EVE General Discussion

...or to mine efficiently... uh, pesky logic.^^

I'm sure the badger would agree to that.

Just to point out, the people camping the gates are going to benefit from this the most.

Use a fast cloaky frigate or even your pod to go take a look.

I caught the point of the post but it's based on incorrect axioms. If nothing else you're equated the possibility of losing a ship with being in nullsec space, whereas it's just a possibility from being in any space.

Moving in lo-sec is incredibly much easier and safer than moving in 0.0. Far from "every lo-sec enterence being permacaped", even seeing another ship on a gate is a rarity in all by a very few, very well-known systems.

So the risks of being in lo-sec are far, far lower than in null. Any argument about this is based either on ignorance or dishonesty.

In my experience the chance of running into a gate camp in lowsec is less than 1%.

There seems to be a wrong idea floating about that gate guns are meant to ensure safe travel through lo-sec gates. They aren't. The point of gate guns is to raise the barrier to aggressing on a lo-sec gate, not to make it impossible. You can't do it in a solo interceptor like you can in 0.0, but currently you can, if you're determined enough, have RSB'd HICs that more or less emulate that efficiency - the point being that instead of one guy in a 50 mill Inty, you need 5 or 6 guys with a bill or so worth of ships to do the same job.

So the number of gates that can be camped by a given number of pirates is reduced, or said pirates have to use ships capable of tanking gate guns, which is to say that they're going to be slower locking, slower moving ships.

Given that my experience is that only a tiny minority of lo-sec gates are camped, and that it's trivial to route around them, I'd say that there's simply no need for this increase in sentry power. It's a pointless piracy nerf.

(1) Blockade Runners. They exist for a reason.

(2) Do you think that pirates will be more likely or less likely to spend time "scanning" you if sentry power is increased?

Sir, I resent you suggesting that my Velator was a cheap ship!

Not mad. I live in a wh with a 40m sp and 25m sp toon, lost ships worth billions. I just don't waste my time in low sec anymore... Also have plenty of money... The point is, which you missed by a mile, gate camping is preventing a target rich environment in low and null sec, it is also done because of this... Which further grows the problem. In addition, it's due to laziness, which I consider a tremendously "looserish", quality. And let's say I am a new player and I want to build a transport empire... Good luck keeping him from giving this game a shot after crap like that.

Again... Fewer people ---- more boredom.