Merdaneth
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.28 09:46:00 -
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Tactical Retreat and the Blob
With the new mechanic in place tactical retreat requires you to shake of any points, either due to destruction of scrambling ships, jamming, neutings, sensor dampening or getting out of scramble range. Today's tactical retreat merely requires you to have lots of EHP. I don't think Carriers, Dreads and Battleships were designed and meant to be ships good at performing tactical retreats. New tactical retreats may require you think and act, rather than to wait for a timer and spam the dock button.
Also, the dock button isn't a tactical retreat, it is a strategic retreat. There are no counters to it, you cannot be chased and cornered.
The current docking mechanics favor escalation of numbers, since as soon as larger ships are involved, you know that the hostile will have enough time to dock if the fight doesn't go his way unless you bring on an extreme blob very fast.
At least, this is what I tell my pilots when I'm FC and someone is playing docking games: 'Unless we can bring at least 20 gank battleships, don't bother engaging his Abaddon, he will just dock if getting in over his head'. I need 20 to 1 odds to kill a docking gamer. If anything, docking games promote blobbing.
And you know what, if a docking gamer isn't able to dock and is going down, you know what most pilots that are taking it down will do? Call in their friends? Of course not, most pilots don't want extra ppl on their killmail when they could have taken down the docking gamer themselves.
The only odd situation is where neither ship (at a docking game) is able to kill each other or escape. Then again, if you, as a docking gamer attack a ship that you can't kill *and* cannot escape from, *and* you cannot call in your own blob before they call in theirs, then you deserve to die.
If you are concerned about hostiles calling in backup (through logon traps or not) just think that you can do exactly the same, and your docking games ship will simply be a bait ship.
The new mechanic should not apply to stargates, just at stations, after all, a superior attacker (aka blob) already has options to try and catch a de-agressing ship at a stargate.
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