Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In it's current form, bumping can be used as a means of keeping people unaligned and thus disallowing them to warp.

The problem with this is it breaks game balance. Activating a warp scrambler or disruptor on a random target in hi-sec will illicit a CONCORD response. Keep in mind, the only purpose of a warp scrambler/disruptor module is to prevent a ship from warping away.
Now we ask ourselves: Why does it illicit a CONCORD response?
If the only purpose is the prevent a ship from warping away, the only answer is that it illicits a CONCORD response because you attempted to prevent their ship from warping away.

Why then should the same reasoning not apply to bumping? Bumping someone as they try to warp away at a gate has the exact same affect as a module that is considered criminal; should the bumping not be considered criminal too? The problem with that is everyone and their mother would end up being a criminal. The entire Jita undock would just be criminals!

My proposed solution is simple: You should have to be a suspect, criminal or engaged in combat to bump other ships in hi-sec. Add a feature where you can simply turn yourself suspect with the click of a button. Now that you are suspect, you can try and bump that freighter out of alignment! The difference is, people can now shoot you at least. That's balanced. That's fair.

"There needs to be a few exceptions..."
Absolutely. Bumping in wardecs, FW targets and between corp members should still work as it does now. Once in a fleet all members should as well collide with one another. The whole point here is to balance the mechanics of bumping with the increased security that comes with hi-sec.

The downside to this is that places like Jita undock will look ridiculous, with ships passing through eachother all the time. I would say that is a small price to pay for fixing the current bumping mechanics.

Dude, your face..

yeah if you google strawman you will find plenty of similar people spewing forth pointless froth

can we just cut out the middleman and go with:

no.

remove bumping

Oh for the days when bumping actually caused a slight bit of damage

Jita undock will be special.

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CCP considers the act of bumping a normal game mechanic, and does not class the bumping of another player’s ship as an exploit. However, persistent targeting of a player with bumping by following them around after they have made an effort to move on to another location can be classified as harassment, and this will be judged on a case by case basis.
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it looks like after getting bumped 2 or more times you simply can report bumper for griefing.....

please father, can i play with it for a few moments