Dragnkat
Winfield Star-Tech
Un.Bound
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Posted - 2013.08.19 16:00:00 -
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Regarding the upcoming planned caldari ice interdiction planned by CFC
http://themittani.com/news/cfc-announces-caldari-ice-interdiction
I'd like to highlight the final paragraph as why you need to seriously look into your concord mechanics.
A lot of the new guys will have no idea that highsec is even a viably fun place. The truth is that it's one of the most entertaining parts of EVE if you're a ganker. Case in point, this kill had NC. corps at each others' throats for a good while. The tears you gather are simply wonderful. Most interestingly, judicious use of instawarps and warpins means you can continue ganking well past -5 security status and on down through -10.
Can someone explain to be how this isn't abusing loopholes in EVE mechanics to get around security status and not an outright exploit?
I watched this activity first hand in Ogoten a few weeks back, not once but SEVEN times a fleet of suicide gankers all below -5 were able to insta warp cata fleets from the station, suicide gank a target of choice, and pull it off before concord could get there.
Which makes me ask what is the bloody point of even having security status mechanics in the first place if players can exploit (and it is one!) ways around it to continue to act with impunity, and zero consequence for their actions!
This is a broken system, what will it take for CCP to address it.
Let's be clear about one thing, if i'm ganked by someone above -5, who could act without insta concord spawns i'm all for that, it's part of the actual game. I faced the consequences for not paying attention or just bad luck.
CFC ganking the caldari ice fields? I'll be the first to say "Welcome to EVE." right until they hit the -5 line, then you've crossed the line from actual gameplay into rulebreaking.
Consequences should be a two way street, why am I facing the loss of a ship but the criminal continues to be able to act in high sec, dock, access gates, get a new ship, and continue to gank with no consequences on his end?
The fix is a bloody simple one too, you want people to be pirates then make them actual pirates. Why the heck would a high sec station let someone at -10 even dock? Limit them to low sec stations for ships and supplies if they want to go that route, make them face some real consequences for those actions instead the laughable system we have now.
CCP / CSM it's time to do something about this, you do not have PVP in EVE. Not the kind you hope for anyway aside from the occasional large battle recently, what you have is a game that may as well be called "ganker online" as it seems like everything you do (ore site changes, why don't you just put an even bigger bullseye on those of us that wanted to venture into low sec with some protection and now don't even have that!) seems to favor a playstyle that just rewards the lowest common denominator of childish pvp ganker. Or just reduces low sec to nothing but gate camps, and the rule of "He with the most smartbombs and logi ships to tank the gate guns wins." All the while this unfairly punishes those of us who try to play a game by the rules. You don't have a sandbox, you have a schoolyard playground where the biggest bully is able to do whatever he wants (see again the upcoming ice intervention and CFC admitting they can break the rules to keep it going) And those in charge seem all to happy to turn a blind eye to it, after all negative press is still press right?
And frankly trying to work around it is getting pretty old, |