CCP always says vague noncommittal stuff like this, to keep those players desperately hoping for a significant improvement hanging on and paying. It’s their way of saying “Gee if wishes were fishes we’d wish this fixed”.
They even straight up said at Fanfest they weren’t interested in fixing Career agents and NPE anymore, so it’s unlikely any other missions will receive more attention.
The best and smartest thing they could have done would have been to create an actual mission editor/creator for Freelance jobs, and put the work in the hands of their players. Who apparently have a lot more creative energy than CCP does. Since @DeT_Resprox has single-handedly created a better content creator than CCP has, working with external interfaces:
I had hope for Freelance missions when it was announced but as usual, CCP has managed to take a conceptual EVE goldmine and turn it into Dust.
You are the champions we need. Our commitment is to improve the game from now on, not necessarily fix the new player experience. We want to add new experiences, opportunities for everyone, but no one does a better job of explaining Eve than you do. You mentor the new players better than we do. So instead of teaching ourselves, we develop tools for you and a safety net to keep the solo players treading water and building confidence.
But not only that, we have developed some new technology that we call the Goalsmith that empowers us to make more contribution methods better and faster than ever before, which means that we can focus more on the bread and butter, giving you guys more missions, epic arcs, and sites, things like that.
Which are still intentions at best, see Omber mining jobs in Tama etc., but not straitght up dismissal.
As a PvP player, I certainly hope CCP improves the PvE experience in EvE. What a lot of acronyms! Unfortunately, my opponents are often asleep. More engaging content would keep the miners awake at night.
I for one want to see more BLOOD RAIDER roleplay in Lonetrek!
TL;DR: CCP has mostly neglected standard agent missions. They’ve shifted focus to Abyssals, FW PvE, events, and dynamic content like Homefront Operations (2023), but those don’t overhaul the old mission system. Legacy missions remain mostly unchanged since the 2000s.
I actually like this idea. Yet not a faction or deadspace escalation loot tables. You could have anti faction escalations. So Caldari escalations would take you into gallente space fighting gallente faction ships and so on. Even an option in the escalation message to choose where to go from 3 different areas. Think high, low, null with travel time and an engagement timer limit to accomplish the escalation, or even a wh/abyssal option to teleport you to a random location immediately with very “unknown” and potentially lethal but also lucrative loot drops.
Im trying to think of what the loot table would be though… perhaps LP tokens that have to be turned into certain areas, much like ESS tokens, WH blue loot or DED lootboxes. Allowing for stealing and destruction through movement to different locations. And then possibly the very odd, 0.01%, DED escalation lootable suitable for the mission level.
I can almost guarantee we won’t see any kind of NPC mission overhaul. In fact, I’d say less than zero chance. When CCP says “they’re not ruling it out” - it means they’ve already ruled it out. Old code, whatever the reason - there’s just no desire to revisit missions. That ship has unfortunately sailed and found months later adrift with the crew having mysteriously vanished…
I am not saying there isn’t plenty to do on EVE
Anyone who has done Abyss knows how boring it is
Scanning Same thing
ESS so so many issues with Cloaked ships
What else do we have solo
Mining Sleepy time
DEVS why not do more with missions
The Corp Missions ha that one is funny
I see more traps then a house infested with rats
Fixing up Missions would give them solo players more chances to
Get new drops
Add more missions
Instead you can setup 1 ship do every lvl 4 with ease
When you can do 2 6 hour missions in 30 minutes you know it is boring
Not saying take from the cash cow Null sec
Saying expand to other players as well
I see some things added in this update and you have to think
WHY
When they could have spent a little time changing a few things adding a few things to lvl 4 missions
P.S I can’t even get CCP to respond to a open ticket I don’t expect then to respond to this.
Unless we yell loud enough
Hate missions or like them
Missions deserve and so over due for upgrades
When you go to Cinema you don’t do it to see other watchers (listen to them, smelling popcorn and such stuff). You go there to watch a movie. And other watchers are rather distraction.
A bit off: an unfortunate fact of these days that there are more and more people who tend to watch those obnoxious reaction channels where people act surprised (in clearly fake, forced, gross, etc. manner) and provide other such clownish behavior in response to a video or movie. Such channels appear to be quite popular for some reason.
