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'Squirrel Fishing' needs to be banned!
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Lord Fudo
Doomheim
#41 - 2013-02-22 01:12:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Lord Fudo
FDIC Agent wrote:
For those of you who don't know, squirrel fishing is using a cyno and a sling bubble to trap pilots who go to investigate the situation. What is becoming alarmingly out of control is using this next to a deathstar pos with hundreds of abandoned drones at the edge of the sling bubble. So if being dragged through the pos shield wasnt enough, the drones will decloak you. Effectively creating a trap that can not be countered. What makes things even worse is they use this very pos as a midpoint for their jump freighters.

So, in order to stop their effort free logistics we warp cyno dictors to the cynos to catch the jump freighters only to find out it is nothing but that stupid bait cyno. Another issue is they runs the bait cyno for hours and hours, day after day. So much that eventually no one bothers to check it out anymore. So their jump freighters are even more safe because everyone assumes the cyno for the jump freighter is bait.

Something needs to be done.


Lol thats awesome!! Guess you get what you deserve for not dscanning for a pos in the cyno's direction or using combat probes to see if its safe to warp there. Another reason to get rid of local. Make players use their dscan. Learn to use it. Lol
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#42 - 2013-02-22 01:38:48 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
Squirrel!


I raise you one squirrel!

Leadership is something you learn. Maybe one day, you'll learn that.
Google Voices
Doomheim
#43 - 2013-02-22 01:55:22 UTC
Jeremy Soikutsu wrote:
So why is this called squirrel fishing?



You have to be a little nuts to try it, and then when you die, they say..."Thanks for all the fish..."

"Fozzie could not comment on when this issue would be resolved and stated that “one day Veritas will come up to me and say ‘hey I fixed off-grid boosting’”, but he had no idea on a potential timeframe for this sort of miracle."
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#44 - 2013-02-22 01:57:25 UTC
Anya Klibor wrote:
Marlona Sky wrote:
Squirrel!


I raise you one squirrel!

Lol
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2013-02-22 02:15:22 UTC
This is squirrel fishing!

Leadership is something you learn. Maybe one day, you'll learn that.
Mag's
Azn Empire
#46 - 2013-02-22 02:43:11 UTC
Best post I've seen for some time. Thanks OP, I have tears. LolLol

Destination SkillQueue:- It's like assuming the Lions will ignore you in the Savannah, if you're small, fat and look helpless.
Din Chao
#47 - 2013-02-22 02:55:47 UTC
Oh boy, I totally misread the thread title...
Oxandrolone
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2013-02-22 03:25:21 UTC
Lol, dont warp to every cyno like a moth to a flame or d-scan around it first to find out of its on a deathstar?
Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
Affirmative.
#49 - 2013-02-22 03:34:06 UTC
When I read the OP I was thinking about this Squirrel Launcher
loco coco
#50 - 2013-02-22 03:51:52 UTC
FDIC Agent wrote:
For those of you who don't know, squirrel fishing is using a cyno and a sling bubble to trap pilots who go to investigate the situation.


This right here is where you fail. Investigating the situation means warping in at a distance. But I'm guessing you're just mad because you tried to warp to 0 to see if you could catch some lowly transport ship to gank and instead got blown up. Also, last time I checked, the directional scanner picks up POSs, drones, and bubbles, so it's kinda your fault. Also, judging by the tone of your post, it sounds like you've been caught like this before. Natural Selection at it's finest if you don't learn a lesson the first few times.
Degren
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2013-02-22 04:15:37 UTC
First page of this thread is one of my favorites in all E-O forums.

Hello, hello again.
Mina Hiragi
Perkone
Caldari State
#52 - 2013-02-22 05:56:10 UTC
dark heartt
#53 - 2013-02-22 05:58:38 UTC  |  Edited by: dark heartt
ITT: Person who got caught doing something stupid complains...

loco coco wrote:
FDIC Agent wrote:
For those of you who don't know, squirrel fishing is using a cyno and a sling bubble to trap pilots who go to investigate the situation.


This right here is where you fail. Investigating the situation means warping in at a distance. But I'm guessing you're just mad because you tried to warp to 0 to see if you could catch some lowly transport ship to gank and instead got blown up. Also, last time I checked, the directional scanner picks up POSs, drones, and bubbles, so it's kinda your fault. Also, judging by the tone of your post, it sounds like you've been caught like this before. Natural Selection at it's finest if you don't learn a lesson the first few times.



This man speaks the truth and this post should be copied on to every page.

http://tetrisisunrealistic.blogspot.com.au/
Nitko Koraka
Flashover Freight
#54 - 2013-02-22 06:07:31 UTC
I just wanted to thank the OP for giving an aspiring jump freighter pilot some excellent ideas. I wish I could shake the hand of the person who first adopted these methods.
Jaden Mars
Cargo Dawg's Group Mining Corp.
#55 - 2013-02-22 06:43:25 UTC
Aren Madigan
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2013-02-22 06:47:44 UTC
Can't be countered? I can think of many counters, many of which have been mentioned here. Maybe use those and stop getting caught in it? Especially do not warp to 0 if you are "investigating" as you claim.
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#57 - 2013-02-22 07:23:02 UTC
The Hundreds of Drones + hordes of PoS Mods probably is a lag inducing thing, so consider petitioning the drones, as for the bubble/Cyno/PoS......
Yea.... tough luck, Harden up, blow their PoS up when there is no cyno up. (Or just snipe 10 mods a day at random times and force them to continually replace them, bleed them)
Tamiya Sarossa
Resistance is Character Forming
#58 - 2013-02-22 07:26:22 UTC
OP is hilarious, the amount of people in the thread suggesting warping at distance to bubbled cynos is even more hilarious. D-scan from nearest planet, yo.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#59 - 2013-02-22 08:32:31 UTC
The obvious counter to Squirrel Fishing would off course be Flea Bombing.
Kha'Vorn
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2013-02-22 08:38:04 UTC
oh my god. Just shut up.