NPC Balance

[Envomni]

Uh No.. I'm talking 20 minutes to kill one NPC in an Assassin mission, not the entire lot. I tried a few missions where you were supposed to eliminate the entire npc group for the payoff, and got fed up with chasing them all down after more than half an hour, and having only killed 2, with 2 to go, and another wave (or 2) yet to come. No way I'm going to play for an hour for one mission, which could be cut right dead if the server dropped me unexpectedly.. losing all the effort just like that.

As can be seen, many others are feeling this same trouble. I'm flying a Spatial, with level 10 weapons, not facing any problems with having to wait for weapons energy to let me re-fire rapidly. Yet I can pound, and pound again at an NPC that has no sheilds, and what looks like 30% hull, and hit after hit - he shows NO decrease in hull strength, when 4 level 10 weapons are hitting him. The damage per second is easly 4,000 units from those weapons alone, and still he flies on happily. Its just not right. If you strive towards these power weapons, and you see them do nothing of the damage they are rated for - what's the point? The game has no value when you know the impact your guns are rated for, is being ignored by a cheating npc. It means you're now playing a sequence that is so scripted, it doesn't matter what you do, you don't get to win until a certain magic moment (time? total # of hits rather than total damage? who knows!) is surpassed. There is nothing fun about that. That's old Wing Command programming.

My weapons load works great against NPCs. Have you even tried pvp? It took me 20 min just to kill another player with the same skill level and ship. That's only one warm blooded human sitting at his computer like I was. So, please don't complain about it takes 20 min to kill multiple NPCs. Take along a friend on your missions to help out if it's that hard. Don't leave the server over some stupid computer that gets under your skin. It's just a game.