EVE General Discussion

I was in a DED site the other day in high-sec, in my vexor, and another player (in a tengu, obviously) comes in and targets me, gaining a yellow reticle. I had my drones out on aggressive. I was worried the drones would attack him/her and I would get beat up by concord, so I put my drones on passive.

Would the drones have attacked him/her, just for targeting me? What if I had targeted the other player back? (The other player stole my faction kill anyway.)

I had a look on the net and I couldn't find any good answers.

Cheers.

This is how it's supposed to work. I've noticed that a lot of times my drones will just sit there though; they're a little iffy.

They won't get you concorded, but they can and will screw with your aggression timer at for gates and docking.

This is exactly how drones work.

Of course, someone can use them against you.

You're flying around with drones on aggressive. Cheap ship targets you and attacks. You're drones, being set on aggressive, attack back. You are now aggro to him and, if I recall correctly, anyone in his corporation. He gets CONCORDED, but his buddy drops in on you and proceeds to turn you into space dust.

The drones attack the other player and thus flagging you. I think...

Point is... the guy loses his cheap noob ship, docks and comes back in a real ship.

I don't know, I used a NOS on a person who I can flipped in Jita yesterday after they aggressed me, and two of their Corp mates and the one I flipped vaporized my ship without Concord response once I did that. They were present when I used the NOS though, and I imagine in Fleet with the person.

I was just testing the armor reps on a Hyperion I built, and wanted to see if I could manage the Reps and 2 min. docking timer. Bhaalgorn and Vindi kind of screwed that up though. Still, it was fun, and I didn't mind losing the ship.

I Pyfa'd the stupid thing after I bought the materials and threw it into manufacturing and realized I'd made a mistake. None of the Gallente Battleships are particularly good, but the Hyperion is particularly bad, and doesn't fit armor tank worth ****, despite its bonuses.

I think I managed to cycle one of my armor reps once, both my Cap boosters, and was waiting for the 3 Armor reps to make a full cycle when the Vindi and Bhaalgorn pretty much Alpha'd me with the help of the Hurricane. That took me all the way into structure, and my ship blew up before the Reps finished their respective cycles.

I know, it can get a pretty decent buffer, but I was trying to use the bonuses and the armor buffer wouldn't have survived 2 minutes anyway. Either way, it is really kind of pathetic and reminds me of my last turn in a Rokh, which isn't any better really.

Hopefully Tiericide and ship rebalancing will get there and do something about it soon. Next summer maybe..

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Fortunately, it was insured, so I got 221 million of that back; unfortunately, the insurance cast 66 million, so still lost ~100 million, even if my wallet isn't substantially different from what it was before I started. Couple sales of some stuff, and I hardly noticed.

P.S. It was a fair fight. It took nearly 10 minutes for the Vindi and Bhaalgorn to show up and I could have docked at very nearly any time, up until I tried to make sure the Hurricane pilot didn't think I was just going to dock up as I had deagressed after the 10-20 seconds while waiting for my shields to go down.

Actually thought they were going to give up before I could test my tank. I was sort of aware of the other possibility too, but not really concerned.

Cool, I see that in some of the other stuff too. I'm not exactly familiar with can-flipping or aggression systems. I haven't done a lot of fighting in Empire space. Also, limited fighting out of Empire space; and virtually never the aggressor.

Makes sense that they were just waiting for me to lock myself out of the station then.

It's incredible how easily players will correct someone with incorrect statements of their own.