+1 ^

Put it back but it doesn't effect NPC's and fair enough. Putting it back without that is just an invitation to abuse.

Thanks for confirming that abusing the beacon mechanic is your intent. I have over a thousand beacons and I'm sure you have many more. The problem wasn't just the missions, it was the beacon pits too.

Yeah, getting a lot of tokens was one thing, but the real problem was beacon pits, and different ways of herding beacon NPCs into one place and blowing them up all at once. That would be still possible.

Ok Zoom ... why should doing beacons Take so long, the explosion damage removal was your typical knee jerk reaction.  And there is always a way to herding npc's on alpha and beta using terrain. If you could build a beacon pit (the new terraforming is painfull to say the least) they are not air tight anymore.   My basic questions are

1. Why does doing beacons have to take so much time and effort for 1 tiny aspect of the game

2. Why cant you turn explosion damage back on so we dont get cheated out of loot drops on beta's or gamma's.

P.S. i cant argue with jita. Im trying to see things from his perspective, unfortunately i am unable to get my head that far up my arse. No futher dialog is needed

Does it really need to be explained? It was a mechanic bent to the point of abuse which seriously imbalanced the economy and power balance.

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-15283-De … o-07dP.gif

To add to this it's your organisations that bent the mechanics to abuse so much that required this fix - absolutely blatant gleefull breaking of the mechanics. Much like red npcs the fix was imperfect and took a little bit of fun out of PVE but if you want to blame someone go find a mirror.

Better tuck in that bottom lip before you catch it on a tripwire bubba.

I don't think you understand the ramifications of gamma npcs. 

1.  Npcs have unlimited accumulator.
2.  Everything has demon and ECM.
3.  NPCs can not be kited.  Because they teleport to you.
4.  They always suicide bomb you.
5.  New trees make shooting at range next to impossible.
6.  They don't roam.
7.  Aggroing one mob causes the rest to immediately  drop beacons and teleport to you.
8.  No PVE follow mechanics means, dual boxing is an unholy pain in the ***.
9.  Trees online make it next to impossible to keep together.
10. RSA's are too short.

The biggest PITA of gamma are the npcs.

REALLY?  because you are in Gamma and Beta actually working with the mechanics?

didnt think so

go away

I would like to dispute that Anni.

I like it when Qwerts posts.

Keep it up brosef.

i could neut down an observer on beta two weeks ago, and i was testing my neuting efficiency against npcs this whole time, so... i don't think it has changed.

as far as i can tell, Villi is whining on high level. Gamma is no solo content, so when i go through his list, the only valid point seem to be still-standing observers. On PTS i have not seen a single npc teleport around.

point 1 is wrong
point 2 is wrong
point 3 and 4 should be demonstrated with a video if its true
point 5 next to means is not always
point 6 is a bug
point 7, 8, 9 and 10 are multiboxing issues which are supposed to be ignored by the DEVs or at best, welcomed.