Andrymeda
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Posted - 2005.11.10 14:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Sarina Talglit
It seems to me that this "criminal flagging" is a big mistake about to happen.
First of all, why do you have to jet can mine? There is actually no need for it, especially if you are in a group there should be no chance for anyone to steal anything, unless, of course, you are macromining or afk mining and are not there to watch local events. Btw, afk miners can't move stuff to a can, anyways... If you do jet can mining in a miner group you are there to watch the can and can grab your own stuff if someone is closing in for a steal.
It seems to be that jet can miners are just plain lazy, not willing to pop in to a station to unload. Which really does not take more than minutes for a round trip if you even bother to set up any instamarks... A claim that 15 minutes is too long to visit a station and get back to the roid field is just plain silly. I can do it in two minutes with a Barge! Even faster with a mining cruiser. Use those instamarks!
Jet can mining is a choice which includes the risk of losing the ore. Why jet can miners should be especially protected, I cannot comprehend.
But all this does not matter to me. I don't steal ore. Nor do I do jet can mining.
I sure don't mind if my kill loots are protected. But that should be on a timer, say 5-10 minutes after the mission is done or 1-2 hours max in other cases. Otherwise the systems will be full of refused or ignored loot cans. And what that would do to server loads, well, would be interesting to see. Like 10.000 uncollected cans in Oursulaert, for example. Lol.
What bothers me however, is the possibility of killer teams in high security space especially hunting noobs. Spew some jet cans around noob areas and wait till some less aware character comes looking. Then *blammo*. Dead noob. Admit it, some of the more evil characters just plain enjoy killing noobs. Legalizing it could be very bad. Or do you plan on banning regulars from the noob systems altogether?
What about the other option? Nerf the jet cans. Make them the size of the smallest of available cans or the biggest droppable loot items. Have a rat kill drop several small cans. Problem solved as then there would be no need to jet can mine anymore...
We have been listening the whine of the jet canners  for months. Thus the "no whining" order is very, very welcome, indeed. Thank you.
I think you missed the point. Your cans are still subject to thieves. The problem in the past is the victim could not retaliate or the victim would be CONCORDOKEN. Criminal flagging won't deter a determined thief, but now you can do something about it without penalty.
Nothing is taken away, just adding a long missing feature that should have been in the game years ago.
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