The original poster has a point. You, however, are misguided.

A hulk can,t warp away, because of the hulks terrible align time and acceleration. And a hulk cannot tank an overheated catalyst.... No matter the tank configuration.

Bottom line, since the catalyst revisions, they are now the #1 ship of choice for highsec ganking. This was an oversight, and it should be addressed.

The original poster has a point. You, however, are misguided.

A hulk can,t warp away, because of the hulks terrible align time and acceleration. And a hulk cannot tank an overheated catalyst.... No matter the tank configuration.
.

Sadly, this game has degenerated into a hisec griefest.

Just look at this KB record. This isn't PVP, this isn't antibot.

It is griefing pure and simple.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=18178&m=3&y=2012

The above is the second account of this player:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=216803&m=3&y=2012

If CCP can't see that there is a problem here, this game is in trouble.

This is just one player griefing a single system.

Multiply this by a few score more just like him and you might begin to understand why entire regions are now devoid of miners.

EVE, nothing but grief.

Well griefing is directly related to a**hats.

Why go to the part of eve where PvP is allowed and encouraged?

Oh yeah, thats right, targets in high-sec don't shoot back. Oh and its pretty much risk-free isk.

Gankers can't handle "actual" PvP, its as simple as that. Why bother when you can make yourself feel awesome with all those defenceless kills?

Forcing PvP onto those not interested in it, as well as newer players, is ultimately harming eve's continued development. What incentive do carebears and new players have to naturally move to low and null sec? They're already getting pwned in high by people collecting tears for their own amusement.

I for one believe that eve has two sides, equally important, PvP and PvE. Whatever side players get their enjoyment should be respected. PvP players have most of the galaxy to do their thing, and PvE players are happy in empire doing all those boring things, mining, hauling, making stuff, playing with spreadsheets etc. Thats what makes eve so awesome, that it is vast in its application, and people can get from it what they put in, and what they enjoy.

Never quite understood this vendeta that many PvP players have towards carebears, other than as i stated they don't shoot back. Personally, i think gankers have forced the issue. I now welcome and look forward to changes that make their life increasingly difficult. They might actually have to, "GASP!", fight people that fight back? OMG!

Of course, my opinion changes instantly if they actually fix the bounty system, but i think we all know by now thats never going to happen. Having a possible responce to ganking for players with no interest in PvP would justify ganking imo.

The original poster has a point. You, however, are misguided.

A hulk can,t warp away, because of the hulks terrible align time and acceleration. And a hulk cannot tank an overheated catalyst.... No matter the tank configuration.

A -10.0 is not an easy life but I manage quite well. All you highsec huggers have no idea because you think being in the safety of highsec with all your NPC isk making is the hard life. You would be so wrong. Carebears are people who only care about themselves for personal gane and could care less of anybody else.

This is nonsense, a maxed catalyst overheating with everything going perfectly (not even possible) can only pump out about 10 - 12k damage before concord arrives. Even a normal hulk fit with a damage control will survive that (17k ehp +). It deosn't even need to run its booster. Hulks die because people want to go afk as long as possible and fit expanders and cargo optimisations. So they can play afk. So they can play afk. So they can play afk.

A -10 sec status player should not be able to enter any system above .5 ever. The gates should simply just not work for them

As it is, sec status is just a joke and the joke is on the hisec

I contacted CCP about this as I was suspicious of his ability to repair his sec status, with such rapidity.

Apparently I was not the first to do so, and 'the matter is being investigated for possible mechanical exploit'.

I guess we will know the answer in a few days or so.

I'm curious as to what this guy discovered....not that it will be handy once we find out.........oh well.

Funny thing is, this is already the caseGǪ

Nom nom speculation, interweb spaceship pixeldramalamasoap, best soap, etc.

Alot of people also don't really know how easy you can work up sec, but that's for another thread.

I contacted CCP about this as I was suspicious of his ability to repair his sec status, with such rapidity.

Well
And who are they killing?
Clueless noobs for the most part The average Hulk pilot has been in the game way less than a year, doesn't really understand local, or contacts, or tank, or mechanics, or anything. THEY ARE NOOBS

And this is the meat upon which the dogs of EVE PVP feast. The helpless, defenseless and clueless

WRONG !!!!!

A -10 Pod can fly to an Orca full of Catalysts even if he managed somehow a -12.

Posting irrelevant videos of fits that no longer work due to changes made by CCP to support your argument: win.

Totally noobs don't have isks or skills to fly a hulk. Those "noobs" who are now flying hulks and getting killed just don't know their place in EVE universe :) It is ok to get killed once, but if you keep dying then you are too stubborn or stupid to learn from the loss. They have options of die some more, tank their ship, be an alert all the time or just move up to some 0.7-1.0.

No, because he's dead and back in the medical bay. So it is indeed already the caseGǪ if you choose it to be so.

Also, text doesn't get any bolder just because you mash the button three times.