Jacques Danton
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.07.18 16:33:00 -
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Edited by: Jacques Danton on 18/07/2007 16:39:45
 Originally by: Chelone
Here's an idea. Make it 100% legal to attack anyone with even the smallest negative concord standing, anywhere in 0.1-0.4.
You pirates want us to come to lowsec? Great, take away the security hit we'd take for aggroing you, so we can spank your ass good.
Exactly! What sort of non-sense is it to see a pirate that you know will hunt you down but have to wait for him to make the first move (thus engage you when the cirumstances are best for HIM) or suffer a sec hit. What sort of moronity is that? If a pirate sees a Caldari railgun-fitted ship the Caldari is screwed unless he takes the first shot to make use of his range bonuses for example or he can chose to wait to get shot first at a range hardly beneficial for him, as a small example.
Additionally - pirates with negative sec rating should NOT be allowed to dock in low-sec stations, why are known criminals allowed to dock in safely to save their sorry ass, definitely not in corporate stations of any sort they shoudn't...
The way I see it pirates have it pretty easy - with a bit of rat hunting they dictate rules of engagement or the stupid system penalises you (the carebear) otherwise (i.e. the sec system in low sec space seems to favor the pirates of all people) and they can safely dock and use stations as if nothing happened... total non-sense.
I'm all for making a pirate's life "balanced" as in attach a real cost to it - make pirates unable to dock in low-sec stations unless they are non-corporate brothels of sorts, make pirates unable to issue insurance for their ships in corporate stations (which legit corporation would openly deal with known criminals, eh?), make pirates unable to use clone facilities in such stations for the same reason too. Why not having the corporation rating count in as well - if someone is a member of a known pirate organization why should it matter that his security rating is -1.0 for example? If the corporate rating is negative - let people fry the bastards on the spot! If not account-attached penalties make the char-related penalties for choosin the way of the criminal stack up as a price to pay. And to avoid using alts to bypass the whole penalty if every implemented - why not have Concord reduce the sec rating of alts dealing with criminals? A person caught collaborating with proven criminals with a record and otherwise shot on the spot should get their rating reduced as a minimum - make alts usage not that easy!
And why is Concord paying criminals for ratting? Would the police pat on the shoulder and pay someone they would gladly blow to pieces if they met personally under different circumstances?
Low-sec is ridiculous in many of the ways it's set and I see very little reason to go there unless I have to and usually I don't. Oh, and the local CHAT channel "magic" recon-tool that tells everyone that I've entered the system and exactly who I am, how old my char is and who I work for or that I'm still in the station they saw me enter is a "great" stimulus for me to go to low-sec too...
And why hunting somebody with a nice bounty on his head that is not -5.0 should penalize me in ANY way too - bounty hunters are the good guys usually...
Criminals in this game are hardly EVER treated as such!
Frankly I prefer 0.0 than low-sec as I think that low-sec actually favors the pirates more than the "carebears".
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