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Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.08.28 03:33:00 -
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CCP Falcon wrote:If you want your haulage to be safer, bring the guns. If you don't have any guns, sacrifice some of your profit margin and hire someone who has them to escort you.
Except it's high sec, and either the gankers warp on top of you and alpha you before you can get a lock on them, or they're still of a security status where you can't shoot them until they open fire, at which point they alpha you anyway.
Highsec is broken. |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.08.28 05:17:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Except for the part where the OP had a cloaking device and clearly failed to use it.
Or the part where, had they had an escort and thereby by definition had a scout, they wouldn't have jumped into a gate with several tornados hanging around.
It's a valid point, but nothing at all to do with my counterpoint to Falcon saying that people should bring guns. |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.08.28 05:56:00 -
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Sibyyl wrote:[quote=Sentient Blade]You can shoot anyone you want, anytime you want. Your choice to fear the consequences is the cause of your failure, not Mr. Falcon's suggestion.
Because sitting in a station for 15 minutes with GCC unable to undock anything capable of defending something else, just because you fired one salvo to protect yourself is amazing gameplay <3 |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.08.29 01:18:00 -
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Risk vs Reward doesn't really apply to gankers ol boy. It's cost vs reward, a straight equation weighted massively towards reward. Risk implies a probability of something happening, which is increased if you're not paying attention. A hauler takes risks. A ganker knows he or she is going to lose their ship, exactly how much it will cost, and a fair approximation of what will drop and be recoverable.
Maybe the loot fairy isn't great one time, well the law of averages says that you're going to turn a huge profit if you do it enough times. |
Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.08.29 10:28:00 -
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CCP Falcon wrote:I say fair play to him if he cuts a profit from someone who's half-assed a ship fitting and AFK hauled across space with a sizeable chunk of ISK in their hold.
I think you mean "Previously fitting-less freighters which get bumped away from gates and sentry guns by previously inconspicuous 100mn MWD plated macharials without ever getting aggression until you get alpha'd"
If people don't bother fitting tank, and AFK their cargo, I'm fine with them dying. What pisses me off is how you can still do everything right and you'll still die, because game mechanics are against you. |
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