Originally by: C Duggan

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Edited by: C Duggan on 19/11/2006 20:48:34
simmilar thing happened to me and some friends a week or two ago,

we were camping in low sec, 2 bs and a command ship sitting on gate, our scout sees a freighter come to gate and jump.

we engage, scram, web, drones, the works, we get him to around about 1/4 armour before he warps off to a random spot, he'd logged :(

oh well, cowards will be cowards. oh, sorry, no, people will use the games mechanics to their advantage.

so we get a covert to come and probe, shouldnt be a problem, we can easily find and kill him before his agro timer runs out.

and we would then probe down the pod and kill that, we would have ranosmed him, but now we will just kill him, same difference to me, freighter looks nice on the kb

but the word came back from the prober, "i cant find him, hes not on scanner" "you did shoot him, right?"

it took a few seconds for the first of us to realise what happened, the "user of game mechanics" had logged as soon as he saw us, before he had decloaked. this ment that any damage we did was done after he logged, and thus didnt agro him.

dont quite know what to do about that tbh, lucky him we didnt have a gank force that could have killed him before he warped, and i understand that ppl do crash, and that isnt their fault.

imho, everyone should have 20 minute timer untill they vanish in space, but they should warp to a point >12au from any point, so that they can be probed, but it would take several minutes.
people who genuinely CTD, will log back on before they get found, people who decide "im gonna fly my freighter, without a scout, or support, through low sec space, and reap the rewards of the shorter trade route, adn if i get caught, ill just log," will be catchable and killable. much fiarer i feel.

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Originally by: The Knight

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True, in fact...I think it was during the battle of the bulge when we first realized the Germans were using WCS.