Great idea, Harry! Put some random people in a fleet without the need to ever talk to each other - what could possibly go wrong?

What you're looking for is Spectre Fleets. Fleets for anyone. Just join and go shoot others.

Check it out: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/community-spotlight-spectre-fleets/

nothing, basic communication should be done over UI Buttons, ist also more a fun approach to fleetup, for sure People in Teams would be better but for randoms it would be a fun way to just join a fleet and see what happens

the system could create some mass fleets easy, pretty sure it would work, random people are put together in other games as well, it would not be tactically the best Team for sure but, fun along the way is what counts

does not work for 90% of the gamers, too complicated, a matchmaking system is needed to fleet the randoms up

Great idea, Harry! Put some random people in a fleet without the need to ever talk to each other - what could possibly go wrong?

Who cares if it goes wrong? At least they might have some fun in the process.

does not work for 90% of the gamers, too complicated, a matchmaking system is needed to fleet the randoms up

gawd how easy do you want it? i doubt 90% of the gamers think its too complicated, more like 1.3%...

matchmaking is just too easy and teaches you nothing about the game, if you think joining a fleet is too complicated i dread to see you fit a ship

everything a computer can do for you should not be done by humans anymore, we made computers to do stuff so we can concentrate on other things... organizing fleets and stuff is just boring repetitive, a fleetmaking system could do it for you much better

sometimes it feels you guys like to do boring stuff and do not want a computer or program to handle those things, are you worried your mind has to concentrate on more important matters when the computer takes care of the easy stuff?

nothing, basic communication should be done over UI Buttons, ist also more a fun approach to fleetup, for sure People in Teams would be better but for randoms it would be a fun way to just join a fleet and see what happens

the system could create some mass fleets easy, pretty sure it would work, random people are put together in other games as well, it would not be tactically the best Team for sure but, fun along the way is what counts

We don't want instant gratification bottomfeeders around. We already have those from reddit infecting the game. More features for these zombies will only make the game worse, because they will demand more and more instant gratification without ever really playing the game.

everything a computer can do for you should not be done by humans anymore, we made computers to do stuff so we can concentrate on other things... organizing fleets and stuff is just boring repetitive, a fleetmaking system could do it for you much better

sometimes it feels you guys like to do boring stuff and do not want a computer or program to handle those things, are you worried your mind has to concentrate on more important matters when the computer takes care of the easy stuff?

everything a computer can do for you should not be done by humans anymore.....

Hi Al! Fun is not the centerpoint of all activity, even if there are many zombies out there who have nothing but that left in their lives. Instant gratification is a drug and these people are addicts, with all the consequences it has.

Fleet commander wants fast ships, dudes bring dual-plated Megathrons. Fleet commander wants armor tank, dudes bring shield tank. That is of course, if there even is an FC, because nobody will want to FC this clusterfuck of random dudes. In the same vein, nobody ever will bring boosts or logistics, because the fleet will be mixed range, mixed prop, mixed tank kitchensink anyway. Apart from that ... Spies, Cyno Alts, even just a single Dictor could **** up a fleet real bad.I think it could be hilarious for a while, but I don't think it would get used much after the first few welps.

Fun is the point of a game.

I don't Need a perfect fleet to have some fun, going out there with just 10 random People will still get me some kills at the end, sure when we run into an alliance fleet we would die but that happens... its more a fun Approach for fleets not to match alliances and stuff, find easyt targets and have fun thats all

So basically we should just pay an account and our chars are controlled by an AI while we just sit back and watch.

- Computer AI would be well capable of mining.
- AIs would be able to sell stuff.
- Porgrams can be written for Scam contracts and AIs could be written to fall for those scams once in a while.
- AIs would be able to fly around running missions or do any other form of ISK grinding.
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Basically you are saying we should not make any input at all because a computerprogram could as well just handle it.

And all just because you are too lazy to do stuff yourself.

Welcome to BOT - Online! The only game in the world you do not need to play yourself.

That is very true. However, 10 people, half of which are only here to backstab the others, that aren't even willing to talk to each other are most likely to kill nothing, but themselves, which - admittedly - is content too. But nobody in their right mind would want to be part of this. I think people would stick to the NPSI communities - most people in Eve aren't as socially inept as one might expect them to be.

you are basically right, i would put a system in place where you can Input what your ship should do, maybe make it possible to program your ship, this would be much more interesting to work on that vs. sitting infront of a pc and looking at a mining cycle... however some brains prefer to look at the mining cycle vs. programming a ship

you like simple repetitive tasks, cool, this game is for you