Valrandir
Gallente
Slacker Industries
Exuro Mortis
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Posted - 2007.10.04 15:41:00 -
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Calculated Risk VS Calculated Reward
If Reward > Risk, engage. Otherwise, pass.
You mention how Concord do not stop a group of pilots who are obviously preparing to pirate a victim. While this might be evident to other pilots, how can Concord make the difference between someone who is about to attack, and someone who is not?
Remember that Concord actions are based on well defined conditions, and not by human reasoning. Smart players will always calculate the risk vs reward and act when it is profitable for them to do so. Smart players will also understand the current game mechanics and use them to their own best advantages.
Insurance fraud and jet can swapping are some example of systems that were put in place to help the civilian pilots against the pirates, and as you can see those smart pirates use those mechanics to their advantages.
This is normal, and to be expected. Adding more and more in-game restrictions will only lead to less freedom, smart pilots will use those to their advantages anyways, it's better to have less restrictings game mechanics and let the players handle things by themselves.
There is a solution to all this, let Concord be controlled by a team of humans, working for CCP and roleplaying Concord and faction police action. With this, instant and 'magical' concord reaction would no longer be, instead we would have a belivable police force, able to make complex judgements and to investigate complex cases.
Still there would be whines, there will be whines no matter what, this is normal.
If your gameplay style make you a possible victim of highsec ganking, the most practical solution for you is to make sure it can't happen to you. By using things such as a scout, warp to zero, a transport ship with armor plates and armor hardeners, and not hauling more with it would cost to gank you, you remove this problem.
In the end, your own security as a pilot in eve depend on your own actions and decisions. Whining and/or asking for even more computer automated restrictions to in-game freedom will not help, since pirates will adapt to those new rules and in the end the same situation will exists.
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