Victor Morson
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Posted - 2006.02.25 20:28:00 -
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As I write this, I am in my Velator heading out to pick up a new ship to replace the one Concord obliterated earlier. Here is what happened, and why I am writing this outright plea to the developers: Please, for the love of all things holy and good in the world, don't make Armor / Shield Bots break the Concord warning!
You see, I was out on a level 3 mission with my friend, running 5 Shield Repair Bots to buff out his battleship so he could tank for us. It was all going very nicely as it had the day before, but to operate a repair drone of any type, you must:
1) Target lock your ally
2) Order the repair drones to "Engage" them
3) Ignore the Concord warning and proceed in the action.
Now, you can lock another target after, of course, and tell your guns or other drones to go after that. But you must always leave your friend locked. Furthermore once you ignore that Concord warning just once, it'll never come up again. So I think you can see where this is going..
I had a small ship locked up. I was turning on my guns. It blew up, and for the mereist of miliseconds, I had the gun engaged - at my friend. I didn't even need to glance up to mutter words I cannot say here over coms before Concord showed up. I immediately broke and warped out, hoping to evade them for my mistake, but alas - there is no way I could see to avoid their swift avenging hand and they were waiting for me at my random planetary destination. A moment later, I was in a pod and the mission was effectively over.
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That said, there's a million fixes for this! Allow a player to forgive another player; allow people in gangs to flag "duel OK" so in case it happens, it won't bring down Concord's wrath; or perhaps even better, make repair drones not trigger the warning in the first place! While it's still abit akward for an interface, at least I'll get a warning if I accidently start to fire.
I'm just very disappointed that my career path leaves me in a situation where one accidental click is my automatic execution in patrol'ed space, a security hit in lowsec, and hell, even an accidental shooting of my buddy in nospec and think it's a serious issue as it is far from easy to manage; I won't even think if I was trying to split targets past two or three. Yikes!
So again, devs - if I haven't missed something obvious that is - please make the logistic drones an exception to the rule! (I always wondered why more people didn't use them..)
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