Crime & Punishment

And here I thought it was because of bubbles, ceptors, bombers, and supercaps.

Hisec is the hardest area to conduct combat in, due to the restrictions. Low and null are easy mode in comparison.

Any moron like you can be an F1 monkey. Getting a blinged out mission bear in a Golem to aggress your assault frigate actually takes skill.

wouldnt say nullsec and lowsec is easymode, and how does getting a golem to agress your frigate take skill? anyone with half a brain knows thats bait the only skill is finding the idiot in a golem who is going to agress

Hyperdunking is a solo activity. So your argument is invalid.

Tell me more about how one player on one account can fly a gank ship, bump ship and bowhead at once.

Novice plexes, t1/faction frigs (not Garmurs) and without links. In cruisers and above you can make a mistake against a skilled player and still have a chance to fix it. Any little mistake in a 45-60 second frigate fight can throw the fight one way or another and be the single reason you lose.

I'm not going to defend hyper dunking as some great form of pvp, it's not. It's just an advanced form of ganking that was easily done with two people, one if the freighter pilot decided to log out during the dunk and stay logged. It was a great way to make tons of isk if you were patient and lucky. It is extremely easy to disrupt, unlike traditional ganking in which a large fleet drops a freighter and is largely unstoppable. You look at thrasher ganking, or vexor ganking, where someone will just blow away a feeble target before they can even respond, it's content, but not one the other player can really react and engage with the other player. At least with hyper dunking really cool things could actually happen.

I'll provide one example:

Two friends and I find a freighter leaving Jita with multiple plastic wraps, and pursue his freighter several jumps and bump him off a a gate. Before we get him off grid, some of his friends show up in frigates and start repping him to show us there's little hope of us bomber dunking. We keep him bumped while contacting friends to put together a fleet to help kill this guy. Shortly after we see a local spike and 20 catalysts land on grid. We got all excited and then they started shooting my bump Mach. They weren't ours. The freighter pilot had gotten a whole FW corp to come and gank us! They did a second pass and we messed up our bump sending the guy into warp. My friend managed to get to the station before the freighter and hero bump the freighter off the docking ring... And then he safe logged because in all the madness we forgot to lock him. The FW guys rejoiced in local and we congratulated them somewhat saltily before returning to Jita.

Sure, most dunks don't go like that, most unsuccessful dunks that I experienced were from anti-gankers that showed up in an osprey and cost us a few hundred mil in bombers or the wreck would get popped. Or I let them get away with bad bumps... >.>

I'll miss it, and regret not doing it more. I'm sure this will just lead to more gank fleets in the major pipes, which is good though

Edit: ps Rham, I'll miss cursing your name when you appear on my overview buddy

Thanks for the insight and entertaining story. I have a lot of respect for guys like you.

I still believe that CODE can implode on itself and Eve would be better off

So it's a group activity after all. Glad we cleared that up.

Your avatar is amazing. I take back everything I've said about CODE.

This.

Seeing as hyperdunking can be hard countered so easily, it's obviously not a balance concern. So what exactly has necessitated this change?