Crime & Punishment

What efforts are being made to balance lowsec gate camping?

It is far too easy for pirate criminals to camp. These days all you need is a couple of frigate logi and you're good. WTF is that about?

It used to be that to solo tank a gate gun setup you needed uber skills and a wicked ship. Back in the day the only thing that could do it was a Rattlesnake. Now every pussie ship with a remote rep setup can sit on a station or a gate and interdict at will. If you're not traveling with advanced scouts, cloaked, or in a 3000 m/s ship, you're dead.

Pirating should be a real profession, but at least make them work against the game for it.

The imbalance is real - most people who are traveling intra-Empire are doing so as a solo pilot. If every .4 gate has a camp of some kind, the players who don't belong to large corps (think: small business) are just getting pulverized.


Way too easy. Incredibly one-dimensional.

Not my main. Who cares.

last time i lowsec gate camped a 17 man blops fleet kicked my teeth in.

plenty of tools to evade, avoid , slap about, lernem and stop whinging

This is the problem with consensus-driven development. The only way I make my point is by chopping down yours.

No one is arguing that Piracy isn't a real profession. I'm not complaining.


Ralph, great that you got ass-raped for a change, but you lost one ship. How many ships and pods did you kill before you lost your one ship? Imbalance.

Paranoid, Ofc the natural defense is 'you're whining'. I'm not. It's a legitimate question. Yes, I could go out and recruit endlessly, but I did that years ago and it was not the game experience I wanted. I don't want to devote my life to Eve. We have a very small corp, we play very certain aspects of the game that don't require endless time investments. Adding Piracy protection isn't my thing. If I can't send a ship between two gates in lowsec, then what's the point of calling it lowsec. The rules are the same as 0.0, except we can't fight back as solo pilots OR as a small corp. The people camping are in Corps that are part of an aliiance. I can't war dec a corp in an alliance, and we don't have enough raw numbers to even consider it anyhow.

That's a huge limitation to MY style of game play. I have the right to have a legitimate profession, also. I don't care about yours. If you want to champion your game play, go start a new thread, pirate.

Trolling isn't really necessary to debate a point that's worthy of some attention.

You can also avoid them by using the good old Cloak/MWD trick. Here's a video demonstration with Armageddon battleship. (quite old vid, but still works). It won't make you 100% safe, but it works well...

Thx, actually learnt something new in a C&P thread.

I don't see how you could possibly claim that you are not complaining. You are very clearly complaining. In fact, it would more aptly be termed "whining".



It is fascinating that you think that "balance" could be determined by such a tally.



Right, so you could do something about it, you're just unwilling to.

And, no, the rules are not the same as 0.0. Gateguns, no bubbles, no bombs.

You absolutely can fight back. Ctrl+click the bad guy, then press F1. You're now fighting back. I can't imagine why you would need to war dec anyone, as your average low-sec gate camper is -10 already.



Your style of play seems to be, "Blundering about helplessly with the expectation that nobody should be allowed to interfere with me." Thank goodness someone is interfering with that nonsense.

On that note, I've been solo-suicide-roaming in an MJD-only fit drake the last few days and I haven't so much as been yellow-boxed while traveling through low to-and-from null.

Outside of FW zones, low is pretty devoid of life.

you shouldn't be blind jumping into low-sec without doing your homework or knowing how to evade a camp,
simples

OK, now I am starting to think you are the troll. You have been around since 2003 and still haven't learned to navigate low sec?
And you're telling me not to embarrass myself?

Why would I go through Jan which is obviously camped, while two jumps away there is another entrance to low sec that is obviously not camped? I'm not even at home right now and I can tell you are doing it wrong.

You took a direct attack against me by trying to discredit me and my experience, and you assumed a lot of things that weren't true. If you don't like the response you got, be nicer.

I'm only saying that I think that CCP should make the art of piracy harder to implement.

They can start by making it hard to sit on a spawn point like a gate and farm real players. If you don't like that idea, then propose an alternative that isn't 'I want my money maker imbalance to persist'. That's not what this thread is about.

It's still a legit imbalance, and all you folks know it but still want to justify your 'I-Win' griefing campaigns.

Thank you to the people who have taken the time to propose alternatives and other potential remedies. That's helpful.