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Posted - 2015.07.27 14:18:22 -
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BotAspirant wrote:Only ignorants with no idea how this works can say that this is not broken.
That's such an unfortunate view. It's really not that big of a risk to begin with, but webbing most certainly does help.
Sure a bumper could sacrifice a tackling ship, which would have to be sensor boosted and within scram/point range when you decloak.
It's just not a practice used and it's not perfect tactic for them if they wanted to use it because you have control over when you are going to decloak and can be perfectly prepared with your webbing alt/Corpmate/friend beforehand.
This is my webbing alts fit:
http://puu.sh/jeK1R/d6e4f8c6d4.png
In fleet, with interdiction maneuvers running, sensor boosted and webs on before I decloak with my warp.
Less than 2 seconds to lock my Freighter:
http://puu.sh/jeKLu/dcac1be7f9.png
40.6km unheated web and 51km heated (Rapier/Huginn will get 56km web unheated, no links). Even on regional gates my webs are out of range on initial jump through the gate only about 5% of the time and I just maneuver my webs before decloaking in that case.
It's very hard, if you have an effective webbing alt, for a bumping Macharial to bump you before you warp. It's 2 server ticks to lock and 1 more to warp.
As a result, I have no problem jumping through gates where there are Macharials on the other side.
Aside from being prepared, the risk of a hauling contract failing is small to begin with.
Red Frog Freight's annual report for 2014 put them a 0.11% rate of failed contracts. 1 in 1000 contracts, with each contract in highsec being an average of 12 jumps.
In all of 2014, of the 2,786,739 jumps they made in highsec, they only failed on 245 occasions to reach their destination and complete the contract within time.
The risk to haulers is small even before you take measures to protect yourself and being prepared for the worst to happen.
Just in the last few hours I've laid out almost 8 Billion in collateral and taken my Freighter through Uedama for each of those contracts (and back again to Jita on each occasion):
http://puu.sh/jeLtI/276d7052b0.jpg
There have been Macharials sitting off the gates on almost every jump into Uedama I've made today.
I'm no one special and it doesn't take anything really special to make yourself a difficult target.
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