EVE General Discussion

Run anoms with the bling ships used in high sec, profit. You try to back this argument up every time by comparing apples & oranges. 'We use a cheap T2 Cruiser that doesn't make as much as a 10 billion isk battleship, so something is wrong'.

Also incursions support no more than 80 people with 100 mil/hr (Assuming 23/day like one can rat, and we all know ratting bots do exist, heck, Bots were capable of handling the old probe interface, let alone the new one, they certainly can rat). if you want to take a higher benchmark citing perfect TCRC walls & perfect pirate fleets all with officer bling that number of people supported drops to about 40. Across ALL OF EVE! Including those Null sec incursions that get run to clear cyno jam effects. So, lets stop pretending Incursions are actually significant when talking about income.

Tell that to all the AFK Ishtars in Deklein.

I think what your ganking in highsec is new players who are too scared to even speak in local when you start shooting their underskilled ravens.

The afktar is quite a thing. and goons are fairly unrepentent about using it, however in standard goon fashion, the longer the essential problem is not fixed, the more they'll do it, and the more they'll tell CCP they are doing it to draw attention to it. its not -necessary- to bot in nullsec to rat afk or alt tabbed into a fleet at the moment.

Unfortunately CCP has utterly bolloxed drone aggro. I did a maze the other day that had the 1 minute full stage drone aggro timer in operation. After losing a total of 11 drones, (2 flights of lights, each 1 shot when shooting the 20+ swarms of elite frigates), I had to give up and shoot every single spaceship and not kite anything because even leaving the battleships to kill the structure, they would turn on the drones force me to bey the whole flight because they'd just turn on the next drone and that was enough to let the structure start repping again. In those conditions the maze takes 120 minutes to complete in the drone proteus and 50 minutes to complete in a tengu.

That doesn't solve the afktar at all, all it does is annoy the absolute hell out of at-keyboard-pilots.

I've never seen an anomoly roll the 1 minute timer, so the only places (the deds) in nullsec that has the absurd over the top afk defence doesn't actually have any afk pilots.

I also believe that in their last fiddle with drone aggro, theyve made the timer roll ignore projected effects from the droneboat, as I used to use a web to manage this problem, and it no longer works. ie CCP goes to extraordinary lengths to stop me at-keyboarding a ded comfortably, but does nothing sensible about the afktar. I don't get why the web has to stopped from working, every time I shoot a webbed target, I have to reset the damn web, it is very close to definitionally unafk and I certainly can't count on afk drones to not shoot a webbed target on me and they could simply make aggressive drones prioritise projected effect targets to turn them off if they wanted a great AFK test.

It is also the case that if you spend more time looking for something in A than you do in B then you are more likely to find it in A.

The ones that get caught, yes.

ehh. more like changing legitimate gameplay to try and combat botting is a terrible way to go about it 'cos it'd usually adversely affect legitimate users

i think that there's a problem with afk gameplay, in that a game that you don't play is a boring game. there's room for improving gameplay so that it induces people to play at the keyboard (and have fun doing it), but it's a bad idea to try and force people to stay at the keyboard and endure poor, boring gameplay.

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nor have i, personally.

i don't think i want whatever you're smoking

tell us more about these things that you are apparently so well-informed of

Ugggh here we go again with the fabricated numbers which we know have to be true because this is in fact the internet and I AM A FRENCH MODEL

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