EVE General Discussion

I really would like to continue this discussion with you but I just don't have the facility to understand what you're saying. Can you simplify that for me?

No my friend, you wasted our time by

Replying to arguments that had already been answered, because you start spamming crap without reading the thread first.

Using circular arguments that have little relation to what is being discussed.

Insisting that your limited knowledge of how dictors are, or more importantly CAN be used is more than basic at best.

Failing to understand aggression times.

Failing to understand the role Hictors play as opposed to Dictors, and the tactics used to make them effective.

Okay, to the part I did understand... your experience with interdictors and your obvious success with them doesn't really have much impact on the point here. I don't have to use an interdictor to understand that there is an unfair advantage in allowing an interdictor to jump after launching a disruption probe. This apparently isn't a problem for you anyways because you actually have killmails to show me instead of cowering and running away.

As for commanding both sides of a gate... I don't care about the sacrifice you make in having two probe launchers. You should have to choose which side of that gate you'll be on when the fight starts, and if your fleet is concerned about it then they should bring two interdictors or resort to more traditional methods of screwing people over.

I don't doubt your ability, and I respect what you can accomplish because I really suck at everything. It just isn't fair that interdictors are free to chicken out or avoid bad directions.

Ranger, we used to be in the same alliance, I've flown with you many times, and I actually quite like you even though we disagree quite badly here. But you do realise that both Eve-kills and battleclinic can tell the entire world exactly what ships you fly (even though I don't actually need to look in your case) and how often you fly them and when you last PvPed.

Yeah, I was out for about a year due to some vision related issues.

Since then I've been spending the bulk of my time on other characters and letting Ranger be the bread winner. As you may or may not know, R1 has never been my main combat pilot. He is actually primarily industry specced.

That being said, you're correct in that I've gotten pretty snippy with people in this thread. It irritates me when people try to marginalize other people's very legitimate point of view by quoting KB stats (especially when dictor pilots can ho KM's easier than any other pilots in the game). Still, I'll try to be more tactful.

Truthfully, I'd be all for the alternatives suggested (bubbles pop if the dicter jumps out of system).

Edit: I should explain that last bit. It would leave "some" of the elements that dictors currently enjoy, but would inhibit the free ticket they have now. The tactic when covering retreats would be

1: Fleet jumps through, leaving dictor behind.
2: Dictor pops bubble and waits until the enemy fleet appears on scanner.
3: THEN dictor jumps through, hoping that the entire fleet was in warp when he jumped.

Even if they aren't all in warp by that time, it still slows at least some of them down... (likely their tacklers).

It would be a reasonable compromise.

well I guess its fit a cloak or have a perch to jump to if you want to live, but still in that situation a delaying tactic robs the fleet of their bubble indefinitely.

don't want to step in dog poo?
watch where you're going

don't want to DIAF?
don't walk into a burning building

Don't want to get mugged?
don't go into the bad part of town at night

Don't want to get bubbled while warping?
Don't warp directly to a gate you can't see or scan

It isn't such a big deal if you have more than one dic in your fleet. Besides it makes it more realistic. Maybe people should be able to use a smartbomb and then jump right after?

What is adapting?

If this stays then make shooting NPCs and launching scan probes an aggressive act.

This change needs to go.