EVE General Discussion

That's like calling shooting the exhaust port on the death star to blow it up an exploit

I recall hearing POS shields are going byebye in the POS rework, so maybe this interesting technique for escape will cease to exist

Put bubbles just outside POS shield, bubble ranges extend all the way into the POS.

When use of game mechanics in creative ways results in effects CCP feels are bad for the game, they are declared exploits. In a game a big and meesy at Eve, its hard to imagine that cases like this would not exist. CCP has said many time that they try and make a solid set of rules, we break the system, then they fix it.

Is this one such a case? Im not sure. But it is a case that shows why customer services hates POS shields.

A possible fix: Increase the "drag" a ship has when its going above its top speed. An increase by a factor of 5 or 10 should do the trick.

But if CCP gets rid of POS shields in the starbase revamp, what replaces them? How do you see the enemy to run the POS guns if you must be docked? One answer: Let any docked ship deploy camera drones and take a look around, before undocking. To balance it out, have warp scrams stop docking.

POS without shields seems like it will just help the offensive side even more.

Lets be a little clearer here. Its the POS force field that may go. It will still have shields, and guns with shields. Guns, arrays, silos and so on would be all part of the starbase, not separate items floating in space. The issue I brought up is right now with the force field you have a place to park supercaps, a forming fleet, and POS gunners. If CCP gets rid of the force field, all those functions have to be handled by new mechanics. For example

Supercaps get docked to an external docking port. In that case the are invulnerable until the starbase is disabled or destroyed, and it has a reinforcement timer.

Fleets can be handled by increasing the ship maintenance array size.

POS gunners need to see out, and to some extent so do fleets that are forming up. That could be handled by letting everyone see outside the station they are docked at. The last is somewhat un-balancing, so to balance it out, allow scrams to block docking.

But of course, posting GM correspondence is against the rules.

So instead of having a GM post whether or not it's an exploit, the GM office gets bombarded with dozens if not more petitions asking if something is an exploit whenever one of these threads comes up.

Isn't it better just to have them answer here where everybody can see?

This

First time I saw this being used was on the RnK video that many have commented on. But as ISD Suvetar has said. If you want official confirmation/clarification on this use of this POS Mechanic, submit a petition

I will add that watching 30+ caps ejected from a POS in this fashion is an AWESOME sight!

I already replied to ISD Suvetar's post as to why this is a generally undesirable way of going about such things. It would be easier on both the players and the GMs if they could answer here. Since we're not allowed to post our GM correspondence here, we can't, at least not within the rules, communicate to others that GM so and so said that doing x, y, or z was an exploit. This leads to many multiples of people sending petitions asking the same damn thing.

I am looking into this and the policy surrounding posting GM responses. I will update you on the outcome.

For now, do not post anything regarding your correspondence with the GM's.