Crime & Punishment

CCP has a tough job because the changes they make affect the different sand boxes, one has to sit bakc and look as Eve as one sand box but it has a number of unique sand boxes, WH space, null sec, NPC null sec, low sec and hisec, there is a certain amount of interdependency, the first thing I would do and CCP is moving well is to make it so null sec can operate as a full circle space to cover all apsects of production apart from T3 of course, also in doing so they must make it so that the advantages of null do not mean that it destroys other areas, so JF range has to be nerfed to 5LY.

This is important in terms of hisec, because hisec has to import certain high end minerals and of course moon goo and that should not change. With the new structures I hope that hisec can compete better with null sec in terms of industry.

So with that we create null sec market hubs, especially important with the new structures and to prevent meta gaming hell I would make it so that only people who have blue status can trade in them.

Once we have that sorted we can now move onto ganking in hisec. Starting from the proviso that there has to be risk in hisec as a base point, it comes to the fact of refining that risk based on what affects the hisec sandbox to try to create a happy level of balance, without destroying what is core to Eve and that is tough.

At the moment CODE which is funded by Goons in the main is an inbalance, the mechanics are all to their advantage, because there is no way to be pro-active, people go on about being -10, but people in Catalysts are very difficult to catch if they know what they are doing. I have detailed above a number of different solutions, for example harsher hisec penalties for gankers, including loss of docking rights in NPC stations and a AI CONCORD that hunts the ganker for 15 minutes while in space, which will hang around a victim. With that CODE would have to have a Citadel structure in Uedama for example which creates a choke point, but something that can be attacked.

On suggestion is to have a special definition for criminals within the game that makes them suspect based on certain criteria and longer than the normal period, so if Mr Goon with +5.00 security status blaps a freighter he immediately goes into that list and is suspect for 2 hours, add to that a new special medium power target lock breaker module that is special for freighters that forces people to use ships above Catalysts, we now have content that enables the AG players to actually be proactive.

Instead of CONCORD it is player driven content and the mechanics now enable active AG content rather than sitting waiting for the brief period to blap what they can, ECM as much as they can once they start firing and rep as much as they can, it will enable active combat that is more like what Eve players expect. Then it will truly be down to the players at that point...

EDIT admiral root is now blocked, as he has nothing intelligent to add.

Please answer his question. What changes would you make? The answer will look something like this:

If I were in charge of CCP:

Concord would no longer be invincible
Faction police would be removed
GCC would create a beacon on everyone's overview
etc

The Veers insult, how so unoriginal...

Well that was actually sensible so what's you issue, but I think the suggestion I put forward in reply to Black Pedro is better, because that with the T2 destroyer with the MJD works very well. Then it will be players against players without having to wait for the first shot apart from the first gank of course...

We've already been over the whole solo thing Drac. Solo doesn't necessarily mean without support, as you know. So I'm OK with hyperdunking, because solo in this instance includes self help and it can be avoided solo, with self help.

In other words, solo and single account, can mean different things. No matter how much you try to move those goal posts.

The story. Yes exactly. It showed how someone's attitude to the game, suddenly became everyone else's fault. It shows how even though it's been shown time and again that help helps, there are still pilots out there running alone without support. But instead of understanding that friends or self help in this MMO is preferred, look to change the mechanics. Why? Well because other who have friends and self help can beat them, so the game's broken apparently.

In other words, you and they blame the game and it's mechanics and ignore the obvious. Friends.

I have had fun outnumbered. I've had fun when I decided not to jump out a dread, even though I could. But what you and I enjoy, is irrelevant to what others enjoy. Again, this isn't the fault of the game, just different styles of play.

But in the case of freighter ganking, it's not simply numbers that win. One friend can remove you from the risk of being ganked in a freighter. That's one friend. So much so, it's almost guaranteed to work. Should it always work? Well no and if someone dies even with help, that's good.

In other words when they use a friend and it can make such a difference, why is the game at fault when they don't? I'm not even sure Sherlock can answer that one.

Depends if Sherlock listens...

I am not a C # programmer, and in any case one would need to know the system of the Ai that CCP have developed fully, I read their overview of it and it looked impressive, I think it could handle this easily.



I would like to see them try if it only applies to a BS when a BS is bumping freighters... 20 km away from a station undock too.

The new Ai is written in C# for gods sake!

Hisa Kite you anti-semite scum, you are already blocked.

Is it? Admittedly the quote is from 3 years ago, but:

I would assume, I may be wrong as I'm no programmer, that the AI comes under the heading of game logic, which is written in Python.

Nowhere does CCP Explorer mention C#.

C++ I always get that mixed up with C# but anyway the logic is written in Python so yes it is Python then, so to reply correctly I am not a stackless Python programmer.