EVE General Discussion

lol.....

when you get your standing high enough with a corp you get access to locator agents as well as mission agents.

its well, well within the mechanics of the game, and has been for a very long time.

perhaps you should play the game from time to time

you can also join the channel locates r us and hire someone to do a locate for you, usually a mill or so for a player locate

Locator agents are the same agents you use for running missions, they just have an extra option. Lvl 1 and 2 locator agents have restrictions in range where they can find people, lvl 3 is already decent and lvl 4 is ideal. Once you have access to that agent (which you get like normal agents) you can click on him and type in a name for him to find, depending on several variables it'll then take 4-8 minutes or so before you get the answer back, there's a cost involved of a few 100k and that agent will be on "cooldown" for some 15-30 minutes.

If he's within normal space you'll get the system and if docked even station, regardless of that pilot being logged in or not. When he replies with a "can't find this player" then that pilot is in a WH system. To find locator agents use www.eve-agents.com, type in the corp you do missions for and use the "is locator" option.

This actually might be the first time I've ever seen somebody complain about the locators.

any post that includes a description of an established and well liked game mechanic as "may be game breaking" is suspect of being bad, very bad.

this can only end in tears

Why do you believe it's game breaking ?

It's a necessity !

How in hell should people be able to find each other,
if there were no locator agents ?

Wars would be useless,
because people just need to move 20 jumps away and are safe again.

It's a necessary intel tool and without, there'd be no wars at all.

And if you now respond a "but that's a good thing",
let me remind you that without wars, there'd be no economy. :)

They only tell you the last station the person docked at. With that knowledge you can choose to either log out in space, or even dock at stations you want them to come looking for you at, either as a trap, or a 'wild goose chase'.

Griefing is against the terms of service.

still haven't saw so-called "griefing" in this game tho.


ah **** who am I kidding.

there is no "griefing" in this game, at least one that goes against the ToS.

There is one type of griefing against the TOS! But it's the only one I'm aware of. See starter system can baiting at last paragraph of the EULA definition of grief play.

Grief play
What is grief play?
Griefing
A grief player, or "griefer," is a player who devotes much of his time to making others’ lives miserable, in a large part deriving his enjoyment of the game from these activities while he does not profit from it in any way. Grief tactics are the mechanics a griefer will utilize to antagonize other players. At our discretion, players who are found to be consistently maliciously interfering with the game experience for others may receive a warning, temporary suspension or permanent banning of his account.

This should not be confused with standard conflict that might arise between two (or more) players, such as corporation wars. The EVE universe is a harsh universe largely driven by such conflict and notice must be taken of the fact that nonconsensual combat alone is not considered to be grief play per the above definition.

An example of grief play would be the so called "Can baiting" in starter systems. An experienced player drops a cargo container with some items in front of a station in a starter system and waits for a new player to take from it. The new player is flagged and promptly attacked and killed by the owner of the container. Doing the same in starter tutorial complexes is also considered grief play and will not be tolerated.

From: http://support.eveonline.com/Pages/KB/Article.aspx?id=336