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Posted - 2014.08.16 15:59:00 -
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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.
The key word there is "determined". If "determined" gankers spy a convoy, it doesn't matter whether it's one skiff or 20 with a supporting defense gang. There is a way to smash it. Saying "Nerf the skiffs!" is only going to make it more convenient to the pirate PCs who can't get enough of their company online, or buy as many accounts by their selves, and will only make it more difficult in turn then to the legit miners who don't have 20 accounts.
If you're absolutely convinced they're alts, send a message to CODE. Hell, even if they're not all alts, forwarding the location of competition to hostile third party elements is a tried and true method of warfare, economic and otherwise. Or, if your corp has a military wing, maybe they can all fit up some cheap cruisers/frigates and make the attack themselves, with you and some buddies waiting to scoop up the wreckage.
In short, working as intended.
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