EVE General Discussion

You guys know better and should have venue-shopped for a more agreeable GM.

I don't think it's absolutely necessary for CCP to come out with a definite statement, although it would be the most prudent thing to do.

However, what would be the worst possible course, is if CCP does nothing now, but then, later, after 20 dead titans (destroyed using the same "method"), CCP decides to ban players using the method on the 20th kill. That just shows CCP decided to avoid the problem--or deal with it just enough--until it was glaring them in the face, which is not a great way to deal with game issues.

It wont be the first time CCP has looked the other way, then all of sudden changed their minds.

If you have been forced to ever watch the second ghost rider then yes, it wasn't bad.

What's the gameplay reason on allowing a titan to be invulnerable inside a POS forcefield while bridging a fleet? Wouldn't it make sense to force that titan to leave the shields itself?

Since I view computer gaming as me vs. the guys who wrote the program (and not vs. you folks out there, sorry) if it happens, or can happen by hitting the keys, it's not an exploit. If the guys who wrote the program don't want it in the parameters of available action, then they'd write a tight enough program and it wouldn't be possible (whatever "it" may be.)

THEREFORE - ergo: Programmers calling something in a program they wrote an "exploit" is just blame shifting. You just plain can't tell keyboard key pushers they "aren't allowed" to press certain keys, 'cause you don't like the result. Puleeeze. But, of course, it's done all the time, and it's done so much "players" actually believe such a thing as an "exploit" exists.

Well, yeah it does, every key press possible in a game is an exploit. That's the intention. I'm going to press keys using my knowledge and instinct to move forward in the game YOU wrote - if you don't want me to do it, then write it into the code. Telling me to sit on my hands is NOT part of the game you and I are playing, mister and missus programmers.

You know who you are.

The real question then becomes, with bumping ships that are supposed be secure within a shield, not "Why is this exploit not punished?" That's STUPID. If so-called exploits were punished, you'd hit START, and the screen would then read "GAME OVER." The question? Why did you write your code so loosely that we CAN circumvent an intended invulnerability? (The odd thing about all this, that strangely goes unmentioned is - why is a Titian inside a field being allowed to interact with ships OUTSIDE the field? THERE is where the "strangeness" is evident.)

While you're at this puzzling puzzle, (duh) what about being able to change the size and shape of a system using overlapping ship trajectories? That's even more interesting - making an L-shaped system....Once again, we could be looking at the sort of conflict of interest inherent with developers playing their games with the customers.

By the away, I resent anyone calling me a cheater if I can do something within a computer game by just pressing keys. If a "programmer" made that mistake ... in the proverbial bar, we'd be out in the proverbial parking lot "discussing" it.

PS IB4L

After thinking about it for all of 5 seconds, my best guess would be A: difficult to fix like every aspect of starbases; B: they can't exactly station a GM at every starbase, or to follow every titan around, to see who is doing it.

Cyno won't help you if they are half way decent with bubbles and do the bump when you have a bridge up.

The perpetrators of this recent wave of pos bumping are old timer veterans with Band of Brothers histories, these are the same guys who exploited the original pos bowling. I think internal affairs should look into this and the hand waving as well.