*removes my super-sekrit GM costume*

Ahem, your claims that GMs and CCP staff favour your immediate enemy are naught but typical amarr whining and tinfoil hattery.

Here's a string of fairy lights, if you look at them right and take blurry photos you can pretend it's alien spaceships come to abduct you and take you to the CIA/NWO moonbase again.

Chop chop.

Get back in your bomber and do some more missions.

So, I abandoned a few hundred drones around a gate to prevent the stabbed cloaky ships passing through from......passing through.

I've done this previously, after having created a petition asking if it was against the rules. The GM gave me the green light.

I've seen various pirate organizations do it on many occasions. But, apparently when a member of the minmatar militia petitions it, a GM shows up 5 minutes later, deletes the drones and gives you a warning involving potentially being permabanned.

Fair warning.

Last I heard this is one of those situations that entirely depends on what GM you get. Some will say it's fine as long as it does not cause lag, others will consider it wrong and give you **** for it.

Last I heard this is one of those situations that entirely depends on what GM you get. Some will say it's fine as long as it does not cause lag, others will consider it wrong and give you **** for it.

Hang on, i'm just going to ask my GM buddies to clear your exploit cloud first.

Exploit? You mean, preventing a ship from cloaking because of game mechanics?

*removes my super-sekrit GM costume*

Here's a string of fairy lights, if you look at them right and take blurry photos you can pretend it's alien spaceships come to abduct you and take you to the CIA/NWO moonbase again.

Chop chop.

So, I abandoned a few hundred drones around a gate to prevent the stabbed cloaky ships passing through from......passing through.

I've done this previously, after having created a petition asking if it was against the rules. The GM gave me the green light.

I've seen various pirate organizations do it on many occasions. But, apparently when a member of the minmatar militia petitions it, a GM shows up 5 minutes later, deletes the drones and gives you a warning involving potentially being permabanned.

Fair warning.

I use this tactic frequently. Instead of drones or cans, I use corpses.

I jump into my target system with an alt with a viator filled with corpses. I ordit the gate at 12km and drop corpse after corpse, changing orbits every couple minutes.

It works...and most player who dont have biomass added to overview never know what hit them.

Also, corpses dont despawn after 2 hrs, so the camping can last all day! and unlike cans, there is no wait time between deployments.

youre welcome.

Much better off doing this with scanner probes, no 2m delay between each jet.

Setting out drones and cans and stuff to decloak people is 100% legit!!! It is not an exploit...

The exploit is putting out too many drones/cans, such that the grid-loading procedure is lagged. You are NOT allowed to purposely create lag so you can get a kill. Another example of a lag-inducing exploit this is convo bombing...



^^ This is what I recommend..... Drones and cans have an acutal image to load... which is why putting 1000 drones on a gate can result in exploit-level lag when loading system. Probes do NOT have such a graphic intensive representation. Additionally, you can deploy 7-8 of them at once (depending on your skill), with repeated deployments simply requiring multiple jumps through the gate. They are cheap, easy to deploy, expire in 1 hour, can easily be recalled (reconnect, recall, reconnect, recall... rinse repeat until they are all recalled), and thoroughly mess up people's dscan when they have probes added to the overview!

I use this tactic frequently. Instead of drones or cans, I use corpses.

I jump into my target system with an alt with a viator filled with corpses. I ordit the gate at 12km and drop corpse after corpse, changing orbits every couple minutes.

It works...and most player who dont have biomass added to overview never know what hit them.

Also, corpses dont despawn after 2 hrs, so the camping can last all day! and unlike cans, there is no wait time between deployments.

youre welcome.

1. As you so rightly pointed out, every member of the GM team is a minmatar sympathiser so it's only an exploit when YOU do it.

In fact I plan to do exactly the same thing to you and I'll get away with it as well MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

2. Anything that might cause lag is an exploit. Dropping hundreds of drones counts as this, the first GM that told you otherwise is wrong.