Varopriest
White Wolves Syndicate
Kingdom of Redemption
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Posted - 2008.04.07 23:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Red Dutchess
Again, this doesn't solve the problem but it will sure make you feel better. Just remember;
1. It's not as bad as it first appears
2. You can always shoot the farmers
3. ISK buying people have very limited life spans
Just my random thoughts on the subject
While I agree with some of your arguments, I think that Macro's cause problems that do effect game play for everyone. It's a pain, and I wish more could be done about it.
My last thought on the subject:
What if CCP allowed players to challenge any mining barge in a roid belt. Give the challenged player 15 mins to respond, but if they didn't, flag them as if they had stolen from the challenging player. Allow the player 15 mins to eliminate the barge. Limit the challenges to 1 per hour per ship, (if a barge is challenged it cannot be challenged again for 1 hour), and dump all the challenge information into a database file. This would short term fix the problem by allowing players to eliminate some macro miners until the software caught up. By that time, even if the macro auto responded to the challenge, if the data is dumped to a database, CCP would have all the information it would need to identify the macros.
For example, you fly around a roid belt ratting, you find three barges with almost identical names. You then issue the challenge on the barges, and Concord issues a message to the barges expecting a reply. Even if the macro is set to auto-reply, CCP would have in its possesion the fact that those three ships were challenged 23 times a day for 7 days. (I don't care how much you power play, can't be done) It would also have the response time that it took for each challenge to be acknowledge. If all the challenges were ack'd within milliseconds of each other, it should set a pretty big flag for the GM's. Dump the database once a week, look at the individuals with the most challenges, and you will probably find macros.
Think about the other aspects this would allow. I take a barge into a field, and have several buddies in cloaked ships just hanging around. Wait for a challenge, ignore the challenge, sit back and watch the fireworks when I'm fired at. Could lead to some interesting battles in high sec. 
Like I said, just a thought from the cheap seats.
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