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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 01:01:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Eli Apol wrote: My real intent is still to have more ganking
I honestly don't believe you. I honestly don't care. I've backed my points up whilst your own points have looked like a pokemon collector who's moved on to collecting fallacies.
Your latest is a simple strawman, trying to propose I think that the physics is broken rather than my point that the use of bumping without aggression in highsec ganks is broken. Basically trying to misrepresent what I've said so that you can prove me wrong...
Before that, we had a black and white fallacy, assuming that two points are mutually exclusive when they're quite clearly not....
We've had some kind of ad hominem/no true scotsman fallacy in calling me a carebear.
"No true eve player is a carebear!"
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/pdf/FallaciesPoster16x24.pdf
Take your pick on the next one, I'm all ears.
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Daichi Yamato
Xero Security and Technologies
2994
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Posted - 2016.01.27 01:11:42 -
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If bumping is flawed purely on the basis that it is emergent gameplay, then so is ganking. When CCP coded CONCORD response times they did not intend players to try and kill eachother before CONCORD arrived.
As is scamming, corp theft, rolling and collapsing WH's, using stabs in FW plexes, the MWD cloak trick, armour tanking a black bird, pipe bombing etc etc.
By your thinking this is all flawed gameplay?
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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
1711
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Posted - 2016.01.27 01:35:19 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:If bumping is flawed purely on the basis that it is emergent gameplay, then so is ganking. When CCP coded CONCORD response times they did not intend players to try and kill eachother before CONCORD arrived.
As is scamming, corp theft, rolling and collapsing WH's, using stabs in FW plexes, the MWD cloak trick, armour tanking a black bird, pipe bombing etc etc.
By your thinking this is all flawed gameplay?
What I really want to know is why folks think this is a "Gankers Vs. Gankees" matter.
In the abstract, this is really, "Competent and cautious players" Vs. "Improvident lackwits".
I do a lot of industry. Consequently, I move a lot of freight.
My freight does not get ganked. Other people's freight gets ganked, but not mine, because I take precautions to ensure that my freight does not get ganked. This gives me a competitive advantage over the improvident lackwits whose freight does get ganked.
Any idea suggesting it should be any easier to avoid ganks - and it's already quite trivial - is essentially suggesting that the gameplay value of effort and skill should be reduced in favor of making life easier for people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
Why should the scale be tipped a single degree in favor of the perpetual fuckups who refuse to address their own problems through the myriad means available to them?
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 01:36:33 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:If bumping is flawed purely on the basis that it is emergent gameplay, then so is ganking. When CCP coded CONCORD response times they did not intend players to try and kill eachother before CONCORD arrived.
As is scamming, corp theft, rolling and collapsing WH's, using stabs in FW plexes, the MWD cloak trick, armour tanking a black bird, pipe bombing etc etc.
By your thinking this is all flawed gameplay?
Not at all, many emergent behaviours are great and definitively a part of Eve and it's a sign of respect from the devs that they leave us open ended mechanics to play with and adapt without involving themselves too heavily.
That said, there have been prior instances where emergent behaviours have been fixed/tempered once they've got out of hand (POS bowling and hyperdunking to name two off-hand) and so just because something is emergent, does not mean it's necessarily worth keeping in its current state.
Bumping is a great emergent technique in terms of preventing a burn into a POS bubble or back to a gate but in terms of using it as a form of tackling to avoid the aggression flag of using a tackle module it seems like a cheap and gamey exploit to me. The fact CCP have previously looked at changing this in highsec seems to suggest they agree it's a little bit flawed.
but what would I know, I'm just a salvager
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
15922
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Posted - 2016.01.27 01:51:40 -
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Eli Apol wrote: I've backed my points up
No you have not. You've danced around like you were on fire, while ignoring the majority of what anyone says to you.
Quote: Your latest is a simple strawman, trying to propose I think that the physics is broken
You said as much. You claimed that bumping is unintended, when I'm telling you that the way collision detection works in this game is not only intentional but it's not something they can change anyway.
You don't have a leg to stand on, carebear.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:04:37 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:zzzz Whatever mate, it's all here in black and white for people to read themselves.
Oh and I missed out the 'personal incredulity' fallacy from my last post - "I don't believe you" indeed, that matters not a jot as to my argument.
o/
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Daichi Yamato
Xero Security and Technologies
2995
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:06:54 -
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Then you havent defended your argument or backed up your points at all. The sole argument you have given to want to change bumping is that it was not intended gameplay (and that you just dont like it).
If bumping is cheap and gamey, then how isnt the mwd cloak trick? How isnt having a friend web you into warp to avoid a gank cheap and gamey?
Both those mechanics are just as unintended as bumping for tackle, except they take much less effort, much less investment and have a much higher rate of success.
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:26:40 -
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I've pointed out WHY I think it's cheap and gamey:
- The primary counter to DEFEND someone that's (e:already) being bumped is to become criminal yourself and gank them, a complete reversal of how criminality would sensibly work. It also requires arguably more luck/skill to actually gank a fast moving, rapidly aligning machariel..so not only do you have to become a ganker, you have to exceed them in skill at their own game. - It's a way to evade the aggression flags that would ensue if you tackled someone with one of the provided tackling modules...nuff said? They made a way to tackle people with repercussions for it, then people found a way to evade the repercussions.
Sure it's an opinion, one I've backed up. I don't think I ever said it was unintended and that's why it should be gone, I stated why it doesn't really make sense in the gamespace.
Also I already stated I disagree with webbing being as safe as it currently is and the way that it encourages alt play by being more effective than having two separate players (as you can roughly move your webbing alt closer to the freighter before the freighter drops cloak using the freighter screen as a guideline). I also think that a single frigate acting as an escort for a freighter/capital is pretty crap and would prefer to see more meaningful mechanics involved in this kind of escort/defensive gameplay without making it into incredibly boring nullsec freighter escort ops.
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
15922
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:39:45 -
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Eli Apol wrote: - The primary counter to DEFEND someone that's (e:already) being bumped is to become criminal yourself and gank them
Wrong.
That's how you inflict "repercussions" on the ganker.
There are plenty of ways to defend someone who is being bumped and/or ganked. But more importantly, there are numerous strong and effective ways to avoid being bumped or ganked in the first place.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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KickAss Tivianne
Galactic Special Operations Division Silent Infinity
12
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:40:06 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Eli Apol wrote: On the other hand, Eve is supposed to have some element of repercussion for your actions but the repercussions are negligible for the players doing the ganking and non-existent for players doing the bumping and carrying stolen property.
Gankers don't have many repercussions? Because the so called victims refuse to do anything about it. Like any PvP interaction, "consequences" are for the other player to inflict. It doesn't take many Talos to gank a Machariel, especially since the bumping one are absolutely not combat fit. Meanwhile, if anyone pops the freighter's wreck, they have basically ruined the gank post facto. The repercussions are there. But no one bothers to inflict them.
No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. |
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:43:49 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Eli Apol wrote: - The primary counter to DEFEND someone that's (e:already) being bumped is to become criminal yourself and gank them
Wrong. That's how you inflict "repercussions" on the ganker. There are plenty of ways to defend someone who is being bumped and/or ganked. But more importantly, there are numerous strong and effective ways to avoid being bumped or ganked in the first place. It also provides some player enforced repercussions on the bumper (at the expense of losing status and providing killrights to DEFEND someone)...again though, it seems you're getting confused with these ideas of one activity being exclusive to another.
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
15922
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:45:32 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote: No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk.
How dishonest.
It's basically never just one ship, for starters. Secondly, if you can find me a T2 catalyst fit that only costs 2 million isk, then I'd be surprised.
Another thing is that we do have risk, you numbskulls just aren't real players so you don't try and inflict them. Blow up the wreck. Then everything they did is wasted and all they have to show for it is criminal timers.
And even without that, we have to deal with the loot fairy, which is more risk than any PvE activity by itself. Carebears don't have to flip a coin to see if they get any mission rewards. Gankers have that to begin with.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:48:17 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:And even without that, we have to deal with the loot fairy, which is more risk than any PvE activity by itself. Carebears don't have to flip a coin to see if they get any mission rewards. Gankers have that to begin with. PvE'rs aren't aware of RNG based loot drop mechanics?
I think that'll be news to almost everyone that does exploration
And multiplying something by 50% to find out the average loot drop, does not constitute risk.
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
15922
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:50:32 -
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Eli Apol wrote: PvE'rs aren't aware of RNG based loot drop mechanics?
It's absolutely discounted, especially since CCP has nerfed gun mining so much.
The primary rewards for missions are isk and LP, while mining is absolutely consistent.
And your point about exploration does not help your case, since random loot for exploration sites in highsec is one of the things that makes them a wholly unviable income source.
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One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
505
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Posted - 2016.01.27 02:57:09 -
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I never said anything about highsec exploration (although it's more profitable than you seem to think)...I know you like to throw around this term 'carebear' but it seems you have a limited knowledge of what being a 'carebear' pertains to and perhaps this is why you're using it incorrectly:
I know people that 'carebear' in wormholes. Almost everyone in Deklein is 'carebearing' 24/7 in their carriers.
And yet when you say 'carebear' you assume that the term only refers to highsec players? It's like you never get to meet the other kinds.
How cute.
And you think I'm one, even cuter.
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari End of Life
43935
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Posted - 2016.01.27 03:02:21 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first?
No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter.
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KickAss Tivianne
Galactic Special Operations Division Silent Infinity
12
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:07:47 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first? No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter.
Hey hide at safe spots, however sometimes when they do jump though a gate a 1 gets picked off. From undock they go to an insta-undock spot... then jump around, and then they warp to the bumper, or another neutral warp in ship. So the only time is if they do happen to jump though a gate, you migh tbe able to get 1 out of the 25-30 ships. Not really a game changer. And because you don't know their final destination, you would have to watch all the gates. |
baltec1
Bat Country Pandemic Legion
17150
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:21:26 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first? No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter. Hey hide at safe spots, however sometimes when they do jump though a gate a 1 gets picked off. From undock they go to an insta-undock spot... then jump around, and then they warp to the bumper, or another neutral warp in ship. So the only time is if they do happen to jump though a gate, you migh tbe able to get 1 out of the 25-30 ships. Not really a game changer. And because you don't know their final destination, you would have to watch all the gates.
Logic dictates they are going for the bumped ship.
There are so many ways to protect your cargo from gankers to almost make it one sided. Piracy in highsec has been nerfed so hard over the years that it has almost become extinct. Jet can thief's are gone, profitable mining barge ganking is gone, endless nerfs to ganking have resulted in a much less vibrant and exciting highsec. If anything ganking needs to be buffed not nerfed yet more.
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KickAss Tivianne
Galactic Special Operations Division Silent Infinity
12
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:29:09 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote: No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk.
How dishonest. It's basically never just one ship, for starters. Secondly, if you can find me a T2 catalyst fit that only costs 2 million isk, then I'd be surprised. Another thing is that we do have risk, you numbskulls just aren't real players so you don't try and inflict them. Blow up the wreck. Then everything they did is wasted and all they have to show for it is criminal timers. And even without that, we have to deal with the loot fairy, which is more risk than any PvE activity by itself. Carebears don't have to flip a coin to see if they get any mission rewards. Gankers have that to begin with.
Correct, I was talking about A ganker. 25-30 ships I've seen approximately in a fleet. RIght now a Cat in Jita is 1.3 Mill Isk. WIth a T1 fit.... about 2.5 Mill? With a T2 fit 5 ish? About? Even throw in a Talos also... Code with the resources of Goons, I doubt they buy them at Jita, they are probably made which lowers the price.
So a ship has to Drop about 150 Million to break even with 30 T2
Im not sure that is really risk. They scan down the ship, they know what it has. They make the choice to gank. Its not really that difficult to do. ANd yes we do loot pop as well. However if your saw my 2nd point on the post, they are looting just after the gank with their criminal cats. then their neutral Mach or if it was a big cargo hold their own hauler picks it up and gets away with no FY because it was "ejected" from the ganker's ship before he blew up from concord. That's why I proposed that who ever picks up the loot from the wreck from the cats also go FY.
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KickAss Tivianne
Galactic Special Operations Division Silent Infinity
12
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:36:51 -
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baltec1 wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first? No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter. Hey hide at safe spots, however sometimes when they do jump though a gate a 1 gets picked off. From undock they go to an insta-undock spot... then jump around, and then they warp to the bumper, or another neutral warp in ship. So the only time is if they do happen to jump though a gate, you migh tbe able to get 1 out of the 25-30 ships. Not really a game changer. And because you don't know their final destination, you would have to watch all the gates. Logic dictates they are going for the bumped ship. There are so many ways to protect your cargo from gankers to almost make it one sided. Piracy in highsec has been nerfed so hard over the years that it has almost become extinct. Jet can thief's are gone, profitable mining barge ganking is gone, endless nerfs to ganking have resulted in a much less vibrant and exciting highsec. If anything ganking needs to be buffed not nerfed yet more.
Okkkkk.... Logic... Well, Which bumped ship? THey have on in Uedama, One in Madirmilire, and one in Niarja. And maybe the other one you had no idea about because you are spread thin. with the existing potential targets. This is another reason why Gankers get the upper hand as with any attacking force, you get to decide when and which target to attack, everyone else has to scramble to respond.
If they have the resources to bump that many people... more power to them... but don't think they should be able to hold their targets there indefinitely, or with out some additional penalty for the -7 to -10 person once they do gank. |
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baltec1
Bat Country Pandemic Legion
17152
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:51:23 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote:baltec1 wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first? No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter. Hey hide at safe spots, however sometimes when they do jump though a gate a 1 gets picked off. From undock they go to an insta-undock spot... then jump around, and then they warp to the bumper, or another neutral warp in ship. So the only time is if they do happen to jump though a gate, you migh tbe able to get 1 out of the 25-30 ships. Not really a game changer. And because you don't know their final destination, you would have to watch all the gates. Logic dictates they are going for the bumped ship. There are so many ways to protect your cargo from gankers to almost make it one sided. Piracy in highsec has been nerfed so hard over the years that it has almost become extinct. Jet can thief's are gone, profitable mining barge ganking is gone, endless nerfs to ganking have resulted in a much less vibrant and exciting highsec. If anything ganking needs to be buffed not nerfed yet more. Okkkkk.... Logic... Well, Which bumped ship? THey have on in Uedama, One in Madirmilire, and one in Niarja. And maybe the other one you had no idea about because you are spread thin. with the existing potential targets. This is another reason why Gankers get the upper hand as with any attacking force, you get to decide when and which target to attack, everyone else has to scramble to respond. If they have the resources to bump that many people... more power to them... but don't think they should be able to hold their targets there indefinitely, or with out some additional penalty for the -7 to -10 person once they do gank.
They can only hold them indefinitely if the target let's them.
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari End of Life
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Posted - 2016.01.27 05:57:56 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote:baltec1 wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:KickAss Tivianne wrote:No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk. Then why not just go and gank them first? No need to even gank them all. Just enough to make the total damage less than the total HP of the freighter. Hey hide at safe spots, however sometimes when they do jump though a gate a 1 gets picked off. From undock they go to an insta-undock spot... then jump around, and then they warp to the bumper, or another neutral warp in ship. So the only time is if they do happen to jump though a gate, you migh tbe able to get 1 out of the 25-30 ships. Not really a game changer. And because you don't know their final destination, you would have to watch all the gates. Logic dictates they are going for the bumped ship. There are so many ways to protect your cargo from gankers to almost make it one sided. Piracy in highsec has been nerfed so hard over the years that it has almost become extinct. Jet can thief's are gone, profitable mining barge ganking is gone, endless nerfs to ganking have resulted in a much less vibrant and exciting highsec. If anything ganking needs to be buffed not nerfed yet more. Okkkkk.... Logic... Well, Which bumped ship? THey have on in Uedama, One in Madirmilire, and one in Niarja. And maybe the other one you had no idea about because you are spread thin. with the existing potential targets. This is another reason why Gankers get the upper hand as with any attacking force, you get to decide when and which target to attack, everyone else has to scramble to respond. If they have the resources to bump that many people... more power to them... but don't think they should be able to hold their targets there indefinitely, or with out some additional penalty for the -7 to -10 person once they do gank. 0.11% of movements by RFF fail and their freighter pilots are making 7500 jumps in highsec per day.
Where are you getting the idea that multiple freighters are being held by bumping at the same time? I'm sure it's happened, but I've never seen anything in gank Intel where multiple freighters are being bumped at the same time, so that doesn't seem like a common occurrence.
Have you actually validated that your views are correct and not just an assumption that makes ganking seem worse than it is.
RFF have 60-80 different freighter pilots active every day and 100-150 different pilots active each week. It's not like they only have a couple of guys who are really good. They have large numbers of freighter pilots making frequent jumps in highsec and yet only 1 in 1000 contracts get failed (1 in every 12000 jumps on average).
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Khan Wrenth
Ore Oppression Prevention and Salvation
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Posted - 2016.01.27 06:35:40 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote: 0.11% of movements by RFF fail and their freighter pilots are making 7500 jumps in highsec per day.
Where are you getting the idea that multiple freighters are being held by bumping at the same time? I'm sure it's happened, but I've never seen anything in gank Intel where multiple freighters are being bumped at the same time, so that doesn't seem like a common occurrence.
Have you actually validated that your views are correct and not just an assumption that makes ganking seem worse than it is.
RFF have 60-80 different freighter pilots active every day and 100-150 different pilots active each week. It's not like they only have a couple of guys who are really good. They have large numbers of freighter pilots making frequent jumps in highsec and yet only 1 in 1000 contracts get failed (1 in every 12000 jumps on average).
Sounds like RFF has pilots who are actively keeping themselves safe. If CCP were to nerf Concord in some fashion, that could weed out more incompetent independent pilots and RFF could charge more. Just sayin'.
Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
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Teckos Pech
The Executives Executive Outcomes
4447
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Posted - 2016.01.27 06:37:35 -
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KickAss Tivianne wrote: No gankers really don't have any Risk... loose a 2 million Isk ship. and not have any additional security status drop, or penalty for being a criminal. Same old same old. No Risk.
You are just flat out wrong, a gank fit catalyst these days costs about 8 million ISK, and you need many of them to make a gank work. So either you are ignorant or are being deliberately obtuse to push and agenda....and to be quite honest we all know it is the latter.
Bumping is totally fine as you can avoid it quite simple with even as something as lowly as a noob ship...a single scout can prevent bumping. Webs and other ideas are great, but just a single scout looking through local to spot the bumper is good enough.
Funny how people who always want to "fix bumping" are never in favor of things that might take some work or time such as starting channels in game, maintaining a list of known bumpers. Nope, it always boils down to "CCP please fix as I'm too lazy."
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baltec1
Bat Country Pandemic Legion
17154
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Posted - 2016.01.27 07:13:28 -
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Khan Wrenth wrote: Sounds like RFF has pilots who are actively keeping themselves safe. If CCP were to nerf Concord in some fashion, that could weed out more incompetent independent pilots and RFF could charge more. Just sayin'.
Same with miners. Make barges profitable to gank again and you reward the good ones with higher returns for their efforts, not to mention that the activity itself would be a lot less boring. Make the hulk a viable option and we would likely see a return of jet can mining and all the content that brings with it.
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari End of Life
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Posted - 2016.01.27 07:53:10 -
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Khan Wrenth wrote:Sounds like RFF has pilots who are actively keeping themselves safe. If CCP were to nerf Concord in some fashion, that could weed out more incompetent independent pilots and RFF could charge more. Just sayin'. Let my alt haul it all.
There are a lot of safe haulers around, whether highsec, lowsec or nullsec. RFF are just the biggest, have a great reputation and luckily publish lots of annual figures on their activity, which is very safe and consistent with a lot of non-RFF haulers too.
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Sitting Bull Lakota
Careless Bears LLC
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Posted - 2016.01.27 09:11:39 -
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The history of freighter ganking as I see it: Freighters started carrying upwards of 5b in a single load. Some players would run a multiboxed "interdiction" operation. CCP removed multiboxing (a good move, frankly). No more single player gank fleets. Freighters started carrying upwards of 10b in a single load. Somebody came up hyperdunking. CCP removes hyperdunking. Freighters start carrying upwards of 15b in a single load. CODE. bumps and kills freighters. Freighter pilots complain that ganking a freighter in highsec shouldn't be cost effective. Freighter pilot gets ready to jump into Niarja 20b in cargo.
Here's an analogy: Joe Blow has been banging his head against a wall. Joe Blow says "My head hurts." Joe Blow puts on a helmet and keeps going. Joe Blow realizes he can bang his head against the wall even harder now. Joe Blow does. Joe Blow says "My head hurts." Joe Blow takes some painkillers and keeps going.
It's election season here in Los Estados Unidos, so here is a relevant analogy! The USA says "I wish I could grow corn for less than Mexico can." The USA subsidizes US grown corn and undercuts Mexico's corn price. Mexico's corn production (and by extension most of it's ag) goes under. Mexico is facing severe unemployment. Unemployed workers turn to drug trade for money. The USA buys Mexico's drugs. Mexico is functionally a failed state. Mexican citizens flee north to gain employment and escape the narcoterrorism. The USA says "Boy, this cheap corn sure is good." The USA says "Boy, there sure are a lot of illegal Mexicans here." The USA says "Boy, Mexico's looking pretty bad right about now." The USA thinks for awhile. The USA says "I know! I'll double down on the corn subsidy and close the border!" Mexico becomes a drug state. The USA says "Mmmm! This corn tastes even better dipped in meth!"
Here's to the players who complain about a situation while actively making it worse for themselves. Say no to greed.
Sidenote: I really liked that part in the op that proposed making jetcans dropped by suspects give suspect flags. That used to be how it worked, but then enough miners and missioners complained about losing ships to shenanigans based on that mechanic that it was changed to the model we have now.
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Black Pedro
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Posted - 2016.01.27 09:24:23 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote: 1. Freighters being able to fit an MJD - so at least they can get 100km off and then try to warp before a bump ship reaches them
2. Rita Jita's recent suggestion to give Freighters a capability to counter ship scanning
The first provides some action that a bumped freighter can perform, while the second increases the cost to gank a target since the gankers wouldn't know whether a freighter is fit with bulkheads or cargo expanders, and would have to bring more gank ships to be certain.
Personally, if any change was adopted, I'd just make ship scanning a suspect level offence under crime watch.
I can't personally think of a reason to scan a ship without an idea of being prepared to shoot it or apply cap warfare, so it seems that ship scanning while not directly criminal, is an associated act.
I think that's a slightly better suggestion than Rita Jita's because it still provides choice, whereas countering ship scanning all together just leads to one outcome - more gank ships.
A suspect flag would mean sentry guns for the scanning ship, so they would need to warp off immediately afterwards and remain engageable for the next 15 minutes; while the attentive freighter pilot would have some warning that he may be targeted if they just continue on their trip.
I don't see your first idea doing much as Macheriels have no problem fitting a MJD of their own and could easily follow a freighter. It might raise the skill bar on bumpers a little, but if you had anything of value you would just be suicide-scrammed by a noobship when you start your spool-up leaving nothing to chance.
As for your second idea, I think it is actually a terrible one. If you mean cargo scanning (which I think is what Rita Jita was proposing), preventing pirates from prioritizing their targets removes any incentive to haul responsibly. Flying a freighter with 500M ISK of ore should be safer than one containing 15B ISK of PI materials. If the pirates can't efficiently assess the targets, they would be forced to randomly exploding any target that comes by meaning as a hauler, how much cargo you load has no effect on your chances of successfully making the trip.
As for scanning fits, that would seem to remove a large amount of other intended game play. I mean Passive Targeters were a module specifically added by CCP presumably so the prudent can stealthily scan the fits of their opponents and gain a tactical advantage. I am not sure why freighters are so special that they deserve to be excluded from this part of the game, and I am even less sure the ability to surreptitiously scan a potential opponent's fit should be tossed out to make freighters safer.
If your goal is to increase the costs of ganking, just raise freighter's EHP. If your goal is to create uncertainty for gankers, then vary the CONCORD response times. Simple, and done.
But more generally (and this is not directed to you Scipio), any "fix" to bumping that CCP comes up with is going to still going leave freighters vulnerable. CCP only a few years ago rebalanced freighters and though it not appropriate to give them a MJD or a MWD or enough agility to avoid bumping even though they trivially could. They are not going to wake up tomorrow and rejig everything or release a new module that makes freighters suddenly immune to interdiction in highsec. Any change will specifically allow freighters to be stopped and killed in highsec and the few remaining gankers will keep on dunking them left and right as long as the lazy, careless and clueless keep flying them unsupported and AFK. And the next week, another thread will pop up on this forum claiming that the new mechanic is "not balanced" because someone somewhere was able to lose a capital-class industrial to an organized group of dozens of criminals in highsec.
Such is inevitable in a PvP sandbox game when so many players do not even seem to realize they are playing in a competitive game with other players, some of who are actively looking for ways to take their stuff. They also don't seem to understand this is a video game where of course criminals are going to be allowed to continue to do criminals acts in perpetuity, because the conflict of those crimes is the game. Having "consequences" where if you commit a crime you cannot ever enter highsec again or something equally inane would quickly stop the very game play that CCP is trying to foster with Crimewatch and the other mechanics of highsec. Eve is not a real-life simulation - it is a PvP sandbox game. Just like the fact that criminals cannot ever really kill you or take most of your stuff (which is 100% safe in station), you cannot ever really kill or permanently stop the criminals and this is by design.
This is a game, one part of which is "cops and robbers" in space. Deal with that, or choose another game where such game play is not a feature, but please don't whine to the game developer to remove chunks of the game that that you don't like, especially for reasons as silly as it "lacks realism".
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari End of Life
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Posted - 2016.01.27 10:11:31 -
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Black Pedro wrote:I don't see your first idea doing much as Macheriels have no problem fitting a MJD of their own and could easily follow a freighter. Yeah that's a good counter point. MJD on a freighter would be pointless.
Quote:As for your second idea, I think it is actually a terrible one. If you mean cargo scanning (which I think is what Rita Jita was proposing), preventing pirates from prioritizing their targets removes any incentive to haul responsibly. Flying a freighter with 500M ISK of ore should be safer than one containing 15B ISK of PI materials. If the pirates can't efficiently assess the targets, they would be forced to randomly exploding any target that comes by meaning as a hauler, how much cargo you load has no effect on your chances of successfully making the trip. Yeah, that's also a good counter. My counter to Rita Jita's suggestion was more along the lines that it reduces choice, since gankers would always just plan for the max tanked situation, so there's no real engagement in the gameplay and a reduction on what currently exists.
Quote:I am not sure why freighters are so special that they deserve to be excluded from this part of the game, and I am even less sure the ability to surreptitiously scan a potential opponent's fit should be tossed out to make freighters safer. I'm with you on that. I don't think any change is necessary, just that if any change is made, changing bumping is not the place to do it. It's almost an impossible task.
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Rhamnousia Nosferatu
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Posted - 2016.01.27 10:19:54 -
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Yes, yes its a competitive and consequence laiden game in which:
- Someone can indefinitely (or until downtime) prevent a freighter from warping using just a bumping ship (doesn't even have to be a mach, ONI or SFI with large MWD will suffice) and a disposable aggro alt in a noob ship (!). No consequences for the bumper whatsoever.
- Having negative sec status has very limited practical consequences for a dedicated ganker char and does not limit the ability to perform ganks in hisec in any way, making sec status loss irrelevant (and consequence free)
- Killrights against ganker chars are practically useless
- Looting stuff from a ganked hauler can be made perfectly safe by using a DST or Orca and a disposable alt
Try arguing for removal/change of any of the above mechanics and you get shouted at for being a risk-averse-carebear-emergent-gameplay-hater. Oh, the irony. |
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