Ayn Rand
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Posted - 2003.07.26 17:00:00 -
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Edited by: Ayn Rand on 26/07/2003 17:03:08
Today, Taggart miners were attacked in empire space. Battleships were sent to engage and an exploit was used to try destroy the battleships. None were lost, and the details will be listed below. I advise you all to watch out for this tactic until it is fixed by CCP.
Exploit summary: Draining capacitor should be seen as a hostile act in Empire space by Concord.
TaggartÆs enemies have created a front corp, called "Going Limp", as they are obviously too spineless to attempt this gutless tactic with their real corporation. It is a one-man corp led by Femme Fatale, who flies a Maller.
Femme Fatale uses the services of his partner ôShintaiö in Coretech, another spineless corp using this exploit. Shintai flies a Megathron.
Now let me back up for a moment here. Because of game design, we can only fire on corps that we are at war with. We are not at war with Coretech, nor can we declare war on them because of a bug that remains unfixed (we declared 3 wars several months ago, all of which have been resolved, but all of which still remain active in the game interface).
Here is what happened:
1)We sent a battleship in to engage Femme Fatale outside of Amsen station (Caldari starting station 1.0 security zone).
2)Femme Fatale docked
3)Shintai come over in his Megathron battleship and drained the cap of the Taggart Apocalypse battleship
4)Femme Fatale undocked and opened fire on the Taggart battleship.
5)Taggart battleship unable to respond offensively because it had no cap and could not warp away.
Taggart did not lose the battleship, btw, because he managed to warp away when got a little blip of cap between drainings.
Now, the problem is ShintaiÆs capacitor draining was not seen as a hostile act by Concord. We cannot fire on Shintai because we are not at war with them, and Concord would come in and destroy our ship.
Capacitor draining is obviously a hostile act, and it ties our hands when fighting in the Empire, effectively making Concord the ally of the attacker.
So, as can be seen, this is truly a gutless tactic. A more manly and mature way to carry out a war is to come after our mining crews in non-secure space, where our miners are protected.
Ayn Rand, Taggart Transdimensional
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