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Durzel
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.05.20 17:25:00 -
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CONCORD is merely an instrument to rid you of your ship, it could just as easily be a sentry gun that exists in the middle of the system with infinite range and infinite damage.
CONCORD exist as ships simply for immersion purposes as others have said, also as different security statuses mean different delays, and whether CONCORD are already orbiting whatever you want to attack, etc is intended to (and does) make a difference to whether your action can succeed or not.
That they are ships doesn't change the fact that unlike normal ships they lock instantly (including drones), have ECM jamming strength that means they could never fail to jam, frigates packing heavy neuts, etc. It helps not to think of them as something you can fight or escape.
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Durzel
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.05.20 17:47:00 -
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 Originally by: Ghoest
So if I blew someone up then simply went through a gate I would be exploiting?
You wouldn't be able to jump for 60 seconds after you attacked someone so that wouldn't work, not to mention that gate sentry guns would attack you. 60 seconds is more than enough time for CONCORD to appear in any system and deal with you.
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Durzel
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.05.20 18:04:00 -
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Edited by: Durzel on 20/05/2009 18:04:53
You're not "sitting on your hands" waiting for them to turn up though are you. Presumably if you've got murder in your heart you're spending that precious time ganking someone, therefore that time (and how much of it) all counts towards whether you can achieve your goal or not. That time delay in different security systems is what makes system security relevant in high-sec for pirates.
Making it possible to evade CONCORD, or have them turn up and make you pay a fine instead of omgwtfbbq'ing your ship is a buff to ganking that CCP clearly don't want to do.
Think of it this way too: CONCORD destroying your ship and imposing a 15-min GCC means that the rest of the people in whichever system you are preying on (assuming you're just ganking newbs undocking for the lulz) have a brief respite before they can expect to see you again. That, and rapidly diminishing security status, is the intended mechanic to stop people with deep wallets just being an ass for the sake of it and ganking everything they see.
I don't see how it's lazy programming to be honest, CONCORD as it exists currently and the associated penalities from invoking them (GCC, sec status loss, needing to repurchase and refit ship, etc) is pretty elegant when you think about it.
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