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Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.08 16:52:55 -
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Anomalies are not really very scalable. Ok you have more anomalies but you still have to travel to each one to find a vacant one.
Why not replace anoms with missions?
A few advantages:
- Totally scalable, you can have 200 guys living in a system - Forces mission runners to travel around to run the missions (make them never be in the same system as the agent) - Make life harder for botters (I'm no expert but it should be easier to program a bot to run anoms than to run missions) - Kill afk ratting, which is pretty much cancer to this game (although I abuse it as hell) |
Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.09 12:36:38 -
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Orca Platypus wrote:How surprising, another gewn buff.
20 Nyxgewnbots ratting in a cynojammed pocket in now officially a thing.
I thought CCP will never go through with the gewn proposal of more anoms, I believed that much favor was ridiculous even for CCP. But no, I see now that there is no favor CCP won't do to their masters.
Please reconsider the anomaly changes. I am asking this as a nullbear living in -0.1 system. This creates a huge PvE favor to one alliance, and while intentions might've been good, the implementation is unacceptable.
You are wrong. This actually favors all the alliances that live in crap system like the southern regions. Goons are actually the least favored by this, since we already live in the best region there is in terms of anomalies. Have you ever been to Deklein? Try going there in a ceptor and count the high value anomalies.
(not saying it's bad for us, just saying it's better for everyone else) |
Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.09 14:08:11 -
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Klyith wrote:Sgt Ocker wrote: Yeah every small group wants to invite the wrath of the CFC by stepping into the blue donut of protection. (don't care what you call your selves now - You will always be CFC)
There are currently 58 alliances with 5 or fewer systems owned, seems there is room for "little guy". There are 25 alliances that own sov with fewer than 200 members, which is smaller than your alliance. What is holding you back? Is there something particularly special about us, that you will only throw your hat in the ring if you can have the space we own and not any other?
Effort. It's easier to come to the forums and "grr goons" than actually do something about it.
With fozzie sov, even the last excuse of the massive DPS required to grind sov will be out of the way. |
Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.10 14:20:13 -
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Duffyman wrote:Anomalies are not really very scalable. Ok you have more anomalies but you still have to travel to each one to find a vacant one.
Why not replace anoms with missions?
A few advantages:
- Totally scalable, you can have 200 guys living in a system - Forces mission runners to travel around to run the missions (make them never be in the same system as the agent) - Make life harder for botters (I'm no expert but it should be easier to program a bot to run anoms than to run missions) - Kill afk ratting, which is pretty much cancer to this game (although I abuse it as hell)
I'd like to see some discussion about this. Why not remove anomalies entirely and replace them with missions, like we have in NPC null space? |
Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.10 14:44:12 -
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Aryth wrote:Duffyman wrote:Duffyman wrote:Anomalies are not really very scalable. Ok you have more anomalies but you still have to travel to each one to find a vacant one.
Why not replace anoms with missions?
A few advantages:
- Totally scalable, you can have 200 guys living in a system - Forces mission runners to travel around to run the missions (make them never be in the same system as the agent) - Make life harder for botters (I'm no expert but it should be easier to program a bot to run anoms than to run missions) - Kill afk ratting, which is pretty much cancer to this game (although I abuse it as hell) I'd like to see some discussion about this. Why not remove anomalies entirely and replace them with missions, like we have in NPC null space? While they have teased agents in null (not NPC) stations it does present some issues. The main thing would be it requires a complete refactoring of LP rewards and ISK payouts for the missions themselves. Not a horrible task but not trivial either.
True, it would require tuning, but the advantages I mentioned I think outweigh that.
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Duffyman
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.10 14:47:05 -
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Promiscuous Female wrote:there is also a bunch of technical debt that prevents them from easily adding new mission agents, iirc it is a 100% manual process and with outposts being droppable by anyone at any time i don't think they wanna pay an intern to sit and F5 dotlan to put in agents in every new outpost
That is a technical issue. It's up to CCP to solve it. I'm more concerned about the impact on the gameplay. |
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