This change made me stop doing AIR daily goals. It is now in the unflexible state again where it was before the change from 4 to 8 goals. It is again flat out undoable with those 4 goals if you do not have the environment to do so…aka live in 0.0 or be part of a corporation.
The only viable chance if you wanted to do them using 2500 EM for one of the goals you can’t do are paragon missions for EM. Unfortunately these are a joke in themselves netting you in at a loss of several millions isk at worst case or a lot of traveltime. In no way is it in a sane ratio to do these in order to complete AIR daily goals, making the whole goal system a complete waste of time and isk instead of providing a nice and fun little daily bonus.
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How do you figure you lose multiple millions for the Paragon missions? A Venture is worth 500k and trades in at 2,900 EverMarks?
Unless he buys the overpriced ones costing many times more directly from the Paragon station itself. 
And even then it’s still an incredible hassle. I do … did my ADG in deep nullsec on chars that wanted and needed the additional SP. I am not going to travel to Jita to get the EM or coffin a char on the account to Jita to turn in ships for EM to use on the first char to complete a task.
This just reeks of terminal mind rot at CCP if someone really thought this is a good gameplay experience.
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You do know there are other stations than the one in Jita, right? And you’re not really meant to spend EMs to complete dailies every day?
I don’t really see how living in nullsec should preclude you from doing 1 or 2 of these goals?
I mean its been known they were gonna introduce evermarks to complete the dailys at least
Since when? If you mean the devblog that they released today after the patch, you can’t be serious.
It is highly inconvenient to run anything else than the scanning task for my particular setup. Going around shooting NPC would require me to get new ammo way more often than I currently need to, which is again not creating a good gameplay experience.
This added flexibility makes earning the Daily Bonus SP and progressing through the Monthly Reward Track faster and easier - perfect for players with limited playtime.
in conjunction with the removal of double tasks indicates to me that you are expected to use them very frequently or grind through a chore instead of a meaningful experience suitable to your needs to get the big prize.
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grind through a chore instead of a meaningful experience suitable to your needs to get the big prize.
Let’s not pretend that the previous system had any sort of ‘meaningful’ goals. It was still a chore, but simply easier to grind.
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Well, you could at least do things you like to do to get extra rewards out of it. Now you have to do different things that require you to waste more time and effort.
The previous iteration of this chore was at least fast and easy to do. What we have now again is a worse frustration source than it already was, topped off with an overpriced Instant Gratification system for added skinner box fomo galore.
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Since near the end of october. They announced in a dev blog or a patch that evermarks wwre gonna be used in AIR
It was more near the beginning of October
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CCP Please Please Please revert this terrible daily goals change, like hey the 2500 is great for people that have plenty of extra and need to skip one, but why would you make them even more of a chore to do by reducing how many there are. Yeah some careers got duplicates some time, but that’s just a nice reward for those careers, all you did now was remove the choices people had and make it worse by limiting options.
Please give us our full 8 choices back
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In a sandbox game reducing the amount of choices a player has simply does not make sense.
Cannot understand the basis for this very dumb move.
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I really hope the Winter Nexus doesn’t suck, because otherwise this is going to be one of the bleakest holidays seasons for EVE.
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Yeah I hate the changes to the Air Daily Goals , I wont be doing these anymore. To much time for activities I hate. I dont care about useless Evermarks, I donated most to my corp so I dont have many left. I hate that the tasks are cut in half.
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These updates have really been one step forward/two steps backwards. It’s to the point now where I think most players dread reading the patch notes to find out what else has been nerfed or changed to otherwise screw up their gameplay.
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The main reason most of these ‘Back & Forth’ changes are constantly happening, all done with slight deviations from their original implementation, is simply CCP employee’s trying to justify and validate their employment.
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Like others here, I think it’s a real pity and a backwards step that the Air Daily Goals have now decreased from eight to four in the last patch. To downgrade the available options to just four goals a day feels very, very thin to me.
I was really enjoying doing the daily and varied mix of PvE, industrial and scanning content and most days I was ticking off at least six of the eight tasks.
I probably will still do them but it’s really not a great move, not least of all because I now have much less choice and previously some tasks were things that I just didn’t do in the game.
I have no interest whatsoever in trading Evermarks to complete them either (I enjoyed doing them so why would I even do that?).
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You can really stop being a **** anytime now…