Wait really? So baiting Concorde into an ice belt is against the EULA? Huh, if so I might have to report a number of ice miners in my area.

From my understanding yes. CONCORD is meant to be a presence of retribution and prevention, not protection. From what I understand that it is against game mechanics to have a throwaway alt 'attack' causing CONCORD to spawn that can no be pulled away. Hence acting as an NPC police force. Again this is from my understanding of previous posts about this circumstance, but I am no expert regarding this. (Unless CCP will allow me to be one! Lulz)

From my understanding of game mechanics, the best defense against a suicide gank in progress of a sufficiently large target (Freighter, Orca, etc.) isn't DPS or EWar, it's remote reps. It counteracts the damage being applied immediately, it benefits from the target's resists instead of being penalized by them, and can be applied sooner because not only are their targets much larger (and easier to lock), friendly logis can hav their target locked and remote reps running before the gankers even land on-grid. This assumes that the gankers even bother in the face of strong logistic support.

According to scuttlebutt Loyalonon has quit CODE.

So Loyal has quit CODE then? I would expect the rest of CODE to do so likewise. Each CODE member will become part of a new corporation where the fledgling corp or alliance will engage in ganking across a much wider area within the Universe. Why would this tactic work? Because CODE was humiliated in the Tournament, yes but now they have even more opportunity to be taken in by Fan Boy Corporations that like CODE. Once the Fan Boys take in the CODE dissidents I would expect that each CODE dissident would Awox the alliance and take with them those most loyal to CODE's cause and then rejoin into a much larger and more deadly CODE. Alliance.

According to scuttlebutt Loyalonon has quit CODE.

So Loyal has quit CODE then? I would expect the rest of CODE to do so likewise. Each CODE member will become part of a new corporation where the fledgling corp or alliance will engage in ganking across a much wider area within the Universe. Why would this tactic work? Because CODE was humiliated in the Tournament, yes but now they have even more opportunity to be taken in by Fan Boy Corporations that like CODE. Once the Fan Boys take in the CODE dissidents I would expect that each CODE dissident would Awox the alliance and take with them those most loyal to CODE's cause and then rejoin into a much larger and more deadly CODE. Alliance.

According to scuttlebutt Loyalonon has quit CODE.

So Loyal has quit CODE then? I would expect the rest of CODE to do so likewise. Each CODE member will become part of a new corporation where the fledgling corp or alliance will engage in ganking across a much wider area within the Universe. Why would this tactic work? Because CODE was humiliated in the Tournament, yes but now they have even more opportunity to be taken in by Fan Boy Corporations that like CODE. Once the Fan Boys take in the CODE dissidents I would expect that each CODE dissident would Awox the alliance and take with them those most loyal to CODE's cause and then rejoin into a much larger and more deadly CODE. Alliance.

Confirming that Loyalanon, myself, and every other member of the CODE. alliance has either quit or is in the process of quitting due to not beable to handle DrysonBennington's sadness about how hard we won in the Alliance Tournment.

Please, tell us more. Scissor me timbers!

Dryson, can I join your corp since I appear to be without one currently?

Setting aside the issue of getting in on killmails easy, it seems, on the surface, that logi would be the weakest tactic. (Again, "on the surface". I know very little about logi).

DPS: objective is to blow them up before they kill the target.
EWAR: keep them from doing any damage at all, or minimizing their damge before Concord pops them.
Logi: give the target ship more EHP.

Logi doesn't appear, at first look, like it would be able to counter the amount of incoming dps that the Catalysts put out. They are doing something like 400dps each. A T1 medium remote armor repper does, at base numbers, something like 32hp repaired per second.
Even if you've got enough cap to constantly run 3 of those on a cruiser, you're not even negating the dps of just one Catalyst.

This doesn't mean that logi is a bad way to solve the issue, but it does show how the numbers may lead people to believe it's an ineffective method as opposed to EWAR or just raw DPS against the aggressors.

What I'd like to know is what I'm missing here in regards to logistics, as to how it *can* be made effective in this circumstance.

That said, ECM is probably the best bet. Trying to shoot the Catalysts to death is the worst option in general; they're all going to die in 20 seconds anyways and you don't actually start doing anything to mitigate the incoming damage until one of them is 100% dead.

According to scuttlebutt Loyalonon has quit CODE.

With tools like evewho, scuttlebutt like this can be dispelled in about 10 seconds.

From my understanding yes. CONCORD is meant to be a presence of retribution and prevention, not protection. From what I understand that it is against game mechanics to have a throwaway alt 'attack' causing CONCORD to spawn that can no be pulled away. Hence acting as an NPC police force. Again this is from my understanding of previous posts about this circumstance, but I am no expert regarding this. (Unless CCP will allow me to be one! Lulz)

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Dryson is actually just a troll. He is likely an alt of Loyalanon trying to generate forum content. If this is the truth it is working and is awesome. If it is not then Dryson is surely mad, and not the angry kind.

Edit: typing on phone = fail

Without going into very specific details (though they would be funny) - I can tell you that Dryson is actually serious and not simply a New Order troll trying to generate content.

For a fun example: internal communications from "secret" anti-ganking groups pledging their financial / material support on the sole condition that Dryson is never allowed to FC, lead, or in any way be promoted to any type of leadership role.

For a more fun example: Fun loving EVE players who LOVE to PVP against code and enjoy a "GF" with us, and don't get all weird and personal about spaceship pew pew pew literally begging me on voice comms to just "Please, please, figure out a way to recruit Dryson and get him to leave our groups - we are worried he has literally lost his mind and his forum posts sure do not help"

So, yeah, Dryson is that magical combo. Totally serious and totally ineffective with VERY strong opinions and no sense of fun. Never a LOL, never a "GF" in local - just sadness, hurt feelings, rage and clever ideas such as the tech 2 Noctis for "high-sec belt ratting", the mighty "Scissoring Technique", and my personal favorite: the demand that CCP buff freighters right now due to his spaceship lawyer skills :P

Dryson is my favorite Eve player. He makes me really happy.

My day always gets a little brighter the second I see a new post or reply from him anywhere. I always leave with a smile on my face and that wonderful feeling that only comes from enjoying a good bout of laughter! :)

*edit: Really feeling the lack of new ship types created by him posted in Features and Ideas as of late. I hope Dryson knows that simple to the ISD's shutting down his most recent one all of 3 mins after posting that many of us are still here, wanting more!

The first time you asked me to mock him for his scissors technique ...
... I seriously thought you meant something completely different ...
... perfectly fitting to MY context ...........

..... btw I'm not stalking you right now!

You would think that CODE. would marginalize its losses by using battleships in order to hit more than one Orca or Freighter at a time which would create more ISK than using Destroyers and Battle cruiser's.

I wonder how much ISK was lost by CODE before they realized using a few battleships would have saved them more ISK.

So you're suggesting that battleships (presumably blaster Megathrons) would be more effective suicide gankers than Catalysts or Brutixes? You are incorrect on many levels sir:

1. Lower scan resolution = longer lock time = less time spent doing DPS.
2. Longer align time = more difficulty in positioning the gank fleet without getting caught by Faction Police NPCs.
3. The extra durability afforded by a battleship hull is wasted when you've got a mountain of CONCORD EWar piled on you. Sure, you live longer, but you aren't applying damage for much of it.
4. Cost. 2-3 gank Catalysts can put out the same DPS as a gank Megathron for a fraction of the cost.
5. Training. A rookie can hop into a gank Catalyst and fit it well in a month or two. Doing the same for a battleship would take considerably longer.
6. Efficiency. I doubt that CODE. gives a rat's behind about killboard efficiency, but they'd probably prefer to not leave more valuable loot/salvage on the field than absolutely necessary.

How exactly are battleships a better choice for CODE.? And how would using them have saved them more ISK? I'm really at a loss here.

Well, if you still got paid your insurance from Concord kills; then his statement would be a good one.