Warfare & Tactics

Don't know about faction navy mechanics eh?

Enlighten me?

He wasn't being attacked. Another guy showed up as well shortly after. Just two Gallente FW pilots hanging out in Jita. I really would like an explanation. My understanding was, if you're in enemy territory their navy will shoot you.

No, it is much easier. Every ship that has at least 5 faction mods of the friendly faction fitted and 50 tags of the highest rank of the enemy faction in cargohold is considered a collaborator and will never be shot by faction navy.

I have been told tags can be replaced by PLEX at 1:50 ratio but never tried by myself.

Yes, it works exactly like this - now try in Dodixie!

This is clearly an exploit, is obviously stupid and needs to be fixed.

Why would you even have faction police in the game if they aren't going to do anything? Just delete them if that is the case, they are cluttering up my screen with their false presence.

Ah Crosi. Always assuming that ccp wrote the dictionary. I'm going to miss watching you flop around on the forums spewing misinformation when I finally quit eve someday.

The current implementation of faction police are easily bypassed without any other enemy faction in system. A couple days ago I passed by a gallente gatecamp in litiura. I waved at them as I passed by but noticed the five or so navy ships on the gate were not shooting them at all and there were no other gallente in system at the time, so this was not a case of some gallente rattlesnake or frigate tanking the navy, they were simply not being aggressed. It's not the first time this happened and the exploit is wide spread at this point that you should know what they are doing (I don't, because I actually fly in the war zone, not shooting random people in high sec).

The mistake your buddies made is using this exploit outside of jita, where a quick glance at local will show it's not a split off aggression.

As if we can't tell the difference between aggression and harmlessly floating around that gate, FFS Crosi you are the most unreasonable person I've ever seen on these forums. These cruisers were sitting right on the gate they didn't warp in and I held my cloak for nearly the full duration while I watched them float around unharmed. If you don't know what's going on then don't comment about it honestly.

And newsflash, ccp didn't invent the word exploit. Lol. What are you like 13 years old? Just because ccp doesn't declare something an exploit in their game rules doesn't mean the normal usage of the word exploit doesn't apply.

Honestly you have some serious growing up to do, you are like a two year old child trying to always get his way.

Extreme levels of butthurt detected.

I can demonstrate superior knowledge than your own if you wish.

A long long time ago in a faction warfare that was but weeks old....you could still fly into high sec hostile space and gank players. I myself dual accounted a destroyer and frigate to Amarr Prime and killed a few pilots, they were quite surprised. The navies chased you around constantly so you had to kill something in a few seconds and warp.

The important part of this story is that back in those days, this was ONLY possible with frigs and destroyers, because each person that entered hostile space spawned an NPC Navy fleet for EACH player. I told a Minnie FC of my antics in high sec and (for science) we took a 70 man fleet of various ships into amarr high sec to begin an assault. Every single one of our ships died, a Navy was spawned for EACH person in the fleet. Much amusement was had at our massacre.

Sometime after this CCP changed the mechanics, so that players could indeed enter hostile high sec space, but at great risk to themselves, but there wouldn't be a navy spawning for each player. The current mechanics are intended and rewards those players that can tank and/or distract the now limited naval fleets of npc hostile space. Not only has this made FW more fun, it's more realistic than seeing several hundred NPC's spawn to deal with a fleet.

I haven't been in FW for sometime, but it sounds like those changes are still current and they are intended. This isn't an exploit, you just clearly aren't old enough to remember when and why these changes were introduced. I don't know if they made changes to this again in that time, but from what I have read in the thread they still seem to be in force.

So do us a favour eh? Stop assuming and making an ass out of u and not me.