Nova Fox
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Posted - 2007.03.21 20:26:00 -
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No Local Vs Local disscussions >< had my first hand taste with 0.0 blind flying when this went down and let me tell you its not fun trying to figure out how many hostiles are in system even with recons.
155 people in space, scanners only picked up 45 of thier ships, 45 of those ships where named all sorts of names, only three had player's names on them, then i had to look up the allaince list in peopels and places to figure out if those three there in the allaince at all, two where one wasnt, and the guy was logged off go figure (free shuttle though) but a covie scout did swear a hostile jumped into system so we continued the search no good, from our numberous parked ships and liked named ships in system it was impossible to find the mofo let alone tell if he logged or not, if he was cloaked, or even his name and affliation, there are currently no tools that can replace local on any scale as of now, any allaince battle or fleet movement will now take 30x longer if they want to avoid losses, or even worse encourage over blobbing, i know you guys hate blobbing but when people fly blind what other option they have available? and guess what? a recon's scouts most powerful tool is the local chat channel, directional scanner and recon launcher follow afterwards with a pair of eyes and the cloaking device last.
Until there are tools made available to scouts to make it possible to get the same kind of info local chat provides (character names (linked to char sheet), allaince, corp, standing) will i refuse this, because 0.0 will become a space of gate camps instead of roaming patrols it is now.
Also until gates become tollable, lockable, and gunnable (revelations 2) defending 0.0 will be near impossible for any side of any war and logistics all around will be disrupted without any serious strain on pod pilots. Who know mabey have a becaon the sovern system can deploy that provides local chat coverage, any system without will not feature local persons until they chat on it or something of that nature. Or better yet, make it optional, those who dont want local wont show on local but they wont get local either.
This is a view of an 0.0 allaince member, of course I dont have much pvp experinces but I particpate in fleet movements lot and do scouting for them, local channel has always allowed our roaming patrols to find and pursue and setup targets for our kills, we use local to create bait as well, small gang of 4-5 ships can lure 30 ships to thier death easy once they get spotted in local and those pursuing saw which direction they where going. Proff that our enemies use it just as much as we do. Also who here has the patience to count and sort 100+ hostiles on a scanner? I dont and im quite sure none of you will. low sec system hunter/pirates i can see rejoicing for this but they aren the majority. Which is why i opt for a optional choice, and certain tools to cancel it such as sovernty not bellongin to you will devoide yoru no local choice.
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