Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Why would you shoot a ship if you aren't prepared for PvP anyways?

Smart Caracal pilot and his 3 buddies would've bumped that Orca and Retriever away from each other and proceeded with killing. Nothing needs to be changed.

Well... I do know I escaped being podded when flying an Orca into a gate camp by ejecting the ships in the bay and boarding one of them. Don't ask... it was a "not paying attention" day.

But more likely he is thinking of people changing ships easily from a baiter to a ganker.

Flags for supplying a combat pilot with resources should be consistent.
Whether its a new ship from a bay or armor/ship/cap via transfer.

I don't see how that could be an exploit.

I don't consider that an exploit. You ejected the ships that could then be boarded by anyone. You ejected from the Orca, boarded another ship, and was able to escape.

There was time in there where you were vulnerable by changing vessels.

Edit: You must have had some serious implants?

If the pilot is a suspect, they should not be able to switch ships in space using a ship bay during that time period, weapons timer or not.

I await CCP's judgement on the issue. If they say it's not an exploit, I'll disagree but I'll be satisfied the issue is resolved. If it is an exploit then I'm satisfied and agree with their decision.

The best way to deal with this (as has been previously suggested) is to have the orca pilot turn yellow as an aggressor on the overview that way you can freely engage him like you would if someone neutral started remote repping him. Accountability is everything in Eve.

Fundamental rule of game design: when there's a conflict between realism/immersion and effective gameplay design, the latter almost always wins. Introducing QoL degradation, additional server load, additional player obstacles, and potentially large balance changes just to make something "more realistic" if flat idiotic when it comes to game design. The only time where such a change is warranted is when the additional benefit of that added realism is enough of a gameplay improvement to justify any and all detrimental gameplay side-effects (if any) and the additional development time needed to design, code, test, and deploy such a change.

In this case, the detriments are many and large, the benefits few and conflicted, and the work required to implement rather large (in particular to analyze the balance changes this may have, and make sure there aren't any issues with getting stuck part-way). Net: not worth it.

Just because it's more realistic doesn't mean it's worth adding.

I can appreciate this opinion.