Elvis Preslie
NRDS Securities
Apocalypse Now.
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Posted - 2013.05.12 22:54:00 -
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This is kinda terrible; the new criminal system and immediate dropping to negative security, after one ghank, was suppose to help give an advantage to defending yourself, through thwarting ghanks.
The entire point of military in the real world is not to command and conquer anymore; it is to command and retain. As I've said it over and over, industrial ships should be easier to stay alive against one or two offending ships, while not bubbled, versus one offending ship against another offender. I'm not talking resists but able, skilled tactics to evade once you're tackled.
Seriously, the jump freighters, rorqual, and orca should have a -2 warp scramble strength, stock, and regular freighters should have a -4 or -6 at most.
The other industrial, subcap ships should have lower signatures, all the while having various electronic counter-measure bonuses, like to make ecm burst reach 15km or more but run out of cap, using the ecm burst, at the exact same time it takes for that ship to align to warp, the pilot having max skills for agility. This would make the ship's ability to evade, once tackled, be completely on skill and not luck. If you screw up the align or get bumped enough to make the align take longer, the offending ships will have you locked again before you can finish aligning.
As it is now, the game Is almost pointless; everyone in an industrial ship is being FORCED into combat, making them rage quit, and the people that took them out are being made think they accomplished something great when it was all about being at the right place at the right time.
Once someone has been tackled, the offender should be required skills to KEEP them tackled; not just web them and sit still until the ship is popped. All the while that freighter is aligning after its been discovered by a WT, the offender should be gathering up more tacklers to try to overcome the -6 warp scram strength of the regular freighter.
"Wahh, I want to be able to catch every freighter I come across with one scrambler or disruptor" Fine. we'll just stay as is and everyone will keep their freighters docked during war, instead of more people chancing it with the new -6 scram strength. The more people that feel comfortable flying their freighters during war, the better it is for the people trying to ghank them with their minds out of the box.
The reason ccp has the system the way it is now is because of kids that want everything handed to them on a silver spoon. |