Why do you all want to bring your snorefests to my pacy pve?

I doubt that. The AI that would simulate how a player flys a tackler, or a logi, or a DPS ship, whether its a kiter or a brawler, really isn't all that complex, when you think about it

I did. For the reasons that I stated. The necessity of having to do PvE in a ship that's more or less useless for PvP makes ratter vs. roamer encounters uninteresting. They should be more interesting.

First of all, I'm pretty sure an idea has to be tried before it fails.

Secondly, that's not my reason for suggesting this at all. My focus here is primarily 0.0 anoms.

I I don't think that missions should be the focus of this at all, though the idea could be applied to low-sec missions. I'm thinking more of 0.0 anom runners.

Bring a tackler, if you want to fly a sniper, and make sure that the AI adapts the NPC fleet comp to what you brought, and that the reward scales appropriately.

If you want to solo, bring a brawler, or a shorter range kiter. It's no different from PvP, where you don't solo in a ship without a point.

Imagine rock-paper-scissors PVE where the fleet comp of what you're facing keeps changing as you kill ships, getting more challenging for you. Would be really cool. Despite my tag, I might even rat again. It would also be awfully cool to warp into an anom wondering what kind of solo or small gang PvP setup you were about to face.

The necessity of having to do PvE in a ship that's more or less useless for PvP makes ratter vs. roamer encounters uninteresting. They should be more interesting.

There are lot of posts based on the same flawed premise that you can change a persons personality with game mechanics.

You cannot.

Throw as many flavors of stupid as you wish at the simple fact if life and it still wont change.

Okay, so, I am getting my ass handed to me by the rats, so I warp in my neutral alt and all the rats warp away immediately.

Or maybe I don't actually want to fight - I just want to troll the living hell out of the ratter. So I simply warp in to every complex he tries to run, causing all the rats to warp away, then immediately warp out.

Not saying it is a hopelessly bad idea, you just have to consider how Eve players will break it.

it is not isk, it is the hand wringing behind the key board.

The risk of loss has been almost eliminated due to the isk faucet that is wide open at the moment. No worries in losing your pod's, no worries on losing anything any more.

if some one wants to inject risk in the game, you would have to cram a sht ton of high end plants in your head to get the thrill back again.

No, isk no longer is a viable argument, it is an excuse.

You entertain one roamer, 25 of them come. Not entertaining a roamer is pretty damn basic ratting policy.

ED: Since most roamers are going to have more SP than me (because I have only 2010 char with 2 years break as my best), I will lose my ship anyway, so self-destructing is obviously better choice - you can't counter lack of SP. And stabs are SOP for ratting in dangerous areas.

My I interest you in some very, very, very hard anomalies that if you don't bring a few corpmates will be the end of what you just flew in with?

The first burner missions were too difficult and too expensive for my taste, so I say no dear agent. But again I have found the ultimate pve challenge for small gangs Sleepers.
Too easy you say? Have you tried to engage 6 Sleepless Guardians at once? Your 3 billion marauder was just sacrificed to bob. Now we get three weeks of sunshine because of that sacrifice.

Yeah let someone gank you in class 5/6 sleeper anomalies, what could go wrong.. I'll tell you, since it happened to a buddy and I while doing a sleeper relic site.
We were in the last wave and doing well 'only' two battleships left on the field but you cannot compare those with Blood Raider or Guristas. We were orbiting the center of a structure at a wide orbit and a Heretic and a Phantasm appear on grid.
My corpmate asks me on comms if we should tower up and I took a few seconds and said "no, we could shoot them instead.."

Said and done. The Heretic goes down and we started to chase the Phantasm which bailed with no shields left (he was buffer tanked).
W-space is awesome. Use your immediate environment to your advantage. We made about 50m each for creating content and 15 minutes of excitement.

PVP is only boring if you are in lowsec with station humpers that cannot loose a single ship and undock archons on you, that typhoon must survive, it's the last one in EVE.