WTZ, and you had to set up bookmarks for all the major routes you'd take. Seriously, there is absolutely no problem with warping the way it is now, you're just a lazy idiot. Now GTFO the forums.


Oh, and this has nothing to do with suicide ganking, it has to do with actually paying attention to your damn screen on occasion in hi-sec. Its not like you have to pay constant attention with WTZ as it is, you just have to check back often enough to jump and warp to the next stargate.