EVE General Discussion

i know there are ships with players with good skill training that allow them to target near instant an all that stuff....

but im confused is how can someone react physicly so quickly at a gate camp?

you can say i had it coming. but hounestly, i figured as long its a small ship, an keep cloaked at all times, move quick surely i'd slip past unnoticed.

but no. im actually amazed how people do this. i entered a low sec. there was couple guys there, i wasnt too worried. i have a cloaking device. but damn the second i moved to activate my cloak. pop goes the anti warp bubble. and they used some super fast ship to fly in my general direction to uncloak me. and killed me, all within seconds...

how do people do this? why do they do this?? for a score board? not like they get money for it. they would have to have been staring the WHOLE time at there overview like a hawk! to even see a ship appear for just a couple of seconds as i cloak.

i mean thats the part that puzzles me. how can anyone just. sit there an stare at it... who knows how long.

Poop buckets!

It is a combination of...

- practice makes perfect

- living close to the server cluster (London, England)

- using hotkeys (holding the "Control" button and clicking an object on the overview targets it... then hit F1-F12 to activate your mods)

- "pre-activating" your mods (you activate them with no target selected... then target something... as soon as you achieve target lock those mods will activate)

edit:

sebo = Sensor Booster
Increases a ship's targeting speed and/or range (depending on the charge (if any) loaded in it)

remote sebo = Remote Sensor Booster
Increases a target ship's targeting speed and/or range (depending on the charge (if any) loaded in it)

Watching an overview for 30 seconds isn't hard. They know when you enter the system because you appear in local, and you've got at most 1 minute from that time before your gate cloak expires.

Besides, they almost certainly saw you coming a mile away because they've got an alt at least one system upstream.

The gate also flashes/makes an audible sound when someone jumps in through it, so even if they're not 100% paying attention they'll have a cue that someone's come in.

They will have eyes the other side and be told on comms something is coming to get ready. What happened was called a delayed bubble, if you enter warp and the bubble goes up, you get stopped still, at which point anything fast can go straight for your position and decloak you. If you see a dictor on gate and see no bubble, act like there is one already there and cloak mwd away from gate in random direction or towards celestial (never straight away from the gate).

Actually it's quite easy to get money from it because of the new exploration everyone flies around with hundreds of millions in their cargo and fit the sisters probe launcher which sometimes drops. Even if they don't it's just fun to blow things up, that's eve. I know ccp are trying to market it like some sort of lonely men's support group community with space scenery but it still does involve shooting ships....for now, and gates and stations and so on have lots of ships near them so get camped.

There is no killboard in DayZ and people devolved into shooting everyone on sight in that game too. If you can kill people in a game, then that will become the sole point of the game. Always.

Someday CCP might see the earnings potential and let every ship be able to dial in a warp from system to system, even across systems, just like every.popular.scifi.genre.

I think the number one driving force away from the game is this gate mechanic which is harmful to both sides of the equation.

And to anybody who wants to complain about that, I will pre-emptively say: Learn to hunt.

(in case anybody is wondering, the second driving force away from the game is PVe and the third is SOV).

The day will come. You might even log in to see it. The gate mechanics will be the last of the mechanics that allow certain players to make denying of playing the game the way they play the game. Eventually we will look back on them like we look back on inties that could not escape bubbles and recons that showed up on D-scan. Plebs have money and outnumber the guys with the cynos and more free time on their hands.

When the gate flashes that tells you when someone uses that gate whether they're going in or out of the system. Combo that with watching local and you can bottleneck a system.