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Provi, why do you Osprey?
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Ryan Farmern
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2015-02-27 01:30:33 UTC
Normal day, normal hot dropping on procurers for the lols.... then came an OSPREY.

YouTube Link

Enjoy!
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2015-02-27 01:54:31 UTC
We don't ask Provi why it does what it does. Were all better off not knowing.





Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Eli Sariah
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-02-27 02:08:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Eli Sariah
"Oh my God, Ryan, You can't just ask someone why they Osprey"

"A manu dei e tet rimon" - I am the devoted hand of the divine God.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#4 - 2015-02-27 02:21:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenshae Chiroptera
Ryan Farmern wrote:
Normal day, normal hot dropping on procurers for the lols.... then came an OSPREY.

YouTube Link

Enjoy!
I suspect that he jumped in, expecting others to quickly follow and he would try land repairs on those procurers. Then when they saw the numbers, others decided to make a few sacrifices and not throw away more kills.

Lesson to be learned or reminded of is mine with enough drones to pop bombers.

However, this is some good proof that their hot dropper can sit AFK perfectly safe until easy targets are available, due to bad piloting or a bad time zone.

In pretty much any other game, there would be a way to hunt down that cloaker so he can not be AFK.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Chapmonious Hunter
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2015-02-27 02:28:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Chapmonious Hunter
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Ryan Farmern wrote:
Normal day, normal hot dropping on procurers for the lols.... then came an OSPREY.

YouTube Link

Enjoy!
I suspect that he jumped in, expecting others to quickly follow and he would try land repairs on those procurers. Then when they saw the numbers, others decided to make a few sacrifices and not throw away more kills.

Lesson to be learned or reminded of is mine with enough drones to pop bombers.

However, this is some good proof that their hot dropper can sit AFK perfectly safe until easy targets are available, due to bad piloting or a bad time zone.

In pretty much any other game, there would be a way to hunt down that cloaker so he can not be AFK.


Alternate, more likely scenario osprey saw reds in local Insert miner tears and oh ***** in alliance and intel channels, osprey undocked to help expecting more to follow, the rest of provi utilized advanced docking up V to thier advantage then talked massive smack in local as if they did something...tell repsol i said hi

also the miners flying with implants are bad, really bad, better yet just dont fly with implants unless they are absolutley needed.
Paranoid Loyd
#6 - 2015-02-27 02:41:37 UTC
How did I know this would turn into and AFK cloaking thread. Roll

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#7 - 2015-02-27 02:55:32 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
How did I know this would turn into and AFK cloaking thread. Roll



Read provi Intel channels. Everyone a hotdropper, and as we all know, you can't hotdrop unless you are cloaked and AFK.

Oh wait...

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Yourmoney Mywallet
Doomheim
#8 - 2015-02-27 02:56:07 UTC
This is in GD... why, exactly?
Paranoid Loyd
#9 - 2015-02-27 03:00:03 UTC
Yourmoney Mywallet wrote:
This is in GD... why, exactly?

Jen posted it with her alt so she could start a not so stealth AFK cloaking thread to push her agenda. Typical move of a politician.

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Ryan Farmern
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2015-02-27 03:00:16 UTC
The point of this is why did the Osprey have such a expensive pod?
Jenshae Chiroptera
#11 - 2015-02-27 03:00:37 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
How did I know this would turn into and AFK cloaking thread. Roll
Read provi Intel channels. Everyone a hotdropper, and as we all know, you can't hotdrop unless you are cloaked and AFK.
Oh wait...
Tell me from the perspective of those invaded how they know when he is AFK or not and how to remove him from the system when he is sitting on an off grid bookmark cloaked all day.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Jenshae Impetus
Anarchy Enforcer
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#12 - 2015-02-27 03:03:11 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Yourmoney Mywallet wrote:
This is in GD... why, exactly?

Jen posted it with her alt so she could start a not so stealth AFK cloaking thread to push her agenda. Typical move of a politician.
This is my alt, she has no skill that she was not born with and goes around high sec talking to strangers. P
Ryan Farmern wrote:
The point of this is why did the Osprey have such a expensive pod?
... because he can afford them and is generally a good pilot that makes a ton of ISK?
Hengle Teron
Red Sky Morning
The Amarr Militia.
#13 - 2015-02-27 03:18:57 UTC
alt of an alt?

altception Shocked
Jenshae Chiroptera
#14 - 2015-02-27 03:26:32 UTC
Hengle Teron wrote:
alt of an alt?
altception Shocked
No.
There is only Chiroptera and Impetus. "Ryan Farmern" is not a worthy Latin name. Ugh

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#15 - 2015-02-27 04:44:48 UTC
Now let me tell you why we need to buff blops of all colors and sizes. Because this thread.

Sanity is fun leaving the body.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#16 - 2015-02-27 05:03:52 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Tell me from the perspective of those invaded how they know when he is AFK or not and how to remove him from the system when he is sitting on an off grid bookmark cloaked all day.

From the perspective of those invaded, they just shouldn't care.

The worst that can happen, even if he isn't AFK is they lose ships to a hotdrop. So what? They are just ships and loss isn't something to be afraid of.

There are ways to manage that risk.

PVE in sigs only, spread out their mining activities so ships aren't close together, use vanilla pods, have pvp ships on hand to switch into quickly, etc., etc., etc.

Cloaky campers are an opportunity for fun, not a reason to be scared.

Ignore him and just manage the risk while going about normal activities.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#17 - 2015-02-27 05:08:08 UTC
Scipio Artelius wrote:
Cloaky campers are an opportunity for fun, not a reason to be scared.
They are an itch that can't be scratched because the mechanics have our hands tied.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#18 - 2015-02-27 05:10:13 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Scipio Artelius wrote:
Cloaky campers are an opportunity for fun, not a reason to be scared.
They are an itch that can't be scratched because the mechanics have our hands tied.

No. Fear is what ties your hands. Nothing more.
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2015-02-27 05:15:18 UTC
Scipio Artelius wrote:
PVE in sigs only


I get what you're saying with the rest of your post, but your statement here seems to say "don't mine anything lucrative". This is especially pertinent in WH where the presence of a cloaky camper would not necessarily be known.

There is a whole should mining sites be sigs discussion we probably shouldn't get into here.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#20 - 2015-02-27 05:26:41 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
Scipio Artelius wrote:
PVE in sigs only


I get what you're saying with the rest of your post, but your statement here seems to say "don't mine anything lucrative". This is especially pertinent in WH where the presence of a cloaky camper would not necessarily be known.

There is a whole should mining sites be sigs discussion we probably shouldn't get into here.


Yeah my bad. I could have explained that more. These weren't an extensive and complete list of options, just some random strategies.

The easiest of the lot is to move a system over. If the camper is AFK, they aren't going to follow. If they are active, then gates provide a perfect point to send them back to a fresh clone.

But I actually agree that asteroid belts as signatures, especially in nullsec is not a bad idea.
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