Vayn Baxtor wrote:Just a small suggestion to your post;
remove the PL/Nulli stuff and try to keep neutral. While the topic is rather edgy like the afk/cloaking subject, talking directly on
renowned alliances will just attract more unnecessary trolls.
Back to the hotdropping subject. It is so that since you said "instant action", it is exactly what some people want. The crappy part about it is that it is usually way too easy to have a horde of ships suddenly appear.
The "problem" around cynoships and hotdropping is twofold, if not even more-fold.
People like it that way, others don't.
Cyno is essentially one way to get people past bottleneck regions, allowing people to do some action deep in enemy territory - so be the general idea, from point of view.
It happens to be unfortunate though that it is easy to abuse it as a simply way of gank. It is also so that EVE lives off literal raep-ganking and, well, as you can see above my post, d***ery and a$$hatting. :D Unfortunately, this cyno-ganking is where Honorable Pvp or Men of battle act like it is the best thing, although it is just hording up on single targets easily.
There has to be row of changes though if such is to be tackled. For instance, not just being able to bridge trillions of ships; either by introducing specific cyno ships or a different version of cyno all together so that Titan bridging from PoS to PoS is different than this horde vs one. However, this is already asking for a revamp or something to make the actual pvp more interesting and not just "who has more guys".
It's a tricky subject.
Yeah I thought about making it unbiased in that regard but was trying to use an example of regular groups seen doing it. Edited anyways.
Yeah Some people want/need the instant action but I believe that making the cynoship lose its abilty to tackle things we will see far less guys using a solo ship as bait for a massive gank without risking really anything but a cheap ship. Ganks on battleships and caps will likely still happen as the align time is pretty terrible on large ships and the people coming through will have a pile of time to catch things. Also nothing to say that a second ship wont just follow the tackler around and light cynos but really that's a little more obvious than one guy warping gate to gate looking for a fight or a cloaky ship decloaking pointing and cynoing a fleet onto someone.