So CCP decided to go through with massive bot buffing and broke drone assist along with drone aggro.
Can you guys do anything right?
Though, probably, since you actually did blackout, and MESS, and mining removal, I shouldn’t even ask this question, the question I should ask is why the one responsible for those changes is still employed.
Drones are now useless.
They were banned from missions before, now they’re erased from missions.
Afterbumer 
yes. old version -
Looks like we say word DRONES not frequently enought !! DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES
This idea demonstrates just how much players can focus on the negative. Active play styles were indirectly buffed for the exact same reasons that bots were indirectly buffed. Moreover, reducing the amount of in-game currency being produced by an army of afk multiboxers reduces inflation, and preserves the purchasing power of our isk. But you don’t see any of that because you’re laser focused on the negative.
Oh, BTW, no more drone assist would be mildly annoying to most players, but a huge nerf to multiboxers. Thus, if they keep it, it will reduce the unsustainable economic activity of multiboxers, and indirectly benefit the player base by preserving their purchasing power.
P.S. I’m a multiboxer who makes extensive use of drone assist in order to help me print vast sums of in game currency.
This post demonstrates how much bot apologetics can focus on the demagogy. Active play styles were unaffected, because they do not scale. Bots do.
No live player was afk. NPC capital spawns and filament bs prevented that from happening long ago.
But you don’t see that because you’re laser focused on “hurr durr afk bad”. If only you afk haters would focus so much on afk cloaky or other afk nonsense.
Except of course that’s not what’s going to happen.
What’s going to happen is bot activity going up an order of magnitude when botters fill the systems devoid of living players, and bot empires will conquer the server, as they will be the only ones with a lot of purchasing power, destroying the economy where nobody is allowed to compete with them.
Bot apologetics? Is that even a thing? Are you sure you didn’t mean to call me a CCP apologist or a white knight?
Second, active game play styles can scale (see 40 toon HQ incursion multibox fleets), but it doesn’t matter anyway, because even if it were true, it still wouldn’t negate my assertion.
Let me guess, you’re a nullbear who’s mad his income got nerfed. But rather than adapt, your first instinct is to complain, and perpetuate ridiculous notions of bots being the main beneficiaries of these changes.
Well, save my name so that you can at me when the bot empires have destroyed the economy and rule Eve.
As a fellow multiboxer I agree, completely cucks our playstyle but we are more than capable of adapting to a changing meta (as we did when ISBoxer was banned) Active playstyles have received a significant buff as you don’t need to AFK farm 24/7 to be at the same level as those who did. The field has been reset in a way.
edited because a grumpy old fart thinks i’m a spammer
i havent seen any mention of chat disconnecting and reconnecting in game
i just might leave eve for 10 years this time i am so disgusted in the games 1980’s TRS80 with its 3600k baud modem. Maybe they’ll install a raspberry PI as the server as an upgrade.
New type of CCP fixing things .
Active playstyles were not buffed in any way, best case is an active user in a ship that has no drones sees no change. Every ship with drones got at least a tiny utility nerf.
Unable to launch the game. As soon as I hit play, nothing happens.
The print screen function seems bugged too with that weird screen angle.
when ISBoxer was banned
Isboxer was never banned…
The rest of your post holds as much truth as that statement…
People will adapt though. Most likely by playing one of the thousands of games that are actually fun. Games that don’t require hours of boring “gameplay experience” so they can have the real fun of PVPing… PVPers going to have to spend more time PVEing and when they do get to PVP they will have fewer targets to possibly catch…
EDIT : If this change had been in the patch notes I wouldn’t of paid for 8 accounts just prior to the patch…
So the alt I created to help my main with ratting is now totally useless because of drone assist command no longer works as intended.
Just got a reply from my Ticket saying “The way this functions now is that the drones will automatically attack any players that attack the assisted pilot”. Isn’t this the how the GUARD command works? The way I understand drones is if you set them to ASSIST, they attack who the assisted character is attacking. If you set them to GUARD, they attack who ever is attacking the guarded character. And if you set their behavior to AGGRESSIVE, they attack who ever is attacking their OWN ship.
Can you please ask them what GUARD does then?
I mean, if anything, we’ll confirm that CCP playtesting has hit a new low, and they are so ashamed they can’t even communicate it clearly.