Crime & Punishment

Hyperdunking was the only avenue for anti-gankers to actually prevent a gank.

Now that hyperdunking is being removed, so too are anti-gankers only way to claim victory against gankers.

tldr;
CCP actually just ricochetted off the wall and shot anti-gankers who enjoyed preventing ganks in the back of the head.

F

p.s.
lol

With the reddit threadnaught and this, how glorious would it be if the change never makes it to TQ? Think about how many people just would have been baited into an early false celebration! Reverse tear-extraction is what I will call it.

It is great to know that after all this time, after all the statistical evidence indicating that "griefing" gameplay has basically no negative affect on player retention and generates content and conflicts, communities and counter-communities CCP still thinks nerfing highsec PVP is somehow the right thing to do for the health of the game.

I'd understand if they actually balanced it in some way, but they never do.

If all these slow stealthy nerf moves were part of a real vision to reach critical mass in other game zones that actually drive new player subs, I could get behind it, and have even suggested it to the denouncement of my peers as part of a greater vision.

However, these nerfs are in a vacuum to a complete vision, do not achieve their goals of growth, and are at this point asinine to say the least. A 'dont AWOX me brah' switch for fail-CEO's, seriously?...

It's funny actually, to now hear they are still doubling down on plans for 'social corporations', listening to carebears like Mike Asariah pouring honeyed potions in their ears, just so that he and his friends can run incursions and print more dank ISK without risk of a wardec...guardian of the sandbox my ass.

What happens if more people like me throw up hands in disgust and just leave hisec & content-creation entirely, will subs go up or down. That's the interesting question.

F

3 characters managed by 1 player is not group activity, unless you multiple personality disorder.

A hard counter to Hyperdunking does not exist. Every time someone counters the HD too strongly, people call for CODE and it turns in to a normal gank. So, in this fashion why not just do a normal gank to begin with.

*holds a big bucket under Kaarous Aldurald's head and collects whatever fluid drips down from it*

Feyd Rautha Harkonnen, that's for the better of the game. Now that you can concentrate on Null sec again with PL, you can actually do something about the plague that harms this game more than the removal of hyperdunking. The rest of your alliance is already in the right location, so you better join them and help them do the sacred deeds. If you finally give up on HS content creation, more people will finally move out to the areas that desperately crave for content and more people to interact with. Arguably, Null sec is more boring than High sec. Currently, High sec is a lot more interesting in terms of action than Null sec (even where I live, imagine the north). If this change made more people go at least to low sec to find some action they cannot any more in High sec, the game at large is helped a lot. Or if those people not being able to gank alone anymore to go back to Null sec and populate Null sec again, the game is also helped. If this contributes to bring back more chaos character by character to Null sec instead of having the chaos focused on High sec, the game at large is helped a lot.
You are also complaining way too much. You can still awox anything you want. The difference to previous times is that you need to put more effort into it and prepare the corp/target properly. Following Faylee Freir's narrative, you are the "strong and informed" people, which means this shouldn't be a problem for you, right?

3 characters managed by 1 player is not group activity, unless you multiple personality disorder.

A hard counter to Hyperdunking does not exist. Every time someone counters the HD too strongly, people call for CODE and it turns in to a normal gank. So, in this fashion why not just do a normal gank to begin with.

*holds a big bucket under Kaarous Aldurald's head and collects whatever fluid drips down from it* [/quote]

The hyperdunker(s) want the loot for themselves, so why call for backup if you don't need it? In my experiences most times the gank gets countered (logistics showed up, ECM showed up, etc.) we dropped it and moved on, aside from extremely high value targets or a pile of plastic wraps that you'd want to call for backup.

As previously stated it CAN be done by one person, but normally involves more than one because it is WAY easier with two or more.

A troll evaluation coming from a CODE. That is most amusing. Would you please get your autopiloting freighters in check first before you lecture me about anything or continue complaining about other freighter pilots' behavior? Much appreciated. =)

Also, please fix your quotes.

I'm selling tissues if any of you guys are getting a bit teary-eyed.

That's actually a miniluv (Goon) freighter alt, but ok. Employment history is hard, I get it.

It's a group activity because I'm telling you it is. Most of my dunks have been with others and I'm glad to split the loot evenly. I'm not greedy because I know that stupid freighter and jump freighter pilots are not in short supply.

The hardcounter to a hyperdunk is literally one person in logi.

I know you don't believe me, but you're wrong.