DJentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
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Posted - 2014.08.17 15:04:00 -
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Faeana wrote:Locust swarms, are the players who multibox ice anomalies in hi-sec with 10-20 accounts or more. Usually they contain a large number of Procurers or Skiffs, a Freighter, and an Orca. These players can make billions daily for just a few hours of play in hi-sec and they do it virtually risk free. That's because Procurers and Skiffs are too strong against gankers, they don't have to worry about losing ships. Even if they did occasionally lose one, it's nothing to the amount of isk they are earning. It also can't be much fun for the other players when many anomalies has one or two of these greedy players around.
Does anyone have a solution to this? I only have two suggestions, one would be to let the gankers sort it out. The ice fields are full of procurers and skiffs, I don't know what percentage they are but I would guess there is 85% procurers/skiffs, 10% rets/macks and 5% hulks/covetors across the ice fields in hi-sec on average. If that's the case, the solution would be to nerf the Skiff and Procurer a bit. It's far too strong, if determined gankers could target this type of player that could be the answer.
The other idea would be to stop isboxer, but I think that alone may not solve this problem. I like the first idea better.
It's a tough issue.
On one hand - the solo player who choose to fly a procurer or skiff in order to enjoy the amazing defensive potential of these ships in a "hostile" area is just following game mechanics.
On the other hand - I don't think CCP really considered the insanity that we all see from one player with 20+ accounts running ISboxer + Orca boosts + a freighter has actually done to EVE.
Since CCP has determined that running two dozen accounts via ISboxer is not in any way in violation of the rules against use of macros to provide advantage over other players, perhaps the solution is a change to high-sec itself? Perhaps making changes to the way mining works in the first place is in order? As it stands - if your goal as someone with a dozen or more accounts is to simply print ISK, there is no point in leaving high-sec whatsoever - after all, once you move your bot-fleet (Errr, ISboxed fleet, ISboxing is not at all macroing or botting!) to any area outside of high-sec, the risk gets a lot more extreme while the reward stays mostly the same.
Final point: CCP has decided macroing as many accounts as you want using ISboxer is not macroing, and macroing as many accounts as you want for advantage over other players is totally cool (wait, I mean ISboxing! It's not macroing/botting!) That's just established game mechanics. The only change that will fix this is a change to to the Risk vs. Reward formula that exist in areas of space that are determined to be "high-sec". The amazing tank of the procurer and skiff suddenly does not matter nearly as much when CONCORD / FacPol response is no longer a factor :) |