Crime & Punishment

Didn't we agree you were relevant if you contributed something constructive.

How-bout you link that Zopiclone story?! Or tell us how Code's been travelling since the isk spigot has been turned off??

I am going to share a method I started using lately. It is not great, but i helps the hunting, a wee bit.

Keeping Track of Targets and Hopefully Catch Them Eventually (or KTTHCTE).

Make a 24 hours Contact List period Tabs: 00:00 to 24:00

That's 24 Tabs, for the maths impered.

Check KB and/or roam scouts to find Worth-to-Hunt War Targets.

Per usual method, write Notes on said targets: Ships, possible fits, systems, stations, time zone, etc).

When you find Target (either active or docked up) add said WT to Watchlist Buddylist in the apropriate Hourly tab, so you have a rough idea when the player is online. Rince and repeat. You should end up with a fairly filled Timezone Tab Buddlylist (or TTB) over time, depending of intel/scouting ressourcres.

Use it as a reference tool to zip around with scouts to see if said WT are online in noted times and systems. Update TTB as needed. Use it in combination with Locators as needed.

My personal method to help deal with CCP's crapping all over EVE hunters.

It is still an inordinate amount of time spent doing nothing except flying around with alts, but at least, it is better than nothing.

P.S Works better with multiple week Wardecs

P.P.S Constructive posting.

Now destroy me for being an imbecil, if needed.

I understand your sadness because you cant hunt targets effectively anymore, as used to in the past.
Yet I am still happy about the watchlist change, as I strongly believe that you (and anyone else) should not be able to survey my online status easily as it was back in the days as it always struck me how such a terrible feature found its way into the game.

You do know this "feature" was used by both agressors and defenders?
Keep track of old friends.. who comes back to game without knowing about this sneaky change.
And so on..

To my knowlegde watchlist has been a feature in eve since the beginning, I can watch vids from 03 with watchlist notifications popping up.

I thought the chat function allowed you to see if someone is online or not.

So send player private convo request, if they are offline it has a specific response.

Edit - ok notice this has already been suggested.

In my Original Rant, I did mention CCP was promoting mercenary emergent gameplay.

Today I was bored and was looking at old dev blogs and I found this perfect example about the "mercenary marketplace" from 2012
And that little future bit at the end made me chuckle... its now been 4 years and nothing. Oh wait.. they removed a tool.

Eve suffers a lot from the "Muh ISK/Stats" brigade. Anything not 100 for furthering min-maxing of ISK or stats is "brigaded" against in the forums as to make it look unpopular. We see the running joke about "content" when referring to blanket decs, ganks, and at times, World War Bee. But in reality, it's the players who kill content by freaking out whenever the developers think aloud regarding anything other than vacuuming ISK and/or "getting kills".

There used to be novels and chronicles about the game...even things like "live events". But someone might get disturbed from their min-maxxing and we can't have that.

i told the last numbnuts who said that to go try and do a focused war in empire ,
he did ,
then he came back and posted this.

I'm just curious: how does it happen that mercs have contract and have no ideas where their targets are? Isn't it part of contract to give you some information about targets?

The way i see it:
- i want someone to be hurt by mercs. Why i care? Maybe they run missions here? Maybe they mined out all the ice? In any case they ARE HERE and i want them to not BE HERE.
- i contract mercs and pay them for getting this someone out of HERE
- mercs instantly know: their target is HERE. They sent scouts and from now it's their job to track their targets

What do i miss? People paying for killing random corp they found in corp finder so they actually have no ideas who and where are these people? I believe in any case if you pay your money for someone's head this someone should be somehow present in vicinity.

Thanks

in this case you don't need to find your targets - you just DENY they hub/route (kill them when they try to use it)

However the thread started from: 'sending scouts 100+ systems to find him and not knowing whether he is even online or not'.