Make AFK turret boating difficult to do in PP CZ''s - not just BGS CZ's

[CMDR_Brantford of FLC]

Hello:

One of the changes recently added for CZ's was to make ships progressively more difficult to destroy and smarter - this was desgined to prevent AFK turret-boating or "healies for feelies" as the exploit is known.

Those changes however, did not get put in place for Powerplay related CZ's for PP Powers that rely on combat to expand. Turret-boating is still in place in here. I don't know why the developers wouldnt have extended that to PP, as when the exploit was brought up, PP CZ's were mentioned along with BGS CZ's

Unless I am missing something, It would seem pretty straightforward to have extended it to PP CZ's when you were already doing it for the others.,,, so my request is to do that and make the exploit difficult to do in PP, and not leave a gaping exploit.

 

[QBit4D]

Agreed and especially make them conclude, like regular CZs.

Don't treat PP like the ginger stepchild. Or drown it already.

 

[CMDR Foursyth]

When I heard this proposal, I thought i was an excellent solution to the problem of AFK-farming. I hadn't realized that was the one place it wasn't going to implemented. Please implement it for expansions. That's where it's needed most.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

there may be two reasons:

1. they simply forgot that Powerplay CZ's exist
2. they did it, because Powerplay CZ's are about the kill count, while the new Scenario CZ's are about "winning" for the BGS

 

[Crimson Kaim]

Make PvE difficult so you csn't just go afk? Remember the salt when they improved the AI for Damgerous+ ranks? Soany people couldn't cope with the "difficulty" that they reverted the change.

 

[Bard Voronwe]

We all know that Powerplay needs a lot more than that. This solution alone would make CZs worthless for opposition for example, being much easier simply crush ships in supercruise (and it's much simplier for opposition too).

Honestly: I hoped that after the BGS in 3.3 would have been Powerplay's turn to be fixed, but considering the complete silence by the Devs after the inconclusive focused feedback promoted only by a developer who's not working to Elite anymore, right now I'm everything but hopeful about Powerplay being fixed, to be honest I am more afraid that it could be made even worse looking at all the issues this new BGS has, there's a too far distance between the developers' previsions about how to play this game and the way their players exploit everything exploitable in the game, a tremendous lack of knowledge about the consequences that their (poor, I'm sorry to say) game design choices about Powerplay made it a bot-fest and a 5C assault-fest by certain groups against others (no naming, no shaming but hey, spoiler: check who's gonna freak out first, you'll find your culprit) as we recently saw once again.

Nontheless I still think that Powerplay has the potential to be the real competitive game mechanic in this game, and I can't stop trying at least to not let the 5C-ing groups have "their way", I think that this feeling is shared by all the CMDRs which are trying to play Powerplay in a ethical way to somehow "fix" the flaws we all know in it, we all know what we should do as a community, some groups do that, some others don't.

Simple as that.