Demeter Corinth
Basgerin Pirate
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Posted - 2014.09.28 21:39:00 -
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CCP,
This decision you made to permaban Aglon is based on flawed logic. What you deem as an exploit is in fact a spatial mechanic that your game allows for. Your coding/programming allows for ships to be 'bumped' which extend past the safety of a POS shield. If a pilot doesn't want to be bumped, all he/she has to do is 'not' exit the POS shield. Pretty straight forward.
Your ban hammer is misplaced and is a terrible precedent to set for the game at large.
I am not a political animal, I don't hang around the forums. This is by choice. So in the two years I have played this game, if I do not know something is an exploit, would you ban me if I did it? If all I did was bump a ship that is bumpable because your coding is flawed? Effectively that's what you have done. You have banned someone for doing something the game allows by its nature. If you don't want people bumping ships outside of a POS shield, then put code into the game that prevents it.
Instead, you made Aglon your programmers' scapegoat. Rather than have your own staff held accountable to fix the real issue, you blame the players for doing what the game allows in its current state.
You have also changed the face of POS warfare with this decision. People will be afraid to bump ships that 'are' lockable, which IS a legal mechanic per your recent statements, because maybe at the instant the bump occurs, the ship is now far enough back inside the shield that it is no longer lockable. Is that ban worthy?
What if enterprising corps put a fleet of capitals on the POS edge, half lockable, half not, but able to pop out on a moment's notice. If you bump the lockable ones, the unlockable ones get bumped too. Is that ban worthy?
Rather than have your players' creativity stymied, fix your frigging code. Then no one (not you, not the players) has to worry about it. And for goodness sake, unban Aglon. He should not be held accountable because of the game's inherent programming flaws. If you want to reimburse the Titan, sure whatevs. But the permaban is unreasonable, not warranted, and masks the real underlying issue.
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