Intergalactic Summit

Well, Egivand didn't say anything about 'in a warzone'. In a warzone, there are no capsuleers you should assume are 'civilians'. Outside of a warzone, shooting someone in low-sec is an invitation for the dozen friends he has in-system to shoot you. They may not be the same corp or alliance - so unless you have a reason other than 'shoot him back first', then it's usually not advisable. In nullsec, standings, standings, standings. Outside of Providence/PFR space, you're pretty much held to be hostile unless you've arranged blue standings with the locals - again, there's no such thing as a 'civilian'. In high-sec, randomly shooting civilians gets you CONCORDed... so if you didn't intend to blow up, I'd call that incompetent.

As I said, I was giving Kim the chance to clarify herself - which she did, even if she did it in about the most obtusely insulting way she could manage.

I am curious. How does one even qualify who is a, "civilian" capsuleer or not? If one considers the legal maxim that a civilian is a non-combatant, then how can a capsuleer that even in the smallest vessel is able to deploy kilotons of firepower be considered a civilian?

Are they a civilian only if they're using something like an industrial and suddenly not when they're in an armed HAC? What if that industrial has a cynosural field generator or if their mining barge has a warp disruptor for a gate camp, are they still a civilian?

When any capsuleer can potentially become a combatant then how can any capsuleer be qualified as, "civilian"?

On point 1, since when did I say I have honour? And how is ‘not shooting at the unarmed population of a hab unit’ considered ‘incompetent’? Anyone here who has ever done any kind of missions for their respective militia organisations know what I'm talking about.

Worst job ever. I always just shoot a pipe or two as warning shots to get the civvies to start evacuating that supply station and to give them second thoughts about supplying the militia.

On point 2, let’s use these scenarios as examples:
1. Chance of success against a Tristan in a Breacher: about 50% depending on fittings.
2. Chance of success against a Slicer: case-by-case. If Slicer is already on-grid and flown by a capsuleer with less than 1-year-operation experience and assuming I do not screw up slingshotting in a standard Breacher, chance of success is about 50%. If flown by a capsuleer with more than 3-years of combat experience, chance of success is about 10%, if my Breacher is standard-fit. If dual-prop, elevate chance to 75%, assuming that I do not screw up the slingshotting and the approach.
3. Chance of success against a Merlin with Breacher standard fit? About 90%.
4. Chance of success in Breacher standard fit against an Enyo? Assuming that I could rapidly establish stable orbit at 6-9km, chance of success is approximately 80%.
5. Chance of success against a Hawk flown by a capsuleer with two-year combat experience? 0%
6. Chance of success against two Punishers? Approximately 75%
8. Chance of success against three blaster-fit Atrons flown by less-than-two-years capsuleers? Approximately 50%

Also, I still see you are sore about your utter failure in catching that two-drone Probe in a Data Site in a Caracal. Let me tell you the chance of success of a Probe fitted for exploration work against a Caracal. Zero-f-ing percent! I will be stupid for sticking around. If you can’t comprehend that, I see exactly why you absolutely had to fly Daredevils and Confessors and stick to your home system and vicinity when you are operating solo, and why you very rarely operate solo.

Point 4: I actually had great success reducing the crew numbers of my frigates to the absolute minimum: One. Myself. Everything else is machine. It’s working well so far. I need to change out much of the ship machinery and rework the architecture however. The downside is lengthened maintenance cycles, which I can handle by getting more experienced work crew to assist.

By the way, had you actually taken the trouble to walk in your ships, you will find that even your humble Condor uses fully automatic missilery system and that the AI manages input from the sensor suite and regulates Engineering. The crew you do actually have in your Condor is there only for damage control, which you can replace with drones or use better redundancy systems.

Point 6: Even privateers have cause to join other privateers or to assist in filling out the cannon fodder roster. This has happened before in the TLF and I suspect this will also happen in the FDU.

Point 7: Maybe if you stop overreacting over everything I might actually get bored from poking you as a pastime. Besides, you had not stopped me from completing my objective while you utterly fail at your attempt at scoring a kill on an exploration probe in a Data Site after taking the trouble of scanning it out. Keep convincing yourself that you are not a buffoon of a pilot and maybe one day a Rifter will take pity on you and let you score an easy kill on her when you fight her in a Merlin.

Who am I kidding? That's not going to happen. You are just going to keep joining the fleets as cannon fodder and fly around in a Daredevil or a Confessor chasing down Thrashers or Tristans and convince yourself that you are somehow the cream of the crop.

I am not "convincing" myself in anything, you minmatar blockhead.
I am simply destroying scum that has to be destroyed, and chose for this whatever I see fit. If you don't like it - keep shaking in fear as you did when you saw my ship on scan. That gallentean errand boys like you run away in terror, it is still a success.

Well, for one thing, a neutral capsuleer in a T1 hauler, shuttle, or pod would normally qualify. The shuttle/pod can't have any weapons, and if the hauler's a q-ship, then he's probably not going to fire unprovoked, simply to avoid blowing his cover when he doesn't know what you've got in the system.

As for HACs and other combat-capable vessels - if I'm not under a wardec by that individual's corp, then yes, I consider them to be a non-combatant/civilian for purposes of whether or not I'm weapons-free in low-sec. Obviously, this changes if I'm with a fleet, but then the decision's on the FC, not me.

Let me reiterate again:

You suck at flying solo against anything that can stand up to your ship on equal grounds. You compensate by flying something big and shiny to take on something you clearly outmatch.

In other words, you are not a very good pilot despite your bravado.



Do you actually think that a capsuleer won't customise his ship's internals? Us Sebiestor are particularly notorious for it, when given the resources to do so. My Clan is even more prone of doing it, considering that nearly everything mechanical in our Enclave is repurposed from our crash-landed Fenrir. Especially the water filtration systems, the power reactor, defense walls, gates and etc. I had plenty of practice.

Not to mention that Minmatar ships are minimalist by design, with very little in way of expert systems. This thus ensures that you can gut the thing, refurbish the ship architecture and cause no impact to ship performance. Let me give you the skinny on what's in my Breacher, for example, deck by deck:

Engineering : Takes up about 1/3rd of the main ship body. Primary fission reactor and secondary fission reactor, linked to multiple hydrolytic capacitors (numbers in excess), linked in parallel. Power routing is controlled by AI. Power is routed through one main circuit and two alternate circuits in event of failure. Nanite pumps come with primary and secondary tanks. Routed to armour's capillary systems via armour repairer sockets. Shield emitters comes with attachments to Shield Booster systems and supporting rig slots and power amplifiers. Ancillary Shield Boosters already come with Cap Booster sockets and loader-arms.

Missilery: Primary loader arms can be disengaged and secondaries can be transported by in-deck conveyors and slot in place. Missiles are routed by conveyor systems, with alternate routing scheme. Ballistic control systems and firing solutions entirely controlled by capsule working in tandem with shipboard AI for correction. That's what a capsuleer's missilery skill training is for.

Propulsion: No space for crew at all (all taken up by thrusters and fuel tanks with primary and secondary fuel lines), except around the warp drive which lies between Propulsion and Engineering.

Sensors: Only sensor array machinery. Incorporates Drone Control signal transmitters and supporting hardware. Connected to mainframe in Data Core via Tactical Suite.

AI Core: Primary mainframe hardware acquired from CreoDron. Drone Control System is connected but separate hardware. Custom programs installed to handle ship systems including sensor data interpretation, firing solution, Homeostasis Protocols (handles Engineering systems), ship system communications. Comes with own fluid router. Deck walls are heavily reinforced. In case of ship destruction, the AI core will be one of the surviving decks. AI Core comes with own backup power cells to keep itself functioning long enough to transmit all data and programs to home station via in-built fluid router, for examination, diagnostics and installation into new ship. Upon power failure, hardware scrubs itself.

Mother Node: A deck I added into the ship. Sits between Engineering and AI Core and takes away some space from cargo hold. Comes with repair drone hangar of my own design. Repair drones are also of my own design. Runs on the 'Immunity' beta build version 8 program (still a work in progress). 'Immunity' program are heavily inspired by biologic systems, particularly the immune system. Drones travel via 'capillary' vents with multiple alternate routes, using constant communication with each other to coordinate action and assemble repair protocols, inspired by DNA transcription and translation systems, on the fly, using shared CPU resources. Each protocol, existing or newly assembled, are stored within the AI mainframe storage systems.

Cargo hold: Ammunition, cap boosters and nanite pastes are already sorted and held in place by clamps prior to launch. As all items are already RFID tagged, crew is not required to move anything. Transport arms system use the same schema as the ones in gunnery. All transport arms come with RFID scanners and supported by AI for efficient transport. In-deck tractor beams deals with cargo acquisition, though as you might figure, the operating range is limited to a mere 2.5km from cargo in space.

Bridge: Replaced entirely with capsule supporting machinery and directly linked to AI Core mainframe and tactical suite.

Drone bay: Primary and secondary launch rails.

I was gonna say, as a former conduit-rat, that layout sounds like you're basically using mouse-drones and nanite spray-paste to do what few repairs you can make when underway...

Really, really sweet modding on the Breacher, though. My biggest set of modifications to any of my ships is making sure there's an access gantry in everything cruiser-sized or bigger. It's the nightmares - I know we're not supposed to get them in the pods, but... technically, I think the medtech called it Post-Traumatic Sensory Association, or something. B-R was the trigger, and ever since, being in the goo too long starts to give me flashbacks. Basically, it's a form of PTSD that's specific to the sensory-deprivation medium of the pod.

I'm going to start doing this to my ships, this setup would work well on a Firetail I bet.

I have killed quite a few minmatar ships and the pattern is obvious: they are packed with crews like fishes in a can.
As for his particular ship, I could brought my "can opener", but, unfortunately, he is a bit too coward and slippery to catch. On a good side, while he runs he can't help his beloved Federation anyway.