Assembly Hall

Hello everyone,
I know alot people here will be doing exactly what i want to stop, so it will be hard to get my point across, but if you see my view, great :)
I am a constant dueler in highsec, mainly to get away from the gangs of low so i have a fair fight. After winning fights that would have earned me over one billion isk in loot (not counting friends that have won over five), i am left with an empty wreck because after the amzing fight that i had, a quick fingered, one week old alt in an Imicus was closer to my loot than me. I am hoping i will get some backing to make duels in high security space have secured loot drop instead of wrecks. The current criminal timer system in highsec is BS, on any station (Jita, Hek, Dodixie, etc.) most duels are conducted within the docking range of the station letting any loot thieves instantly grab the loot and dock. The fact that this happens in high security pisses me off because it's high security, not low, i should be able to get my hard earned loot, guarded by police or metal. Now that i'm done with my long statement here are some suggestions i thought of to help fix this.


Stationed loot: Make any loot by a won duelist be scooped by the station straight into your hangar, or contracted to you by concord for a small fee.

Thief timer: Any player who steals a duelists wreck may not warp or dock for 10-30 seconds allowing anyone to attack them (This will remove the problem of small ships stealing loot. It will also make looting more of an art, requiring more skill and possibly logi.)

Loot timer: After a duel is won, no player but the duel victor may loot the wreck for 10-30 seconds (This will ensure the duelist gets his loot about 80% of the time unless he fights without a prop mod or gets bumped)

Concord assistance: The losers wreck will be instantly looted by concord and replaced with a secure cargo container, for the victor only to access.


I feel that at the moment looting from honorable duelists takes very little to no skill and needs to be changed in some way.

I am open to any suggestions and hope you guys like the idea :)

With mechanics like these, you wont have anything to abuse. And not everyone has a spare freighter pilot laying around. Im talking about a real 1v1 where you don't need alts, not even going to get into links and fleet boosts.

Unless of course you like to take advantage of other peoples success.

So you're complaining someone beat you in the loot competition and now you wish for CCP to change the rules and give you hand holding mechanics?

lol no.

Really?

My word has HiSec changed that much over the years?

As I recall your can thief gets a suspect flag when he grabs the loot which seems reasonable, perhaps you would be better off staging your duels far enough away from a stations docking ring that insta docking isn't an option thus solving your problem.

Nope. Just get better.

People lose "their" stuff all the time. It's not just a duel thing.

Welcome to EVE.

Not exactly sure what you're talking about, a duel has to be accepted by both people to be a duel, its not killing someone in highsec.

It's not your loot unless you can get it to your hanger, and then it's only yours for as long as you don't let me scam you out of it.

Yes, genius.

And when I have a duel between myself and my freighter alt, and someone else kills the freighter which I have agressed during the duel, what happens? I still win the duel, so the loot is mine, right?

Please explain WHY you think highsec is safesec?

Not in the slightest, if people don't have the testicular fortitude to fight away from the docking ring thus making loot scooping a more risky proposition for the offender it is very much their problem and not a reason to change mechanics pointlessly.