Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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^^This.^^

EDIT: Might also give a whole new set of "tools in the box" for bounty-hunters to choose from, if that atrociously broken waste of database space ever gets fixed, too.

This is eminently reasonable, I like this.

I think that last would be considered exploiting, though, as evading CONCORD is something CCP takes a dim view of.

Retribution doesn't make things safer. It makes things more dangerous. If you mine with a security detail, it's unlikely you'll be attacked. You might be, but that'd be kinda funny, and profitable for you and your mining fleet. Yes, a mining fleet has more than just mining ships and barges. The fact people try to solo mine without taking this into consideration is like driving without your seatbelt. Something might not happen, then again, something might.

The dynamics of EVE should make it a priority to get organized as groups and do things methodically. I don't want to see game mechanics altered just because some miner solos without regard to the greater picture. And, yes, it would take time and organization. Script miners certainly wouldn't be in on this. It takes coordination, cooperation and sharing...all supposedly "carebear" qualities.

It seems miners only focus on their training to mine, purchase of the stuff they need, go out blindly and start beaming that laser and the security end is not even an afterthought. Their response is "leave me alone, I'm minding my own business here." In actuality, in EVE, if you haven't provided for your security, you aren't minding your business.

That being said, I am appalled that faction sovereignty means so little to the Minmatar, Amarrian, etc., that they'd let pirates flourish within their bounderies and not respond with the kind of force needed to assert that sovereignty as an absolute. No civilization could possibly reach any kind of advancement, let alone survival, without this being the number one priority of the state, period. No ifs, ands or buts.

When a pirate violates the law, anyone or anything offering them shelter or aid becomes criminal as well, aiding and abetting a criminal. Therefore, NO station should admit any criminal, period. There should be no recourse for the pirate. All gates are closed to the criminal - no free passage, as that is aiding in the offender's escape. And, no time limit. Maybe the possibility to pay a hefty fine to take the criminal flag off, but so hefty that piracy is unprofitable in faction sovereign systems. I'm sure player sovereignty would work the same if the corps and alliances can establish that kind of martial supremacy over their holdings.

But...come on...these mighty stellar states leave law enforcement to the half-assed Concord response...a contractor? Balderdash. Take care of this glaring inconsistency, and you'll see a balancing of all the activity. Hi/lo/null will acquire their true natures, and lazy gankers will have to get a real job, or go back to WoW.

dont fix what's not broken

How about we be able to not only wardec, but "webifier dec" and "ECM dec" and "vamp dec" because wardec griefers suck ass so bad they can't compete in real PVP, so let's just go ahead and make wardecs the i-win button those fail corps/alliances who've got nothing better to do than shoot at corps with nothing but month-old characters. If you're going to f*ck up wardecs even worse, let's f*ck it all the way up.

Re-read what I wrote somewhere up there:

It's not just "nooby-indi kill farmers" who make use of wardecs. On what do you suppose the whole mercenary corp-profession is based?

And I never said I hate carebears, just that CCP is making hisec too safe for them, which runs counter to the whole core concept of EVE.

Oh, and what's stopping even the cariest of bears from getting in warships and, you know, fighting back? Ultimately, no-one makes of you a victim but you. So stop choosing to be a victim.

Um....lolwut?

We look for targets who say they like to fight, unless it's a merc-job--in which case, we go after whom we're paid to go after, regardless of the prospect of "gudfytes," as a contract is a contract.

Often, these former out-number us at least 2 : 1, and yet, by the time we get there, that's when the station-games start. (We have to go to them, they've never come to us...Maybe we should move out of losec, I guess?)

Once again, you know nothing of me/us, and my/our combat record, so until you show that you do, you can just shut the **** up.

On second thought, don't: You're textbook proof of what happens when you assume: You make an ass out ofu, but not me.

I'm finished with you, you predictable, generic ****-spewing 1337-****.

Go **** yourself, and goodbye.