BirdStrike
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.11.05 12:06:15 -
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Elite Dangerous has some pretty cool mechanics for piracy that CCP should look at
Firstly you have the option of target propulsion - you could make this chance based so you have a percentage chance to damage the engines or warp drive or simply damage the hull.
Second was a cargo hold grappling hook / limpet mine, if you successfully hit it then it blows the cargo hold it starts to spill cargo into space which can be scooped. If you destroy the ship then it destroys the cargo with it.
If CCP introduced mechanics like this, with a higher concord response time for an attack vs ship destroyed, with counters that logis can try and rep the propulsion / cargo bay then it would generate a lot more valud piracy content without resorting to things like bumping and hyper dunking.
As things stand it is broken that participents in a heist (bumpers) don't get suspect flagged - lets be fair, demanding immunity from consequences is exactly what carebears do so its a bit rich to suggest freighter jacking should be risk free.
I'd like to see high-sec piracy become a legitimate enabled mechanic, but it needs to be balanced to give victims an option to use military escorts and fight back.
As for the real bear in the room - AFK hauling and mining, the fux is simple - make it uneconomicsl.
For afk autopilot haulers - change the gate warp point to at least 100-150k from gate, if they have to slowcosch for 1 hour between jumps then it won't incentivise afk hauling, i think that is fair - ccp has no problems making supercap pilots waste 5 days of game time with jump fatigue so why should afk players get a easy ride.
For afk miners - introduce mechanics that require miners to actively mine that can't be botted. Moving asteroid fields, lasers that break randomy and need nanite reps, gas pocket explosions that need reps against, percentage of junk rock you mine that you have to purge from your hold - lots of random events that make afk botting imposdible.
Spending an hour bumping a freighter us not content, instead of clinging to a broken dynamic we need to get CCP to recognise piracy in highsec is a good content generator and introduce sone decent options that make it both viable for career criminals but with counters to give well prepped victims options |