Khan Wrenth
Ore Oppression Prevention and Salvation
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Posted - 2016.04.23 16:34:22 -
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Black Pedro wrote:Right now being pointed cancels warp. I would expect that mechanic to remain unchanged, otherwise it would be impossible to tackle a non-war target in highsec due to CONCORD. This would be an incredible nerf to criminal ganking and would force gankers to completely change tactics and make it much more expensive. I would not put that past CCP at this point, but I would expect their recent focus on easy changes means they will do as little as possible and thus won't touch the core of the warp scamble/disrupt mechanics.
Even still, it will have a large impact on ransom bumpers making it impossible to hold a freighter for any length of time solo. But if a real ganking fleet is operating, you will not be safe, although the effort required to point you means you are not likely to be bump-tackled for nearly as long before they get around to exploding you.
In either case, no matter how you look at it, it is yet another nerf to ganking. I wonder if this is the "one more nerf" that will finally make things balanced?
I had a feeling this sort of thing was coming. Remember, when Fozzie announced that Freighters would be getting 33% hull resists, he said, "This won't kill ganking, and neither will the other changes we have coming down the pipe". The quoting is not exactly verbatim, but it is the gist (A-type) of what he said. Focusing on the bump mechanics is the first logical step.
I don't claim to know what else could be coming down the pipe, but if this is the direction it's going, I could imagine the next step would be limiting, restricting, or banning criminal players from docking in highsec eventually. That's the next logical step after this one, and technically speaking many of those sorts of mechanics already exist in game for non-NPC stations. How much you want to bet that a selling point of citadels is going to be a way for criminals to circumvent that sort of restriction? "Hey Capsuleers! We have an exciting announcement today. We're changing higsec docking mechanics so criminals can no longer dock at NPC stations, but if they have docking rights at a citadel..."
Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
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