Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The newest safespot mechanic. Pick any multi room sig, grind into room 2 or further, cyno in supers. Set scan for .5 au, and now you get enough warning on just approaching hostile, complete with decloaking most cloaky ships, that you're almost safer than a POS.

What you want is of no sensible interest to anyone, go back to your station and grind ship spins. Cynos and capitals are not allowed in gated signatures for good reasons and it ought to stay this way.


You would not as anyone can warp to your safe spot if they manage to scan you down or if they manage to warp to your cyno. Cloaked in a gated plex, however, requires anyone to warp to the plex, take several gates and then find your ship in there which can be anywhere. That's a lot safer than a mere safe spot. Plus, you cannot warp inside these plex.

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Moreover, if capitals were allowed in signatures, it would remove yet another strong factor for group PVE. While some of the sigs are definitely soloable (I look at you, Serpentis 10/10), others require groups of players to run them (I look at you, Logistical Outposts). Allowing caps just makes any signature a piece of cake for a single player.

Ok, you guys make some fair points here. How, then, am I to hunt down and murder this guy who's playing in our space with impunity?

it's their space because they SAY it's their space and are willing to hunt people out of it - not because they've got some bullshit sov badge

Considering the effort he is probably going out of his way, skills, ships, fitting, and preparedness wise to avoid getting caught, not to mention doing his exploration in a region with less chance of a local blob, I think it's only fair that it should be a fair bit of effort to catch him.

The more effort and money and preparedness one party puts into a task, the more it should take out of another party to counteract that task. Catch him travelling, or log off a hictor with a meaty tank at the start gate to one of the sites he would want to run, then wait a jump out for him, provided he is online. If he kills whatever you tackle him with, tackle him with something harder to kill, and work on increases the speed on the rest of your gang getting in once the tackle is made.

Set a trap for him - cloaked ships inside the first room of the complex. Pick something relatively easy, but juicy, like a 6/10. In the first room of a 6/10, you don't have to worry so much about the rats switching aggro onto you.

Send in one pilot who does not have to worry about the rats first. Do not kill any of the rats. Then send in the recons and at least one stealth bomber, move those ships away from the gate enough to cloak those ships up before the rats lock them. Then warp the first ship out. You now have a nice trap prepared, as long as you are patient. This would work best in a station system, but might work elsewhere depending on the target's greed/testicular fortitude.

When he comes in, the stealth bomber is there to get the initial point and scram - otherwise, he might escape while the others are working off the cloaking delay. A small gang of recon ships with stealth bombers for DPS should ruin his day really fast. A Pilgrim for the neuts, Rapier for the webs, Arazu with scram, and Falcon with appropriate racial jams just for the final dose of hate and discontent. Maybe a dictor so you can grab the pod, which is probably juicy. Once his active tank is out of cap, he should be toast.

Have additional pilots waiting nearby to bring more DPS after you get the initial tackle.

This is a good idea but TBH it wouldn't work on me. I only run my sites in systems that are either empty or have maybe 1 or 2 pilots in them.

You'll never catch Anope. He can't be caught.

you have a dude running sigs in space near where you live but don't want him there, you don't have the smarts or ability to actually catch him so you came to F&I to ask for the game to be changed to help you catch him?

amazing... truly amazing.