Crime & Punishment

scenario

A pilot is member of an alliance at war. He has his WT's on watch list so he can see non are online and is observant in local to make sure non are around. He sees the coast is clear and heads on out to do some activities, mining/missions/exploring. When someone warps in close to him, he notices nothing strange about this new capsuleer except that they are locking him up. He gives local another check (this could be a scout scanning my ship for the war targets) and notices no war targets in local.

Rapidly he's losing shields as the ship engages on him. The attacker then turns red and it shows him to be a war target. Upon checking his employment history it shows that less than a minute ago he changed into the war corp... then changed back almost as quick. (once the ship died)

Further examination of the fiends history shows that he has performed this type of dirty trick in the past. Many times.

Is this not an exploit?

Worst part is the guy is a right heel and will constantly smack talk after a successful kill, yet he won't war dec with his main character. He does this to minimize his exposure and keep himself safe.

I think you are thinking of dropping corp while under attack.

Just petition it?

Given his corp history and combat log will give up the game, he's a dead cert for a warning or worse.

For sure petition it, if he absolutely did *not* go flashie until he attacked you... that is either a bug, or an exploit. vOv

if they are useing it specifically to cause graphical glitches or get you to concord yourself than it is an exploit. However just because it is illegal does not mean the guy will get punished for it. Your petition will probably get a generic answer back with no action.

The response received about this states "if there is no session timers I.E. a docking/undocking or jumping through a stargate. Then it is exploiting. There must be at least 1 session timer so that you show as being in the appropriate corp"

The corp have done this twice in 1 day, both times they were on grid and locked up the members of my alliance before making the switch and then opening fire before the pilot could react.

All the mentioned exploits that were given free reign were to avoid war decs. This is more about honoring them. They are using underhanded tactics to insure that they are not at risk while able to attack others. And we know if we were to Dec their main corp, they would just bail into NPC corps and do the same again.

I'd suggest a slight change to the war mechanics. Why not that if you join or leave a corp during war time, your status is frozen for 15 minutes. So if you are engaged and quit it won't result in a concording and people can clearly see you've joined a corp before you are able to engage in combat on them.

It really sounds like the "LSS trick".
Which corp/alliance is using it again ?

I love this, they never bother to ban carebear exploiters, who jump corp to dodge war but the bears want corp hoppers who jump to gank war targets banned. LOL. Hypocracy at its finest. Anyhow just petition you'll get your ship back, any ships lost to war dec just get reinbursed now as CCP does not bother to check if exploits happen due to war decs. They don't refund dropped modules sadly or we could turn this into a big isk fountain.

CCP will do NOTHING. Been there....experienced that....................