Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If you are -10 you should loose the right to have either a Medical Clone or Jump Clone in high security space. There are many independent Capsuleers stalking the pirate menace in high security space with great success. This is the good news. Its a disappointment to see these -10 pirates get Poded only to reappear back in system. I think the simple solution is bar the -10 Pirate Rats from using Jump Clones or Medical Clones in Empire. If you endorse this idea please +1.

Thanks for your time.
BP

The "pirate menace" is in the game on purpose. Your proposal is just a slight nerf that will reduce conflict by making podded pirates make a few extra jumps before re-shipping.

How is a -10 in a pod a threat to you anyway?

The lack of satisfaction you feel after podding someone was a predictable consequence of the removal of clone costs and affects all PvPers, not just highsec anti-gankers. Perhaps a new clone mechanic that CCP has hinted at will give you the satisfaction you crave after podding someone.

-10 characters are already very limited when operating in Highsec. It is almost impossible to do something else in space other than a suicide gank attack which results in the loss of the ship. Additionally every player can open fire on you and will get NPC support after a few seconds which will pretty much always end in the destruction of the -10 chars ship.

Suicide ganks where already nerfed to the point where they are no longer profitable. This is reflected by the fact that only a few entities ingame are capable of organizing such attacks usually with a huge meta game strategy to finance them.

Past nerfs already successfully eradicated most of the -10 or gankes with highsec sec status from Highsec. I don't see the need for any further nerfs, except if you want to remove every last possibility of a successful ganking operation from Highsec and make Highsec 100% safe for all NPC corp characters or characters which reform one man corps, which I guess is the hidden agenda behind your proposal. Right?

Yes, but that at least forces the -10 to navigate their way back to the target system. As it is they can just re-ship, and wait it out in the station for the next victim in the system if they so choose.

From an Eve storyline point of view, I have never understood how a -10 is allowed to dock in a high sec station. I can't dock in any station in null that takes my fancy and no complaints there, as that mechanic can be rationalised.

I could live with that. On the basis that if your worth to the station owner was great enough they would overlook your criminal status and DED has no in-station presence.

Further to the bolded part, capsuleers do a vast amount of the work for corporations in empire space as well as taking care of all sorts of grey or even downright black ops (Seriously have you seen what some missions ask you to do?) against pirates and even other corps. A CEO would be considered insane to cut their corp off from that kind of support, especially since using capsuleers makes it possible to get this stuff done without risking a single one of your own vessels or getting in trouble with CONCORD.

Oh it's another 'Just one more nerf and it'll be balanced' Thread.

How original.

No. Do your own dirty work, don't ask CCP to do it for you because you're too weak.

You might want to go support this thread

You will see a lot of high sec gankers jumping up and down all over threads like this. They really love the broken mechanics, obviously.

... and before someone goes on about how I am such a carebear.

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