Slithereen
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Posted - 2004.03.08 03:58:00 -
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Edited by: Slithereen on 08/03/2004 04:01:13
I just wonder what will happen if you sensor dampen the sentry guns, or attempt to jam them.
Or whether the shield transfer tactic (like the one Zombie used on Yulai) would still work?
I personally don't believe the system is fool proof. There are still ways around it. But my belief is that CCP, on principle, simply does not want gate and station ganking in any area of empire space. If there are loopholes, they will eventually fill it in the next patch and the next.
My personal belief is that I prefer a much more sophisticated NPC AI sentry fleet force, rather than guns, or all killing terminator cop forces. The NPC guard forces maintains criminal records, considers both faction and security standings, as well as being able to discriminate the type of damage being inflicted as the basis for action (splash damage vs. shooting with the intent to kill), and to meet such offending actions with varied and gradient actions of their own---such as fining, jamming and scrambling, and not necessarily kill someone's ship. The key theme of these forces is "flexible response".
While Concord guards the 0.5 to 1.0 space with Navy forces, Navy forces will in turn guard and spawn in large formations (equivalent to killer NPC swarms in 0.0 space) around gates and stations.
This will give pirates and faction enemies the chance to gate camp, but at the cost of actually fighting through such sentry spawns, which will continue to attack until the blockade is broken. Killing sentry forces decreases faction standings, and the lower the faction standings, the more intense the attacks will be.
At the same time, offenders will be flagged, in order to allow players the license to shoot these offenders and allow them to participate in the liberation of the gate.
Sentry fleets under engagement will broadcast warnings which will warn people of the battle in progress, and allow player pirate hunters to participate.
Such gate battles will also be termed as "events" and will be placed in the news billboards and broadcast sections automatically, complete with pictures of the notorious offenders (publicity is really what gankers are after for, so give it to them). We need like a press bot.
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