Maybe next year those Agents get some CCP love.

Agent Boismevier Mals is still missing despite a massive manhunt by DED. Avrues token has now been edited and will remove any mention of Boismevier. The search for this missing agent will continue in every known pleasure hub until we get our man!

This token might be of value in the future, so hold on to it.

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When it comes to things like expanding the burner missions we've asked as well.

When it comes to the tutorial missions, CCP Rise gave a good presentation at how they are working to bring players in and get them informed without a bunch of theme park style missions that don't prepare them for the game.

Eve Vegas 2014 - The New Player Experience

When it comes to bringing back old content some things are more broken then others but the PvE team has been working towards this area. More missions are always good. We need better then what we have and better accessibility. Escalations where just fixed for Phoebe for instance. However, Eve's old mission mechanics are poor to be kind.

I'm more saying that revival should be thought of as rebirth vs refinishing.

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It's in my opinion that you've poorly highlighted the problem, and focused on the solution. Your issue is that standings are currently difficult to attain and manage, as you are proposing a way to make it easier (rather than highlighting 'interesting content' with regards to PvE that has been removed). Standings and how they work are something we would like to look at, especially given the amount of Alpha players who are going into FW and not realising the impact that this has on their standings until far later into the game.

This is especially relevant given the way standings work with the new mining convoys, which are something I think represents a huge step forwards in using standings more actively in gameplay.

Also please don't sign your forum posts. You aren't sending a letter to us.

I always do because yes, I AM sending a letter to you

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I did read your post, hence why I tried to articulate what your issue was and address it. Please try not to conflate misunderstanding your point with not reading it.

The problem I have is that you have not elaborated on why these agents are necesary and what the costs of removing them were to the game. You noted that the benefit of them was that they gave a standings increase, and this is something that I understood as a problem within the game, so I addressed it. You didn't say that you enjoyed the missions, so I assumed that the PvE content itself was not the draw, leaving only the standings impact as a benefit to the playerbase as highlighted by you.



This in particular is something I do not understand as a 'downside'. There are plenty of underused systems in the game, especially in Hisec. Why is this a concern that needs to be addressed from a gameplay standpoint? I'm not being facetious here, I genuinely would like to know, as it's not a conversation I've had before.

No worrries, thank you for being willing to engage me in debate here and not flip out when I took a different stance. I'll definitely bring this up in our next meeting with CCP and ask if this was made as a design decision or as a consequence of simply purging a lot of previous content to replace it with the Inception NPE. Hopefully from there I'll be able to talk to CCP about it further. Obviously, no promises of action, as I've said before, the CSM doesn't have the power to direct workflow, and whilst you might expect it to be just flicking a switch to bring the agents back, chances are that a lot of background engineering would have to be done to add new agent finder filters, reimplementing the mission pool, without disturbing the existing tutorial path.