Crime & Punishment

1) I provided both those things
2) I could post examples of GoodFights had on stations/gates if needed
3) You seem to be the one deflecting the topic at hand to have a political rant

At the end of the day, small gang PvPers want GoodFights with other small gang PvPers. There's no joy in killing a solo missioner in a PvE tanked ship, we want to fight other guys armed to the teeth and ready to go, we want to die laughing surrounded by the wrecks of command ships and HAC's after being counterdropped 30km off gate, we want to agress on station with an active tanked vindi to bait the rest of their fleet to undock *and get out alive*.
We do not want to beg enemy fleets to warp to a planet, or live off the slim pickings of those foolish enough to rat in the belts, we do not want to endlessly scan for PvE ships that warp the second you move your probes on the off chance we might get a hollow tasting missioner kill.
I simply do not see where you expect small gang fights to actually happen in EVE with boosted gate guns.
For the record I wouldn't advise scalable damage either, frigs camping gates is a bit absurd, it makes it far too easy for people to totally lock down a gate. At the same time I don't think there's anything to gain by boosting DPS, players simply will adapt to the situation to gain the same end result as they do now.

Besides, it's actually quite difficult to tank a hostile ship and sentries at the same time, maybe if you were to do any change at all (that I wouldn't really recommend, just trying to be constructive and play devils advocate) it would be to first take drones off the sentries target list, and then have them hit all viable targets at the same time instead of cycling between them. This has your effect of making a camp difficult to maintain, as well as scalably difficult to maintain a larger camp (much more work for logistics, more ships = more logistics needed = camps capped to a size unless more logi pilots are found), on the other hand this doesn't increase the difficulty for any particular ship in the fleet, leaving small gang and solo stuff with sentries still open.
Of course this would also nerf the tactic of taking sentries with a tough ship then warping a soft gank ship in while you are safe for that 30 sec or so, but that's a luxury I'd probably be willing to let go.
Along these lines you could maybe strap a few citadel launchers if you really felt the need to push capitals away from gates (I've personally never been involved with or been the victim of a carrier/dread/super gatecamp)

I maintain that just because Neg Ten decide to troll Rancer in smartbombing BS (and kudos to them), doesn't mean that all of lowsec PvP should get kicked in the balls

24 (and counting) page thread in General Discussion about this.

You brought this on yourselves.

If you pirate types actually did other things that didnt include reserving yourselves a parking space on gates waiting for easy targets coming fom highsec, this wouldnt be happening.

You assdicks killed lowsec all on your own with your cheap ass camps, so go cry somewhere else you bottom feeders.

Confirming that gatecamps killed whole area's in eve like 0.0 or wh's . Nobody is there because of all the camps!!1111^^^12drölf

Lowsec isn't dead because of gatecamps. Its dead because there is nothing to get there.

nothing to get in low sec?? huh, what is PI , mining, missions, POS's.... Just think of all those new POS's you'll be able to attack now that people can get to them.

Have you ever been in lowsec? What does 10% more reward mean if you can get killed everywhere? Nothing, as you can see almost nobody is doing missions there. And a fix to gateguns will not change that.

Lets say you get killed every 5 missions. That means you have to get your shipcost + more reward as in highsec in that timeframe out of it. Otherwise there wont be anyone there... as it is right now.

wow... u mad bro?

Oh yeah... he mad..

See what you guys don't get, is most pirates are only so cos they have done most other stuff in eve...

CCP will make changes and we will adapt, with little moaning.

My god, had Hulks been changed even a little, this thread would be 150 pages by now

So the point your making is that you only get those fights you want at the gates / stations because those are movement choke points. I get that, not all pvpers hang out at gates to fight other pvp gangs though. If you want that level of pvp doesn't a wardec create that for you? Heck wardec several corps. Maybe a trade off might be to lower the cost of wardecs. Just select a pvp gang you want to attack and go get em.

So they need something to protect those players who want to mission in low sec. I suspect there may be some scan distortion equipment on deadspace gates being looked at just for that purpose. I don't see any of these developments as bad for the game. In fact, I think they are critical to bring and RETAIN new players.

ASTRO BUDDY, where'd you come from..left field? lol. Well thanks for reducing the thread to name calling. lol You always come though in a pinch. I guess you missed the part about the scan distorters.. but what the heck.. welcome.

Meh. The silliest part is they're actually allowing interceptors to tackle but on the other hand you can't have any semi-serious fight under sentries. Ah, well, not -10 anymore, but it's still stupid.



Wh... what. You can make billions in a few days in a gunless T1 frig alt. I can't think of anything with better reward while risking a... oh, a gunless T1 frig. Why do you think everyone is doing it? A friend of mine moved from farming in NPC 0.0 (which is actually quite solid ISK, people buy those faction frigates at silly prices for some reason) to lowsec. Made something silly like 150 navy omens in a week, and it's not cashout time yet.

Plus you get to kill people with your main while doing it. Feeble rewards... you are crazy.