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Sibyyl
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Posted - 2014.08.27 14:18:00 -
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Woah Jonah.. new avatar 
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.27 14:23:00 -
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Duchess Amarrian wrote:Last night my hauling ship got blown sky high. I was flying a prorator and doing some deliveries. The person that shot me down organised it really well by setting up contracts and sucking in the person accepting the contract. I wont go into detail here. As i was making the delivery and just 1 second from being docked into station my ship got blown sky high. From what ? a minmitar Battleship that was so many km's away. It took 2 people to stop me.
You're a hauler and you don't have a warp to 0 BM pre-scouted on your target station?
The BM creation takes less than a minute for an alt in a rookie ship.
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.28 01:16:00 -
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Chris Winter wrote:CCP Falcon wrote:If you want your haulage to be safer, bring the guns. The problem is, with the way ganking works, bringing guns doesn't make your hauling any safer.
You mean packing a sidearm in the industrial's gun locker?
Simplifying player vs. player mechanics to "I brought gun.. I can't die" may be your initial mistake.
Hauler defense is a bit more complicated than that. And the best defense is not being present at the scene of the crime. Here is an exhaustive checklist by Super spikanator. ~ Please support a yellow jumpsuit for me (and everyone else). Thank you! ~ |

Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.28 02:58:00 -
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I think he might be saying they are higher price since the Skiff is the only viable Exhumer. Higher demand = higher price?
Looks like price jumped 50M ISK (33%) since April.
Angeal, if you see a product earning 50M more a pop in the market, why don't you manufacture and sell them?
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.28 03:07:00 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:You're probably right, I was distracted by a target in-game. 
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.28 05:28:00 -
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Sentient Blade wrote:
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.
So these gankers are willing to kibosh their sec status for a gank, but your "guns" are going to wait to shoot until the gankers go criminal (and have unloaded their alpha)?
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.
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.30 21:49:00 -
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Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
Would you spend all your play time escorting someone day after day so you can ECM boost him when he needs it, maybe once in six months?
If the answer is "yes", CCP should hire you, you're the kind of sucker they're looking for when they ask players to bring friends to each and every non-PvP activity.
Hi Indah, not sure about your overall views but I'm responding just to your post here.
What you are describing is a known limitation to the amount of fun you can have as an escort, or a gank sabotager (note my clever use of avoiding a tired buzz word).
However, if there is the occasional shipment where the cargo is absurdly valuable, I think it makes sense to have a friend along to help you. I think webbing or scouting is a better investment than ECM or Logi.. but there are many strategies.
Also, "maybe once in six months" is an acceptable fail rate as a player in an MMO isn't it? We should all be so lucky to die ingloriously just twice a year.. ~ Please support a yellow jumpsuit for me (and everyone else). Thank you! ~ |

Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.31 01:32:00 -
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Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
One of my pet concepts is that players should be allowed to use NPC for tasks whose opportunity cost is too high for a human player. Say, bringing NPC anti-gank right when you need it, for a price that compensates the loss inflicted on gankers. Would you spend a 500 millon one-shot NPC anti-gank to laugh at a flight of ganknados? Would you gank if you knew that X is known for using NPC anti-ganks? (These are rhetorical questions, btw)
Hi Indah,
Maybe you've quit this thread already.. lol. I don't blame you in the slightest.
I believe we should consider all the implications of your suggestion.
- If you can hire a 500m NPC, can't the gankers do the same? A gankfleet already has a CONCORD deterrent for anyone who may want to preemptively attack them. Now they have a protector. Is this wise?
- How effective should these guys be? How can they possibly *prevent* a fleet of high alpha/high DPS boats from killing you? There is no unit in the game that can currently do that (prevent.. not punish an entire gank squad)
- Are people going to start bringing these into lowsec/nullsec roams?
- Aren't you just describing a very powerful Drone? Aren't the Golems a bit on the border of being overpowered? Do you think we should have more powerful Drones than Golems?
- Wouldn't these NPCs be like Drones except you don't have to skill up in anything for them?
- Do you think a particularly rich Alliance or Corp could afford more of these NPCs than a lone freighter pilot? Do you know how much money CODE. is sitting on top of? How many of these NPCs could be afforded by 400b ISK?
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Sibyyl
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.31 01:41:00 -
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Veers Belvar wrote: What does not make sense, and is clearly an exploit, and is wholly inconsistent with CONCORD being a police force, is the way gankers, and specifically CODE, use bumping ships to prevent gank targets from warping, and therefore allow the EXACT SAME gankers to target the EXACT SAME ship every 15 minutes, without CONCORD dealing with the bumpers. What police force, upon foiling an attempted murder, and hauling the attempted murderers off to jail, would then, at the scene of the crime, allow friends of the criminals to hold down the victim for the next 15 minutes, so that the criminals, now released from jail, could come and finish the job? What police force, upon foiling an attempted car theft, and hauling the perpetrators to jail, would allow friends of the criminals, to, at the crime scene, prevent the car from leaving, so exactly 15 minutes later the EXACT SAME criminals could come and steal the EXACT SAME car? How is this even conceivably reflective of the way a police force would respond? Please take action so that bumpers cant not unlawfully entrap (a crime in every jurisdiction!) gank targets between gank attempts (an action that is 100% equivalent to warp scrambling, and hence a criminal act).
There are many no win situations in the game. Being caught in a bubble without the ability to burn out or tank the gate camp is a no win situation. Being caught without a WTZ at a station like Jita 4-4 is a no win situation.
The point is, no one forced that Orca to be in that no win situation. They could have scouted the system, they could have used a webber alt, they could have used a different ship, a different route (maybe through WH).. there are in fact a long list of remedies (which I believe I have previously linked, but here it is again).
Why should the mechanics change for someone who has deliberately placed themselves in a no win situation?
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