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Posted - 2004.05.06 23:23:00 -
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I sent this message to CCP support. They advised me to post this on the forum so other people could give their opinions.
Note: I'm not a carebear, but i do believe in fair play.
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For a while now CCP has inserted a new feature that will get your ship out of harms way if your system or internet connection goes down. The right title for this feature is called "jump to safe spot" as i recall from reading on the forums.
Recently 1 specific pirate has entered our protected system and has destroyed numerous industrials. Now every time we come into action and have him trapped in a system, he simply logs off and logs in with another character. With this character he monitors the system his alt character was in and will only log back in if the system and surrounding systems are clear. Their ship only stays in space for 90 seconds after dissapearing from the cluster.
I see this as an exploit, since this feature was meant to be used for technical problems and not for a way to escape from an upcoming threat.
This exploit could be erased from the game simply by doing the following.
1. disable the warp to safety feature when a player hits the "quit game" option.
2. extend the time that a ship will stay in space to let's say 15 minutes. This could give guarding forces the possibility to try and find the pirate and destroy their ship.
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Posted - 2004.05.07 14:28:00 -
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I never actually mentioned that the feature should be removed. It should be tweaked to make it a non exploitable feature.
1. Don't warp to safety when you hit the "close game" button. If i think really hard about it you could get a graphical bug and want to relog by pressing "esc" and then "close game". So this would be not an option since your ship would get shot to scrap metal in the meantime.
2. Extend the time that a ship will stay in space. When you are hunting rats you will automaticly warp to a safe spot. No harm done to everyone who realy needs this feature. Setting the time to about 15 minutes would give the guarding forces the ability to track down the threat. With that the warp to safety feature should always warp to a moon or planet. This way it won't be inpossible to warp to the ship.
I don't see how the second option could cause any harm to players actually in need of the feature. Players that are abusing it will think twice before simply logging off to avoid their ship being wrecked.
All comments are welcome
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Posted - 2004.05.07 14:45:00 -
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I don't really think that all players with multiple characters on 1 account are pirates, at least i know i'm not  . But then again, we can only guess about the rest of the players. I think a lot of players created alts in the time where areas like yulai and surrounding system would crash, leaving everyone in a state of shock as they could not play their favorite game.
As for solving this problem, i don't think CCP will remove all alt characters from the game, as this will **** off almost everyone. I'm not saying it's not a good sollution for the problem, CCP will never fix the exploit in such a way.
Then we have the players with 2 accounts, these could be pirates as well doing the same as the alt character does, they just don't need to relog.
I still think extending the time that ships stay in space is the only workable sollution for this problem. When they know their ship will be shot to pieces when they log out they will try a little harder to escape, and that's what pirating is all about i think.
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Posted - 2004.05.07 14:59:00 -
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@ Cairo
when you unplug your ethernet cable, that will also disrupt your Kazaa downloads m8 Just think of the hell you will have to go trough when you can't watch the latest enterprise series for another 3 minutes  . Ok i see your point, but in my previous post i aleady mentioned that the first sollution wouldn't be the best.
Ships shouldn't stay in the position they were left for 15 minutes, they should warp to a "safe spot" and stay there for 15 minutes (or more). Also the safespot should be warpable for other players (like 100km from a moon or planet.)
If you have a meaning about this, please reply.
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Posted - 2004.05.08 13:37:00 -
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Keep this thread running, give me your opinion on this 
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