Jenn aSide
Smokin Aces.
10355
   |
Posted - 2015.03.23 17:34:38 -
[1] - Quote
CCP Ytterbium wrote:
Administration Hubs affect solar system control and ownership as a whole, like territorial Sovereignty flag, solar system security status modifiers, NPC agent spread and spawn behavior, NPC faction switching or NPC security / police forces.
Don't want to read to much into that, i know you guys are just starting, but could their be any thought about replacing anomalies with sov null mission agents of some kind.
Anoms were basicalyl press-ganged into being the center of the Dominion Sov system's military upgrades, and while I am a constant anom farmer, anoms are horrible for this.
They spew liquid isk (great for my wallet, horrible for the game), are predicable and semi-afk-able, and only a few of them are good. The good thing about anoms is that they escalate sometimes, forcing a player to leave a system for a bit is they want better rewards, but this is also a problem because those escalations are now farmable because of the change to escalation chances meaning the rewards are worth less as time goes on.
Missions (even FW style missions with visible beacons) would be soooo much better over all, it would require pilots to do more than "warp to next anom, deploy drones, turn on ecm burst to keep aggro off drones, watch local" and people could still do anomalies just they wouldn't respawn and if you wanted to farm anoms you'd have to go to a new system once the natural ones in one system are gone. Missions also make you fly through gates instead of how anoms let you sit in one systems the whole time unless they escalate. Missions could help the economy because the LP they pay could be an additional isk sink (and i think SOV null agents would have to be 'new' not just empire faction agents transplanted to null).
It could also help null grunt income because missions , unlike anoms, could be blitzed meaning better mission runners would make more than average runners would, as it is now there is very little difference between a skilled player in an afktar and a dude who just trainined an ishtar lol, their income is about the same.
While this might be beyond the scope of what y'all are doing, i hope some of this is being considered at least.
|