That is why I originally made a suggestion on how to adjust for different skill levels by giving an adjustment option on NPC risk and reward. But the likes of you will only push their limited view point, as skewed as it might be. Off to the ignore list with you for your insulting tone.
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That is why I originally made a suggestion on how to adjust for different skill levels by giving an adjustment option on NPC risk and reward. But the likes of you will only push their limited view point, as skewed as it might be. Off to the ignore list with you for your insulting tone.
What an appropriate username.
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Except that 48% think it's just right and another 10% think it's still too easy. Given that forum reactions frequently favor knee-jerk negatiivity, the percentage of players who favor the AI upgrades is highly encouraging. Honestly, I expected a higher percentage of players to react negatively at first than actually have... and I think that once the player base has some time to adapt the response will become even more positive.
In fact, I was talking to a coworker today who plays and he said that his son, who had previously quit because he thought combat was "boring", might find the game more interesting now.
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Except that is kind of the point of the game. It's like telling me that having a 1/3 chance of blowing up is an invalid argument because the chance is higher than that in other games. So what! This isn't other games. You play a game with a certain set of expectations. Whether you keep playing depends on whether the game meets those expectations. if I expect a game to be super hard, I'll probably be disappointed when it's not. If I expect to die a lot, I'm not going to get as frustrated when I do.
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Dude haz res.. the clue is in the name. The game needs to offer some content for wings. Has res and hi intensity are for wings to play in and very good pilots.. groups of players for now and hopefully with npcs in the future .
Maybe low intensity res and CZs should be made easier... I can't really comment in t hat but try to think of others for one second. If you can grind on your own in haz res then there is nothing for wings
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*points to answer already given above*
Cut throat galaxy.
You should expect to die a lot until you get really good. There you go problem all solved
This. 38% feeling bad about NPC AI is actually low. This is very drastic change, NO buts about it. I however expect that number to fall within month or two. Because some of people who looked just for easy grind will finally leave. Some will get better. Some will find new ways to combat new AI - like finally checking out other venues and roles.
Just tried it and nearly got destroyed by 1 Viper (I'm an Conda) - gonna make it realy tough to do Powerplay now (as I don't have hours and hours to get the other options - destroying ships was by far the quickest way). Guess that's the end of Powerplay now - just not worth getting destroyed for a few thousand, even million, credits :-(
The AI is too hard. Good luck farming 5k merits a week when it takes 5 minutes to kill one ship now. Normally I could farm 1000 merits in an hour, now it's taken me 1.5 hours to do 300. The constant bounty hunters chasing you down while you're engaging a powerplay ship, or cops dropping in to kill you, it's now too hard to farm the 5k. I'll have to play all day long to get my cap for the week.
And kiss my ass if you think I'm whining. I don't live with my parents. I don't have 18 hours a day to play like some hardcore mmo players. I am married and I have kids. I'm a totally different player than most ED players, and the changes now make is to farm on my limited time.
If you think the AI is just right then go farm your 5k/10k merits for the week and see how fun it is now.
And kiss my ass if you think I'm whining. I don't live with my parents. I don't have 18 hours a day to play like some hardcore mmo players. I am married and I have kids. I'm a totally different player than most ED players, and the changes now make is to farm on my limited time.
If you think the AI is just right then go farm your 5k/10k merits for the week and see how fun it is now.
Well, perhaps. Some people might adapt. Things might quiet down just because the people who hate the change just aren't playing anymore. Or, with interdictions, we don't adapt so much as just put up with it (by switching to submit-and-run rather than even bothering to fight the interdiction anymore). The fact that I haven't said much about interdictions in the last 6 months is more of a acceptance that it's not going to change than actually becoming positive about it. The same will probably be true here. Silence doesn't necessarily mean you've become happy with the change. You've either just quit or can get by enough to live with it.
Bravo , i commended you . You made a great point .
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Strange that my memory of elite in 1984 is somewhat different from your opinion on it...the original was easy to play...what we have now is unplayable unless ye been farming millions and have a top end ship. Very easy to pass judgement when yer a hardcore veteran...and that really is the only perspective you have to argue from because yer closing statement was just laughable ^^
I'm assuming you're undermining? We've wondered how the new AI would impact undermining numbers this week.
Also, if someone really wants to, it is still absolutely possible to ride oon the security forces' coattails in HIRES. The security forces draw a lot of fire due to their more aggressive AI. If you want relatively safe bounty farming you can get it, just wait until the cops attack someone and then join in the dogpile.
Personally, I think separating myself from CopSwarm (TM) and picking my own pirate fights is generally more fun, but the easy money is still there if you want it!
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not true, you can make a good amount of money in a sidewinder, so let us kick that one to the corner.
In both versions. It's a base feature.
Well congratulations on explaining clearly what your issue is: you place your farming objectives above good and interesting gameplay. You don't care if combat was dull and mindnumbing, as long as you can farm your merits. Interesting gameplay gets in the way of your farming (and some other people's credits, rank grind, etc).
Some people don't really care about having interesting and exciting gameplay. They're just here to farm credits/ranks/merits, etc. And they ultimately forget that merits/credits/ranks in the end don't mean a thing, they're just some numbers. Its what you are doing meanwhile that counts. What good is a dull, boring, farming game, if farming to be able to do more farming is all there is?
I truly hope FD doesn't not yield to farmers and dumb down the game to the lowest common denominator.
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