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hunting and fishing
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Kal'el Nirukhi
Spartan Industries
#1 - 2014-03-07 12:11:43 UTC
In the old days we had hunting fleets, hoping to encounter another fleet in the middle of nowhere and brawl it out. We brought kitchensink stuff and fights were decently balanced and took up to 20 minutes.

Today we have fishing fleets: Lone mallers or battlecruisers with cyno's roaming "solo" having a back up fleet sitting on a titan or a black ops. This results in dropping and counter dropping.

It always ends up in the party that doesn't have an extra level of counter drop being slaughtered.
It has become a number game.
It has become a waiting game.
Scouts and fc's can't asses the other parties numbers or weaknesses so fleets get bigger and bigger


How can we bring back hunting in favor of fishing?

f.e.
- 2 types of cynos: Combat cyno and travel cyno
combat cyno: instant jump on activation possible, cyno only usable by pilots within 1LY, 5 minute cycle ,5 units LO to activate, extra
isotope usage depends on amount of ships jumping ( 4 units per inty , 8 for a cruiser, 10/ bc , 12/ BS, 20/cap)

travel cyno: spool up time after activation: The cyno must burn 1 min before it can be used. can be reduced to 40s with skills
for the rest no difference to the current cyno.
Rendiff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-03-07 13:06:09 UTC
That's an interesting concept. I'd be curious to see how it would affect things in practice.
Seliah
Red Cloud Vigil
#3 - 2014-03-07 13:12:16 UTC
There are already tons of threads related to cynos and force projection in general, I guess you should post there instead. Here, two very recent ones you could have found just by checking page 1 / topics from today :


Cyno thread :
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=327273&find=unread

Force projection thread :
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=321042&find=unread
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#4 - 2014-03-07 15:48:41 UTC
cyno lets a single person turn into multiple persons, instantly. The original ship is often completely irrelevant.

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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2014-03-07 17:28:08 UTC
Roams still happen you know.
Nikk Narrel
Moonlit Bonsai
#6 - 2014-03-07 18:08:16 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:
Roams still happen you know.

I agree with this statement.

That said, to me much behavior in EVE seems to seek the path of least resistance, and if roaming should appear more practical than cyno use, then I think it will also happen more often.

We may have painted ourselves into a corner, with cyno use being the best answer to too many questions.

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