Topic: NPC mercs

I want to buy escorts, soldiers that patrol an area, MINE, help with missions/beacons/whatever, maybe even buff/repair, aka the kind of stuff that's available in PvE focused games like LOTRO.  This should be accessible from a squad window or a HUD addition near the Syntec handshake.   Limits per character or something, maybe a different squad type.  Just a rough idea.  Could be made not to attack players if that's the concern...

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Re: NPC mercs

So... you want Perpetuum Single Player mode.

3 (edited by Crepitus 2014-07-22 20:49:39)

Re: NPC mercs

Kim Cho wrote:

So... you want Perpetuum Single Player mode.


It already is.  I'm trying to level the field for people with 1 account and free up some of my own accounts.  I hate to agree with Annihilator, but you really are hamstrung if you have only one account and it's been that way forever.  It would also be fun to control a squad of NPCs instead of always murdering or avoiding them.

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Re: NPC mercs

Crepitus wrote:
Kim Cho wrote:

So... you want Perpetuum Single Player mode.


It already is.  I'm trying to level the field for people with 1 account and free up some of my own accounts.  I hate to agree with Annihilator, but you really are hamstrung if you have only one account and it's been that way forever.  It would also be fun to control a squad of NPCs instead of always murdering or avoiding them.


While I agree, that solo-ratting should be REAL solo, not one guy with three accounts, giving a people NPCs to control doesn't really help imho...

But then, I don't really have any idea how to fix it. Maybe nerf the NPCs down to a level where you can actually solo grind them efficiently (esp. EWAR needs a hefty nerf imho), and get rid of the huge amounts of T1 loot that gets dropped.

At the moment I can't really grind solo because there's just no way to get my bot cap-stable enough with a repper running (even ERP don't really help), the reppers itself just don't provide enough rep to be able to grind mech/heavy mech spawns, and the amount of loot is ridiculous.

I've got around 250k EP purely in combat and fitting skills of one single colour bot. That is around half a year worth of playing, if you don't count booster. After half a year of focussed training I think you should be able to grind Alpha-sites without bigger problems.

Hell, in Eve I was able to grind nullsec sites easily after half a year.

PvE as it is right now is broken in Perp, and I don't know what would help besides a complete revamp.

Re: NPC mercs

Yes, OMG.  YES

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Re: NPC mercs

Yes. I would offer some distress beacons, that would protect area around it's deploying. If owner leaves the area - NPCs are gone away too. Only one wave and only one beacon per 1km radius (of course), no loot, and other balanced stuff.

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Re: NPC mercs

*I'm too lazy to explain my opinion in a meaningful way.*

+1
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Re: NPC mercs

[16:19:56] <Xakorik Zemavi> Looking for a Hauler for Farming near Asintech Alpha Terminal
[16:22:36] <CrepitusPixelPornProducer> just train a sequer
[16:22:41] <CrepitusPixelPornProducer> industrial 4 and basic robotics 4
[16:22:56] <CrepitusPixelPornProducer> it's useful to have even as a pure combat pilot
[16:22:58] * Xakorik Zemavi is now offline.

This is a perfect use case.  But instead... ;/

EDIT: actually this story has a happy ending.. he logged back in, I repeated what I said, he didn't have the money, I gave it to him and some, he's packing his *** and moving out of Daoden, Mission Accomplished (see, he had discovered that missions weren't worth *** and was trying to farm so he has a better chance on tellesis or shinjalar or whereever he's going anyway).

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