I would love to know if CCP are ever planning on updating the current missions, thay have not changed or had any new missions added apart from the Atomic and Burner missions in years.
I used to love running missions but with no real change to them in years or new missions added to the lists they are so repetative. Alot of the missions i am running now, I remember running back in 2007 when i started playing EVE online.
It feels like CCP are neglecting a large part of the PvE community, or is it just me that feels this way?
I know they have added other PvE content like homefront and Abyss, but it is a shame to see that alot of players are not running missions anymore due to the lack of new/ changed content.
Yeah I understand that, but I still think they should keep it up to date and relevent otherwise the oldest content in the game will die off at some point.
If they can introduce abyssal content that offers a variation of opponents/difficulty, the developers should be talented enough to introduce a mission generator that mixes things up as well. Level 4s wouldn’t be boring if your opponents would vary, point, leach, web, etc. No more min/maxed ships fitted for known opponents and more involvement in the game by the player. In addition,CCP relying on the new mechanics of player created content to replace developer efforts is just not working.
They have been, they are called homefronts. I’m not a fan, but it is what it is. They will never change the current missions as the last time they did (burner missions), most of the players freaked out, per their answers at fanfests a few years ago. So they have been adding other types of PVE instead, Abyss, Homefronts, etc.
Abyss is not nearly as variable as missions, neither are Homefronts or any of the other new HS PVE content. It’s the same rehash of a minimal set of variable content every time you run it. Missions offer much more variability than any of the new PVE content ever will.
I understand that they have tryed, however they have only tryed to add new missions for the more Skilled players, as the Burner missions require higher SP fits. I do not want them to remove the current missions, just update them and add new missions into the rotation, as that would draw in more newer players to missions running as well as keep it exiting for the older players.
Missions are a great and relaxing way for players to learn more about PvE in my experience, and how the gereral game mecanics work. for newer players and alot of returning players Abyss can be very daunting to alot of players due to the high rish of losses, meaning alot of newer player dont want to try it, and HF is only an option if you have a group, meaning that alot of single players are unable to do it.
They have implemented Burners, so they obviously know how to let Agents access a wider variety of possible choices of missions to give out.
And to create new missions isn’t even a hard task, a single mediocre talented designer can create like 2 per day. Or write a tool that randomly generates missions with varying objectives and he just selects and fine-tunes the best ones that generator spits out.
I agree, but I’ve tried very unsuccessfully to chat to the locals in the same system as me and got nowhere, not even an answer.
I’ve been in corps in the past as well, some ok’ish, some terrible and in nearly all cases getting a group together was too much like hard work.
Bear in mind, those in this system with me have been here a long time and there’s never been any issues between us, so I’d like nothing more than to be able to get us together as a group when the Homefronts spawn.
