Crime & Punishment

Hear hear!
Simply changing the GCC in hi-sec to 'lasts until the criminal is hunted down and grease-spotted' should've been fine. And it would likely have produced some truly epic hot-pursuits - the kind which get written-up in blogs and industry news. Publicity-generating events, yanno?

I think CCP has missed a bet here.

Fine. Roll it with Inferno - Which isn't all that far down the road.

As to why is doesn't make good entertainment - that's a failure of marketting imagination. CCP rolls out plenty of breathless sexy adverts - why not make more of 'em based on actual fights? Spam 'em in front of other vids in YouTube, like every other swinging **** does these days. Put some longer ones in theaters in front of the movies. Hell, if there can be WOW adverts on TV, why not EVE, too? A little (suitably sexed-up) live drama ought to sell fairly well.

Speaking as a dedicated carebear, one that makes regular runs from Jita to Rens in a hauler... this ruling makes me haz a sad. I approve of having to worry about hauling a few hundred million isk worth of crap halfway across the empire. I like the idea that escorting your hauler with the hundreds of millions of isk is maybe a wise idea. And if somebody comes up with a way to make freighters be not completely invulnerable.. awesome. If they can't afford to lose them, they shouldn't be flying them.

:: shakes head ::
Serious failure of marketing imagination.

Take something like this:
http://youtu.be/ejX0Rym0NZw

And stage it around actual fights. Get players' permission to use their likeness and names - make the connection between the game and the player explicit. They've half-way done it a couple times, only it requires in-game knowledge to make the connections. Make the connection obvious to the outsiders.

Besides - Who doesn't love a good hot-pursuit vid?

nah, I'll stick to using 7 tornados.

Well this was all fun and enlightening. If you expected this to last, that was kind of silly. I love mah pvp and blowing up hulks and freighters as much as the next guy, but this was so batently imbalanced it was heatscratching.

Yes, the inventor came up with an ingenious way of killing things with relatively low risk/reward margins. Yes it was fun for a few days. However the imbalance it creates is blatently obvious. CCP gave freighters a shitton of hp for a reason, and that was to make them extremely difficult to kill in highsec, and i'm PRETTY sure being able to solo a freighter outside of wardecs etc. is not something that is "working as intended".

It definitely would affect the overall health of the game, and start making freighters obsolete. You can only escort so many freighters, and you definitely cannot escort freighter alts in NPC corps. Alot of people are very short-sighted. They dont see beyond the "halp, i wants to be space outlaw pewpew all things make monay", but dont realize that if you took away a huge chunk of freighter industry, their pew pew is going to start being impossible to fund. CCP definitely cares more about the overall health of the game, while trying to please as many as they can, but they can't hit ALL the marks, especially if one of those marks creates an unintended imbalance.

I applaud the inventor of the tornado boomerang and admire his genious. But despite this, the argument that "this takes skill" is rather silly in light of the fact that it still works around one of the rules CCP intended. Its like saying con-artists/white-collar criminals/etc. should be allowed because they're amazingly smart and what they do takes a whole lot of skill.

In the end, big props to the creator of this little workaround, very good work on your solo/duo freighter kills. However, CCP made the obvious and probably the correct choice in this matter. They can't please everyone, especially if doing so would destroy the overall health of their game.

In the meantime, enjoy the game, and take heart at the fact that CCP lS trying. They didn't have to abandon a project (incarna) they'd been devoted to for years, issue formal apologies, and do a complete 360 turnaround and focus on making this game better because their players were screaming at them to do so. Yeah they ****** up, but they owned up to their mistakes and are at the very least trying.

Thank you for reading my wall of text. Fly safe!

You can no longer board a ship while you have a GCC timer so the second scenario is impossible.

Oh yeah I forgot about that.
Oh noes

But tbh people have to agree that the single tornado ganking an NPC corped 180K+ ehp ship, i a bit ridiculous, even if you can do it.
Same as using war dec alliance to avoid wars etc.

Nerf bumping!

It's not actually the boomerang nerf that saddens me. We knew that was coming and once we saw what it could do to a freighter it was pretty clear that there were applications to it that shouldn't be allowed.

What saddens me is the spirit of the law vs. letter of the law thing. What that says to me is that if a GM (who I'm told aren't allowed to grief) decides he doesn't like the cut of your jib, any attempt at cleverness on your part is bannable. Emergent gameplay be damned.