Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've been around long enough to see unbalanced fads and phases of ship of the month/year to know ccp nerfs the ships/modules way to late in the day sometimes a year later or more (example Dramiels)

This times flavour of the month is the smartbombing T3 or BS/BO its very hard to know when travelling if they are on a gate or not until they see the whites of your eyes and boom your dead. There is no session delay so all they have to do is be in the right position cloaked, uncloak and activate the bombs. Most of these guys are warp core stab fit and dont stick around long after the bombing and go for a reset.

I normally am the 'adapt or die' kinda guy in eve. It usually amounts to some very interesting ways to counter the problem. I myself can think of a few counters to this problem but the issue is this, they do not have any activation penalty upon uncloak and this is the imbalance. Either the smartbombs need an activation delay unpon uncloak or the warp core stabs they use need to bring about smartbomb delays for balance to be restored. (giving folks a 'fair' chance to attack/avoid the perpetrator)

Where I am living the smartbombing is becoming an epidemic of which the average player will have no clue how to counter it. I would spill the beans how I would counter it atm but it would spoil the fun for when I kill one.

I can see a mile away this 'feature' was never intended by CCP and if it becomes more of an issue CCP will fix it... Eventually so i'm giving the forums the full I told you so already.

I also know some people won't agree with me... like I said the adapt or die is very appealing to me but this time it causes in my opinion more problems for smaller ships to travel eve than is good for the game currently. I am indeed interested what the community thinks about this as well - good or bad.


- Prowlers Corp are recruiting PVP'ers - apparently their CEO hates smartbombs and has bombophobia

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Posting in the correct forum is always overrated tbh.

Last time I checked, there was a smartbomb delay on decloaking.

Nah why spoil his fun.

Erm you can avoid all those incorrect things you suggested and still get bombed.

Warp to a few hundred k perch from the gate have full eyeballs on the area, still not see them warp/land on the gate then they uncloak and blow you up without any delay. if you warp to the gate in a odd direction the chances of getting bombed are much lesser I agree.

The issue is if they can attack from uncloak right way (what other module does this?) AND be stabbed to hell so you need prob at least 4 points + to hold them what serious risk is there to the perps? unless there's a well laid trap waiting for them. I may sound like I am demanding a correction but seriously its just my thoughts on the matter and its just my opinion.

because dscan or a scout sees cloaked ships?
flying in unfamiliar territory, like familiar territory cant have a fleet come in and sit on a gate?
because someone was in local? you must be one of those theres a afk guy cloaked in local dont undock ever

although ill give you the last one on coming to GD, he should be glade it wasnt a titan that just sits on the gate and smartbombs everything in about 20kms

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I like how non-targetable weapons can be used easily with a lot of warp core stabs. I think smartbombs and F.o.F. missiles are fine in this regard, but drone auto-targeting should be nerfed at least for people using warp core stabilizers.

DScan can confirm that all those people in local aren't in space. If no stations, prepare for ambush. If stations, dock up to confirm they're not there, then prepare for ambush

Scouts are always a good idea. If the scout gets pipebombed, then you know there's a pipebomb camp. Problem solved.

I don't undock? LOL, that's funny. I guess nobody checks Battleclinic before calling someone's PvP habits into question, anymore.