Velicitia
Open Designs
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Posted - 2012.06.06 12:49:00 -
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Lady Lupiah wrote:
... you clearly don't actually know how people have been killing hulks. By the time a thrasher appears in your belt, you are already dead, even with a T2 defensive fit, ECM drones out, and aligned to station. Stop blaming miners for poor game balance, as if it was the miners fault CCP upped small ship DPS massively but didn't improve mining ship defences.
Sure, if you don't start getting out until the guy lands ... but there's this "Directional Scan" that I keep hearing about, where you can see what's "nearby" (assuming you consider "up to 14 AU" to be nearby). So, I suppose that you could watch out to say 75m KM (0.5 AU) and have a good chance of seeing "weird" stuff and GTFO before they land. Granted, every system is different, and the ranges would need to be tailored to your situation.
While CCP did up dessie DPS, it's not like they've banned industrial characters from setting up intel channels, setting known gankers red, or doing whatever they can to keep an eye on local ... there are things that can be done, the miners just have to decide to do them.
Lady Lupiah wrote:"Safety is something you fight for" ... no. Saftey comes from having 6 accounts, years of training to fly ships that are effectively invulnerable in High Sec, and the billions of ISK to never pay a real $ for it.
There are no ships that are "invulnerable" in hisec. The few capitals (and possibly supers that were dev-moved) that are there are holdovers from years ago. They're so gimped as to what they can do, that they're just trophies for the people who got one back then. Think of them as an ornamental dagger or the like -- pretty, but useless.
Lady Lupiah wrote:Case in point: burn Jita event. Plenty of little transports went down. A Nyx comes out ... does it go down?
One cannot sui-gank a nyx in hisec (well, I suppose if EVERYONE in Jita turned on the Nyx it *might* have been possible). Furthermore, the fact that it was up there was created due to one of the recent changes to supers (drone bay?). So, it was effectively a one-time event. In day to day gameplay, one will never see supers in hisec (or in a station for that matter).
Lady Lupiah wrote:Case in point: Orca. Can it mine solo? No. It's a ship for mulitiboxer players, basically.
While it is used by people who multibox ... it's also viable for someone flying a single account, helping out their corpies.
Lady Lupiah wrote:Case in point: Leadership warfare mods. Where is the ship with these, typically? Parked inside a PoS bubble with an alt in it.
Mine's actually in the belt with me.
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