Warfare & Tactics

So, as many of FW people know, there is a bug that has been haunting us for a long time now. You enter plex with an enemy, you shoot him or he shoots you, or somebody gets shot by the NPC and voila..... The timer gets bugged. Sometimes it shows wrong time and people need to orbit the button even if it shows captured for some extra time. Or it just gets screwed permanently until another downtime. Very frustrating when it concerns the outpost plexes which are supposed to spawn 30 minutes after the closing of the same type of plex.

I don't even bother posting this as a bug because from my talks with another Gallente Militia members, this has been reported too many times already.

My point being..... CCP claims how they started to care about the FW again. It is true - the mechanic has been changed (although many don't agree with the way}. But don't you think it is shameful and ridiculous, that for long months (and I mean at least a year), you failed to repair the bug plaguing the cornerstone of FW mechanics (plexing)? I just hope this gets noticed more than the countless bug reports.

Why am I writing this now? Well, after seeing three perma-bugged plexes in two days (one in Brarel, two in Ladistier) and also dying because of another unrelated bug yesteday, my cup of patience is getting dangerously full. Add the plex farming by stabbed ships and I'm really pissed. Shame on you CCP, you should try harder.

Huh. Empyrean Age? That's even longer than I play this game. Double shame on you, CCP. The company that can connect two completely different games on two different gaming plaforms having trouble with a stupid timer.

Hans may not know as many bugs as you Damar, but that is why he hasn't been banned for exploiting.

If you truly cared then forward the details to him instead of trying to exploit them for your own benefit.

So, because in your eyes he's biased, you decide not to relay any more information concerning the betterment of faction warfare to him? I fail to see what that accomplishes. Okay, so you sent him the details at some point in time. I'm sure with his roles as CSM he's a busy man, why not just kindly (kindly being the key word) remind him and perhaps ask about what he's doing to address the issue? He may have already brought it up or it may have slipped his mind. We're all human. A little "hey, I was just wondering about the timer bug. Anything new?" and a "I think it really think it needs to be looked at" never hurt, so long as it's in a tasteful tone.

Dammit, the plan CCP chatgris gave Yttr backfired!

So lemme get this straight, instead of using a game mechanic thats available for BOTH sides to use, you complain about the other side using it, then make a post complaining that CCP fix it for you. If it was indeed a bug it would have been fixed by now and we would have heard a post from Hans the self-billed "highsec candidate" about how he has brought it up to CCP. Sounds like you're describing a feature rather than a bug TBH. Sounds like carebear self-entitlement to me.

LOL! You are obviously new to EVE.

Sounds like a feature working as intended to me.

1) Obviously people are still using the bugs against you enough to be a fairly big bother DESPITE the thread you linked me.
2) Warning != ban
3) If it was indeed as punishable for being exploited as you claim it to be, then it wouldn't still be this rampant problem that people are claiming it is. I came from highsec and have been on the both sides of the petition box quite frequently. The fact is, there are certain things that are easily enforceable and there are things that aren't. For example, before CCP declared all highsec wardec "exploits" legal, I can't count how many highsec POSes that I had put into reinforced walked away scott-free by dropping alliance. Obviously we petitioned this everytime, but i'm pretty sure none of them ever actually got banned and just recieved warnings. I know for a fact that any forum threads about the issue and confirming that its an exploit didn't reduce any of this from happening. In fact, the more open it got that you can do it in the first place, the more rampant it became, until CCP just declared everything legal.

If history repeats itself we'll see all FW exploits declared as being legal in a few months and might see a patch partially fixing many of the problems next summer.

I'm talking about the attitude of complaining that people are making your gameplay unplayable by pointing to other threads saying that its illegal, despite the fact that its apparently rampant enough to cause you to post on the eve-o forums about and seem intent on waiting for CCP to fix your problems for you, when you for a fact know and have stated that CCP is quite slow about fixing FW bugs.

I'm just pointing out that if the true risk of getting banned was that high, then plex bugging as a problem shouldn't be a real problem.

I think you got your analogy around the wrong way.

I say just do away with plexes and make it all mission based. You go to your journal and there is a list of FW missions that are currently available. Both sides get the same mission for the same deadspace, but different objectives. I get this idea from WarHammer online. While that game was a huge disappointment, the community realm vs realm missions were awesome.

It would lead to a lot more organization and it would focus on PvP, while at the same time you can use the same plex tier system but just with mission level. Level one would be relative to a minor and level four a major unrestricted.

I mentioned this idea many moons ago but I would like to just bring it up again as I think it would be the best thing for FW.