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Shemar
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Posted - 2006.12.05 18:52:00 -
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So:
- Drones still ignore orders or change targets randomly?
- There is still no way to tell which wrecks have loot and which haven't?
I am not being sarcastic (yet), I am honestly asking, as I won't be able to test for myself for several hours.
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Posted - 2006.12.05 19:11:00 -
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At least kieron said on another thread that there is the intention to fix that and make the icon differentiate between wrecks with loot and wrecks without. Given that there are still people that can't even play, I guess we can be patient on that, and settle for the intention to fix it, for now 
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Posted - 2006.12.05 21:39:00 -
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 Originally by: solidshot
Originally by: Shemar
- There is still no way to tell which wrecks have loot and which haven't?
yes you can when a wreck is opened it turns from white to a grey colour, unfortunately they are very similar colours
I meant without travelling to each one and opening it. I am aware you can tell if you have already opened it or not (you could before by tagging it anyway), but with the loot can system you only had to worry about drops with loot, you didn't have to go to every wreck to see if there is loot or not.
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Posted - 2006.12.06 14:23:00 -
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I would also like an answer from the devs regarding the ease with which missions can be disrupted and/or ruined. Let's start with the simple things:
Is this the way CCP plans to let things be? Is the ease of mission griefing a feature or just another failure to grap the consequences of major changes?
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Posted - 2006.12.06 16:49:00 -
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Originally by: Hamfast
On the drones, I have not tested this, but I am thinking of doing a mission, not targeting anything, and seeing if my drones will kill everything for me... I do know that rats were being killed almost as fast as I could target them last night.
That depends on what missions you are doing and how. I solo level 4s in a battleship. My biggest problem is NPC interceptors that web/scramble my ship, if that happens in conjunction with the drones auto-aggroing the enitre room (or the new griefer sport of auto-aggroing the entire room for me).
Before Revalations:
- You could fit a single WCS with no penalty other than losing a low slot and be assured that if you are aligned you'll be able to warp away 99% of the time.
- Drones auto-aggroed stuff but you could trust them to attack what you manually direct them to 95% of the time and usually the first thing I did was kill the scramblers with my light drones.
After Revalations:
- NPCs can no longer use MWD which makes them a lot easier to kill and harder for them to web/scramble as these are short range actions.
- Fitting a single WCS nerfs the entire ship
- Drones cannot even be trusted to follow orders with the contsant need to repeat orders and visually confirm they are actually still following orders and did not decide to wander off.
- After the latest patch (I have not tried so this is heresay) I hear reports of drones not even firing and cases where drones fired on their own ship.
As an end result, I would have to say that missions are not made harder (except for dedicated drone users) but they are sure a lot more frustrating. I don't mind fighting on missions, I'd just like to not have to fight my own weapons.
Now if you also consider:
- Mess with wrecks/looting (which apparently CCP has said they will fix)
- Ease of mission ruining grief (which I have yet to see CCP even acknowledge as a problem)
I'd have to say mission runners definitely got the worst of the new patch.
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Shemar
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Posted - 2006.12.06 18:48:00 -
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Umm... then why do you insist on going there?
I don't mean to be incensitive or anything but... A couple of months ago I was getting frustrated with the lag. I barely bothgered to play, even had thoughts about quitting. Then one of my firends scouted out some systems and found us all a nice quiet place (hi-sec) where lag was minimal.
We all moved there and live hapily ever after (well until the newfouind sport of mission-griefing finds us at least). We didn't even have real lag on patch days. The market is a bit sucky, but what I do is have a big container with stuff 'to sell' and when I have enough to worth a trip, fill up a a hauler and go to a better market.
I don't want to make assumptions about your game play and style, but have you considered moving? Not all systems are created equally laggy 
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Posted - 2006.12.07 22:55:00 -
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Originally by: Leandro Salazar
Actually for me the thing that makes EVE great is that I can do both, PvE and PvP, on the same server with the same character, and consequences from one affect the other. But at the same time, so far it was pretty much in MY hand to decide whether I wanted to PvE or to PvP. A few exceptions especially when you are careless, but that was fine, carelessness deserves punishment.
Now that any common gankbear can force his epeen onto me, the game definitely lost a lot of its attraction to me, but I hope CCP fixes it. But a PvE only server would be just as bad as one where everyone can be too easily forced to PvP at any time. The balance under the old probing system was fine, please bring that back somehow.
Totally agree. It's not about being 100% safe. There was a balance. The griefer had to do a lot of work and spend a lot of time, to find a mission runner. It was not impossible. Someone going after a war target or having serious motivation could do it. Now it is so easy it takes minimal effort and zero risk from the griefer. There is no balance.
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