Warfare & Tactics

Gay

To be more specific, I am referring to the all to common 1v1 frigate brawls in low security space. As in, using another character to provide off-grid links to gain that unfair advantage.

Everything is acceptable if it is not an exploit.

Once you have gang booster its not 1v1. Its the same thing as ecming your target with falcon, repping yourself with a logi or warping in another combat ship to facemelt the opponent.

Claiming such fight was 1v1 and you actually soloed your opponent is gay.

If there's a verbal agreement to a 1v1, using links is poor taste and not considered honorable. Getting into the same fleet remedies this. If its just roaming around and engaging people links are entirely appropiate, especially when most players you fight try to run away and come back with 2-3 times your numbers (with their own links too).

When faced with such bravery using loki (point them so they must stay and fight!), proteus (because they brought enough ecm to perma-jam your whole gang!), and your choice of tengu or legion links depending on your tank (because you are outnumbered 3 to 1, otherwise you would not be getting a fight!) is entirely appropiate.

Thank you, now I won't sleep for a week.

As for the boosters, I have mixed feelings, I view them along the lines of buff-bots in DAoC. They can easily make or break a fight, and originally only a few people had them. There was lots of crying and whining about how unfair it was, then people started to shutup and join them until it was pretty much the norm that if you were going to be running "solo" or in a small group you needed to be sure and buff up before heading out if you wanted to be competitive in any way. I held out for as long as I could, then said screw it, got a second account for a buff-bot and never looked back.

I think you will see the same with Eve, with Eve at least it is harder to keep that booster safe, which I guess is something. My only advice is:
1. Learn who uses boosters and remember them.
2. Never expect a fair fight.
3. If it really matters that much, time to start a new account and get your own.

I do not have a booster myself, but after being in a fleet with a max skilled booster.... I wish I did.

I have a problem with the term 'honour' in Eve - a game where ruthless megacorporations are supposed to fight each other with all means possible.

This is not Q3 Arena, where people meet for a duel of skills - having an honourable '1on1' makes about as much sense to me as firing up your favourite RTS game and agree to meet with one infantry guy in the middle of the battlefield - it entirely defeats the purpose of the game, which is finding a strategy where you are in the favourable position - preferrably by making the other guy(s) wrongly assume he is in the favourable position.



Having that said, in seven years of playing this game, I have never used an offgrid booster despite of having characters very well capable of doing it and tripleboxing on three screens.

Probing alt? Yes. Hauling around some cap boosters for my PvP character in a Blockade Runner? Yes.

Falcon alts or offgrid boosters? Never.

It's not entirely rational and I can't blame people using the current mechanics to their full extent, but I wont - simply because i consider these mechanics entirely broken.

I play games to have a good time, and I have a better time losing some fights than winning whilst using mechanics I despise.


I don't use ECM drones or jammers for the same reason (when I loot them I even don't sell those items on - I either reprocess them or jet them and shoot the can, no matter what they're worth).

Guess it's some categorical imperative thing rooted so deeply within my personality I carried it over from RL - or I'm just a moron.

I say: the Falcon is missing

Honor has never won anyone a battle.
Being pro and 1337pvp has never won anyone a battle.
15% extra shields might well be the advantage you need to win a battle.

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