NPCs are damn too strong.

[Luke.]

*raises his hand*

This guy speaks the mind of every one of us unlawful players.

I'm an Outcast for a start, I lead an Outcast faction. However, I love criminal RP on the whole and it's great fun to do everything from interact with the lawful side and end up in a big brawl or simply go trolling around, looking for trouble (my XA for example)

Now. Problem. NPC's. I get that capship patrols are realistically going to be patrolling house systems with big, dockable capital planets. That's fine. But if there's a fight going on between players, or just an interaction on the whole...it's incredibly invasive. I'd like to sit and chat, not constantly thrust around madly avoiding endless Cerbs, pulses and the like. It's no fun and I consequently have to rush the RP, typing quickly, making a mess of it and ruining it. It's no fun at all when the NPC's can insta you at the click of a finger. Then if a fight does kick off, it's still incredibly irritating as the Caps do not miss too often. Sure bad players will go hug them if they're losing but hey, dull down the cap patrols and PvP becomes even more balanced! Genius.

Back to Outcasts briefly. We asked for an IMG NPC nerf. We got it. Thank you. But then what, the Dev's go ahead and give more to other NPC's which just widens the issue rather than eliminating a what-should-be redundant part of the server. There are too damn many of the critters around those systems. It's not fun having to fight someone with 10 NPC's on your arse, not missing very often.

I agree completely with Pavel on this one. Sure, they've been nerfed to a degree but they're still invasive as hell and cause upset for us. Can we just step away from the realism of having patrols for one minute and recognise that this is supposed to be an RP server? Where players are supposed to be the main point of this concept.

To add to it. Why have insta-kill cruiser missile turrets spiralling out from Docking Rings? Why!? What's the need? Sure we shouldn't go near planets but getting round is otherwise extremely inconvenient for us. I'm sorry but I'm not prepared to cruise several "K's" out of the way to avoid 3 bases and a planet, especially when i'm trying to pursue a transport. On that note, WHY DO GATES TAKE OUT LANES. WHY. WHERE IS THE FUN IN THAT?! Dev's, sort it out please. It's unnecessary and kills any possibility of pirating in places where transports are regularly passing through.

It's single-handedly killing piracy. Trading isn't wholly balanced but what makes it easier? What decreases interaction? A lack of piracy. Why is there a lack of piracy? Because there is no motivation to log pirate characters. Why is there no motivation? Because we can't move 10 metres without being grossly cock-blocked by overpowered stationeries and swarms of "dulled-down" NPC's that, in a large bunch, can still cause a serious amount of damage. Think about RP for once. Not the fact that 10 year olds endlessly Q_Q about not being able to powertrade all day. No wonder Cap piracy occurs more often.

Oh and guess what? No unlawful activity = less lawful activity due to having nothing to do.

Yeah yeah, call it bias and all but if the predominantly lawful players are even complaining about it, then surely that's a sign that something's gone wrong somewhere. I could go on and explain each individual peeve that I personally have with each nitpicky little thing but I won't. I'm tired and it's 1:30am.

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