Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A few months ago the Dev team attempted to fix the exploit where a pilot could approach a POS, ignite a cyno, and then drift safely into the POS shields, making them immune to attack, while providing a cyno beacon for capital assets to jump in through. Their fix was to make it to where your ship had to be traveling at 499 m/s or slower in order to lite the cyno. While this is a step in the right direction, players are still able to exploit this game mechanic and lite a cyno on the edge of a POS shield and then coast into the shield and be protected.

My proposed solutions are as follows: 1) When a cyno module is activated on a ship, make it to where that ship is unable to enter the shields of a POS. We know that the POS shield is an object in space that can interact with ships and modules, so simply adding an attribute to the cyno generator that is "POS access while active = false" should resolve this exploit. 2) edit the POS code to where, if a cyno is lit, and a ship does happen to coast inside the shields, the POS code checks to see if the ship has an active cyno running, and if it does, it bounces them out of the shield, same as it would if they were not a member of the corp/alliance that owned said POS. This would prevent ships from lighting a cyno then coasting into the shield. A possible code addition check would be "Is ships cyno active if yes, disallow access, else allow"

As I said, the POS cynoing exploit is one that is still being taken advantage of by players wishing to bring capital assets into system, but do not want to risk having their cyno ship attacked in the process. If anyone else has suggestions on how this Exploit can be fixed so that our enemy cannot lite a cyno, and keep their cyno ship protected by a POS shield, please feel free to post suggestions. This def affects all of us, ESP when we are sieging POS.

Link to a dev saying this was an exploit please.

Which if you read it correctly, told you this.



Which means you need to petition it and ask to see, if your assertion that it is an exploit, is correct.

even before the change a cyno couldnt be lit at speeds faster tha 499m/s. this is not what was changed

the actual change was that the distance you would land from a pos when cyno'ing to one was increased. 5km to 15km iirc.

you should try playing eve before complaning things dont work the same way as in your mind

you couldnt light one faster than 500m/s for a very long time. i know that for sure i am after all a cyno alt.

that pilot logs off. the gm wont remove someone just as you send a petition in..lol get over yourself

i do not understand why your bothered about a cyno frig, try killing what its brings into system, after all the change(5km from pos shields to 15km) was ment to allow this.

you are either a troll or an idiot, im not sure which

I must say, you amuse me. I do what you say, provide evidence of a GM stating that such an act is indeed an exploit, and you can't accept it. You can't accept the fact that actions that either you, or former/current Blues do is indeed an exploit. That is fine, I will enjoy filing every petition I file against you and your kind for doing such a thing.

Have fun, look forward to see you on the field of battle, and pray I don't catch you committing this exploit.

Looks like some people are confused, as to what is considered "taking advantage of game mechanics" and what is called "exploits".

When a sizable alliance figured out, that living in a C6 WH and taking advantage of the natural debuffs, they were able to get infinite range on their weapons... CCP congratulated them. They basically said "we were hoping someone would figure out how to make the game work -for- them".

So... the fact that you can move at all when you light up a cyno, says that CCP wanted someone to figure out this drift trick. Otherwise they'd make the cyno immediately and completely root you in place.

"Working at intended"