Kol Voidborn
Caldari
Hadean Drive Yards
Archaean Cooperative
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Posted - 2007.05.01 08:18:00 -
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Edited by: Kol Voidborn on 01/05/2007 08:17:21
Edited by: Kol Voidborn on 01/05/2007 08:17:04
One point I want to address in all this: scanning people out in deadspace missions.
I get that it is necessary for pirates to be able to, well, pirate. They need to find targets, and targets are always either at their chosen spot (a belt or a mission), or are in transit to that spot. So I fully get that pirates need to be able to find players who are at mining locations or deadspace missions.
Where I have a problem is when this happens in hisec. There are a large number of grief tactics that can be employed in hisec (including mass aggroing of NPCs and destroying or swiping mission-critical loot), with the added complication that many hisec players are unfamiliar with the ins and out of the rules of flagging and getting CONCORDed.
Hisec missions are where players go who do not want to PvP. The rest of the game is open country to PvP; hisec mission runners are looking for a place where they can play their game.
So, as you update and expand on the scanning and probing system, please include some measure of protection for hisec missioneers. The simple act of locking hisec deadspace gates to anyone not in the mission owner's gang or corp would suffice, really. Wouldn't screw with scanning, wouldn't screw with lowsec piracy, nothing to see here, go on about your business.
I can scan him down, and even pinpoint where he is in his deadspace, but all I can do is 1) camp his gate or 2) wait for him to turn in his mission and then warp to the now-not-deadspace location I previously pinpointed, and commence competitive salvaging.
In lowsec, gates would remain unlocked, and it would remain a proper free-for-all. As it should be.
PvE'ers are not asking CONCORD to move into hisec. I think it only fair that PvP'ers similarly refrain from demanding that PvP envelop hisec. Good games have heterogeneity of play. Allow multiple success paths, and you have a winning formula.
Ensign Kol Voidborn (Combat Patrol) - Military Division - Hadean Drive Yards
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