It actually wasn't a troll question Player interaction would seem to be the major selling point of an MMORPG over a Single player RPG. I understand some players prefer the NPC side of things, but this is presumably because its different from PvP or other forms of player interaction. What I'm asking is why would you then want the AI to be more human like, when it seems the reason to enjoy it is that its not human like?

Also confirming RL ganking is bad

Maybe someone can explain to me why many people seem to want a game where NPCs seem as real as possible, instead of just interacting with actual people?

For those that want just instant gratification pvp, not having to go grind out nic to replace bots, will never 'graduate' out of the arena and into world PVP, because the loss to recovery time ratio will be too discouraging. Mixing no-death PVP arena's with a full FFA world PVP game... is there any examples of this? Has it been tried before?

As for the Island numbers, and sorry to compare to the 'other game' but I would say that the Eve devs making a huge game world to start with was one of the smartest things they did, you will have to search hard for anyone either then or now who feels the large game world is a negative part of the game. I'm not really sure what people think will happen with a lot of Islands? The vast majority of players will still form into groups that will occupy one or more Islands. Some will live in the middle of nowhere, some will live close to Alpha, PvP corps will live close to areas of population, some corps will go out and explore. Some Islands will be completely empty, but I don't see that as a major problem, if anything, it will add a nice sense of scale to the game, of large areas of unexplored land just waiting for some enterprising corp to set up there.

Devs can always add more land in, taking it away is more complicated. My suggestion is simply to release a small amount of gamma islands. 2 new items, and 2 major adjustments later, a more conservative approach may be less distruptive.

Egil wrote:

So has anybody put a medium miner on an Argano yet?

yep.

two t2 smalls, and one t2p medium, works fine with good mining extensions, but is slower then 3x t4 small

This is how ide prefer the game map to be set... Not every island class has the same amount of TPs.. some have 2 others 3 & some islands are hub islands...

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Pw4 … edit?pli=1

this was just something i threw together to illustrate what i mean.

I think it would be cool to have what ive shown the the right side of the map gamma islands spread around a Beta 1 Island that could be NPC controlled.

Just for the record, I always put a break on change and like being conservative.

Being this way here, before a very different (pro) crowd i will at least get them to articulate their pro-change arguments better. I hope my fears will be addressed by the developers and also understood by others. I am not this way to troll in any way, this is just how I see the picture, even if my arguments are not always understood, just remember that!

Obi Wan Kenobi wrote:

Sundial wrote:

With scarabs logistics have become extremely simple. Yes you will have to escort stuff in and out, but you won't be as easy to harass because you will be much farther out. Also you hanv't thought the inter island teleporters...

If corps are constantly harassed living on beta, they won't be able to produce much, and if they can't produce much, they won't be able to PvP. The increased distance will help with this.

PvP hotpost island will develop based on who lives where.

The game world is way too small as it is.

I agree with ya here mate... make a game world bigger than what you need & let to population grow into it

+1 both comments