Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Setting aside the odd case of extremely bad luck, this can only happen if the freighter pilot fails to do things properly (ie: get a corpmate or alt to web the freighter into almost instawarp).

People stockpile, you realize.

Hell, you know the price of the Procurer? For a long, long while after the barge buff it's market price was LESS than what it cost to make. The stockpile from before the buff still has yet to be depleted. It is completely unprofitable to actually make the damned thing. I think there are more than a few Battlecruisers that are in the same boat, their stockpiles were never depleted so their price is hilariously low.

If you think one month of however many miners you can actually get to go on strike will effect anything, you are wrong. First of all, I highly, highly doubt that you could get more than the small percentage of people that comprises the most butthurt miners to actually agree to it in the first place.

And even if you did succeed in getting a fair amount of people, all you are going to do is just make the guys who ISBox a twenty man fleet even richer.

That's the funny thing about capitalism. It tends to move things around to fill the void in high demand markets.

[edit: Oh, another thing. If you really try to deplete the mineral stockpile, all you would do is make Chribba really rich. Pretty sure that guy has more of it than anybody.

So what is the method to escape CODE nuking fleets? Seeing as they are now ganking on gates so bumping isnt even needed.

The best method to avoid being ganked is, and always has been, not being on grid when the gank ships arrive.

Then you were doing it wrong.

sorry DJ....You do not know me and there is no affiliation between us what-so-ever. None.

Well I'm sure glad you're not my scout.

Done correctly, scouting is 100% effective. It's slow, granted but it always works. A healthy paranoia is the key - of course one doesn't need to be paranoid to NOT jump into enough CODE people to pop you at decloak. That's more a case of basic common sense.

Go read the newbie FAQ. Specifically the section 7.2 about avoiding PvP

This will probably be booed upon by CODE and called an exploit because it does not favor their Carebear Ganking Boards but after taking a stance against their idiocy and ridiculousness there is no alternative.

This method of avoiding PVP on a gate by a freighter involves Gate Bouncing.

Gate Bouncing involves landing on a gate traveling through the gate and right before the freighter jumps through the gate open several web browsers at a time. Once the freighter passes through the gate it will emerge 999,996 - 1mil km away from the gate that it has just passed through then allowing the freighter to safely make it way to the next location.

I have used this process several times gate after gate after gate and it does in deed work every time.

I have also created a petition to CCP about the process as well as posting the process in the bugs an issue workarounds to make certain that it is not an exploit. No word has been returned yet as whether it is an exploit or not.

But given the mentality of High Sector gankers and their methodology, which is rather lazy to blob a fleet of Kittens to a freighter and destroy it, has left us with no alternative to employ such a tactic to ensure that freighter and orca transports make it to their destinations so that cargo gets to where it needs to be so that inflation does not occur.

Inflation does not occur because shipments are on time. Inflation results as a cause of lost property where the property owner must then increase the prices of their products in order to offset the loss. An increase that permeates the rest of the market which can then be directly linked back to the Ganker who are destroying such products that cause the prices to be increased.

No matter how you try to spin the pictures in your mind through reverse engineering you are wrong.

Well, if you actually looked at my suggestion, you would have noticed that it would introduce a new mechanic that wouldn't even touch the decade old fluidic motion physics system . People would still be allowed to die, the gankers would just have to be ship spinning instead of sipping a nice cocktail outside, waiting for a text from their friend to tell them they have a freighter bumped.



Why should someone be able to bump someone for 10 minutes because he is waiting for his buddies that are currently actively engaged in NOT playing the game by taking a bio, to come back and get a kill? I'ts fair enough to keep a ship locked down for a minute to a minute in a half without sacrificing a ship to keep it in place. I'm sure plenty of ganks can, and still will happen.



This is currently the counter to simply being bumped (Provided an an alt in a newbie ship didn't do 1 damage to your freighter). So why should the only counter once you have been bumped, be to log off and stop playing the game for a bit?