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If the only way you can harm people is by dropping structures and logging out then you probably should never have bothered logging in in the first place. Hope this helps.

Christ, even AFK cloakers have to come back to the keyboard to inflict their damage...

But isn't that our motto in the first place? "The CFC: We're Bad at EVE."

The Goon comment was based on the fact that Goons love to talk about how bad they are at EVE. Not a personal attack of any kind since personal attacks are a sign of weakness and lack of reasonable rebuttals.

The reason for my reply was the fact that you felt the need to add "It's doable, technically..." as if it were somehow hard. Which, quite frankly, it isn't.

I was really excited about this feature when I first heard about the general idea but the details leave me pretty dissappointed.

One of the things that I've a long wished for is a way to mess with someone else's infrastructure in a way that forced them to respond but was less of a blobby grinding timer fest than actual structure destroying. The idea of pulling a "POS heist" is actually what I had in my mind as an idea.

In my mind every station would have a specific window of time that they were vulnerable to being stolen from. The POS owner could set this up so that it always occurred in his or her time zone. If anyone started the heist event (in the mechanic it would be anchoring the siphoning module) a notification would go out to the POS owner and shortly afterward moon goo would begin transferring to the siphon unit. A lot of moon goo. Enough so you would want haulers to start shuttling it to safety continuously. Enough that if you ignore it, you're basically running the station for the thieves. So now you're in a situation where you've anchored the siphon unit to the POS. The "alarm has been sounded" and you are trying to run the goods to a station and then get back to make another trip. The POS owners/defenders are probably trying to some combination of three things 1) Get some POS gunners to the POS. 2) Form a fleet to stomp you. 3) Intercept your hauler. Add to this the fact that, in my version of events, the siphon unit is expensive enough that losing it would be a big enough deal that you would really try to hang around to defend while it unanchors and you've got a pretty interesting situation. An expensive siphon would also make the "stakes" more even. Perhaps the wreck could also somehow be valuable enough that an unsuccessful heist would result in isk going from thieves to station owners. Plus, I really want someone to think they have enough time for "one more run" before the hammer drops and be wrong. I think this would also give small gangs a reason to interact with structures and might even get more people out messing with much larger entities.

Instead, what we are getting is a throw-away deployable to mess with inattentive POS owners. The strategy is clearly to drop a ton of these and see who doesn't notice it. It's going to be annoying for POS owners but generate very few fights. People are going to just sneak around your space shitting them out and then, later, you will have to go weed them out. Mostly going to be a hassle for everyone and I'm not sure what is a good place to put the cost of the siphon unit vs the expected return such that people will bother to do it at all but they will not be everywhere. I suspect it's going to end up being something with a negative expected return and that 0.0 blocs do it en mas to stress out their enemies logistics. Perfect, just what this game needs.

At this point, I'm wondering how this supposed to actually be fun?

The question I have is, why does the most successful fight generator out there with probably the most fair mechanics have to be modified? Aren't there other ways you can help out smaller playergroups without messing with moon mining?

(Hint: It's not easy to farm deep nullsec moons if your supply chain is being disrupted.)

While even coming from my fingertips, this idea is so stupid I want to melt myself for saying it: Siphon yourself.

I'm not joking. Get small guns and put them out around your pos, and syphon every last drop out. Greifers dont get an advantage to putting more down, you get more storage (the more siphons you add, the more storage you get) and you own the syphons. Insert bubbles around your pos, and no one can steal your stuff without incredible resolve (assumming blues dont steal, your pos kills any idiot haulers taking your goo, and interdictors who try to fast steal are gonna spend hours flying back and forth).

Rubicon: Because we can.

I laughed, I don't even know who Bea Arthur is, but I laughed.

50km of bubbles? Or just preventing people from taking it out of "your" siphon?

Also, you lose 20% of what is siphoned into the air .... which is ok i guess.

Ah, good, there we g--oh wait, this one doesn't count. Can we get someone else to come up with a "goon tears" post for this page please? Harry Forever says "goon tears" to alarm clocks, ringing phones, and barking dogs.

Ah Harry Forever, confusing our tears of mirth with bitter tears. CCP is going to hand everyone the greatist griefing tool EVE has seen since remote doomsdays, and he thinks we are crying bitter tears. Seriously it's like we are Cassandra, blessed with the power of prophecy, yet cursed with no one believing our prophecy.