Tai Shea
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Posted - 2008.05.09 17:15:00 -
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Edited by: Tai Shea on 09/05/2008 17:15:51
 Originally by: Wolf Spyder
Edited by: Wolf Spyder on 05/05/2008 23:51:22
You want to stop this problem then stop using a hammer and chissle on this problem and pull out a grenade, pull the pin and yell here catch. As you toss it to them when they arnt looking. Make them feel the pain for their mistakes. Macros should be viewed along the same lines as isk selling. They are a part of the problem and need a unique way of dealing with them. If the offending ship fails to answer the "hail" (ie convo) of a GM after a prescribed time of say 5-10 minutes, incase the player is out of the room. Then that player should be red flagged so that other players can pop them. 
I actually had a very simialr idea, but the "hail" could be done by any player. Said "hail" would bring up a prompt in a random place (has to be random or you could program a macro to hit a certain spot) in the targeted players screen, that he/she has to click "ok" on, if you they dont respond in say 10-15 min, they go red... and pop...
Would have to make it that a player can only be "hailed" once every 30 min or so to avoid abuse, and the "ok" for it must be clicked, enter cant work, to make it harder for macros to clear it. Maybe add a game check that the target is a barge or something.. or it could be abused to cause stress to combat pilots at bad moments.
But back on topic....
I certainly think the ore refresh times need updating, I am a dedicated hulk miner with 3 acc's (miner, hauler and foreman), and I enjoy building things. System I am in isnt right next to any newbie starter point (ok its not majorly out the way), but its got 26 belts, and see by early evening, more or less every single belt has been ripped clean by those b****y macroers. Right now, theres 14 hulks in this system, I can almsot guarantee at least 10 of them are macro controlled.
Some of you say, "go move to another system then", and yeah I have, again and again, but sure enough after a few weeks, the macroers find it and flood in.
CCP, if you cant give us the tools to deal with macroers ourselves, then majorly increase the ore respawn so those of us that try and do an honest evenings mining, to either make some cash or make us a nice shiny new ship, actually have something to mine by the time we get home from work.
Maybe not permently, but at least until you get these scanable belts going.. or find some way of getting rid of these damn macroers.
(making the hulk so damn cheap didnt help either, but thats a diff story)
I'm not gonna mention ice as I dont know enough about it, I mainly concentrate on ore mining as you cant build nowt with ice :P
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