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When I read the new DEV blog, I found one point really stood out upon which I wanted to shares my thoughts. We are talking about the suspect flagging system.

To briefly summarize, players will be able to flag themselves as "red flashy" to the whole universe without NPC police nor CONCORD intervention by committing a "soft" crime such as can stealing.

This will essentially kill -5 to -10 piracy; which is not necessarily a bad thing. It was already proposed/discussed in another thread where someone (Herr Wilkus) suggested red flashy pirates should not be chased by NPC police in highsec, thus promoting highsec PVP while giving the upper-hand to characters with a positive sec status. One of the main arguments against that was "criminals should stay locked out of highsec". It's a silly argument, and here's why:

People don't go "red flashy" because they can't control their urge to kill "helpless noobs". They go "red flashy" because they want people to notice and attack them. For instance, my main does not kill pods because I'm a killmail *****, I kill them because they offer me the greatest sec status hit, bringing me closer to my goal, "-10". People also go "red flashy" because it adds to the prestige... A certain "status" if you will. You can almost read "BAD MOTHER****ER" on the back of those ships.

But why would anyone want to go "-10", carebears might ask? It's simple, we can now offer PVP to anyone (even neutrals) in lowsec without going GCC. They just need to shoot first, like Han Solo. The problem is that lowsec, as we all know it, has a very thin population. This is why "-10's" will hug lowsec hotspots, looking for someone to aggress them.

So thank you CCP, for opening the doors to highsec. Thank you CCP, for I do not need to permanently go "red flashy" anymore. As of winter, we will be able to camp highsec systems with a criminal flag without being chased by NPC police and smoke anyone who thinks they know PVP.

You think all you need to do is not get involved? Imagine this: you are mining in highsec when suddenly a wild James315 appears! What's this? He IS red flashy AND coming for the bump? Don't tell me you won't try shooting him now.

Done right, this will be a huge buff to highsec PVP.

Brace yourselves, winter is coming.

I didn't say hisec shouldn't exist. I spend most of my time in hisec, and not even doing stuff like hisec piracy. I do hisec/lowsec exploration, and I trade.

I think the current state of hisec is fine. EVE is about decisions. Right now, a miner in a hulk has to decide "Should I jetcan mine? My cargo is small, so it would greatly improve my ability to solo mine, but there are risks, so im not sure". That's great. After this change goes in, the risk for jetcan mining will be reduced in a gigantic way. Now the miners don't have to make that decision and the game becomes dumber. This is just one example. Another example, which I face every day, is how much ISK worth of stuff to put in a hauler that has to fly through niarja or uedama. 100 million? 300 million? 2 billion? If you put too much, people looking for profit will blow up your ship and take the loot. After the crime watch changes take effect, it will be much harder to profit off of suicide ganks, meaning I have less risk, and therefore I will have fewer decisions to make, and the game once again becomes dumber.

People like you would prefer if hisec was a brainless grindfest and all the "big meanies" who want to actually play the game as it was advertised can't do anything about it. well, like I said before, EVE is advertised as being a hard game. "EVE is hard" was literally a tag line. Hisec is already easy. Why are you trying to make it easier?

A habit people have picked up in lowsec where they use Orcas to save ships (and SP) they should by all rights have lost.

Check killboards first before calling people carebears.

Actually, better still, don't call people carebears at all. I happen to be a pirate, that's what I like to do, but you will never see me talking trash about how ANYONE likes to play the game. Being a pirate is no more special than being a Miner or Trader or Battleship Maker. There is no "elite" play style. It's just regular people spending their money and enjoying the game.

It isn't nasty at all (if the orca ship has to accept the flagging by some dialog/protocol)! DEVS!!!

I'll ask again.

Dear CCP,

Is there a specific reason why you want to raise the safe hauling limit for Freighters to the neighborhood of 10b ISK?

…aside from explaining the scenario (and any variations thereov) they want to avoid.

It's not just the Orca they're going after, so fixing that problem doesn't solve anything. It's the problem of saving your ship when you have already lost it. You can still eject and enter ships — you just have to deaggress to do so (and with some of the tweaks suggested earlier in the thread, it might even be possible let GTFO-ejections back in).

About the NPC 15 minute timer ...

While i'm not going to lose any sleep over this ... it's only a problem because moduals stop after a disconnect.

Fix?

1. Make it so only offensive mods stop after a disconnect. Tanks and what ever dont.
.... 1a. if you're butthurt over this, make it so that if you logged off with tank mods active for PvP flags, the pvp timer will reset. (for when that carrier logoffskies with reppers going).
2. Make it so that when you accept a mission, the agent/mission/deadspace is given a 'pass' to this agression timer. You are, afterall, for the mostpart, going after pirates for a empire corporation, on their behalf, they have a budy in concord who will 'look past' this aggression, for the sake of ... blah blah.
.... 2a. butthurt? make it so if the mission is vs Empire factions (kill caldari, or amarr, etc) that this 'pass' is revoked (opposite for pirate faction missions)
3. All mods/drones stay active.
.... 3a this will mean a potential to perma-reset pvp timers, if some one was foolish enough to keep drones on a hard-target.
.... 3b. Means missioners will have to time their tanks to survive, or, god forbid, permatank.
... 3c. Cloaks stay active. cover your butt, but suffer through having the terible effects of fitting cloaks. makes this viable.

i dont know, i think mostly ... the npc timer is ... a good idea (and i am/was a hard core missioner, in fragile ships). 0.0 ratting and security can be frustratingly crappy for people because of log-off-jerks.

but missions.... MAY need an exception...

OR, revamp log-off so that mods stay active (so long as there is cap).

often, 5 minutes is enough to get EVE back after a crash... ISP crashes are a whole other issue... which is why leaving mods active is still a solution, because CCP can blame YOU for not having an acceptable fit/everything online ... not their dumb mechanic.

And that's just the point: remove the Orca and some other way will be found to replicate it, so “fixing” the Orca doesn't solve anything. Instead, they're going after the mechanic that's actually problematic: the ability to get a new ship out of [wherever] in the middle of a fight or to whisk one away when it's lost.

The ejection/boarding restrictions take care of all cases without having to code each and every one of them and adding more and more code as new variations are found. It takes care of the actual problem rather than uselessly trying to chase all unique and specific instances of it.

Tough. So figure out a way to bait him without shooting him until you've had the chance to change ships.

The answer is self-evident.

Eve is a sandbox, not a slaughterhouse. Suicide killing in high sec should not be a career path, it should be a high cost / low return activity that no one engages in on a whim. And if it costs you ten billion isk to suicide gank a ship that's worth two billion, what of it? No one is forcing you to suicide gank anyone -- and your ability to do so as a career path is not an inherent right of the sandbox.