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Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2014.04.09 21:38:00 -
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Captain StringfellowHawk wrote:Raise the tank on them and buff there drone bonuses.
Remember this is a game of supposed decisions and trade-offs.
I'd have no issue with the procurer/skiff actually being able to defend itself for real, so long as it lost some of its insane tank in exchange. This would promote actual interaction and reward attentiveness rather than current reliance on an unbreakable tank before omnipotent CONCORD arrives.
The best tool for survivability in this game is awareness. You appear to want something that leaves you functionally immune to the choices of other players while maintaining no awareness, which, is part of the reason miners draw such negative attention to themselves in the first place. |
Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2014.04.10 18:02:00 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:No level of fittings on a barge or exhumer will stop a determined gank, they will just bring x more dessies to apply dps in time. The barges only hope would be if the fittings allowed a better set of escape assisting modules to be fitted. The only drivers to stop ganks is the cost of the dessies versus the value of the kill. Making more expensive barges/exhumers will simply make them more tempting targets with the same nil chance of survival against competent gankers (though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
Exactly - nor should they; there should never be a time when you are immune to other players.
You have intel channels, you have local, you have any number of tools which will do far more than any 'escape' module. You have the social option of getting in touch with your local ganking menace and buying them off or joining forces. The existing mechanics already give a virtual cornucopia of options, which the player should exploit to succeed, and not rely on the ship to compensate for poor choices.
In all practicality, the current iteration, and the proposed iteration of procurer/skiff does is more than a little compensatory - how many of these things -really- go down? One for every 50 of the other classes? One of every 100? The practical immunity of them to ganks will go far to ensure mineral prices stay low. |
Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2014.04.11 02:51:00 -
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DetKhord Saisio wrote:The yield needs to be enough to pay for a replacement Hulk in an hour or two...
Asking for 200m/hr solo mining in hi-sec is dubious at best. You really think that would be a good thing? PLEX prices would skyrocket! Losing your barge is 99% preventable and takes a fair bit of negligence, you shouldn't expect to have it replaced so easily. The entire point of the hulk is for fleet mining in safety - if you want to solo mine, use one of the other options. |
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