Can we talk Patrol Zones for a minute?

[nicksmithcc]

The state of patrol zones on the PVE server are a joke. 90% of the time you are either A, camping in one spot PRAYING something comes your way, or B, sailing around aimlessly not finding any ships.

On PVP server a patrol zone can literally be anywhere and it will be busy because players go there and fight each other. On PVE server we have to rely on the horrible spawn rate of ships. So how would I improve PZ's on PVE server?

- Make spawn rate faster in PZ for NPC ships.

- Make ships spawn in patrol zone that are of the level of the requirement. I.E. the patrol zone near Nippes has 0 4th rate spawns yet the limit is 4th rate ships. 

- if you are not going to do any of the above, at LEAST move the patrol zones so that they are actually in areas of traffic on PVE server.. right now they are off the beaten path for most of the NPC ships, we constantly watch ships just sail right on by the patrol zone.

Just my two cents.. please share yours. Also if you are a PVP player you need not post here, this discussion is not in regards to the PVP patrol zones, they are FINE you actually have battles there. (yes i play on both servers).

 

[Karvala]

Seconded.  I no longer bother to go to the PZ on PVE because the last few times I did I stayed for a couple of hours and there were literally no ships at all that could be attacked in that period of time.  I don't have a couple of hours to waste every day waiting for ships to turn up.  This is supposed to be Naval Action, not Naval Boredom.  So easily fixed as well.

Edited July 9, 2020 by Karvala

[nicksmithcc]

7 minutes ago, Karvala said:

Seconded.  I no longer bother to go to the PZ on PVE because the last few times I did I stayed for a couple of hours and there were literally no ships at all that could be attacked in that period of time.  I don't have a couple of hours to waste every day waiting for ships to turn up.  This is supposed to be Naval Action, not Naval Boredom.  So easily fixed as well.

also worth mentioning the time it takes to get to a patrol zone only to get there and find nothing. it is a huge slap in the face and just shows us that our time is not valued in this game.

 

[PG Monkey]

I think the patrol zone is designed for pvp

[nicksmithcc]

2 minutes ago, PG Monkey said:

I think the patrol zone is designed for pvp

It is, but it also exists on the PVE server. No reason they cant have it tailored for both.

[Jan van Santen]

3 hours ago, nicksmithcc said:

It is, but it also exists on the PVE server. No reason they cant have it tailored for both.

Thats the issue. I miss ai inside PZ just like every other PvE player.....but there is no "one distribution fits all servers"

.Packing ai into patrol zones is good for pve...but bad for pvp, since players are supposed to fight each other there and not the ai.

So PvE would need a tailormade ai distribution, different from PvP.  Likely ? Heck, we dont even have enough ai on PvE all over the map, if a tailormade ai were possible, why not simply give PvE enough ai (more than on PvP server) as first step ? Increase ai all over the map = more ai in PZ, too.

Hint: I must have proposed that 10 times or more in this forum....

Edited July 9, 2020 by Jan van Santen