Everytime i hear about an EvE patch and read the reception, people go: “common sense is not had!”.
Whoever thought it to be a good idea to change aggressive Drone behavior from “useful” to “you know what AGGRESSIVE means, right?”, deserves 100 rounds of Large Antimatter ammo in the butt. 
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I can’t wait to not give CCP money ever again!
edit: since they are reverting, they will get money again.
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Not exactly. Money corresponds to the total amount of products on the market, and if productivity is increased, this would counteract inflation(but plex prices would still rise.)
Ok no drone assist mean my battleship locking frige in mission s and ingotta run my Guns pulse my tank and now drones too not good I’m not a afk ratting fan but drone assist helps with guristas jamming and serp damps so I just started using drone ships but I guess ill dump um cause Gilad stars and any drone base us dead sentry drones are gone totally
Thanks for bringing it up! I wanted to let you know that we will be reverting the change which restricted the setting of Medical Clones when no active Clone Bay service is present with tomorrow’s deployment.
There are improvements to be made to make the rules surrounding Home Stations clearer, and enhancing the sense of home in EVE is something that we are excited to explore in the near future. But we want to find more elegant solutions that do not simultaneously interfere with the gameplay everyone got used to over the years.
Appreciate your feedback. Please keep it coming!
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if they dont bring back drone assist; im quitting eve… for real this time… on principle… its just so pointless to remove it and yet… here we are… so really… im done… and trolls blow me; circle jerk yourselfs to death for all i care…
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I’ll believe it when I see it.
That is a pretty ironic statement for CCP to make given the several “fixes” over the years that have interfered with the gameplay players have gotten used to. And now with this new drone assist “fix”. I will tell you one thing, it does not make me excited to play the game, when lots of QoL features are just disabled at every turn. When the game becomes more and more a chore. I would thumbs down in the escape menu, but I feel like that doesn’t really even do anything.
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Resist or submit. Those are your ONLY options. Choose.
You are the customer and ultimately that always means, YOU ARE THE
MASTER.
WE are the MASTERS.
Unless you are the slave. Willingly.
Allow ALL your accounts to AT LEAST lapse to Alpha unless you completely
unsub and next, LEAVE them Alpha or Unsubbed until CCP wakes up and
smells what the customer is cooking and bends the knee.
SOMEBODY is going to bend the knee.
Either YOU will or THEY will. Choose.
Bleeding their wallet is the ultimate thumbs down.
And the only thumbs down that will be effective.
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It is written (seriously. I’m not kidding!).
The ONLY way to win EVE is to
Not, I say again, NOT play EVE.
Are you sure you understand the meaning of “home” when you just intentionally removed the best way to set your home station and made it impossible to make systems your home that has no cloning service unless you drop a structure? I have serious doubts about your level of competence in that regard.
Maybe, just maybe, you should have explored these “more elegant” ways and implemented them before you removed a much loved and used feature? A feature that allows people to use a place as home or at least as a staging point so that they can fight? Will CCP ever learn to do things in order instead of always putting the cart before the horse. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. you do something? You expect us to learn all the time and EVE anew every other week, yet you resist to learn so obstinately that one can justifiably call your “good intentions” and “being super excited about $putrandomcraphere$” in question. Less lenient minds might rightfully go so far to accuse you of nefarious intent.
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What about applaud?
CCP is doing good work this patch fixing the game. Their execution may not be perfect and there are some bugs here, but the intention behind these December changes is good.
There are things that CCP legitimately should be called out for (the predatory pricing of the latest booster packs for one), but trying to fixing the silliness of low-attention/AFK play and excessive multi-boxing isn’t one of them. If anything, the only thing to be angry about here is that they let it go on for so very long.
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Removing a designed feature isn’t a fix its a redirection. Its CCP’s game to mess with so as a consumer you take it or leave it. Your choice either way.
Yup. I’ll take it! Might even throw some more cash CCP’s way if they can get this game back on track.
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They had to let it run for so long because, for one, all their more attention requiring PVE is total garbage, and secondly 80% of PVPers depend on these AFK people to get their serotonin fix for the day.
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People are mad drone assist isn’t working as well because they thought they would be smart and skirt around the changes, by simply assigning drones to a bunny and farming stuff AFK all the same.
In case your conerns is related to PvP, then I guess it’s an issue that does indeed require looking into if it’s not working properly, as the original post in the other thread mentioned that PvP drone interactions would remain the same.
It’s still clear about drones not auto-aggressing NPCs, so should be working as intended for NPCs. 
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Its not that simple, how are logi pilots meant to field their drones now? Micromanaging them onto rats, while also repping? That’s not gonna happen. Some sites, like invasions, required damage dealt to get paid. Just removing drone assist is not a real solution to botting and afk farming, just a lazy one.
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Nah. I mean, nullsec PvE needs a revamp and CCP has released tons of new, more engaging PvE in recent years they can base that on, but they never had to let the multi-boxing/AFK meta persist for so long. They could have moved to a more active/more rewarding paradigm years ago but choose not to for reasons we can speculate on, but probably shouldn’t waste time on now.
What was done was done, and you can’t change the past, only look forward. Much of this pain and anger was predictable and CCP will rightly take a hit now for their past choices, but they really do need to do what is best for the long-term health of the game at this point.
My only real point for entering this thread is to point out some of us do like these changes and this new direction, as will many new players and possibly some returning ones. Take your ball and go home if you must, but the game will go on, and probably be better for everyone once the trauma of these changes subsides and people adjust to the new normal.
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The new normal being CCP telling you how to play and CCP introducing nothing but bugged features and experiences, as they have done with virtually 100% of all developments in the past 3 years? Or removal of features which have absolutely no negative impact on the game and instead promotes more action and interaction, such as the MedClone removal? Or features like the Invasions which demanded group play but which did not reward playing in groups and instead punished it in addition to being a mindbogglingly boring grind? That sounds like an amazing future.
Makes me wonder what this Christmas event is going to be like.
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