EVE General Discussion

How is that relevant?

I got that, but I don't think it weakens the arguments made against convobombing

e: it's even in the first line of the op "quite often I've heard in large fleets"

I don't really care about his motivation. He likely has bias but is offering some objective arguments. Marlona likely has equal bias but isn't providing or addressing any arguments.

I still think this is an unfair way to fight, I think it should be an considered against EULA along with dropping a million shuttles out of an Orca.

You should always inquire about someone's motive. So about me addressing his argument.

Ignoring the fact the CFC have been using this tactic for a while now, ignoring the fact being convo bombed has not been proven to disconnect a players client, ignoring the fact the reason their carriers were obliterated because they were not cap stable and ignoring the fact checking a simple box stops convo bombing dead in its tracks...

I would suggest that there be two boxes to check. One for convos and one for fleet invites. Also there should be a fleet icon to accompany the invite to fleet message and a chat icon for convo invites. Also when a cling is invited to a fleet/convo, while the window is up the player client should tell the server to hold all further invites in a queue on the sever side, not the client. Once the invite is cleared via close or accept, then the players client request the next invite from the queue on the server.

Of course I'm no computer programmer so I don't know if that would help at all or perhaps this is the way it is handled anyways. All I know is I find the motivation by the OP and his buddies for these threads to be driven solely because they made several mistakes that cost them to lose a carrier fleet several support fleets and a baby titan.

Trying to blame all that on convo bombing hoping their enemies are banned and all their ships and titan are replaced is asinine.

Open Eve-mail window (Alt-I), right click to open the Settings popup, choose "Block unknown characters". All done, let them spam away. Do this when you're flying your capital ship or your cloaky - since those are usually the ships that get convo-spammed.

Which main FC would that be? I can only recall one instance in which I was in fleet and told to convo bomb the other fleet's FC. I refused to do it at the time, and it simply didn't occur to me to make a thread about it.


That doesn't change the fact that they were convo bombed causing their clients to crash. It doesn't matter if the outcome would have been the same had you not done this. It doesn't matter who's done it in the past. I didn't condone it then, and I don't condone it now.


Why didn't I make a thread about it earlier? To be quite honest, my killboard will tell you that I simply haven't been all that active in the Tribute war, and I wasn't aware of how widespread this "tactic" was until recently, and it took a particularly egregious use of it to really get my attention.

Hi there,

We've had some internal discussion about this and spoken to the GM team.

If you feel that people are trying to affect the performance or stability of your client, then you are always able to petition it and the GM team will investigate and deal with it appropriately.

Thread has been cleaned up now.

Thanks and fly safe.

OOC, if you experience lag and your client crashes in a fleet fight, does this indicate you should always suspect convo bombing and report it to the GM's?

Because the truth is it almost always happens during tidi, where there will be a lot of DC's and lag due to fleet fighting anyway.

I'm just wondering if there are any indications, if players have convo requests set to be automatically blocked, that might clue a player in?

Maybe the block should be server-side?

So you're saying there's no way anybody would know except to leave themselves completely vulnerable to the attack.

Yes, it seems like this needs to be looked at more closely before "internal discussion" becomes policy, because I can see a new wave of "petitions" coming from every last member of any null fleet who disco's during a fleet fight because there's a reasonable possibility they were convo bombed. DPS are people, too.

If you have them blocked they don't appear. Then it just looks like any other lag case, right?

Or were you being obtuse?