Crime & Punishment

I think the problem is to figure out WHAT is out of balance.

Piracy=

a) getting a gang of whatever ship you fancy and sitting on a gate in Empire space. No pilot will be able to tank 6:1, 8:1 - most can't even compete 2:1. The story of the kiting Keres is 1 of 1000, where the 999 before died.

So we're back to the blob-fest mechanics. If I can rally 10-15 Rifter pilots, I can be a pirate too. Rly? Tha'ts all it takes? How boring.

b) getting a gang of capitals and/or round-robin Logi and camping the undock point of low-sec stations. Rly? This is the pinnacle of your profession? To sit with 3-6 carriers or a dozen people on the undock point isn't a game, it's trout fishing in a stocked pond.

Still. Not. Impressed.

You guys need to work for a living.

For general travel purposes, most solo travel into low-sec is now out. We had a shuttle smartbombed and the pilot was instantly PK'd. That set him back 400m isk in implants. We had another pilot who lost his command ship returning from a low-sec mission where he solo'd a L5 mission only to lose his ship to the pirate gate camp waiting for him as he returned the 2 jumps back to station. YES he had a scout. They waited cloaked and hot dropped him. Gate response? Pathetic.

Maybe another way of putting this is that I have no problem saying GF to a group of pirates who gank me with a hot drop and a cloaked gang waiting patiently. That's tactically challenging, but hardly a fight. The fact that it's a virtual i-win for them is what the problem is. Empire space is supposed to afford some level of security in defense of traveling pilots. NO gate gun setup will disperse a camp of anything but the most weak ships. AND in no case is it capable of overcoming even modest logi support.


The ISSUE seems to be that you can have EITHER your BLOB or you can have your RR, but not both in Empire.

No matter which option you choose, GATE GUNS must be enhanced to make this style of game play more challenging.

The risk/reward quotient for low-sec gate camping and station piracy is severely out of balance.

Ok, so this is super easy to resolve.

98040, when you see me online (oh sorry, watchlist got nerfed) come on down and I'll let you run a solo gate camp on a lowsec gate. I'll show you how to do it, and then you can see how easy/hard it actually is to camp. If you want, you can even bring a frigate for logi on a second screen.

Seriously, we'll put you on a gate in Rancer and you can easy button kills all day long for a day and have solid proof in the form of an actual killboard as to how simple it is to run a camp and not get dropped.

Deal?

Or are you going to keep whining?