EVE General Discussion

Someone put down mobile depots in a pattern. It happens all the time.

I was going to put this as a new topic but I'll just toss my weekend observation into this threads 'weird' bucket as well. I didn't make it all the way to Jita (thank heavens, hear it was a zoo!) but I did cruise through Uedama several times. What was up with all the traffic and people going nuts over the Sivala gate?

I saw tons of Oblisks and other large escorted convoys as well as a bunch of scanner players around the gates. It was like madness yesterday. Did I miss some event announcement? Just someone 'in the know' passing on inside info about the convoys?

Someone tried to warp scram me jumping in from Sivala in my little Atron (running empty). Had to laugh, I had nothing of real value on the ship (just some railgun charges for my rails in the cargo bay). Lucky when I'm set up for quick runs like I was I have two stabilizers on board.

So, I don't get the behavior, Uedama is still HiSec at the gates and stations, who tries to lock up and attack an empty micro frigate? I mean scrams count as offensive behavior don't they? Maybe I'm missing some loophole in the rule.

As far as preachy mobile depot names go, you can name them anything I think. I'm not entirely sure but I think you can also name containers.

I do know that if I running around in my pod, I'll name it something either micro small like a "." or something totally wrong like "Ghengis Buns Dominix", sometimes all you need is that half second of indecision to get out of a jam!

The thing with micro frigates is they align so fast that the pirates don't have time to scan your cargo beforehand, to make a decision. And there have been so many instances of shuttles or fast atrons piloted by "newbie" characters flying around with PLEX, Blueprint originals, implants, or millions of ISK in salvage, that the pirates are willing to take a chance.

Basically, kill all fast frigates / shuttles. If even one of them drops the PLEX, that will make their day.

It's called trolling. Trolling is intended to cause a reaction. In this case, it seems to have worked.

You can't , the cloaking gfx are misleading , cloaks are binary eg on or off, the second you issue a command you drop cloak and are lockable, the gfx of the cloak are irrelevant.

There was a guy who used to drop cans with Bible verses at every gate in my region. It was annoying af just for their immersion-breaking quality. You'd go to church every time you flew to Amarr. But short of wardeccing the corp and destroying them, which is what happened to those, I'm not sure what else you can do about it.

I prefer agility over stabilizers.

you realize there are mercenaries who do literally nothing other than hump those two stations right?

Yea to be fair, I doubt they'll last long... which is why I didn't report it. And, in Jita, it looks like players are already anchoring more depots to turn the cross into a different shape until the timers expire.

Still pretty stupid. Players shouldn't have to be proselytized to visit a trade hub.

Thank you so much! I didn't know that. I was misled by the effect in assuming there was a period of sensor 'fuzziness'.

Man, how do we newbies even survive this stuff! LOL!